System76 Transmission Log

Listen to the latest on System76 computers, manufacturing, Pop!_OS and COSMIC DE. This episode features an interview with Dave Shaver, an IT director at a small hospital and a local church in Northern New Mexico. Dave shares his extensive experience with Linux, starting from the early 2000s, and his preference for System 76 laptops, his day to day,  and his side projects in music, video, graphics, web design, and gaming.

[00:00:02]: Introduction and Countdown

[00:02:24]: Last month's Cosmic Desktop Environment Alpha Release

[00:05:28]: Cosmic Ambassador Program

[00:06:35]: Community Meetups and Online Groups

[00:08:13]: Special Guest - Dave Shaver, IT Director and SysAdmin

[00:11:00] Linux Servers in the data center

[00:11:34] Why Choose System76

[00:13:38] Day to day

[00:15:55] Key tools and software used daily

[00:20:03]: Game Time and Conclusion

Listen to the latest on System76 computers, manufacturing, Pop!_OS and COSMIC DE. This episode features an interview with Carl, Maria and Jeremy from the COSMIC Development Team. We’ll also talk about new hardware updates, community happenings and even play a fun game at the end!

Check out what we make!

Blog: blog.system76.com

Laptops: s76.co/WuEDOnoS

Desktops: s76.co/Zn4NXTf9

Pop!_OS: s76.co/D_IWRvWD

:47 Hardware News- Starling Ampere Servers and Thelio Mira price drop

2:24 COSMIC News, new branding, logo, tagline

3:00 Story behind the COSMIC logo

4:40 Community News

5:30 Software Freedom Day

6:12 Interview Intro

6:35 Interview with COSMIC team begins

6:47 What is COSMIC?

07:45 What drove team to make COSMIC?

10:00 User Friendly experience

15:40 Design System

16:50 Theming

25:30 How did you decide who to choose to build COSMIC?

28:10 RUST eco system

32:25 Iced Toolkit

37:45 Make it easy to develop applets

42:00 UI components on their own

45:00 Nice defaults and ability to customize

50:58 What is everyone excited for?

57:00 On COSMIC for 18 months

1:00:00 What to expect from Alpha

1:03:00 COSMIC Icon Guessing Game

1:05:40 Outro

This episode features an interview with Stephanie and Marcos from the Production Team, where they help manufacture and build our desktops from raw sheet metal.
We'll also talk about what makes the System76 factory unique, as well as new hardware updates, community happenings, and a fun game at the end!

Five facts about us:
-Desktops and keyboards handcrafted in the US
-Pop!_OS is free and collects zero user data
-Laptops ship to over 60 countries
-In-house support for the life of your hardware
-Advocate for Right to Repair, Linux, and open source

Check out what we make!

Laptops: s76.co/WuEDOnoS
Desktops: s76.co/Zn4NXTf9
Pop!_OS: s76.co/D_IWRvWD

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01:00 Sandwich banter

2:12 Laptop Releases, Oryx, Lemur and new Darter Pro, all ultraportable laptops have 100% SRGB display

3:20 New KS fast desktop processors available now

4:12 Thelio now with PCIe 5.0

4:31 AMD Thelio Spark incoming, Thelio Spring sale ending

6:10 COSMIC updates GTK 3 and 4 themeing added

7:03 COSMIC community contributions, COSMIC task app and webapp and input devices applet

8:10 Spreading the word about COSMIC

8:55 Meetups galore!

9:40 Introducing Stephanie and Marcos from production team

9:54 Marcos explains all the roles he's reponsible for at System76

10:34 Stephanie explains her role as Production Manager

10:50 Marcos discusses the cool projects he's had the opportunity to work on, highlighting flashing IO boards

11:40 Stephanie explains how onlining keyboards was a fun experience

12:30 The work that went into launching the Launch keyboard line

13:20 Stephanie describes her favorite System76 product

15:10 Marcos talks about his hobbies outside work

16:10 Stephanie is a major crafter in her free time and responsible for all the plants at the factory

18:50 Production is just crafting

19:30 Pinata making at the factory

20:29 How System76 manufacturing is different

21:28 Creative problem solving

21:50 The nerdiest things witnessed at the factory

22:44 Garbage disposal situation

24:00 How to take a tour of System76

24:50 Emma has a box game that may or may not be fun

27:44: Outro and blooper

Listen to the latest on System76 computers, manufacturing, Pop!_OS and COSMIC DE. This episode features an interview with Streaming Global and their work with GPU servers to create media and data delivery pipelines. We’ll also talk about new hardware updates, community happenings and even play a fun game at the end!

