This week we’ve been playing Pillars of Eternity. We discuss boot speed improvements for Ubuntu 19.10, using LXD to map ports, NVIDIA Prime Renderer switching, changes in the Yaru theme and the Librem 5 shipping (perhaps). We also round up some events and some news from the tech world.

It’s Season 12 Episode 23 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope and Mark Johnson are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

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

* Mark has been playing Pillars of Eternity

* We discuss the community news:

* Boot speed improvements for Ubuntu 19.10

* Using lxd proxy device to map ports between host and containers

* nVidia optimus Linux Switching Applet updated

* 19.10 Yaru Theme will be light by default

* Librem 5 Phone ships (or does it)

* We mention some events:

* OggCamp: 19 to 20 of October 2019 – Manchester, UK.

* Linux Application Summit: 11 to 15 of November 2019 – Barcelona, Spain.

* Talk about Clear Linux Saturday 2nd November at 3:30pm, The Harcourt Hotel, Dublin. Hosted by the Dublin Linux Community.

* We discuss the news:

* Pinephone shipping soon

* EU governments use Nextcloud

* Microsoft announced exFAT for Linux

* Firefox Private Network

* Image taken from Wing Commander published in 1990 for PC by Origin Systems.

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