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  • These projects get a lot of criticism. Why, and is it deserved?

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      Timestamps:

      00:00 Intro
      01:04 Sponsor: Proton Mail
      02:16 SystemD
      07:04 Wayland
      12:27 Ubuntu
      15:38 Snaps
      20:24 Flatpak
      24:11 Gnome
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    • Vaping and insulin resistance

      Vaping gets sold as safer than smoking. Newer research links it to insulin resistance โ€” the same metabolic mess tied to type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

      Worth a second look before you call it harmless.

      Let's get healthy together.

      Science, not medical advice.

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    • They got cholesterol, hormones, opioids, and peanuts wrong - still no apology

      We've been told to fear cholesterol, avoid hormone therapy, trust opioids as low-risk, and keep peanuts away from kids. One by one those stories have cracked - and the apology never quite arrives.

      This clip stacks the pattern: insulin resistance may have been the real problem while low-fat dogma ruled, context mattered more than the scare headline on hormones, the opioid pitch left a wreck, and early peanut exposure flipped the allergy script.

      Stay curious. Ask better questions about your own body. Education, not a medical order.

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    • Health benefits bill as a second rent

      Mercer puts a number on next yearโ€™s employer health cost jump: about +8.2% per worker in 2027 โ€” biggest since 2003. After planned cuts; without them closer to 11%. Money stress doesnโ€™t stay in the wallet.

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    • 03 - Palenques, Part 3 (conclusion)

      This short episode wraps up the discussion of palenques, the communities of formerly enslaved people and their descendants who freed themselves and lived independently.

      • How did Yanga (Mexico) and Le Maniel (Hispaniola) respond when the wars for independence started?
      • What kinds of freedom where they fighting for?
      • Were there palenques in the United States?
      • Source list:

        Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000, p. 67.

        Parris, Scott V. โ€œAlliance and Competition: Four Case Studies of Maroon-European Relations.โ€ Nieuwe West-Indische Gids / New West Indian Guide, vol. 55, no. 3/4, Dec. 1981, pp. 174โ€“224.

        Price, Richard. Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas. 3rd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

        Yingling, Charlton W. "The Maroons of Santo Domingo in the Age of Revolutions: Adaptation and Evasion, 1783โ€“1800." History Workshop Journal, no. 79, spring 2015, pp. 25โ€“51. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/43917308.

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      • When the cure gets sidelined by the invoice

        Healthcare is supposed to show up when you need it most. This clip asks a harder question: what if the path that would actually help you get well gets pushed aside because managing the illness pays better than ending it?

        Even Wall Street has floated the awkward math out loud. Watch with your own eyes open โ€” then ask what levers you still control: food, sleep, stress, movement, and the stories you believe about your body.

        Education, not a medical order. Build ownership where you can.

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      • Five old glucose levers that never needed a monthly invoice

        People have used food and plant tools for glucose for a long time. The clip walks five that show up again and again: fiber that slows the meal, vinegar with starch, movement after eating, sleep that keeps insulin sensitivity intact, and stress load that quietly wrecks the curve.

        None of that requires a forever management subscription. The mechanism is still the same โ€” lower the after-meal spike, protect insulin sensitivity, give the body a chance to clear glucose instead of stacking it.

        Treat the list as levers, not magic. Try one you already own. Watch the after-meal feel and the numbers you already track.

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      • KDE is firing on all cylinders, Brave says they're the best browser, CERN moves to Debian

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          Timestamps:

          00:00 Intro
          00:44 Sponsor: TuxCare
          01:45 Brave say they outperform every other major browser
          04:49 Firefox 155 should load pages faster
          06:36 CERN leaves Red Hat for Debian
          09:42 Debian says yes to AI
          12:14 GNOME 51 will improve hybrid GPU support
          13:52 Plasma 6.8 adds more accessibility features to Wayland
          15:19 KDE's theme engine supports more KDE apps now
          16:39 Artix drops XLibre after it pushes a maintainer to resign
          18:59 KDE Connect redesign ready for testing
          20:29 FOSS Minecraft Luanti taken down by Microsoft
          23:25 KDE Linux makes more progress towards its beta
          25:24 Grab bag of gaming news
          28:45 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

          Links:

          Brave say they outperform every other major browser

          https://brave.com/blog/brave-outperforms-other-browsers/

          Firefox 155 should load pages faster

          https://itsfoss.com/news/firefox-155-faster-page-loads/

          CERN leaves Red Hat for Debian

          https://www.phoronix.com/news/CERN-Goes-Debian-Leaving-RHEL

          Debian says yes to AI

          https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/08/msg00005.html

          GNOME 51 will improve hybrid GPU support

          https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/5219
          https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-51-RC

          Plasma 6.8 adds more accessibility features to Wayland

          https://saueseb.wordpress.com/2026/09/02/wayland-pain-points-dwell-clicker/

          KDE's theme engine supports more KDE apps now

          https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/28/this-week-in-plasma-qtwidgets-apps-join-the-union/

          Artix drops XLibre after it pushes a maintainer to resign

          https://artixlinux.org/news.php#XLibre_support_discontinued
          https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,10283.msg61637.html

          KDE Connect redesign ready for testing

          https://tintotint.eu/programming/kde-connect2/

          FOSS Minecraft Luanti taken down by Microsoft

          https://blog.luanti.org/2026/08/27/luanti-dmca-tracer-ai/
          https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-vega/

          KDE Linux makes more progress towards its beta

          https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/31/this-month-in-kde-linux-august-2026/

          Grab bag of gaming news

          https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/steam-deck-steamos-hit-over-30-000-verified-playable-games/
          https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/game-launcher-launchbox-should-get-a-linux-version-in-2027/
          https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/08/a-12tb-steam-teraleak-spills-more-than-a-decade-of-lost-pc-gaming-history/

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