Late Night Linux

Monitoring and automating our homes, heating systems, brewing the perfect beer with a raspberry Pi, modern databases, KDE Korner, and more.

Home monitoring and automation

Will’s links:

Raspberry Pi Heating Controller

Heating controller code

Graphing library

InfluxDB Cloud 2

Node-RED

Graham’s links:

Home Assistant

Domoticz

HA Bridge

Rtl_433

BrewPi (legacy)

Fermentrack

Félim’s links:

Graphite

Grafana

KDE Korner

KDE Matrix Client – NeoChat

KDE Apps in the Windows store

Highlights from 2020

Geeks, Mops & Sociopaths

Linode

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Datadog

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It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2020 predictions, and make some new ones for 2021.

Linode

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Datadog

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We look back at some of the biggest 2020 trends including Arm and Mozilla, consider the fallout from the recent CentOS announcement, and end on typically good KDE news. Plus details of a LNL community event.

Two big 2020 topics

Arm

8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75

Raspberry Pi 400

PinePhones Shipping

PinePhone UBports Community Edition Pre-orders are Open

Second PinePhone Community edition

postmarketOS now boots on over 200 Linux phones and tablets

AWS unveils new compute instances, including compute heavy C6gn powered by Graviton2

marcan is creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs

Mozilla

Mozilla lays off 70 as it waits for new products to generate revenue

Readying for the Future at Mozilla

Use your voice to #StopHateForProfit

Changing World, Changing Mozilla

If you think Mozilla pushed a broken Firefox Android build, good news: It didn’t. Bad news: It’s working as intended

Admin

Join the first Late Night Linux community mumble get-together on 1st January 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here.

CentOS

CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream

Entroware

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Digital Ocean

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Faux outrage over the Linux Foundation’s lack of dogfooding, an attempt to port Linux to modern Macs, follow-up on search engines and privacy, KDE Korner, and more.

News

No dog food today – the Linux Foundation annual report

marcan is creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs

Check out the most recent episode of Late Night Linux Extra

Feedback

Thanks to everyone who wrote to us. See the contact page if you want to send in your thoughts.

KDE Korner

Plasma Big Screen Beta 2

Alternate Character Input

Digikam on Big Sur progresses

Lernard

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Digital Ocean

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What we actually mean when we use the word trust, good news for youtube-dl, why we don’t use DuckDuckGo, and Joe’s shocking switch to KDE Neon (on one machine).

News

Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back

GitHub Reinstates youtube-dl After RIAA’s Abuse of the DMCA

We can do better than DuckDuckGo

Admin

Check out a recent episode of Late Night Linux Extra.

Feedback: Trust

We were asked what each of us mean when we talk about trusting an organisation.

Your computer isn’t yours

Apple responds to privacy concerns over Mac software security process

NSA Spying

KDE Korner

Linux App Summit

All Talks Playlist

GCompris is 20

KDE Pinephone: The Point

Joe talked about his experiences of using KDE Neon.

Datadog

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Entroware

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Digital Ocean

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Mint finally sorts out the Chromium mess, what distro we should be recommending to new users, a new Raspberry Pi, the problem with Let’s Encrypt’s success, and a packed KDE Korner.

News

Raspberry Pi 400

Raspberry Pi 400 with Ubuntu support

Late Night Linux Extra episode about the PI 400

Linux Mint pushes out its own Chromium build to help users avoid Canonical’s Snap Store

How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux

Let’s Encrypt: Standing on Our Own Two Feet

Chrome will soon have its own dedicated certificate root store

KDE Korner

New SysMon on the way & Dolphin Feedback

Kontact better & better

KDE Android News

Kate is 20 years old!

Datadog

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Lernard

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Digital Ocean

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Drama with open source office suites, the RIAA attacks open source, a new Ubuntu release complete with Raspberry Pi support, new Arm hardware, and the usual KDE goodness.

News

Apache Software Foundation Celebrates Two Decades Of OpenOffice

LibreOffice rains on OpenOffice’s 20th anniversary parade, tells rival project to ‘do the right thing’ and die

youtube-dl removed from GitHub by RIAA takedown notice

Antennapod 2.0 released

Ubuntu 20.10 Released

20.10 on the Pi 4 video

Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 on sale now from $25

New Home-Cloud platform: ODROID-HC4

KDE Korner

Plasma 5.20 and 5.20.1 released

Krita 4.4.0 released

Plasma browser integration on Edge

Inside KDE: leadership and long-term planning

Entroware

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Datadog

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Digital Ocean

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Why Windows isn’t switching to a Linux kernel, Will tells us how he stopped his kids using TikTok with a Raspberry Pi, possible LNL merch, and the usual goodness in KDE Korner.

Linux-based Windows

We discuss a recent post by Hayden Barnes about the ridiculous idea of Windows switching to a Linux kernel that ESR put out there a few weeks ago.

Will’s adventures in DNS

Will has been checking out Pi-hole and AdGuard.

KDE Korner

My KDE

Plasma Mobile update: September 2020

Plasma 5.20 is nigh

TrueNAS from iXsystems

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Lernard

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Digital Ocean

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Why WireGuard is the only VPN software worth using, games becoming open source, the slow demise of Mozilla, Cloudflare synergy with the Wayback Machine, KDE Korner, 3D printing updates, and more.

News

Amnesia is now open source!

BBC Micro Elite source code

Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla’s top exec pay going up 400%

Killed by Mozilla

Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine gets way more websites in Cloudflare fail-over deal

WireGuard

Félim has been playing with WireGuard, and tells us about how easy it is to set up and use.

KDE Korner

Running PlasmaShell with Vulkan

KDE websites update

Datadog

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Entroware

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Digital Ocean

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How do we fix the broken Internet? We try to find solutions that don’t mean resorting to regulation. Plus Arm is sold again, Ubuntu community rumblings, a packed KDE Korner, and more.

News

NVIDIA to Acquire Arm for $40 Billion

Arm co-founder starts ‘Save Arm’ campaign to keep independence amid $40B Nvidia deal

Ubuntu community drama

Mark Shuttleworth to revive Ubuntu Community Council after body shrinks to single member – Mark Shuttleworth

Amiga Fast File System makes minor comeback in new Linux kernel

Admin

Check out Paddy’s new show Tabs, Not Spaces

Check out Jono Bacon’s book club

Fixing the Internet

Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker urges European Commission to seize ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity

EU lawmakers say it’s time to go further on tackling disinformation

Telling people to delete Facebook won’t fix the internet

KDE Korner

KDE Plasma 5.20 Will Alert You If Your Disk Is Failing, New Bluetooth page & in 20.12 (while out) Annotations in Spectacle

Fedora 34 KDE Spin Planning Switch To Wayland

Akademy makes the magic happen: Check Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu & Fri / Fri Wrap

Datadog

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Lernard

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Digital Ocean

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