00:00:38 Marketing Summit
00:01:49 Hardware News
00:01:52 40 series GPUs available on THelio Desktops
00:03:20 Serval WS and Bonobo WS laptops with updated CPU and display options
00:04:06 Adder WS, Lemur and Oryx Pro coming soon
00:04:30 COSMIC Updates
00:04:33 Text shaping
00:05:17 OSDs designed
00:06:08 More updates coming to COSMIC in March
00:06:35 Community Efforts for COSMIC are amazing
00:07:07 Carl Richell at LinuxFest Northwest to talk about COSMIC
00:08:41 Interview with Brandon from Streaming Global
00:08:50 ABout Streaming Global
00:11:03 Technology behind Streaming Global's media delivery systems
00:13:47 GPU Multi tenancy
00:14:45 SG-RT and Pixel Streaming
00:15:42 Sectors where Streaming Global has impact
00:17:49 Corporate training improvements with streaming
00:19:34 What the future holds for Streaming Global
00:23:30 Why Choose System76?
00:26:21 Linux Alphabet Game
00:29:09 Outro
00:29:47 Blooper

Five facts about us:
-Desktops and keyboards handcrafted in the US
-Pop!_OS is free and collects zero user data
-Laptops ship to over 60 countries
-In-house support for the life of your hardware
-Advocate for Right to Repair, Linux, and open source

Check out what we make!

Blog: blog.system76.com
Laptops: s76.co/WuEDOnoS
Desktops: s76.co/Zn4NXTf9
Pop!_OS: s76.co/D_IWRvWD

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Listen to the latest on System76 computers, manufacturing, and Pop!_OS. This episode features an interview with Defense Unicorns. They're on a mission to enable continuous software delivery for national security purposes.  We’ll also talk about new product updates, some cool happenings at the System76 factory, our AI demo at CES, and so much moreeeeeeee! So buckle up!

[00:00:00]: Welcome and Introduction to System 76
[00:00:45]: Meerkat Desktop Update
[00:01:14]: Thelio Major Featured at CES, Demoing Stable Diffusion
[00:02:26]: New Vibrant Pangolin Laptop
[00:02:50]: Updates on Cosmic and Pop
[00:04:03: Pop Tip of the Month
[00:04:26]: HUGE Factory Tours at the End of Last Year
[00:05:59]: New Blog Posts About Gaming and Tinkering
[00:07:29]: Interview with Defense Unicorns, a company on a mission to enable continuous software delivery for national security. How they use System76 laptops
[00:26:06]: Quick Game and Goodbye

Listen to get the latest on System76 computers, manufacturing, and Pop!_OS. This episode features System76 founder Carl Richell, who will be taking us behind the scenes of the engineering advancements made in Thelio desktops. We’ll also talk about the new desktop Thelio Spark, featuring a clip from Trolling Stone’s interview with the band, THELIOHEAD.

Check out what we make!

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00:30 Intro

01:16 Thelio Shipping all over the world!

01:26 Summary of additions like Top I/O 

03:08 Pangolin, AMD laptop upgrades

03:22 Cosmic updates

05:06 Carl Richell on Thelio’s HUGE improvements

09:42 Right to Repair’s influence on design

18:58 New computer Thelio Spark

22:03 Trolling Stone interviews Theliohead band

Listen to the latest on System76 computers, manufacturing, and Pop!_OS.This episode welcomes guest Massimo Pascale from UC Berkeley to discuss his work and research around the sunburst arc, super star clusters and Nitrogen-enriched Nebula. Learn how the Lemur Pro and open source software powers some of his research.

Check out what we make!

Blog: blog.system76.com

Laptops: s76.co/WuEDOnoS

Desktops: s76.co/Zn4NXTf9

Pop!_OS: s76.co/D_IWRvWD

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Listen to the latest on System76 computers, manufacturing, and Pop!_OS. Company announcements are short this month as we gear up for big announcements next month. This episode features guest, Chris Bahl of AI Proteins. He talks to us about how AI is used in medicine and the potential AI has to democratize more effective therapeutics.

Check out what we make!

Blog: blog.system76.com

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Desktops: s76.co/Zn4NXTf9

Pop!_OS: s76.co/D_IWRvWD

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This month we talked with Mark Loveless, a long-time security researcher who now works for GitLab. Since the interview went a little longer than expected we had to edit it down to fit within the podcast. Because of that, we've decided to release the entire interview as a supplement to this month's episode. Enjoy!

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Desktops: s76.co/Zn4NXTf9
Pop!_OS: s76.co/D_IWRvWD

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In this month's episode of Transmission Log, we talk with Mark Loveless, a security researcher with experience in breaking into systems and securing systems. Also, get the latest on System76 computers, manufacturing, and Pop!_OS with Adam and Emma this month as they talk about Rogue bot coloring pages, new laptops page, Pop!_OS updates, Launch keyboard games, COSMIC accessibility developments, and more!

Links from this episode:

System76 coloring pages:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17emWWX0F4isF9rq8oFV8Dt8DtdIk_Myu/view?usp=sharing

System76 scheduler:
https://github.com/pop-os/system76-scheduler

Launch Keyboard games:
https://github.com/jackpot51/launch-games
https://twitter.com/jeremy_soller/status/1652684349660344320

Mark Loveless (simplenomad):
https://www.markloveless.net/
https://rigor-mortis.nmrc.org/@simplenomad

Check out what we make!

Blog: blog.system76.com
Laptops: s76.co/WuEDOnoS
Desktops: s76.co/Zn4NXTf9
Pop!_OS: s76.co/D_IWRvWD

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