Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

Is FOSS the ultimate lifeboat? If things go wrong with a tech stack, can you always just fall back on FOSS?     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Stadia is finally dead, Valve has shipped a million Steam Decks, Canonical tries to win back the community, Debian votes for common sense, acres of RISC-V laptops, KDE Korner, and more.   News A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy New games were still being added last month Canonical launches free personal Ubuntu Pro subscriptions for up to five machines Amazon WorkSpaces Introduces Ubuntu Desktops First RISC-V laptop available The Steam Deck is now available with no reservations required (mostly) What KDE are doing to improve Steam Deck and desktop mode (shipped over a MILLION!) Debian Chooses A Reasonable, Common Sense Solution To Dealing With Non-Free Firmware   KDE Korner Akademy videos Day 1 & Day 2 (incl. Nate’s Goal) Akademy BOFs & Translations on UserBase KDE Neon 22.04 will have Firefox PPA instead of snap Overhall of Kontact Encryption MiTubo Adds Feeds       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3QqaWW8   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Does it matter where you host your FOSS code? GitHub benefits from the network effect, but other options have their own benefits. Plus Gary explains why he doesn’t use Git.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Loads of discoveries including quickly fixing command line flubs, a must-have tool for USB booting, managing snapshots, and a router distro. Plus the problem with open-sourcing AI, Graham makes a dreadful racket, and more.   Discoveries The CIA has a podcast CIA museum: Inside the world’s most top secret museum The Fuck OPNsense samplebrain Mutable Instruments Clouds httm Ventoy The Document Foundation releases LibreOffice on Apple’s Mac App Store   Feedback Mimic 3       Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 20 devices.   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Our worst Linux cock-ups, and what we learned from them.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

systemd arrives on WSL, Audacity gains a huge feature, Mozilla makes (valid) excuses, a bumper KDE Korner, and more.   News Listener Michael sent Joe a LMN 3 Systemd support is now available in WSL Systemd support lands in WSL Audacity 3.2 Released with Realtime Effects, VST3 Support Mozilla calls out Microsoft, Google, Apple over browsers   KDE Korner Intel Becomes First Krita Development Fund Corporate Gold Patron Kdenlive Fundraiser This week in KDE: It’s a big one, folks This week in KDE: yo dawg, I heard you wanted stability Plasma Bigscreen KDE Neon 22.04 Rebase Imminent – Vote Firefox Snap/Other Official ppa           Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3QqaWW8   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

What’s the best way to implement telemetry and metrics in open source software, and should it be opt-in or opt-out?         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Whether images created by AI count as art, self-hosted audio streaming, a hex editor, playing Steam games from remote machines, QEMU on an iPad, and more.   Discoveries Navidrome ImHex Moonlight UTM running Windows 10 on an M1 iPad Pro   AI “art” Artwork generated using AI software Midjourney won a state competition Professional AI whisperers have launched a marketplace for DALL-E prompts     Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3QqaWW8   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Where do we draw the line when it comes to our ethics and our ability to put food on the table?         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Huge wins for RISC-V and Ubuntu Unity, the changing ways that software is distributed, and a sad lament for young people’s privacy. Plus why KDE Plasma isn’t default in many major distros, along with the usual goodness in the Korner.   News NASA Selects SiFive and Makes RISC-V the Go-to Ecosystem for Future Space Missions Ubuntu Unity Becoming An Official Flavour With 22.10 Release github-cli Debian package GPG key expires LG is bringing NFTs to its smart TVs – The Verge NFT shit-list   Feedback UK officials still blocking Peter Wright’s ‘embarrassing’ Spycatcher files   KDE Korner Neal Gompa explains why do none of the major distros have KDE Plasma as default KDE Promo Sprint Kaidan 0.9 E2E & ATM These Weeks in KDE       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

What F/OSS means to us and why it’s important.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.

