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Canonical angers the community again – this time by asking Ubuntu flavours to stop shipping Flatpak by default, we can’t decide whether Microsoft or Google are worse, NASA contributes to way more open source software than you might think, ten years of Steam on Linux, and KDE Korner.

News

Ubuntu Flavor Packaging Defaults

NASA and open-source software

10 years ago Steam released for Linux

M$ Edge inserts ads on Chrome download page

My daughter’s school took over my personal Microsoft account

KDE Korner

KDE Switches to QT6

Nicco looks at theme & shows 6 “hidden” features of Plasma

Plasma Mobile 5.27 + PlaMo Gear 23.01.0

Stop shouting

How to add flatpaks on Kubuntu/Neon

Nate’s regular updates

Two very last minute tools in Neon & two apps in unstable

Linode

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Tailscale

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Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 31:24 — 25.2MB)

More reverse-engineering, free tech books, a handy tool for fixing things you’ve aCCIDENTALLY CAPITALISED, Chromium in the terminal, putting apps and config files in a “box”, more on aviation tracking, GUI vs CLI backups on Linux, and loads more.

Discoveries

reveng

lurk

GoalKicker.com books

Late Night Linux – Discoveries

Convert Case

carbonyl

Github Sponsors stops taking Paypal

boxxy

TheAirTraffic (ADS-B Exchange replacement)

Félim’s list of ADS-B Exchange alternatives

Feedback

BorgBackup

Sanoid and Syncoid

Linode

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Kolide

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Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 31:58 — 25.7MB)

Canonical’s latest Ubuntu PR blunder, Mastodon and the fediverse are doing a lot better than some journalists seem to think, yet another telemetry row, the company behind Mycroft is struggling, KDE Korner, and more.

News

We now have a Discord server (as well as the Telegram group, Matrix room, and IRC channel). Links to everything on our community page

What are ESM Apps, and how do they relate to Ubuntu Pro?

Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage

Magazine Publishes Serious Errors in First AI-Generated Health Article

Google’s Go may add telemetry that’s on by default

telemetry in the Go toolchain

It’s not looking good for Mycroft AI

The End of the Campaign

Mycroft patent troll case

KDE Korner

Plasma 5.27-eve (Frameworks 5.103.0 is just out) Nate has a writeup and help report multi-monitor bugs effectively

Kate’s git features

A couple of FOSDEM Reports (or ALL the talks!)

KDE packaging recommendations

Akademy call for proposals is open

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Tailscale

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Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 32:43 — 26.3MB)

Making Home Assistant easier to configure, scoring music with FOSS, protecting yourself against phishing, 3 very different distro releases, traffic shaping and QoS, and more.

Discoveries 

MuseScore 4

Node Red Home Assistant Contrib

No Homo Graphs

Phish-protect

Awesome-privacy

blendOS

helloSystem

elementary OS 7

Feedback

Buster

SQM (Smart Queue Management)

Getting SQM Running Right

SQM scripts traffic shaper

Linode

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Kolide

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Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 28:55 — 23.2MB)

The Mars Helicopter continues to amaze, aviation nerds get burned, Google lays off loads of open source people, running a Mastodon instance isn’t for everyone, KDE Korner, and more.

News

Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 40th Red Planet flight

JETNET Acquires ADS-B Exchange

Feeding to adsb.fi

Google’s Fuchsia OS was one of the hardest hit by last week’s layoffs

What is Google doing with its open source teams?

We tried to run a social media site and it was awful

KDE Korner

Example of KDEnlive & Glaxinate

Plasma 5.27 Beta is here & KFrameworks Branched

New Skrooge site & XRechnungViewer (not related to each other)

Best Plasma 5 and Major bugfixes

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Entroware

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Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 30:22 — 24.4MB)

Recovering data from a broken SSD, configuring the lights on a new keyboard, trying stock Android on a Pixel 7, easily blocking ads with DNS, playing with 3D models of ancient museum pieces, and more.

Discoveries

testdisk

Félim’s new keyboard

g810-led

Pixel 7

Public AdGuard DNS server

Nefertiti statue 3D model

Feedback

Lotus 1-2-3 for Linux

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Tailscale

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Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 29:46 — 23.9MB)

The rise of RISC-V continues apace, we bust a recent ZFS myth, hybrid tiling in Plasma, Stadia departs with a nice gift for people, Joe draws an old skool mucky jpeg and ruins KDE Korner, and more.

News

Google’s Stadia Controller is getting Bluetooth support

Google wants RISC-V to be a “tier-1” Android architecture

RISC-V Summit Keynote: The Android Open Source Project and RISC-V

ESP32-C6 WiFi 6, BLE, and 802.15.4 module and development board launched!

The Future of ZFS on Ubuntu Desktop is Not Looking Good

ZFSBootMenu

Admin

Follow Joe on Mastodon

Discoveries

KZones

Archimedes Live

KDE and Xfce Kornerx

New image for existing flavor: Xubuntu Minimal

KDE PIM Nov/Dec

Big UI Improvements and Fixes

Plasma on the VisionFive2

Akademy 2023 in Greece

Kolide

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Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 29:10 — 23.4MB)

The ultimate ESP system, VoIP & RTC capture and troubleshooting, overpriced keyboards, making arcade cabinets even more fun, some notable distro releases, avoiding CAPTCHAs, and more.

Discoveries

ESPhome

Homer/Sipcapture

solaar

logitech G PRO

BGFX

The Great Crypto Scam

Vanilla OS

EndeavourOS Cassini

Mozilla changes Firefox’s user agent because of Internet Explorer 11

useragents.me

Feedback

Snikket

Linode

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Tailscale

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Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 33:01 — 26.5MB)

Real hope for a local-only voice assistant, Matrix learns an age-old lesson about funding FOSS, 2022 was the year of Linux on the desktop, Mozilla is about to catch up to the Mastodon trend, there definitely won’t be a Raspberry Pi 5 this year (honest), and KDE Korner.

News

With voice assistants in trouble, Home Assistant starts a local alternative

LineageOS 20 released

The Matrix Holiday Update 2022

Don’t expect a Raspberry Pi 5 in 2023, says Eben Upton

[Feb 2019 – Upton: “I don’t have a route to do something this year”]

[Jun 2019 – Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now from $35]

2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022

Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative

KDE Korner

Gear 22.12  (Gwenview has a new docs page), KDEnlive 22.1, Tokodon 23.01

Rewritten Spectacle in 23.04 & Fractional wayland + multiscreen fixes

& some holiday updates  & end of year goodies and finally a 2022 overview

Kraft v1.0 & it can be run on WSL

KDE Fundraiser & KDEnlive Funraisers successes!

Linux App Summit Brno April 21-23 2023

Linode

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Kolide

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Entroware

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Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 31:02 — 24.9MB)

It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2022 predictions, and make some new ones for 2023.

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