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At what point is the FOSS solution more hassle and time-consuming than it’s worth? We confess our various compromises with non-free hardware and software.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 162
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The Steam Deck is nearly here, Will is looking for a new email host, Creative Commons is abused, Joe has kernel problems, Félim upgrades his phone, and Graham plays a synth. Plus KDE Korner.
News
Steam Deck Deposit – Steam Deck Launching February 25th
The Pains Involved In Moving on from Google Apps for Domains
A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator
Discoveries
Admin
Check out Linux Downtime and Linux After Dark
KDE Korner
15 Minute bug initiative and progress (plus some upcoming features)
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Linux Downtime – Episode 39
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Joe is joined by Jorge Castro to talk about distros with immutable filesystems like Fedora Silverblue, and Flatpak and Flathub.
Jorge mentioned:
Setting yourself up for success before trying Fedora Silverblue
Ideas on growing the Flathub Community in 2022
An example command for zoom which will show you what the app sees:
flatpak run –command=sh –devel us.zoom.Zoom
[This show used to be called Late Night Linux Extra. Don’t worry, the fabric of reality isn’t breaking down.]
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Late Night Linux – Episode 161
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Why some people use Mint instead of Ubuntu, and your feedback. Plus all sorts of discoveries including programming lights, Ceefax, and a FOSS alternative to Sonos.
Discoveries
iPlayer probably runs on 32-bit Linux
Why use Mint over Ubuntu?
Linux Mint 20.3 “Una” Cinnamon released!
New Features in Linux Mint 20.3 ‘Una’ Cinnamon Edition
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Late Night Linux – Episode 160
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A theme of funding open source development runs throughout the news including npm sabotage, Mozilla accepting crypto donations, and Signal’s CEO standing down. Plus Wordle’s open web problem, the usual great stuff in KDE Korner, and more.
News
JavaScript dev deliberately screws up own popular npm packages to make a point of some sort
Open source maintainer threatens to throw in the towel if companies won’t ante up
Mozilla backtracks on crypto donations
Wordle is being punished by app stores for choosing the open web
Dev of namesake app donates proceeds to charity
Humble subscription service is dumping Mac, Linux access in 18 days
Canon forced to ship ink cartridges without chips
KDE Korner
Gnome App ID in KDE Task Manager
KDE PIM Updates and 4k LOC from Dolphin refactored out
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Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 38
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Adam and Neal return to talk about Google’s mysterious open source operating system Fuchsia.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 159
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A simple FOSS way to share your mouse and keyboard across multiple machines, and a handy command line tool to find duplicate files. Plus your predictions for 2022 including gaming, GNOME, Firefox, Raspberry Pi, and PipeWire.
Discoveries
A CPU implemented in a modular synthesizer
Feedback
CalyxOS and a site to check which apps will work with de-Googled Android
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Late Night Linux – Episode 158
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Ubuntu might be taking gaming more seriously, more Mozilla missteps, why Her Majesty’s demise might be really bad news, a brand new segment, KDE Korner, and more.
News/discussion
Please don’t use Discord for FOSS projects
UK tech policy predictions for 2022: pennies dropping everywhere
Firefox I Love You, But Can You Shut Up About Mozilla VPN?!
Mozilla begs for crypto & jwz lays some smack down
Canonical Seeks Linux Desktop Gaming Product Manager
In 2022, security will be priority number one for Linux and open-source developers
Discoveries
ts – Prefix any line with the current timestamp
The Rockstar Language Specification
KDE Korner
Highlights of 2021 and a Roadmap for 2022
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