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00:00 Intro

01:22 KDE defined its 3 main goals for the next years

05:01 Plasma 6.2 beta is out

08:40 Square Enix invests in Playtron OS

16:01 New Linux tablet, but far too pricy

18:40 Ubuntu 24.10 will get more Snap permissions

21:41 Linux Mint takes control of their APT tools

25:05 Fedora 42 could get ARM emulation by default

27:35 Apple and Google fined 14 and 2.6 billion dollars

31:38 Do we need a Steam Deck 2 soon?

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00:00 Intro

01:15 Linux desktop market share keeps growing

04:18 Canonical blocks the upgrade to 24.04 LTS

07:03 KDE overspent in 2023, but it’s all on purpose

11:30 Wayland gains 3 new protocols

13:45 Servo web engine making progress

16:12 Debian ponders an aggressive package removal

19:32 Intel’s new chips seem to outclass ARM chips now

24:09 Google might develop Firefox’s JPEG XL decoder

28:05 Windows on ARM support, and problems

33:24 Gaming: Market share

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00:00 Intro

01:02 Linux Torvalds talks Rust and AI

05:24 Rust+Linux drama makes maintainer leave

09:00 BcacheFS is stirring up some drama

13:15 Microsoft drops mono into Wine’s lap

16:06 FreeBSD receives 680K euros

19:08 KDE gets a “asking for donations” notification

23:59 Thunderbird launches new service

26:41 Pidgin plugin contained keylogger

29:50Gaming: new Linux console, the Deck is still a hit

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00:00 Intro

01:28 Microsoft broke Linux dual boots

07:56 Google pushed influencers to give good Pixel reviews

12:44 Nvidia open drivers are out

15:15 GNOME 47 beta is out

18:47 KDE metrics and telemetry results

25:09 KDE makes more HDR progress

28:21 GNOME merges lots of STF pieces

30:35 Ubuntu focuses a bit on the desktop

33:46 Another AI lawsuit

37:12 Gaming: Gamemode, performance and new FOSS RTS

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00:00 Intro

01:37 US considers breaking up Google

06:22 Deepin 23 is out

08:59 Ubuntu 24.10 has nostalgia inducing features

11:31 Mozilla says they’re refocusing on Firefox

15:09 Wayland screen capture protocol is done

16:57 x86 emulator for ARM gets even better performance

18:58 Flathub passes 2B downloads

21:54 High profile FOSS projects leave Github tokens public

24:25 EU’s new law could hurt open source, says Canonical

28:40 New research says AI don’t pose a threat

32:13 Linux foundation now works on AI

34:28 Gaming: SteamOS on other devices, Wine 9.15

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00:00 Intro

01:32 Cosmic alpha is out

07:18 elementary OS 8 in september

11:19 GNOME 47 update

15:39 GNOME adds tray icon support back

18:33 Manjaro has an immutable version

21:24 Ubuntu will release with newer kernels now

23:55 Convertible Linux laptop with touchscreen

25:45 Chrome’s manifest v3 transition is ongoing

29:16 AMD goes back on open source CUDA

31:22 Nvidia allegedly scraped millions of youtube and netflix videos

35:10 Apple’s AI has some weirdly specific instructions

37:22 Google search ruled as a monopoly

40:25 An initiative to force game publishers to stop killing games

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00:00 Intro

01:15 Linux market share rises again

04:57 Report shows macOS is more vulnerable than Windows and Linux

08:53 Mesa prepares to sideline X11 support

10:43 System76 explains the decisions behind Cosmic

21:33 Adblocking on youtube is now way worse

25 :23 Vanilla OS 2 has a lot of cool stuff

28:43 Serpent OS has a first release

30:51 Linux Mint Debian edition is up to date

32:31 Reddit strikes at Microsoft and other AI providers

35:28 First major lawsuit following Crowdtrike incident

37:53 Crowdstrike shareholders sue the company

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00:00 Intro

01:30 Firefox data collection issue

08:23 AI tool caught using youtube videos and pirated movies

12:07 SecureBoot broken on hundreds of models from popular PC vendors

15:48 Cosmic pushed to early August

18:40 Mint 22 was released

23:51 Fedora will have opt-in telemetry

26:02 Nvidia open drivers are in beta

28:18 Meta says AI should be open source

31:06 Microsoft blames the EU for the Crowdstrike issue

33:49 CrowdStrike offers gift cards as apology

36:49 Google backs down on their replacement for 3rd party cookies

