LINUX Unplugged

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July 14, 2020362: The Hidden Cost of Nextcloud
Our team has been using Nextcloud to replace Dropbox for over a year, we report back on what has worked great, and what's not so great.
Plus why Linus Torvalds has become the master of saying no.
Special Guest: Drew DeVore.
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Linus Torvalds Says He’s No Longer a Programmer: My Job Is to Say No
Keynote: Linus Torvalds in conversation with Dirk Hohndel
List of Linux kernel names - Wikipedia
Implementing S3 Compatible Primary Storage for NextCloud
Alone (TV series) - Wikipedia
Feedback: LVFS fwupdmgr updates on Thinkpads
Feedback: Chas wonders if we would change anything about our Thinkpad configuration
DPL elections 2020, congratulations Jonathan Carter! - Bits from Debian
Debian Mailing Lists -- Complete Index
Free Software Activities for 2020-05 – Jonathan Carter
DebConf20 Moves Online
Chris Tries i3 for the First Time... LIVE
1 hr 4 min
July 08, 2020361: Buttery Smooth Fedora
Fedora's getting to work and reconsidering some long held-assumptions.
Plus the best tool for getting things done on Linux, we take a look at openSUSE Leap 15.2, and breathe new life into an old Pebble.
Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Jeff Fortin Tam, and Neal Gompa.
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Show & Tell: A steampunk desktop background radiation monitor
Getting Things GNOME 0.4 released!
Getting Things GNOME - GNOME Wiki
Getting Things GNOME on Flathub
Stirring things up for Fedora 33
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openSUSE Leap 15.2 Release Notes
Leap 15.2 - openSUSE Wiki
openSUSE Leap 15.2 Released With Focus on Containers and AI
Rebble.io: Bring life back to your Pebble
Zettlr: A Markdown Editor for the 21st century.
Roam Research: A note-taking tool for networked thought.
Athens Research: An open source take on Roam
Org-roam: a Roam replica built on top of the all-powerful Org-mode.
Doom Emacs: Doom is a configuration framework for GNU Emacs
Spacemacs: A community-driven Emacs distribution
54 min
July 01, 2020360: The Hard Work of Hardware
We're joined by two guests who share their insights into building modern Linux hardware products.
Plus we try out Mint 20, cover some big Gnome fixes, and a very handy open source noise suppression pick!
Special Guests: Alfred Neumayer, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Jeremy Soller.
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CutiePi Tablet - Raspberry Pi, Untethered by Phoebus Torralba — Kickstarter
CutiePi Is World’s Thinnest, Hackable Raspberry Pi Tablet, Available for Pre-Order Now
CutiePi Shell - The UI for the CutiePi tablet
GNOME’s Window Rendering Culling Was Broken Leading To Wasted Performance
Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon RELEASED
linuxmint/warpinator: Share files across the LAN
Snap Store — Linux Mint User Guide documentation
Monthly News – May 2020 – The Linux Mint Blog
The Hunt for the Oryx Pro [Video]
System76 Blog — Things We Love About the New Oryx Pro
Oryx Pro - System76 Store
" rel="noopener noreferrer">New high-end Linux laptop: System76’s Oryx Pro packs latest Intel Core i7 H-series CPU
Jeremy Soller on Twitter: “Spying on I2C traffic”
Ubuntu Touch Q&A 78
UBports GSI brings Ubuntu Touch to any Project Treble-supported Android device
" rel="noopener noreferrer">cadmus: A GUI frontend for @werman’s Pulse Audio real-time noise suppression plugin
werman/noise-suppression-for-voice: Noise suppression plugin based on Xiph’s RNNoise
RNNoise: Learning Noise Suppression
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55 min
June 24, 2020359: Death of the Mac
Why we think Apple just handed market share to Desktop Linux, and why you can kiss running Linux on the Mac goodbye forever.
Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Neal Gompa.
