The lads start with a PSA about a Pixelfed vulnerability, then they talk about their current hardware setup.

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Desktop

CachyOS

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 6 cores 12 threads

GPU: Radeon RX 5700

RAM: 32GB

Storage: 1x 1TB NVMe (OS), 1x 2TB NVMe (Steam), 1x 6TB HDD (storage)

Two ThinkPads

Minisforum mini PC

Audio

Audio interface: Rode AI-1

Microphone: Sennheiser e935

Headphones: Audio-Technica M50x

Linux Mint 22.1 Xia

Desktop

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K (4 cores/8 threads, 4.0-4.2 GHz base/boost)

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (8GB VRAM, driver 535.183.01) driving a 3440x1440 ultrawide display

Memory: 16GB RAM

One 1 TB Samsung 860 EVO SSD and two 2 TB WD HDDs

Killer E2200 Gigabit Ethernet

Logitech C920 webcam

Audio

Behringer UMC404HD audio interface

AKAI MPK Mini Mk II MIDI controller

Shure SM58 microphone

Sennheiser HD200 Pro monitor headphones

Three ThinkPads

Desktop

Ryzen 7 2700, 8 cores 16 threads

Factory-overclocked Radeon 5700 XT

32GB RAM

Monitor is 27" and 1440@165

MX Master 3 mouse

Keyboards

Ergodox

Logitech MX Mechanical Mini

Framework 13 with 11th gen Intel i5 running Fedora 41

Audio

Stagg SDM50 (similar to Shure SM58)

Double-layer pop shield

Sony WH-1000XM5

Scarlett 2i2

Entroware Kratos laptop (EL04R4L)

elementary OS

CPU: Intel i7-8750H (12) @ 4.100GHz

GPU: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 (UHD Graphics 630)

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce MX150

32GB RAM

MacBook Pro 13" 2020

currently without Linux

M1 CPU

16GB RAM

AOC CU34G2XP ultrawide curved monitor, 3440x1440, 180Hz

Audio:

Behringer U-Phoria UM2

Headphones: Sony WH-CH720N

Microphone: Behringer XM8500

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An "ask us anything" episode, inspired by Ask The Hosts. The lads start by discussing the appropriate age for kids to have a connected device, then get serious comparing cupcakes and muffins. This is followed by talking about immutable operating systems, replacement OSs and the weather.

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@linuxlads what age should do you think a child should have ownership of an internet connected device such as a mobile phone or computer? If you were a parent, would you implement some “lockdown” on their devices? Do you think your approach would be significantly different from the parents of your kids peers?

@techcelt @linuxlads @killyourfm @felimwhiteley @sil Cupcakes vs Muffins? 😎😆

Immutable operating systems are the future of the desktop, change my mind

@linuxlads I have two questions. If you could not use your main OS, which one would you pick and why? The second question is, what is your ideal weather? Since I moved to the UK from Costa Rica, people ask me if I hate the weather, but I find it pleasant, It rains less and it never gets too hot.

A gentle introduction to immutable OSs by means of a listicle

Arch Linux

CachyOS

Asahi Linux

Linux Mint

Manjaro

Cosmic desktop environment

Pop!_OS

elementary OS

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Conor, Amolith and Mike start by discussing fonts by prettiness and legibility.

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Gnome introduces new fonts

Check out fonts on CodingFont and Programming Fonts

LunarVim

Nerd Fonts

Fantasque Sans

Atkinson Hyperlegible

Berkeley Mono

0xProto

Ligature

Noto Sans

Comic Mono

According to some evidence, special fonts don't help with dyslexia

Framework's announcement blog post

4 Command & Conquer games were open sourced by EA

OpenRa

The Original GTA

OpenRCT2

Age of Empires 2

You can play the original Doom on Internet Archive

Mozilla's new terms of use post

Mozilla's Orbit

The Register's scathing article on AI summaries

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Amolith, Conor and Shane discuss federated communities as resistance against big tech. They touch on AcitivityPub and the network effect problem. Then they talk about RSS.

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Loops, made by Pixelfed

Bluesky

Fedilab

Free Our Feeds, as discussed on Late Night Linux

Spritely Institute

ActivityPub W3 Standard

Mobilizon

Network effect

PeerTube

Skymoth the Mastodon - Bluesky crossposter

You Should Be Using an RSS Reader by Cory Doctorow

Feeder

Want My RSS Firefox addon

KOReader

Calibre

Wallabag

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Amolith, Conor and Shane talk about their experiences with self hosting.

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Nextcloud on Hetzner

Thunderbird

Migadu

Bitwarden

Conor's email service shortlist:

StartMail

mailbox.org

Forward Email

Amolith suggested Purelymail

NixNet

HedgeDoc

ejabberd

Prosody IM

audiobookshelf

Incus containers

Framasoft

YunoHost

Pixelfed

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

This episode is sponsored by Sandfly Security.

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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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