A great FOSS text to speech engine, taking ownership of your audiobooks, and making chiptune music. Plus your feedback about SMS messages, docks, earbuds, being stuck in the Apple ecosystem, and more.   Discoveries TTS audible-activator Furnace   Feedback Gadgetbridge LNL-Discoveries LNL-Discoveries – GitHub         Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3QqaWW8   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

If we could go back in time, what advice would we give our younger, less experienced counterparts about Linux and FOSS?       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

We catch up on a month’s worth of news including GitHub and GitLab controversies, Arduino multitasking, VLC being banned in India, Google’s false positives in scans, and KDE Korner.   News Introducing multitasking to Arduino GitLab U-turns on deleting dormant projects after backlash Give nothing, expect nothing: GitLab’s the latest punching bag for entitled users GitHub courts controversy by suspending Tornado Cash developers and reneging on cookie commitments Code, Speech, and the Tornado Cash Mixer VLC Media Player banned in India, website and VLC download link blocked Google’s Scans of Private Photos Led to False Accusations of Child Abuse   KDE Korner Nate’s updates: Fewer microscopic bugfixes and weekly updates 1 2 3 4 Kate macro recording Krita 5.1 & KDEnlive 22.08 KDE Snap Packages Neon 22.04 Docker Images Akademy Talk Schedule Live         Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 20 devices.   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

It’s part 2 of our discussion about sustainability in FOSS. Make sure to listen to part 1 first.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Playing with Arduinos, a 1337 h4x0r tool, ChromeOS Flex, a proprietary software win, whether open-sourcing AI makes sense, and more.   Discoveries Tauno Serial Plotter kdb-audio ChromeOS Flex is now generally available   Discussion Open source isn’t working for AI       Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3QqaWW8   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

How efficient are our whole setups – including servers, client machines, and VPSs? Could we be doing more to save energy and money?       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

It’s the London meetup live show special! Joe is joined by Alex and Gary to discuss how to accept that most people who use/connect to Linux machines don’t use it on the desktop.       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

There is a sustainability problem in FOSS. How do we fix it?         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Loads of useful discoveries, a Lineage tale of woe, yet more trolling of Félim, and more.   Discoveries bat Beej’s guide to network programming LinuxCommandLibrary and f-droid app Galaxy Buds Client Lineage problems battop   Feedback Late Night Linux Discoveries code Joe’s RSS Thingy Bismuth How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries GoatCounter         Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3QqaWW8   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

In a world of cloud and serverless, is there any point in most people learning the command line?       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Torvalds is using an Arm Mac with Asahi, potentially bad news for ChromeOS in Europe, a remarkable Debian server upgrade, Facebook wins a battle in the URL war, Minecraft shuns NFTs, KDE Korner, and more.   News London Meetup 5th August near The Eye Microsoft clarifies store policy on commercial FOSS Torvalds is using Asahi on an Arm Mac, and the next kernel will be 6.0 Torvalds didn’t expect to run Linux on Arm Macs Denmark bans Chromebooks and Google Workspace in schools over data transfer risks MicrocodeDecryptor Facebook Is Now Encrypting Links to Prevent URL Stripping Debian skip-skip-cross-up-grade Official Unreal Engine 5 editor binaries for Linux have been published Minecraft and NFTs Banned from Minecraft, crypto group says it’ll just make a better game   KDE Korner Latte Dock | Farewell… The Eco Sprint Kate incremental updates and Itinerary Update Bit of love for Discover Multihead will be no more         Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Hayden explains why he uses Windows Subsystem for Linux on a daily basis, and argues that Microsoft is a very different organisation from the one that was so hostile to FOSS 20+ years ago. He mentioned his unofficial timeline of Microsoft’s transition towards open source.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Graham played with a Steam Deck, Will switched to Firefox, Félim cleaned up his home directory, and Joe obsessed over battery health. Plus Copilot follow-up, and more.   Discoveries Firefox xdg-ninja Steam Deck inxi coconutBattery   Feedback lnl-discoveries LanguageTool Linux Downtime 51     Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3QqaWW8   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Our smallest and our biggest FOSS wins.   Things we mentioned: Homebridge FOG Project boringtun vnStat EasyTAG HAProxy       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Thinkpads that won’t boot Linux by default, Lennart moves to Microsoft, the Firefox Snap is finally a lot faster, Reddit shows its true colours, KDE Korner, and more.   News London Meetup 5th August near The Eye Lenovo Secured-core PC unable to boot Linux from a USB stick Responsible stewardship of the UEFI secure boot ecosystem Lennart leaves Red Hat and Goes to Microsoft Microsoft is a Linux and open source company Firefox snap performance Part 3: significant startup improvements Reddit and Nothing NFTs   KDE Korner KDE eV Report 2021 Last and This week in KDE Should Fedora sponsor KDE officially?       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Martin and Hayden explain what it’s actually like to use GitHub Copilot, and why they think it’s going to have a positive impact open source software. Plus Hayden explains the legal nuances.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

