February 24, 2021

Episode 220: Multi-Monitor in Gnome 40

56 minutes

The Gnome team is revamping multi-monitor support. Firefox 86 is released and features Total Cookie Protection to make cross site tracking more difficult increasing user privacy. Kodi 19 has landed with a lot of new features around metadata and a better music interface.

-- During The Show --

How to rename USB Audio interface? - Steve

pacmd update-sink-proplist alsa_output.usb-c-Media_electronics_inc._USB-Audio_Device-00.analog-stereo.2 device.description=What-We-Call-It-Now

Self Hosted Music - Sloth56

Ampache

Funkwhale

Self host or managed services - Mike

Good Email providers

ProtonMail

Tutuanotoa

Fastmail

18:15 RHCSA Training - Adam

Getting to ask questions is good

Classes can create community

In person training is best

Udemy Course Link

VTC is almost as good as official RedHat training

RHCSA Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Training and Exam Preparation Guide Second Edition

23:15 Linux Accessibility - Brendan

Trackball + Onboard on screen keyboard

27:50 Affiliate link for register4less? - Jerremy

14.99/yr

Privacy included

Free email aliases

Free 10MB of web hosting (no SSL)

Sub Accounts for managing

Customer service is beyond amazing

29:45 Pick of the Week

Open IAS

Game Clock (count down/up)

Adjust on the fly

Keyboard Bindings

Set Team Logo

Multiple Scoreboard Tabs

Control multiple Scoreboard scoreboards through one control window.

Packaged as an AppImage

Cross Platform

FOSS

34:20 Gadget of the Week

BitBarista

BitBarista: fully autonomous coffee machine built using Raspberry Pi and Bitcoin

Pi Controlling the BitBarista uses Raspbian

Uses Electrum for the BitCoin payments.

Code is on GitHub

Pays people to restock it

Can even call a technician to get repairs

36:40 Multi-Monitor on Gnome 40

Gnome Blog Post

Workspaces changes on primary monitor by default

Supports changing workspaces on all displays

Introduction of the workspaces navigator on secondary display

Transitioning to Horizontal workspaces

New additional shortcuts

switch workspaces will be Super+Alt+←/→.

Moving windows between workspaces will be Super+Alt+Shift+←/→.

Super+Alt+↑ will also open the overview and then app grid

Super+Alt+↓ will close them

These directional keyboard shortcuts have matching touch-pad gestures:

Three-finger swipes left and right will switch workspaces

Three-finger swipes up and down will open the overview and app grid

Gnome is doing and explaining changes in the open

44:00 Kodi 19.0 (Matrix)

Kodi Article

Nearly 50 developers contributed code

About 5,000 commits

Over 1,500 pull requests since the first release of 18.x "Leia"

Over 5,500 changed files

600,000 lines of code added, changed or removed

significant improvements to meta-data handling

New Matrix-inspired visualization

Database and meta-data improvements

Many more improvements

Kodi 19 replaces the old XML meta-data scrapers with Python

Most new features here revolve around usability

49:50 Nextcloud Hub

Nextcloud Blog Post

High performance back end for Nextcloud files

Wide range of performance improvements

Nextcloud talk improvements

Debuts message status indicators

Raise hand feature

Group conversation description

And more!

Wide Range of Groupware improvements

drag’n’drop

Nicer threading in Mail

Syncing social media avatars in Contacts

53:00 Firefox 86 Released

Mozilla Blog Post

New Features

Total Cookie Protection (each site gets it's own ("cookie jar")

Multiple videos Picture-in-Picture

Fixed Issues

Reader mode now works with local HTML pages

Orca and other screen reader fixes

Reader View links have more color contrast

various security fixes

55:00 New Platform for the Show

https://parachutelive.tv/

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February 24, 2021

Episode 220: Multi-Monitor in Gnome 40

56 minutes

-- During The Show --

How to rename USB Audio interface? - Steve

pacmd update-sink-proplist alsa_output.usb-c-Media_electronics_inc._USB-Audio_Device-00.analog-stereo.2 device.description=What-We-Call-It-Now

Self Hosted Music - Sloth56

Ampache

Funkwhale

Self host or managed services - Mike

Good Email providers

ProtonMail

Tutuanotoa

Fastmail

18:15 RHCSA Training - Adam

Getting to ask questions is good

Classes can create community

In person training is best

Udemy Course Link

VTC is almost as good as official RedHat training

RHCSA Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Training and Exam Preparation Guide Second Edition

23:15 Linux Accessibility - Brendan

Trackball + Onboard on screen keyboard

27:50 Affiliate link for register4less? - Jerremy

14.99/yr

Privacy included

Free email aliases

Free 10MB of web hosting (no SSL)

Sub Accounts for managing

Customer service is beyond amazing

29:45 Pick of the Week

Open IAS

Game Clock (count down/up)

Adjust on the fly

Keyboard Bindings

Set Team Logo

Multiple Scoreboard Tabs

Control multiple Scoreboard scoreboards through one control window.

Packaged as an AppImage

Cross Platform

FOSS

34:20 Gadget of the Week

BitBarista

BitBarista: fully autonomous coffee machine built using Raspberry Pi and Bitcoin

Pi Controlling the BitBarista uses Raspbian

Uses Electrum for the BitCoin payments.

Code is on GitHub

Pays people to restock it

Can even call a technician to get repairs

36:40 Multi-Monitor on Gnome 40

Gnome Blog Post

Workspaces changes on primary monitor by default

Supports changing workspaces on all displays

Introduction of the workspaces navigator on secondary display

Transitioning to Horizontal workspaces

New additional shortcuts

switch workspaces will be Super+Alt+←/→.

Moving windows between workspaces will be Super+Alt+Shift+←/→.

Super+Alt+↑ will also open the overview and then app grid

Super+Alt+↓ will close them

These directional keyboard shortcuts have matching touch-pad gestures:

Three-finger swipes left and right will switch workspaces

Three-finger swipes up and down will open the overview and app grid

Gnome is doing and explaining changes in the open

44:00 Kodi 19.0 (Matrix)

Kodi Article

Nearly 50 developers contributed code

About 5,000 commits

Over 1,500 pull requests since the first release of 18.x "Leia"

Over 5,500 changed files

600,000 lines of code added, changed or removed

significant improvements to meta-data handling

New Matrix-inspired visualization

Database and meta-data improvements

Many more improvements

Kodi 19 replaces the old XML meta-data scrapers with Python

Most new features here revolve around usability

49:50 Nextcloud Hub

Nextcloud Blog Post

High performance back end for Nextcloud files

Wide range of performance improvements

Nextcloud talk improvements

Debuts message status indicators

Raise hand feature

Group conversation description

And more!

Wide Range of Groupware improvements

drag’n’drop

Nicer threading in Mail

Syncing social media avatars in Contacts

53:00 Firefox 86 Released

Mozilla Blog Post

New Features

Total Cookie Protection (each site gets it's own ("cookie jar")

Multiple videos Picture-in-Picture

Fixed Issues

Reader mode now works with local HTML pages

Orca and other screen reader fixes

Reader View links have more color contrast

various security fixes

55:00 New Platform for the Show

https://parachutelive.tv/

-- The Extra Credit Section --

For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard!

This Episode's Podcast Dashboard

Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys

Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix

-- Stay In Touch --

Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard

Ask Noah Dashboard

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Contact Noah

live [at] asknoahshow.com

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