All the lads are present and accounted for, and discuss their hopes and dreams for 2025. They also talk about politics 😲

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Obsidian

Vivaldi

Orion Browser

The Lenovo Legion Go S will run SteamOS

Steam Controller 2 could happen this year

Shane's YouTube channel

KDE's fundraising

Ubuntu on the Risc-V Premier P550 board

Framework's CEO swaps a laptop motherboard for a Risc-V one, live at Ubuntu Summit

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Conor, Shane and Mike ponder what to spend imaginary money on.

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Conor's Framework config

Steam Deck refurbished and new

Donate to KDE

Gawfolk curved monitor on Amazon

Home Assistant Green smart home hub

Support Asahi Linux

Zynthian

Donate to Ardour

Support Godot

Donate to Blender

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We discuss our favourite projects of the year, from dev tools to distros via a synth!

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FastAPI

SQLAlchemy

Postgresql

KDE

yarr!

Wallabag

KOReader

Thunderbird

Bespoke Synth

Three.js

Bazzite

Zed

Godot game engine

Firefox

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Amolith turns written word into spoken one, Conor tries out server distros and Shane talks about OggCamp.

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epub2tts and epub2tts-edge

Piper text to speech system

Coqui is shutting down, unfortunately

Findroid, Android app for Jellyfin

Ubuntu Server

Nala frontend to Apt

OggCamp

The podcast that Shane couldn't recall is TuxJam

Late Night Linux

The Binary Times

Raspberry Pi UK police controversy

Makey Makey

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Shane organizes a new event. Mike makes bots. Amolith switches password managers, and Mike goes on a bit of a rant about Murena. Shane discovers permacomputing and fantasy consoles and Amolith plays with a tiny gamepad.

The Dublin Linux website will have the details of the next DL meetup at the TOG Hackerspace

Mike's event bot repository (and a related blog post)

The original article on the Bitwarden licensing drama from The Register

Bitwarden

1Password

Murena outage forum thread

Permacomputing

Fantasy consoles

PICO-8

TIC-80

UXN

RetroArch

8BitDo Micro Bluetooth Gamepad

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Amolith has been playing with Home Assistant, turning web pages into ebooks with EpubPress and developing his own cli password generator. Mike's done nothing, because he can now play games on Asahi Linux, and time has vanished somewhere.

Home Assistant

Zigbee

Home Assistant VS Code extension

Home Assistant Android app

Aqara devices work with Home Assistant (as heard on Late Night Linux)

AAA gaming on Asahi Linux

BioShock Infinite

EpubPress

eow

Apple password algorithm

NIST password guidelines

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Conor and Mike talk to Karla, an open-source focused people skills trainer, about the 2024 Open Source Summit Europe.

The conference schedule

The event page now points to the 2025 event

Linux Foundation

Linus's keynote (Don't worry, it switches to English after a few seconds.)

OpenSearch

HyperLedger

CHAOSS foundation

Zephyr real time operating system

Open source program offices

Inner source

Talk on funding open source maintainers

Karla's LinkedIn

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Gary chats to Shane about OggCamp 2024, then the lads discuss programming languages, Amolith's new Android app and Shane's adventures in game dev. Discussion then turns to the frustrating topic of chat platforms.

12 and 13 October 2024 in Manchester, UK

Website

Gary's site

Linux After Dark

Rust 101

Andy's channels

Apparently, manual memory management in Go can be done

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

Clojure

Adresilo

Firefox forcing restart after autoupdate, still a thing in 2024

Esperanto

Gio UI

Stardew Valley

Godot game engine

Blender

The Expanse

Half-Life: Alyx

Valve Index

OpenRCT2

Durov's arrest

Signal

Matrix

Conduit Matrix server

RocksDB

JMP

Snikket

Matrix client-server API

Briar messenger

Session

SimpleX

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The Zed editor

Godot game engine

Conor's Minisforum mini PC

Proxmox

Jellyfin

LXC containers

openmediavault

Jellyfin Docker image

Big Buck Bunny

CachyOS

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Liam's Register page

Dev Class

Blocks & Files

The Next Platform

SCO Xenix

Aaron Swartz

Dennis Ritchie

Lasermoon Linux-FT

Caldera

Novell

Ximian

David Mills obituary

Nejsem kaktus, musím pít - I'm not a cactus, I have to drink. 🌵🍺

Mission of Gravity

The Tanenbaum - Torvalds debate

Plan 9

Peppermint OS

MX Linux

OSTree

NixOS review

Flox

Hackintosh

Ken MacLeod

Greg Egan

Ted Chiang

Alastair Reynolds

Liam's blog

Lisp language

The UNIX-HATERS Handbook

Dublin Maker 31 Aug - 1 Sept at Richmond Barracks

OggCamp 12 - 13 Oct at the Manchester Conference Centre in the UK

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