A modern alternative to the watch command, automating lights, and hacking routers, using FOSS to make installing Windows easier. Plus our thoughts on VC funding in open source, and more.   Discoveries viddy Cheerlights & cheerlights-hid Hacking a Netgear router to be a ‘mesh’ satellite Vita3K Rufus 3.19 adds bypass for mandatory Windows 11 22H2 Microsoft Account requirement Raspberry Pi Restores Guitar Amp, Complete With Effects   Feedback Improvements in git 2.37 when resolving conflicts with vimdiff liquidsoap       Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3QqaWW8   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

We all tried to live with a touch-only experience on x86-64 devices. It turns out that Linux is very close to offering a great experience.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

The community gets angry about GitHub Copilot, Félim gets angry about email, Firefox continues to improve, drawers fill up with more Raspberry Pis, KDE shines as ever, and more.   News London Meetup 5th August near The Eye Raspberry Pi Pico W: your $6 IoT platform GitHub Copilot and open source laundering Chris Green on Twitter Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come! Now Amazon debuts an AI programming assistant – CodeWhisperer Firefox kills another tracking cookie workaround Thunderbird 102 Released: A Serious Upgrade To Your Communication Thunderbird is getting a visual revamp Lawmakers seek to accelerate asteroid finder and want more Mars helicopters   KDE Korner KDE Apps mid-year update Digitally signing PDFs with a hardware token DigiKam 7.7.0 KDE PIM May & June update         Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

Stuart Langridge joins us to discuss the nuances of gatekeeping in the Linux community, and why he thinks we inadvertently engaged in it on the last episode.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

Will buys a cheap mouse, Félim thinks he’s a meteorologist, Graham hacks his TV, and Joe complains about YouTube.   Discoveries libratbag & piper WeeWX Device/DevMode Manager for webOS TV LMN 3: An Open-Source DAW-in-a-Box Doom on coreboot and on a Bluetooth dongle OBS   Feedback Deskreen       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Do we use Linux to avoid being locked into proprietary systems and services, or is that just as possible using any OS? Plus we bully Dalton for making us read a very American book.   Digital Minimalism book       Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/lad to sign up and get $150 free credit to use in 30 days.   Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/35nsvUa       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Thumbs up for Mozilla and KDE, mixed reaction to mobile Thunderbird and Microsoft, AI definitely isn’t sentient, and more.   News Our Plans For Thunderbird On Android Frequently Asked Questions: Thunderbird Mobile and K-9 Mail Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users worldwide How to easily switch from Chrome to Firefox How to set Firefox as your default browser on Windows Microsoft Store: no astronomical pricing and paid open source or free copycat applications anymore Microsoft Gives $10k to GNOME clap Ready to transform the enterprise world? We are! Google suspends engineer who claims its AI is sentient Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview What is LaMDA and What Does it Want?   KDE Korner Plasma 5.25 along with Frameworks 5.95 Goal: Apps & the call for new Goals is open Platform Calendar Access followup Qt Patch Level 5.15.5       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Kyle joins us again, along with Hayden Barnes to answer the question: what exactly is a Linux distribution these days? The rise of immutable filesystems, containerisation, virtualisation, hypervisors, and abstraction layers makes this more complex than it might appear.   Buy Hayden’s book about WSL.         Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/ldt to sign up and get $150 free credit to use in 30 days.   Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/3iIyKov     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