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Generating cooking recipes using TensorFlow and a LSTM Recurrent Neural Network
ARM-based Japanese supercomputer is now the fastest in the world
Ampere donates Arm64 server hardware to Debian to fortify the Arm ecosystem
Google’s Bringing Its Apple AirDrop Rival to Linux, Windows, and Mac
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Apple is switching Macs to its own processors starting later this year
Tim Cook says first Mac with Apple Silicon shipping to consumers by end of this year
r/linux: How will Apple’s ARM announcement affecting Linux going forward?
r/linux: Let’s suppose Apple goes ARM, MS follows its footsteps and does the same. What will happen to Linux then? Will we go back to “unlocking bootloaders”?
Jared Domínguez on Twitter — Today’s cynical take: Apple supporting Linux VMs is a way to make devs feel good with minimal effort (offload the work to Parallels/BSD community) while allowing Apple to deprecate their already super stale Unix userland. macOS itself will become less accessible.
unsilence: Console Interface and Library to remove silent parts of a media file 🔈
48 min
June 17, 2020358: Our Fragmented Favorite
It's time to challenge some long-held assumptions.
Today's Btrfs is not yesterday's hot mess, but a modern battle-tested filesystem, and we'll prove it.
Plus our thoughts on GitHub dropping the term "master", and the changes Linux should make NOW to compete with commercial desktops.
Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa.
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SpaceX: We’ve launched 32,000 Linux computers into space for Starlink internet
Issue #54: Default disk partitioning layout for Workstation - fedora-workstation - Pagure.io
16 Jun, MEETING AGENDA - desktop - Fedora Mailing-Lists
[Discussion] What do we think about Github’s decision to start using main instead of master as a branch name?
ZFS co-creator boots ‘slave’ out of OpenZFS codebase, says ‘casual use’ of term is ‘unnecessary reference to a painful experience’
OpenZFS: Remove unnecessary references to slavery
GitHub will no longer use the term ‘master’ as default branch because of negative association - r/programming
Community Central: Welcoming Nomenclature - YouTube
PinePhone: postmarketOS community edition
PineTab sold out in 72 hours.
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1 hr 14 min
June 09, 2020357: The Little Distro That Could
The lightweight distro that stole our hearts, the four of us each try out a different contender and come away with what we think will be the leanest and meanest distribution for your PC.
Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Jill Bryant Ryniker.
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BunsenLabs Linux
Puppy Linux Home
The FreeBSD Project
SparkyLinux
KolibriOS official site
antiX Linux
57 min
June 03, 2020356: Linux Hardware Love
From the low-end to the high-end we try out both ends of the Linux hardware spectrum. Wes reviews the latest XPS 13, and Chris shares his thoughts on the Pinebook Pro.
Plus a really cool new feature in Linux 5.7, and we get some answers to the recent GNOME patent settlement from the source.
Special Guests: Dan Johansen and Drew DeVore.
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snakeware: A free Linux distro with a fully Python userspace
GNOME gets big open-source patent win
" rel="noopener noreferrer">GNOME Patent Suite Update
GNOME Foundation post about patent suit resolution
Thermal Pressure in the task scheduler
A New Kernel Patch Is Being Discussed That’s Needed For Newer Windows Games On Wine
PINE64 on Twitter: “Everyone receiving their #PinebookPro laptops. Appears that the factory has left the WiFi privacy switches turned ON. To enable WiFi you’ll need to disengage the privacy switch"
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Introducing the 2020 XPS 13 Developer Edition — (this one goes to 32!)
" rel="noopener noreferrer">XPS 13 in the Dell Store
Wes' XPS 13 Image Gallery
Performance comparison to Lemur Pro
Jim’s take on the new XPS 13
Howdy: Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux
Feedback: Why not LVM/XFS?
1 hr 4 min
May 27, 2020355: Chris' Data Crisis
Chris' tale of woe after a recent data loss, and Wes' adventure after he finds a rogue device on his network.
Special Guest: Drew DeVore.
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VIMKiller: Exiting VIM is hard; sometimes we need to take drastic measures
How to Boot Raspberry Pi 4 From a USB SSD or Flash Drive
USB Boot Forum post announcement
rpi-eeprom-update usage
The default boot mode is now 0xf41 which means continuously try SD then USB mass storage.
