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Episode 220: Multi-Monitor in Gnome 40

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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.

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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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