Arch is really easy to install now, Graham uses his keyboard as a mouse, replacing expensive security platforms with FOSS, silly AI pictures, and Will baffles us with electronics technobabble. Plus feedback about all sorts, including a chance to hear the noise that sends Joe to sleep.   Discoveries Wazuh cheat Sigrok (better write up here) warpd archinstall Dwitter DALL·E mini     Feedback Monit Jason’s command: play -n -c1 synth whitenoise band -n 100 20 band -n 50 20 gain +25 fade h 1 864000 1 Joe’s: play -n -c1 synth whitenoise lowpass -1 150 lowpass -1 150 gain +10 Noice Linux After Dark 18         Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Part 2 of the challenge to do something useful with our lowest-end hardware, and two polar opposite customer support experiences.       Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/lad to sign up and get $150 free credit to use in 30 days.   Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/35nsvUa       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

The usual love for the Mars helicopter and KDE, rare praise for Mozilla, and fingers pointed at DuckDuckGo and Brave. Plus apprehension about Broadcom’s VMware acquisition, and Intel’s new “features”.   News Alex’s London meetup is going to be a day earlier than originally planned. He’s still working on a venue but stay tuned and watch the meetup page! Ingenuity Adapts for Mars Winter Operations NASA’s 161-second helicopter tour of Martian terrain Phoronix Turns 18 Years Old Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot DuckDuckGo: Why our browsers won’t block Microsoft trackers DDG has a tracker blocking carve-out linked to Microsoft contract Brave marketing gaffe Brave’s use of Direct Mailers Broadcom is acquiring VMware for $61 billion VMware users are nervous about Broadcom acquisition Broadcom’s stated strategy ignores most VMware customers Drew’s Tweet Linux 5.18 Released With Intel SDSi, New CPU & GPU Features Intel’s software-defined silicon set to debut in Linux 5.18 Intel Upgrade Service   KDE Korner KDE a Google SoC participent SCAM: Lightmoon IS NOT Kdenlive. Lightmoon is MALWARE KDE ECO sprint May & Nico Fella KItinerary April/May Update KDE Goals: Wayland Job vacancy for furthering KDE in app stores           Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Martin and Joe are joined by Kyle Fazzari to reimagine the Linux desktop. What we’d do differently if we were starting over today, who we’d aim it at, what packaging system we’d use, what interface, and more.   Kyle’s Twitter thread       Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/ldt to sign up and get $150 free credit to use in 30 days.   Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/3iIyKov     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

FOSS alternatives to TeamViewer and Plex, Alexa automation made easy, Thunderbird is in great health, plus your feedback about all sorts including an amazing weird Linux installation.   Discoveries RustDesk Virtual Smart Home Jellyfin Thunderbird is very much alive and it has an RSS reader   Feedback Geekbench results for Linux on Surface devices barrier owncast       Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/3tONetk   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

The first part of our challenge to do something useful with the lowest-end hardware that we own, and whether forking really is as much of an open source benefit as it’s often considered.   Links MorphOS Maru OS       Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/lad to sign up and get $150 free credit to use in 30 days.   Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/35nsvUa       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

