Joe and Gary from Linux After Dark talk about installing and running the first alpha of Asahi Linux on an M1 Mac Mini and Macbook Air, as both a desktop and a headless server.

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We discuss whether computing become less interesting as performance and abstraction have increased over the years. Plus our discoveries including two way radios, synths, HTML from colourful terminal output, and a personal wiki for Vim.

Discoveries

aha

blame Canada for computer translation

Chirp

vimwiki

Open Collidoscope (video)

Borderlands synth

Computers are really fast, but less exciting now

114 billion transistors, one big meh

Unity Store

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If you’re going to use proprietary software, why not just run it on a proprietary OS?

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Arch and the Web make us feel old, the BBC makes us rather cross, a kernel vulnerability makes us laugh, Mozilla makes us wonder, and KDE makes us happy.

News

Arch is 20 years old

The Web is 33 years old

A new year, a new MDN (MDN Plus cling soon)

Something is up with elementary

GNOME, Mono, Xamarin founder Miguel de Icaza leaves Microsoft

Linux has been bitten by its most high-severity vulnerability in years

Click here to see why the BBC HATES RSS

Admin

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KDE Korner

Wikidata reuse days… non now…

Steamdeck runs KDE

PIM Update & KDE Gear updates

New Firmware Security tab coming in Plasma 5.25

Translation help

Signature support is now Okular in on Android

Eco Software

Multi-cursors in Kate

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Joe is joined by Stuart Langridge to talk about Open Web Advocacy, a group of software engineers from all over the world who have come together to advocate for the future of the open web.

Stuart’s consulting company Kryogenix

@sil on Twitter

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A varied selection of Discoveries including suspending apps, easy VMs, and controlling pretty lights. Plus your feedback about Linux gaming, whether bug fixes should be more important than new features, and more.

Discoveries

Pandas (10mins to pandas)

WLED

XSuspender

subnetcalc

Quickemu and Quickgui

Feedback

French Keyboard bug in KDE

asus-linux.org

GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom

protondb

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Where is the gate for the “Real Linux User”, and who’s keeping it?

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The Raspberry Pi turns 10, the Steam Deck reviews are here, Android is getting proper virtualisation, Arm ThinkPads are coming, and KDE is even better than ever.

News

One decade, 46 million units: Happy birthday, Raspberry Pi

Android 13 virtualization hack runs Windows (and Doom) in a VM on Android

Steam Deck review: it’s not ready

Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad

Qualcomm’s new PC chips are good, but they still can’t match Apple’s M1

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KDE Korner

Fix all the things

Kate Improvements coming soon

SoK Flathubbing

It’s Normal and it Works

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Joe is joined by Adam Pigg, a member of the Sailfish OS Community who has ported the OS to various phones.

A thread with some of Adam’s history

Jolla forum post about Russia

Twitter reply about Russia

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Loads of discoveries including window tiling, rich text for CLI Python apps, FOSS Wordle, 3D home design, and fractals. Plus your feedback about JSON, Matrix, audio, and an old Mac.

Discoveries

Python Rich

Sweethome 3D

react-wordle

wordle in under 50 lines of bash

Bismuth

Kröhnkite

KWin-Tiling

Mandelbulber2

Feedback

fx: Command-line tool and terminal JSON viewer

jo

Unofficial LNL Matrix room

Samson mic

Podcastage

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