First up in the news, RPi adds an autofocus camera, Fairphone2 hits EOL, more Tenacity than ever, new Unity, Xubuntu Minimal arrives soon, Brave adds Bridges, Kodi 20 is released, Libvirt 9.0 is out, Google gets shot down, and new features arrive in Firefox 109;

In security and privacy, nothing to see here, move along;

Then in our Wanderings, Moss is back, Joe has fun with a Pihole, and Bill takes some OTC stuff;

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

New autofocus camera modules for Raspberry Pi

Fairphone 2 hits End Of Life after 7 years of updates

More developers reportedly now use Linux than macOS

Xubuntu 23.04 will offer “Minimal” version, under 700 Mb

Brave browser adds support for Tor Bridges

Kodi 20 released with AV1, Pipewire support

Libvirt 9.0 released

Google Topics API for targeted ads gets shot down

Firefox 109 – New Features, Updates, and Fixes

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

AudioFreak (Riyo) for our audio editing

Archive.org for hosting our audio files

Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo

Londoner for our time syncs

Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio

The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about