We break with tradition and talk about some of the things we love about Linux and FOSS. Plus overhyped NVIDIA news, Google relents on free custom email accounts, Félim is trolled about Chromebooks, KDE Korner, and a Rust supply-chain attack drags up an old debate.   News No FOSS Talk Live this year but there’s Alex’s outdoor meetup in August Nvidia takes first step toward open source Linux GPU drivers Hector Martin’s Twitter thread about it Google backtracks on legacy GSuite account shutdown, won’t take user emails Chromebooks are the perfect place to teach yourself about Linux When will we learn?   KDE Korner Lars Knoll Leaving The Qt Company, Starting New Chapter Outside Qt Leaving The Qt Company Almost time to pick new goals and end of KDE Goals: “Consistency”         Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

How do you progress your career as a FOSS enthusiast?     Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/ldt to sign up and get $150 free credit to use in 30 days.   Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/3iIyKov     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

Graham plays with a synth, old desktops live on, Generation X11 yells at cloud, Will has been a naughty boy, TV alternatives, and Linux on weird hardware.   Discoveries Surge XT synth The Unity desktop is still alive (as is Trinity) 10 hours of a hairdryer noise Star Trek TNG bridge noise   Feedback Cloudfree.shop       Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/3tONetk   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

A new release of Lineage OS is out and we give it a go. Installing and running it, some of the issues we came across, why it’s getting more complicated to run custom ROMs, and why Gary just uses an iPhone. LineageOS 19 based on Android 12 is now officially available     Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/lad to sign up and get $150 free credit to use in 30 days.   Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/35nsvUa       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

The Mars Helicopter might be on its way out but it’s still a hero, bad things are happening to the UK Internet and we blame the government, whether software can ever be finished, some great discoveries, KDE Korner, and more.   News Martin Wimpress has joined Linux Downtime as a co-host Mars helicopter spots wreckage from Perseverance landing Ingenuity might not last much longer Oatmeal comic LineageOS 19 based on Android 12 is now officially available More about Lineage on Linux After Dark this Friday Apple clarifies its controversial app removal emails with policy statement UK finance minister blames legacy IT for benefits delay Bad things are going to happen to the Internet in the UK   Discoveries pz dashy Charge your laptop off a big external battery over USB-C   KDE Korner KItinery out of Play New Plasma Mobile Gear 22.04 with new site New gestures support in Plasma 5.25 Poppler’s new embedded font support LinuxAppSummit & video of Q&A with Neil McGovern and Aleix Pol New LabPlot & Kdenlive       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Adam tries to sell Fedora to Joe and Martin, two Ubuntu (flavour) users.       Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/ldt to sign up and get $150 free credit to use in 30 days.   Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/3iIyKov     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

Saving abandonded IoT devices with FOSS, watching directories for changes, monitoring disk usage, window managers vs desktop environments, further thoughts on work-supplied hardware, and more.   Discoveries Tuya Convert entr hw-probe Insteon Abruptly Shuts Down, Users Left Smart-Home-Less Parallel Disk Usage psst   Feedback Touristic Guide — DebConf 22 adblock · PyPI         Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/3tONetk   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Dalton tells us about using a Steam Deck for a month, and Chris has a solution for Joe’s Python problem.   audio-visualizer-python distrobox       Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, storage, and managed Kubernetes in 24 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/lad to sign up and get $150 free credit to use in 30 days.   Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/35nsvUa       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

A new Ubuntu LTS is here and it’s mostly great, the Steam Deck is a huge success, Brave proves that nuance isn’t dead, people flock to Mastodon, KDE Korner, and more.   News Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is released Canonical now hopes to IPO in 2023 Ubuntu Founder Explains Why Distro Won’t Support Flatpak Sinclair’s 8-bit home computer, ZX Spectrum, turns 40 The Steam Deck is not a flop De-AMP: Cutting Out Google and Enhancing Privacy   Discoveries LNL Matrix Element New official Mastodon apps for Android and iOS Create Twitter RSS Feeds   KDE Korner KDE Gear 22.04.0 is out Nice theming improvements iOS KDEConnect getting better Alerts Simple Tasks App       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here