Late Night Linux

A new version of the Steam Deck looks to be a nice improvement, Amazon’s new Linux-based OS is probably bad news for Fire TV hackers, great news for GNOME, Signal tells us how expensive it is to run its service, GitHub goes all in on Copilot, our speculation about the OpenAI drama, and a mini KDE Korner. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.

News

Valve reveals the Steam Deck OLED: $549 buys better screen, battery, and more

Valve says it has sold ‘multiple millions’ of Steam Decks

Amazon has begun replacing Android with its own software on some products

GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure

Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive

Just as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot

Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI

OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO

Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

Mini KDE Korner

HDR Support merged in kwin, Breeze overhaul and Presentation mode & LOTS of bugfixes & updates

Kolide

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Using open source software to get paid for using electricity, automatically formatting your terrible Python code, speeding up Zsh, a couple of ways to get notifications, M1 Macbook Air problems, an epic ThinkPad collection, and more.

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Discoveries

Control your Thinkpad light

Octopus Energy Home Assistant addon

ruff now has a formatter

ZSH profiling

pyTelegramBotAPI

ntfy.sh

Beyond Doubt

recent macOS bugs

Feedback

Christian’s ThinkPad collection

Fairphone

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We imagine a scenario where we aren’t allowed to use Linux, try to decide what we’d use instead, and realise how much we actually appreciate it. Plus mixed news in the RISC-V world, a glimmer of hope for desktop Linux on Arm, YouTube’s adblock tracking might be against the GDPR, and a micro KDE Korner.

Jim’s post about the empty WSL talk at the Ubuntu Summit.

News

The Risk of RISC-V: What’s Going on at SiFive?

Android and RISC-V: What you need to know to be ready

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Performance Preview: A First Look at What’s to Come

Privacy advocate challenges YouTube’s ad blocking detection scripts under EU law

KDE 6 Funding Drive

KDE 6 Alpha approaches

Kolide

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Running your own self-hosted Internet archive, browsing the solar system in 3D, a Tweetdeck-like experience for Mastodon, securely sharing credentials with people, a fully free and self-contained modular synthesizer, editing PDFs in Linux, and loads more.

Discoveries 

archivebox.io

ia command for the Internet Archive

I, Voyager

Multi-column view in Mastodon

curl supports MQTT

wyrd (amoliths password thing)

WiFi QRCode Format

Cardinal

pdfarranger

Entroware

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A new version of Ubuntu is somewhat overshadowed by hateful translations but also runs on Arm Macs, more developments in the Unity saga, Microsoft teaches us how to install Linux, a serious lesson from false positives in Android’s malware scans, GNOME’s Halloween surprise, a mini KDE Korner, and more.

News

Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur

Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 release image translation incident – now resolved

Running Ubuntu on Apple Silicon Macs is Possible

Unity’s CEO is out, but that still may not be enough for developers

Unity Announces Leadership Transition

How to download and install Linux

Android will now scan sideloaded apps for malware at install time

Has Play Protect removed KDE Connect from your phone? Let us know!

GNOME Foundation Welcomes Holly Million as Executive Director

Holly the shaman artist

Become a Plasma 6 Supporter & KNotifications going on a diet

Kolide

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Open source self-hosted speed tests, SSHing into a Raspberry Pi via USB, a new and refined release of elementary OS, FOSS and proprietary digital audio workstation releases, realtime data about the urine tank on the International Space Station, Joe joins the ThinkPad cult, and more.

With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.

Discoveries

LibreSpeed

Raspberry Pi iPad Pro Setup Simplified

elementary OS 7.1

Studio One DAW now available for Linux

bitwig/dawproject: Open exchange format for DAWs

Ardour 8.0 — What’s new

ISS Mimic

ThinkPad X270

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Our thoughts on the Raspberry Pi 5 announcement, yet another nail in Xorg’s coffin, why we aren’t convinced by Google’s commitment to 7 years of software updates for the Pixel 8, praise for Mozilla(!), and more.

With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.

News

Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5

Testing PCIe on the Raspberry Pi 5

GNOME Merge Requests Opened That Would Drop X.Org Session Support

Incus 0.1 has been released

Gmail unleashes “email emoji reactions” onto an unsuspecting world

The Pixel 8’s best new feature is guaranteed updates

Google’s seven-year Pixel update promise is historic — or meaningless

Say (an encrypted) hello to a more private internet

Kolide

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Simulating logic circuits, cheap router hardware, Snap and Flatpak download metrics, frying hard drives with too many volts, gathering and mapping button presses from random USB devices, protecting your system from rogue USB devices, and making chiptune music with emulated versions of classic gaming hardware.

With guest host popey from Linux Matters.

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Discoveries

BOOLR

HUNSN

Beelink

Snapcraft Metrics

popey’s Snapcraft Metrics blog post

evtest

evtest-qt

USBGuard

bintracker

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The Wayland future is finally in sight, the UK government disappoints yet again, future LTS kernels won’t get 6 years of support, Unity drives people to Godot, Valve is a good open source citizen, an easy way to pay people to work on small KDE features and fixes, and more.

With guest host popey from Linux Matters.

News

Fedora 40 Eyes Dropping GNOME X11 Session Support

Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users 

Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too much work

Jonathan Corbet surprised by the coverage

The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source “Nouveau” Linux Kernel Driver Resigns

A new maintainer will take over

Unity makes major changes to controversial install-fee program

Terraria dev Re-Logic donates $100K to Godot Engine and FNA, plus ongoing funding

Robot Gentleman dev of 60 Seconds! blasts Unity, switches to Godot and increases funding

Unity’s oldest community announces dissolution 

Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community

KDE Sponsored Work

Entroware

This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.

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Sorting Python imports, searching open tabs and history etc in Firefox, configuring proprietary headsets on the command line, Fedora on an M1 Mac, digital archaeology, Slackware on easy mode, Félim fails at Linux, and loads more.

Discoveries

isort

Firefox search hints

HeadSetControl

Asahi Fedora

Abort Retry Fail

Another Abort Retry Fail

Webhook.site

Regolith 3.0

Feedback

Salix

Factor

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Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux

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