Late Night Linux

Graham plays with a synth, old desktops live on, Generation X11 yells at cloud, Will has been a naughty boy, TV alternatives, and Linux on weird hardware.

Discoveries

Surge XT synth

The Unity desktop is still alive (as is Trinity)

10 hours of a hairdryer noise

Star Trek TNG bridge noise

Feedback

Cloudfree.shop

Kolide

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The Mars Helicopter might be on its way out but it’s still a hero, bad things are happening to the UK Internet and we blame the government, whether software can ever be finished, some great discoveries, KDE Korner, and more.

News

Martin Wimpress has joined Linux Downtime as a co-host

Mars helicopter spots wreckage from Perseverance landing

Ingenuity might not last much longer

Oatmeal comic

LineageOS 19 based on Android 12 is now officially available

More about Lineage on Linux After Dark this Friday

Apple clarifies its controversial app removal emails with policy statement

UK finance minister blames legacy IT for benefits delay

Bad things are going to happen to the Internet in the UK

Discoveries

pz

dashy

Charge your laptop off a big external battery over USB-C

KDE Korner

KItinery out of Play

New Plasma Mobile Gear 22.04 with new site

New gestures support in Plasma 5.25

Poppler’s new embedded font support

LinuxAppSummit & video of Q&A with Neil McGovern and Aleix Pol

New LabPlot & Kdenlive

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Saving abandonded IoT devices with FOSS, watching directories for changes, monitoring disk usage, window managers vs desktop environments, further thoughts on work-supplied hardware, and more.

Discoveries

Tuya Convert

entr

hw-probe

Insteon Abruptly Shuts Down, Users Left Smart-Home-Less

Parallel Disk Usage

psst

Feedback

Touristic Guide — DebConf 22

adblock · PyPI

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A new Ubuntu LTS is here and it’s mostly great, the Steam Deck is a huge success, Brave proves that nuance isn’t dead, people flock to Mastodon, KDE Korner, and more.

News

Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is released

Canonical now hopes to IPO in 2023

Ubuntu Founder Explains Why Distro Won’t Support Flatpak

Sinclair’s 8-bit home computer, ZX Spectrum, turns 40

The Steam Deck is not a flop

De-AMP: Cutting Out Google and Enhancing Privacy

Discoveries

LNL Matrix

Element

New official Mastodon apps for Android and iOS

Create Twitter RSS Feeds

KDE Korner

KDE Gear 22.04.0 is out

Nice theming improvements

iOS KDEConnect getting better Alerts

Simple Tasks App

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Entroware

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Our discoveries including a better diff, a way to replace Snaps with Flatpacks, a command line cheat sheet, help with YAML, and signing PDFs. Plus your feeback about supporting us with crypto nonsense, running Linux on work machines, an esoteric browser, and more.

Discoveries 

Saltstack linter

difftastic

Xournalpp

navi

qddcswitch

unsnap

asciinema

Feedback

Qutebrowser

Nyxt Browser

Interview with Gavin Freeborn about Nyxt

Kolide

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Moving on from legacy BIOS and Xorg, Raspberry Pi OS finally catches up with security basics, the UK government give us more reasons to be angry, the usual KDE goodness, and more.

News

Work with Will writing Go

Fedora 37 Looks To Deprecate Legacy BIOS Support

Fedora 37 Considering Removal Of Legacy X.Org Drivers

An update to Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye

elementary update

Ubuntu gets a new rolling-release remix

GPD are getting quite desperate against the Steam Deck

Her Majesty’s Treasury is working on a new kind of mint: NFTs

Admin

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KDE Korner

KDE Itinerary has barcodes for the gate/seating and now a barcode reader

This week and the previous update-a-geddon

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A varied selection of Discoveries including Telegraf, writing tools, a book about networking, and fixing a Mac. Plus your feedback about Matrix bridges, virtualisation, Pocket alternatives, the BBC, game development, and more.

Discoveries

Computer Networks from Scratch a bit like Julia Evans

Telegraf

FocusWriter and PanWriter, and also Horcrux

It takes a Mac to save a Mac but there is a FOSS alternative

Feedback

Vagrant

wallabag

Shaarli

Archiving and Digital Preservation

Bookmarks and Link Sharing

Read-it-later Lists

get-iplayer

bashpodder

PICO-8

TIC-80

Scratch

Appel

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The Mars helicopter continues to excel, Linux arrives on M1 Macs, Canonical’s hiring methods cause a stink, Graham eats his words about MDM, KDE korner, and more.

News

You can now support us on Kofi and Liberapay

Software upgrades help Mars helicopter keep flying

The first Asahi Linux Alpha Release is here!

Linux Downtime Episode about Asahi

This was the first step in the interview process at Canonical – I withdrew my application

My Interview Process Experience With Canonical

Ask Shuttleworth a question!

Introducing MDN Plus: Make MDN your own

KDE Korner

Okular – First Eco Certified

QT6 work progresses with Frameworks+Plasma and now Kate/Kwrite

Some KDE items of interest from Wikidata Data Reuse Days

Nate’s usual weekly updates

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Entroware

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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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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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