This week we’ve been playing chess and trying to play DOOM Eternal. We round up the news and goings on from the Ubuntu community and our favourite picks from the wider tech news.

It’s Season 14 Episode 19 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:

* Alan has been playing chess

* Mark has been trying to play DOOM Eternal.

* We discuss the community news:

* Ubuntu Touch OTA-18 call for testing

* Changes to the Ubuntu Membership process

* Libre Office Calc survey

* Zstd compression for debs in 21.10

* We mention an event:

* SeaGL 2021: 5th to 6th of November 2021 – The Internet

* We discuss the news:

* Examining OnePlus’ Performance Behaviour: Optimization or Misrepresentation?

* Cheat-maker brags of computer-vision auto-aim that works on “any game”

* OpenUK’s latest report paints a rosy picture of open source adoption

* Image credit: Alain Snel

* 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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