How our lives would change if cars ceased to exist, what intellectual property we’d make into a TV show or movie, and our worst cases of buyers’ remorse. With Will and Félim from Late Night Linux, and popey from Linux Matters.

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Hacking 2-way radios, upgrading Debian from 10 to 12, sshing into the Ubuntu Server installer, a new version of a minimal keyboard-focused browser, establishing the true health of your laptop battery, playing Wipeout in the browser, RSS aggregators, and more.

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UVMOD

Antennapod

qutebrowser 3.0

acpi

Rewriting wipEout

Bash scripting cheatsheet

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FreshRSS

Nextcloud News

NewsFlash

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Governments around the world are trying to undermine end-to-end encryption. Are they going to get away with forcing in backdoors, and what does it mean for open source? Plus what we stubbornly refuse to use our computers and phones for.

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Dropbox once again proves that there is no such thing as “unlimited” anything, Intel isn’t going to support WiFi 7 on Windows 10 (but it doesn’t really matter), managing ssh keys, setting up data storage for containers, and more on IPMI for Raspberry Pis.

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News

Dropbox limits ‘all the storage you need’ unlimited plan, blames abusive users

Intel doesn’t plan to support Wi-Fi 7 on Windows 10

Wi-Fi 7 is Coming: Here’s What You Need to Know

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Turing Pi

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We were asked about managing ssh keys, and setting up data storage for containers.

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We can’t believe Proton has been around for 5 years, a bad sign for the Linux desktop long-term, the dilemma of whether to support your software on outdated operating systems, a laughable plan from WordPress to host your website for 100 years, and Félim shoehorns in some KDE nonsense.

News

5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux gaming

Roblox is back on Linux

Red Hat redeploys one of its main desktop developers

Firefox to drop support for old macOS and Windows versions

The 100-Year Plan on WordPress.com

Merkuro Explainer & comparison to Kontact : also “Qt 6.6, to be released end of September, Qt apps will survive a restart of the Wayland compositor”

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We are all on board with the right to be forgotten but it can cause some tricky problems for open source projects – particularly small ones. Plus why we won’t stop going on about why we take such a dim view of crypto.

Amolith mentioned a toot from the Tor Project.

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CNET’s SEO attempts once again show that nothing lasts forever, why the reports of the death of the mechanical hard drive are greatly exaggerated, and home-made IPMI on the cheap.

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News/discussion

The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google

Coughlin: SSDs will not kill disk drives

Samsung Announces 256TB SSDs and Unveils Peta-Byte Scale PBSSDs

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We were asked about setting up IPMI for cheap Arm boards.

PiKVM

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Rooting Amazon Echo devices to use with your own open source software, a remote desktop solution to watch for the future, the state of tech magazines and why Linux ones are among the last remaining, another Pocket alternative, making shell scripts look prettier, a novel approach to IT training, and more.

Discoveries

Echo Root

Kyber

The End of Computer Magazines in America

Feedback

linkding

gum

35 Fedora Releases in 30 Minutes

exercism.org

Worker claims they’re unable to use Microsoft Windows OS due to their religion

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