mintCast

First up the news

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First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – May

Then in our Wanderings: Bill pays the bills, Joe solders the irons and Jim fins the jelly

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – April,

In security and privacy: Proton Mail now supports post-quantum encryption,

First up in the news: Updated Mint ISOs

Then in our Wanderings: Majid explore Tailscale, Joe does it all again. Jim, Charlie, and Charles got some stuff too.

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

First up in the news: Mint 23 is named, Ubuntu 26.04 coming up and its already causing controversy, Firefox gets more features, big tech making some changes, and the governments of the world are meddling, in good and bad ways… and we welcome another host!

In security and privacy: Flatpak getting more secure allegedly

First up in the news: The fight against enshittification starts

In security and privacy: Shock-horror, Chinese government spies

Then in our Wanderings: Joe rambles, Bill drives himself crazy, Majid actually has fun! Charles, and Jim explores notes apps.

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, March 2026; Major Redesign for Firefox: Chrome getting an upgrade; Debian 13.4; SUSE for sale - again; ASUS says MacBook Neo is “shock”; HBO, Paramount Merge; Xfwl4 coming to XFCE, and more.

In security and privacy: Age Verification coming to your Linux PC?; Anthropic turns Claud loose on Firefox code.

First up in the news: California is doing its thing again

Then in our Wanderings: Bill does it while sick, Joe does a lot, Jim plays with ghost

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – January 2026,

In security and privacy: Theres an SSH Stalker

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

First up in security and privacy: Euro firms ditch American Clouds and systemd stuff

Then in our Wanderings: Joe, Majid does yoga with his distros, Charles is our security guru, Jim explores the new Mint release

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions