Linux Matters

This week we got a portable touch screen monitor. We discuss our favourite Linux apps, bring you a command line lurve and go over all your wonderful feedback.

It’s Season 14 Episode 14 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 got a WIMAXIT 14 Inch 1080p IPS portable touch screen monitor and a OMOTON adjustable thick tablet Stand

* We discuss our favourite Linux applications.

* Martin’s Apps

* GitKraken – Legendary Git GUI client for Windows, Mac & Linux

* Shotcut – Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor

* Wavebox – Super-Browser for Work

* Mark’s Apps

* PHPStorm – the best PHP IDE

* Sound Converter – converts, renames and resamples audio files

* NextCloud – self-hosted “cloud” storage with instant photo upload.

* Alan’s Apps

* Google Chrome – The best web browser

* OBS Studio – Best screen recorder and streamer

* Visual Studio Code – The best IDE

* Bonus App

* Syncthing – Continuous file synchronization

* We share a command line lurve:

* rpg-cli – Your filesystem as a dungeon!

rpg ~/Scripts

spider[2][xxxx]@~/Scripts

hero[1][xxx-] -11hp

spider[2][xxxx] dodged!

hero[1][x---] -13hp

spider[2][xxxx] dodged!

hero[1][----] -12hp

hero[1][----][----]@~/Scripts 💀

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

* Image credit: Artem Maltsev

* 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.

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This week we’ve been fixing phones and relearning trigonometry. We round up the news and events from the Ubuntu community and discuss news from the wider tech scene.

It’s Season 14 Episode 13 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 reminding himself about trigonometry.

* Mark has been fixing his phone.

* We discuss the community news:

* Ubuntu on Air Reboot

* https://youtube.com/UbuntuOnAir

* https://twitch.tv/UbuntuOnAir

* Snapcrafters Community Reboot

* Launchpad gains comment editing

* Disabling Snap Autorefresh

* FOSSHost needs help to continue

* Entroware launch Poseidon Desktop

* We mention some events:

* FOSS Talk Live 2021: 12th of June 2021 – Online.

* We discuss the news:

* freenode drama continues. Listen to 2.5 Admin Episode 40 for the full details.

* Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC

* Mozilla announces MDN Plus

* Image credit: JOYUMA

* 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.

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This week we’ve been making a Linux powered Commodore 64 and coding with BlitzMax-NG. We discuss technology for kids, bring you a command live love and reply to all your wonderful feedback.

It’s Season 14 Episode 12 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 with BlitzMax-NG.

* Martin has made the most powerful Commodore My64 e-v-e-r!.

* We discuss the Yoto Player and technology for kids.

* We share a Command Line Lurve:d

* gource – [https://gource.io/](software version control visualization)

gource -1280x720 --date-format %Y-%m-%d --seconds-per-day 0.025 --auto-skip-seconds 0.05 --no-time-travel --stop-at-end --highlight-users --max-user-speed 125 -r 30 -o - | ffmpeg -y -r 30 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm -i - -vcodec libx264 -preset medium -pix_fmt yuv420p -crf 18 gource.mp4

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

* Cloud-init; and the Cloud-init documentation

* Linux Surface – Supported Devices and Features

* Image credit: Lynda Hinton

* 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.

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This week we got a 65% keyboard and played Pokemon Snap. We round up the community news and events, then some picks from the wider tech news.

It’s Season 14 Episode 11 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 got an ASUS ROG Falchion 65% wireless mechanical gaming keyboard for his other desk.

* Mark has been playing New Pokemon Snap.

* We discuss the community news:

* Things are not well in the state of freenode

* Mark get’s the IRC debate going

* Bitwarden_rs is now vaultwarden

* We mention some events:

* FOSS Talk Live 2021: 12th of June 2021 – Online.

* We discuss the news:

* Framework Laptop – Pre-orders are Open!

* Google I/O 2021 happening

* LetsEncrypt has a new root certificate

* Image credit: Kameron Kincade

* 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.

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This week we’ve been playing with RISC-V. We discuss the future of Ubuntu releases, bring you some command line love and go over all your wonderful feedback.

