Conor: I am now back to running KDE, I really like it so far. It has it's little annoyances (less so than last time, could be that I am more familiar with it) but then, no DE is perfect. 🏆 I've been playing GTA V all Xmas.

Mike: Got myself a Teclast f5 hybrid laptop. Landed on EndeavourOS 📂

Shane:

2021 should bring a Production ready Plasma Wayland session according the Nate Graham 🖥️

Corellium's port of Linux to the Apple M1 Macs 💻 (thanks to Phoronix)

The Cyberpunk give away was won by Amolith (@[email protected]) 🕹️

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In this episode we welcome back Wayne and Mark, formerly of the Binary Times 🎙️🎙️🎙️🎙️🎙️. We discuss offensive employment practices, Centos Stream, and the new release of Raspberry Pi OS. Also: Competition redesigned!

🦋 Microsoft 🕵️👨🏻‍🏭🙇 apologize for "worker spyware" (via The Guardian)

Centos is dead 😵⚰️🪦, but is it though 🎩👨🏻‍⚕️💉?

New release of Raspberry Pi OS 🥧🥧🥧🥧

The 2020 Holiday Hack Challenge 🧪

After speaking to DM it has been agreed that the prize be changed to a copy of 🕹️ Cyberpunk 2077.

The rules are as follows:

You must have a Steam or GOG 🔐 account (to be gifted the prize)

You can follow us on 🐦 Twitter and use #cyberpunklads or email [email protected] with Cyberpunk Lads as the subject.

The entries will be put into a spreadsheet and a 🎲 random number generator will pick the winner so there is no advantage or disadvanage to getting the entry in early.

The deadline for entries is midnight 🌓 Dublin time on the 23rd. The winner will be contacted on the 24th.

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Mike: A cat got us 🐈

Shane: I have been 🎨 Blendering more and I have discovered a great resource ( That's my referral link so if people don't feel like indulging my self-serving plug you can go to https://www.sheepit-renderfarm.com/ )

Conor: 6 hours 😴 sleep, not recommended 😄

In this episode we welcome back DM and talk about YouTube-DL, browsers, a new phone, Gimp and the suitability of FOSS for pro work. Also, a competition!

YouTube-DL repo is back up 👍

⚙️ Servo goes to the Linux Foundation

📱 The Pro1 X Smartphone

Gimp ✏️🖼️ is 25 (via Phoronix)

DM 🎁 is giving away Conan Exiles + DLC!

For your chance to win, you'll need to have a Steam account and:

We'll announce the winner in the next episode 🎲

If you don't want to be 🤐 named mention this to us in a direct message on Twitter

... will be the 🎄Christmas Mashup with the ex-Binary Times hosts Mark and Wayne!

(It will also be the last Linux Lads episode of the season, please prepare a bucket 🪣 so that your tears don't make your floor wet).

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This week we chat about the new Raspberry Pi, Chromium on Mint, YouTube-DL takedown, Ubuntu, carrier lock, HBO Max.

🥧 The Raspberry Pi 400

Linux Mint are now 🏗️ building and packaging Chromium

The RIAA got ⚖️ YouTube-DL taken off GitHub (via Torrent Freak)

Ubuntu 21.04 is gonna be called Hirsuite 🦛 Hippo (via TechRadar)

Ubuntu 20.10 is out (via FOSS Linux) 🦍

No more carrier lock in the UK 🔓 (via The Verge)

HBO Max is back for Linux users 🖥️ (via Ars Technica)

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🎃 In this episode we tip our hat to the Fedora guys, and talk to them about the new release, the project, the Universe and everything.

🔴🎩 Red Hat the company supporting Fedora

The multiple editions can be found on their main page 📑

💻 Gnome-based workstation is the main one, but there are many other spins

Centos gets a lot of goodness from Fedora (eventually ⌛)

Extra options can be set using ⚙️ Gnome Tweaks

Extra software can be found in the ⚗️ copr repos and in RPM Fusion

Flatpak is the "official" universal 🌌 packaging format, but Snaps in Mike's experience works too.

🟦 Fedora Silverblue

33 should be released 🏭 soon (via It's Foss)

Fedora 🤯 Mindshare

💼 Fedora Ambassadors

👍 Fedora is on

Fedora Special Interest Groups 🍻

Fedora is an ✌🏿✌️✌🏻✌🏾inclusive project

Find the Fedora community:

Catch up with Ed on Twitter 🐦

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Shane has a Minetest let's play YouTube 📹 video

👨‍💻 Conor works way too much

Mike talks way too much 🤐

This week we mostly chat about empowerment and barriers 🚧 to entry.

Purism's AweSim 📱💲

Azire VPN 🕸️

Manjaro Cinnamon 🖼️

UK Covid Excel fail 📊🙅‍♀️

🦉 You've chosen wisely (via YouTube)

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And we are back! This time we mostly chat about hardware, as Nvidia dropped 40 biiiiiiillion on Arm and Linux laptops are all the rage. 👹

Nvidia 🤑 buys Arm. (via ZDNet)

RISC-V desktop CPU 🖥 (via CNX Software)

Microsoft 🏭 release kernel source code for Surface Duo (via Windows Central)

Pinebook Pro and 📱 Pinephone

Linux 💻 laptops by

Slimbook

Go have a listen of the new Tabs, Not Spaces 🎙

We have a brand new store 🛒

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This is the last episode of the season, we'll be taking a break and will be back in September

Conor: I haz new PC 🖥

Mike: 🍹Drinking in LA (fat chance)

Ireland ☘ contributes the open-source part of the COVID Tracker app to the Linux Foundation

PinePhone news 📱📢

Phosh Purism's phone shell 🐚

📽 Olive is a new contender in the video editing space on Linux.

LibreOffice 7 🏢 won't use "Personal Edition" tag for now

Closing thoughts:

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Mike: Was on PTO, 🧳🇮🇪 went to Carlingford and Kilkenny

Mark: Still playing with 📱 Volla phone and loving it.

Conor: Adventures in 🐧 KDE continue.... we can do this, we have the technology

Ikey Doherty moves back to Ireland 🇬🇧➡🇮🇪, starts a new distro called 🐍 Serpent OS (not necessarily in that order).

Barclays UK 🏦 used the Internet Archive as their CDN 👎

Volla 📱 phone beta is out and Mark is testing 🧪 how it runs Ubuntu Touch

👈 Ubuntu Touch page for the device

Assembled by Gigaset in Germany 🤖🇩🇪

/e/ foundation, Sailfish OS ☎

Turn Ubuntu into a rolling distro with the 🤣🦏 Rolling Rhino script (via omg! ubuntu!)

The Ubuntu Podcast episode where it all started 🎤🔰 (around the 25th minute)

Debian releases and codenames 🦖

openSUSE 💚🐧

Manjaro 💻

🎷⬇ Cadmus noise suppression GUI tool for Linux (via GamingOnLinux)

Elementary OS, Zorin, Linux Mint 🐧🐧🐧

John Romero, the designer of Doom 💀

Alacritty the GPU-accelerated terminal ⏩

🎙 Catch up with Mark at the Binary Times

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What is ⚡🐚 PowerShell

VS Code and the open source VSCodium 📜

Zenity 🧑‍💻

🦸 PSAvalonia

Out-GridView 🗼

PowerShell 🌍 Selenium module

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