40:58 Outro

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00:00 Intro

01:25 Massive third party bug paralyzes the world’s IT for hours

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cnk4jdwp49et

https://www.techradar.com/news/live/windows-outage-july-2024-live

07:35 SUSE asks OpenSUSE to rebrand

https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/7IVGVJOAO4NIQILUYI3ZUL7NHCVBDQO7/

https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/HZTCWECHJK6RBMY5KNGGY7LDLGAG7S7L/

11:37 Solus ditches AppArmor, and snaps

https://getsol.us/2024/07/15/dropping-apparmor-kernel-patches/

15:07 GNOME 47 alpha is out

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-47-Alpha-Released

17:28 Linux kernel 6.10 is out

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/07/linux-kernel-6-10-new-features

19:40 Nvidia explains the transition to Open Source modules

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/16/24199636/apple-anthropic-nvidia-salesforce-youtube-videos-training-data-copyright

https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/apple-isnt-using-youtube-data-in-apple-intelligence

22:43 Nobara 40 is out

https://nobaraproject.org/2024/07/17/july-17-2024/

25:35 Peertube 6.2 finally adds moderation and transcripts

https://joinpeertube.org/news/release-6.2

27:39 Google’s AI apparently ignores opt-out settings

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/gemini-ai-platform-caught-scanning-google-drive-files-without-user-permission

30:15 Nvidia and other companies used Youtube data to train their AI

https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/apple-isnt-using-youtube-data-in-apple-intelligence

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/16/24199636/apple-anthropic-nvidia-salesforce-youtube-videos-training-data-copyright

34:02 Gaming: Big PS2 emulator update, Wine

https://pcsx2.net/blog/2024/pcsx2-2-release/

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-9.13

37:35 Outro

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00:00 Intro

01:27 Fedora 41 install will be Wayland only

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-WS-Wayland-Only-ISOs

04:16 GNOME 47 might replace their font with Inter

https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-may-switch-to-inter-font/

06:59 GNOME 47 will have some HDR support

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mutter-Color-State-Transform

09:01 Arch Linux running on Google Drive

https://www.techspot.com/news/103652-developer-somehow-got-entire-os-running-google-drive.html

10:44 Mint 22 Beta has some issues

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4728

13:27 Ubuntu App Center gains local deb support

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/07/app-center-update-adds-deb-install-support

16:10 NVK might run on other kernel and kernel drivers

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Platform-Abstraction

18:50 GNOME Extensions website is getting a redesign

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/07/gnome-extensions-website-redesign-2024

21:15 Firefox is getting some cool new features

https://9to5linux.com/firefox-129-enters-beta-testing-with-improved-reader-view-other-changes

23:58 New code editor for Linux: Zed

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-on-linux

26:15 Judge dismisses half of a lawsuit against Github Copilot

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/07/10/0319259/judge-dismisses-lawsuit-over-github-copilot-ai-coding-assistant

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2515112/judge-dismisses-lawsuit-over-github-copilot-ai-coding-assistant.html

29:45 Apple drags their feet on 3rd party stores

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/report-apple-approves-epic-games-store-on-ios-in-europe/?comments=1&comments-page=1

33:14 Youtube pushes harder against ads

https://www.techradar.com/pro/youtubes-server-side-ad-insertion-complicates-ad-blocking-efforts

37:12 Gaming: Steam recording, Bottles and DXVK

https://linuxiac.com/bottles-51-12-enhances-linux-gaming-with-d3d8-support/

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v2.4

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/steam-beta-adds-many-more-game-recording-improvements/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/128.0/releasenotes/

41:42 Outro

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