Raspberry Pi’s firmware master branch on Github
Put Btrfs in my Pi Last Night...
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netdiscover
nmap
MAC Address Lookup Tool
WiFi Analyzer (open-source) - Apps on Google Play
WiFiAnalyzer on F-Droid
LinSSID - WiFi Analyzer for Linux
wavemon: an ncurses-based monitoring application for wireless network devices
Your COVID-19 Internet problems might be COVID-19 Wi-Fi problems
The Ars Technica semi-scientific guide to Wi-Fi Access Point placement
How Ars tests Wi-Fi gear (and you can, too)
Jim’s network-testing tools
Home router: one option is to build it yourself!
FireHOL and FireQoS - Linux firewalling and traffic shaping for humans
SuperShaper-SOHO: Packet filtering / QoS setup for typical home/small office
Throttle network bandwidth on Linux
Dnsmasq - network services for small networks.
smokeping
vaping: a healthy alternative to SmokePing!
speedtest: self-hosted speedtest
Self-Hosted Podcast
Feedback: A big thank you
58 min
May 20, 2020354: Microsoft FINALLY Gets It
Windows is getting more competitive by adopting core Linux features, so we cover the latest Linux-inspired additions to Windows. Then review the new release of Pi-hole, sort through recent PINE64 updates, and read your feedback.
Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Drew DeVore, Neal Gompa, and Philip Muller.
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WireGuard patchset for OpenBSD
Microsoft President Brad Smith Acknowledges They Were Previously Wrong On Open-Source
Craig Loewen on Twitter: "@satyanadella has just announced that WSL will include GPU compute support, and GUI application support! Get ready for more WSL announces and details today
Craig Loewen on Twitter: “@Kiview @thezigpc @cinnamon_msft @satyanadella Our initial prototypes use Wayland”
Hayden Barnes on Twitter: “WSL2 is getting GUI support, pass-through GPU support, and a new way to easily install.”
Hayden Barnes on Twitter: "More glimpses of GUI support for WSL 2 from @shanselman and @cinnamon_msft
DirectX ❤ Linux | DirectX Developer Blog
Windows Terminal 1.0
Windows 10 Is Getting Its Own Built-In Package Manager
PineTab pre-orders open in late May
PineTab running UBPorts with 5.6 kernel and Lima graphics drivers
ManjaroBook AMD Ryzen
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Pi-hole v5.0 is here!
Inside the Brotherhood of Pi-hole Ad Blockers
" rel="noopener noreferrer">Linux Mint Success from Zachary
Pi Boot question from Kamil
Raspberry Pi 4 USB Boot Config Guide for SSD / Flash Drives
XPS Feedback Request
Pick: multi-boot ISO USB
Ventoy: just copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it!
1 hr 1 min
May 13, 2020353: Feeling Elive
We're blown away by the Enlightenment desktop, and its little known features, and we share a quick way for you to try it out yourself.
Plus our experience with Pop!_OS 20.04, Telegram's recent embarrassment, and some feedback.
Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Jill Bryant Ryniker.
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Jessie Frazelle on Twitter: “You are stranded in a weird shell and you are only allowed to bring three commands, which ones do you choose: Mine -> | (gotta have pipes) awk sed”
Ubuntu’s Server Installer Leaked Encrypted Storage Passphrase to Its Log
Gnome is Not the Default
Telegram annoucnes the discontinuation of blockchain project
ELF Libs Updates
Check out eLive Beta
Elive info from Founder
Elive Beta With Enlightenment Is Brilliant, but Don’t Get Lost in the Maze
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Infinite Escape Room Podcast
Infinite Escape Room Podcast on Twitter
System76 Blog — What’s New with Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS
Jack Wallen’s Take on Pop!_OS 20.04
" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tiling and PaperWM from Cris
" rel="noopener noreferrer">PaperWM
" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gnome and Tiling from Richard
" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gamma’s Dotfile Tool
git-crypt: Transparent file encryption in git
58 min