This week we’ve been holiday and been learning Godot. We round up news and goings on from the community and discuss our picks from the wider tech news.

It’s Season 14 Episode 17 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 learning Godot.

* Mark has been on holiday.

* We discuss the community news:

* Canonical to offer Blender support

* Robert Collins shares his first email from Mark Shuttleworth

* Debian User Repository is a thing

* Wallpaper Competition for Impish Indri – Ubuntu 21.10

* We discuss the news:

* NVIDIA 470.42.01 for Linux adds DLSS for Proton and Xwayland acceleration

* “I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted

* UK “gadget levy” proposed to fund artists

* Image credit: Neel

* 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.

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