Linux Matters

This week we have been being your eyes and contributing to Common Voice. We discuss the Ubuntu Community Team with Rhys Davies, bring you a command line love and reply to all your wonderful feedback.

It’s Season 14 Episode 24 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Rhys Davies are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:

* Alan has been doing contributing to Mozilla Common Voice.

* Rhys has been being your eyes.

* We discuss The Ubuntu Community team with Developer Advocate Rhys Davies.

* We share a Command Line Lurve:

* Append commands to history as you go.

# After each command, append to the history file and reread it

PROMPT_COMMAND="${PROMPT_COMMAND:+$PROMPT_COMMAND; history -a; history -c; history -r}"

* And we go over all your amazing feedback – thanks for sending it – please keep sending it!

* Image credit: Geran de Klerk

* We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.

* You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Toot us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Telegram group.

* And we go over all your amazing feedback – thanks for sending it – please keep sending it!

* Image credit: Geran de Klerk

* We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.

* You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Toot us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Telegram group.

This week we’ve been playing Tabletop Simulator and enjoying DOOM Eternal. We’re joined by Rhys Davies to help round up the goings on in the Ubuntu Community and discuss our favourite stories from the tech news.

It’s Season 14 Episode 23 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Rhys Davies are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:

* Rhys has been playing Tabletop simulator

* Mark has been enjoying DOOM Eternal

* We discuss the community news:

* Launchpad now runs on Python 3!

* Ubuntu desktop highlights

* KDE made an advert

* GameMaker Studio 2 loves Linux

* flatpak wants your money

* We discuss the news:

* Linux hit a steamy 1%

* Amiga Lives

* Framework laptop teardown by iFixit

* Image credit: Scott Webb

* We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.

* You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Toot us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Telegram group.

This week we’ve been migrating to Vault Warden and erasing data. We discuss the web browsers we use and bring you a command line love.

It’s Season 14 Episode 22 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:

* Mark has been migrating to Vaultwarden.

* Alan has been playing with erasing data.

* We discuss the web browsers we use and why we use them.

* Alan: Microsoft Edge

* Mark: Mozilla Firefox

* Martin: Brave

* We share a Command Line Lurve:

* backgroundremover – Remove Background from Video and Images with a simple command line interface

sudo pip3 install backgroundremover

#Remove the background from a local file image

backgroundremover -i "/path/to/image.jpeg" -o "output.png"

* Image credit: Crispin Jones

* We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.

* You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Toot us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Telegram group.

This week we’ve been selling more things on eBay and return to the office. We round up news from the Ubuntu community and discuss our picks from the wider tech news.

It’s Season 14 Episode 21 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:

* Martin has been going back to “the office”.

* Alan has been putting more things on eBay.

* We discuss the community news:

* Ubuntu 20.10 – Groovy Gorilla End of Life reached on July 22 2021

* bullseye release planned on 2021-08-14 and the last weeks up to the release

* Apologetic Audacity rewrites privacy policy after ‘significant lapse in communication’

* Testing Unity session on Ubuntu 21.10

* We discuss the news:

* The YouTubers who blew the whistle on an anti-vax plot

* Playdate is nearly here

* Pint of ink, anyone?

* Image credit: Mauricio Artieda

* We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.

* You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Toot us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Telegram group.

This week we’ve been playing DOOM Eternal and buying aptX Low Latency earbuds. We discuss the Steam Deck from Valve, bring you a command line love and go over all your feedback.

It’s Season 14 Episode 20 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:

* Martin has been buying aptX Low Latency earbuds – EPOS GTW 270 Hybrid and Creative Labs Aurvana Trio Wireless

* Mark has been playing with DOOM Eternal.

* We discuss the Steam Deck from Valve

* We share a Command Line Lurve:

* duc – Duc is a collection of tools for inspecting and visualizing disk usage.

sudo apt install duc

duc index ~

duc ls ~ # plain text output

duc ui ~ # curses interface (like ncdu)

duc graph ~ # Creates a png sunburst graph

duc gui ~ # Interactive X sunburst graph

* And we go over all your amazing feedback – thanks for sending it – please keep sending it!