It’s Season 14 Episode 10 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 with RISC-V.

* We discuss the future of Ubuntu releases.

* We share a Command Line Lurve:

* Simon B’s bash productivity tips

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

* The ultimate guide for installing the Google Play Store on Amazon Fire tablets

* Image credit: Zoltan Tasi

* 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.

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This week we’ve been debugging DNS and making passively cooled computers. We round up the community news, including the highlights of the 21.04 releases from the Ubuntu flavours, an event and our favourite picks from the tech news.

It’s Season 14 Episode 09 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 debugging DNS.

* Martin has been making passively cooled/fanless, and therefore silent, NUCs.

* We discuss the community news:

* pacstall is an AUR-like system for Ubuntu

* Lubuntu 21.04

* Ubuntu MATE 21.04

* Xubuntu 21.04

* Kubuntu 21.04

* Ubuntu Budgie 21.04

* Ubuntu Studio 21.04

* Ubuntu 21.10 is Impish Indri

* Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has reached end of standard maintenance

* We mention some events:

* Linux Application Summit: 13th to 15th May 2021 – Online, everywhere.

* We discuss the news:

* Windows 10 handheld gaming PC now available for pre-order on Amazon

* Audacity has joined the Muse group

* Security reaseacher Aaron Toponce has receieved legal threats from What3Words

* Image credit: Georgi Petrov

* 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.

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This week we have been changing jobs and getting new microphones. We discuss tablets, which ones we own and why we use them, bring you some GUI love and go over all your wonderful feedback.

It’s Season 14 Episode 08 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 got a Sennheiser MKE 600 microphone.

* Alan is leaving Canonical.

* We discuss the tablets we use and what we use them for.

* We share a GUI Lurve:

* key-mapper – An easy to use tool to change the mapping of your input device buttons.

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

* Quickemu

* Image credit: Name

* 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.

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This week we’ve been playing Subnautica and living off BitCoin. We discuss the re-introduction of the Ubuntu Community team and round up our favourite picks from the tech news.

It’s Season 14 Episode 07 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 living off “crypto nonsense”.

* Mark has been playing Subnautica.

* We discuss the re-introduction of the Ubuntu Community team:

* (Re)introducing the Community Team – blog post

* (Re)introducing the Community Team – discourse chat

* We discuss the news:

* FLoC off

* Everyone’s coming up Clubhouse

* Moodle acquires US partner companies

* Image credit: moto moto sc

* 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.

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This week we have been deploying bitwarden_rs and get the Stream Deck to work well on Ubuntu. We discuss how much we really use desktop environments, bring you a GUI love and go over all your wonderful feedback.

It’s Season 14 Episode 06 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 installing bitwarden_rs.

* Martin has been making the Elgato Stream Deck work well on Ubuntu.

* We discuss the “stuff” that comes bundled with a desktop environment and how much of that “stuff” you actually use or need?

* We share a GUI Lurve:

* barrier – Software KVM

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

* Image credit: Sigmund

* 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.

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This week we’ve been spring cleaning and being silly on Twitter. We round up the news from the Ubuntu community and discuss our favourite stories from the tech news.

It’s Season 14 Episode 05 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 spring cleaning and finally setup his Razer Huntsman TE keyboard and Razer Naga Left Handed Edition Mouse.

* Alan has been silly on twitter

* We discuss the community news:

* Proposal: Improving the membership application process

* Yaru MATE for Focal Fossa

* Announcing Ubuntu on Windows Community Preview – WSL 2

* Dash to Dock support for GNOME 40 is Underway

* Ubuntu 21.04 Unveils a Hairy New Default Wallpaper

* PulseAudio 15 Lands mSBC Codec Support To Enable Bluetooth Wideband Speech

* We mention some events:

* elementary Developer Weekend: 26 to 27 of June 2021 – Online, everywhere.

* We discuss the news:

* OBS Studio 27.0 RC1 out with Wayland support and browser docking on Linux

* Oppo release phone with novel camera

* US Supreme court rules on Oracle Vs Google

* Image credit: Gabriel Gurrola

* 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.

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