* Image credit: Daniel Lincoln

* We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.

* You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Toot us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Telegram group.

This week we’ve been playing chess and trying to play DOOM Eternal. We round up the news and goings on from the Ubuntu community and our favourite picks from the wider tech news.

It’s Season 14 Episode 19 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:

* Alan has been playing chess

* Mark has been trying to play DOOM Eternal.

* We discuss the community news:

* Ubuntu Touch OTA-18 call for testing

* Changes to the Ubuntu Membership process

* Libre Office Calc survey

* Zstd compression for debs in 21.10

* We mention an event:

* SeaGL 2021: 5th to 6th of November 2021 – The Internet

* We discuss the news:

* Examining OnePlus’ Performance Behaviour: Optimization or Misrepresentation?

* Cheat-maker brags of computer-vision auto-aim that works on “any game”

* OpenUK’s latest report paints a rosy picture of open source adoption

* Image credit: Alain Snel

* We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.

* You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Toot us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Telegram group.

This week we’ve been configuring new-ish HP Microservers and entering our first game jam. We discuss Project Kebe, an open source Snap Store implementation, and respond to all your wonderful feedback.

It’s Season 14 Episode 18 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:

* Alan has been configuring a new(er) HP MicroServer.

* Martin has entered My First Game Jam – Summer 2021.

* We discuss a Project Kebe – an open-source Snap Store implementation

* We share a Webby Lurve:

* “The easiest way to create a README” – Readme dot so

* And we go over all your amazing feedback – thanks for sending it – please keep sending it!

* Image credit: Fabrizio Magoni

* We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.

* You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Toot us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Telegram group.

This week we’ve been holiday and been learning Godot. We round up news and goings on from the community and discuss our picks from the wider tech news.

It’s Season 14 Episode 17 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:

* Martin has been learning Godot.

* Mark has been on holiday.

* We discuss the community news:

* Canonical to offer Blender support

* Robert Collins shares his first email from Mark Shuttleworth

* Debian User Repository is a thing

* Wallpaper Competition for Impish Indri – Ubuntu 21.10

* We discuss the news:

* NVIDIA 470.42.01 for Linux adds DLSS for Proton and Xwayland acceleration

* “I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted

* UK “gadget levy” proposed to fund artists

* Image credit: Neel

* We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.

* You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Toot us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Telegram group.

This week we’ve been playing Subnautica Below Zero, going to the pub and teaching celebrities how to D&D. We have a retrospective on our FOSS Talk Live one-button challenge.

It’s Season 14 Episode 16 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson Martin Wimpress and Stuart Langridge are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:

* Stuart has been going to the pub and showing Tim Harford from BBC More Or Less how to use Avrae.

* Mark has been playing Subnautica Below Zero.

* We have a retrospective on the Ubuntu Voltage one-button challenge at FOSS Talk Live.

* Image credit: Neven Krcmarek

* We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.

* You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Toot us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Telegram group.

This week we’ve been learning Davinci Resolve and instrumenting our house with DHT11 sensors. We round up the goings on from the Ubuntu community and discuss our favourite picks from the wider tech news.

It’s Season 14 Episode 15 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:

* Martin as been learning Davinci Resolve.

* Alan has been playing with DHT11 temperature sensors.

* We discuss the community news:

* Kai-Fu Lee’s Sinovation bets on Linux tablet maker Jingling in $10M round

* Yet more erroneous Ubuntu takedowns

* WINE Patches make Roblox work on Linux

* FOSSHost rolls back partnership with Freenode

* freenode finds another shark to jump

* Mike Ybarra teases Linux gamers

* Sommelier-Core gets some love

* We discuss the news:

* UK competition watchdog begins probe into Apple and Google’s total domination of the mobile landscape

* Web founder Berners-Lee to auction source code as NFT

* Google uses AI to rapidly design computer chips

* How the FBI’s Trojan Shield operation exposed a criminal underworld

* Image credit: Guido Coppa

* We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.

* You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Toot us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Telegram group.