Plus Chris reviews how his new Thunderbolt 3 GPU docking station works under Linux, and why he’ll never be undocking again.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, and Martin Wimpress.

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• Pioneers — Pioneers, the wonderfully addicting game based on "The Settlers of Catan"
• XPRA — multi-platform screen and application forwarding system or "screen for X11"
• Valve discontinues the Steam Link — Farewell to the Steam Link, the best wireless HDMI gadget ever made
• Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline — Android devices are based on the Linux kernel but, since the beginning, those devices have not run mainline kernels.
• Linux Deepin 15.8 Released with Various Neat Improvements
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is getting 10-Year Support
• Ubuntu Security Podcast
• LINUX Unplugged Feedback: Docking Stations?
• Lenovo G0A10170UL Thunderbolt 3 Graphics Dock
• Lenovo Thunderbolt 3 Dock on Debian Linux | The Blog of Juho
• Thunderbolt 3 device manager
• prime-select: A fork of FedoraPrime enhanced for all linux distributions
• Black Friday Sale | Linux Academy
• Name the Automation System — Which two names work best for the Jupiter Broadcasting Automation system?
• Feedback from Albert: Youtube on the Desktop?
• Minitube, YouTube app for Mac, Windows and Linux
• youtube-dl — youtube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube
• webtty: Share a terminal session over WebRTC
• unite-shell: Unite makes GNOME Shell look like Ubuntu Unity Shell.
• WireGuard VPN Road Warrior Setup

Plus the quiet shuttering of the Windows division inside Microsoft, and how they could help save Linux from Apple.

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• A Modular and Open Source Router is Being Crowdfunded — A company from the Czech Republic is trying to raise money to bring a modular and open source router to the public. It has a number of features that can’t be found in the current line up of routers available for purchase.
• Terminal app appears in Chrome OS Dev, hints at future Linux application support — More evidence of this feature has appeared in the Chrome OS Dev channel, as reported by several Reddit users. A new Terminal app has been added to the app drawer, and clicking it opens a dialog explaining the feature. T
• Blloc | Back to the root — Blloc is a plain and minimalistic smartphone combining a power saving operating system with efficient hardware and an easy to use messaging platform, it’s built to be the perfect communication and productivity tool that you can rely on every day.
• The state of Thunderbolt 3 in Fedora 28 — The GNOME shell bits to enable Thunderbolt 3 support were merged some time ago and made it into 3.28. This means that the GNOME shell will act as authorization agent and will automatically authorize new thunderbolt 3 devices — if the user has administrator rights, is currently logged in and the session is unlocked. I
• Re-evaluating Ubuntu's Milestones — I do not believe there have been any -1s to this proposal from any flavor, nor from the Release Team, so I think it's time to move forward with it.
• Microsoft is ready for a world beyond Windows - The Verge — The first big clue about the OS’s future is that Microsoft’s “Windows and Devices Group” is now “Experiences & Devices,” and it includes Windows, Office, and Surface. Microsoft’s Office chief, Rajesh Jha, is now in charge of this entire division, with Joe Belfiore delegated to lead the Windows experiences.
• Microsoft reorg shakes up Windows group, Windows leader Terry Myerson departs | Ars Technica — The WDG is no more. The group is being split up.
• Windows chief Terry Myerson is leaving as Microsoft reorganizes — platforms. Terry Myerson, executive vice president of the Windows and devices group, is leaving the company.
• Microsoft’s latest reorganization puts cloud over Windows | The Seattle Times — Microsoft's latest reorganization focuses on its cloud and productivity software technology.
• The End of Windows – Stratechery by Ben Thompson — And so we reach last week’s announcements: the Windows division is no more. It is an incredibly meaningful milestone, yet anticlimactic at the same time, thanks to Nadella’s careful management. It is worth noting, though, that Nadella had one critical ally in this journey: Wall Street.
• Satya Nadella email to employees: Embracing our future: Intelligent Cloud and Intelligent Edge | Stories — Moving forward, Rajesh Jha will expand his existing responsibilities to lead a new team focused on Experiences & Devices.
• The Infamous GNOME Shell Memory Leak – Georges Stavracas — It almost feels like there’s a wall between the community and the users of what this community produces. Which is weird. We are an open community, with open development, no barriers for new contributors – and yet, there is such a distance between the community of users and the community of developers/designers/outreachers/etc.
• Progress on Plasma Wayland for 5.13 - subdiff — First of all support for screencasts had to be added to KWin and KWayland. This was done by Oleg Chernovskiy.
• KDE - KBackup - Backup Program — KBackup is an application that lets you back up any folders or files in a tar archive to a local folder, e.g. a locally mounted device like a ZIP drive, USB stick, etc. or a remote URL.
• Bionic Beaver - Kubuntu — The Plasma 5.12 LTS series is the default in this version of Kubuntu

Plus webOS returns, some fundamental Linux plumbing upgrades, and Private Internet Access goes Open Source.

Special Guest: Ilan Rabinovitch.

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• LG Announces webOS Open-Source Edition — LG in cooperation with South Korea's NIPA government agency are working on making webOS suitable as a more open platform with open connectivity. They are still looking to commercialize it as an open-source platform, LG announced this morning.
• GNOME 3.28 Release Notes — In total, the release incorporates 25832 changes, made by approximately 838 contributors.
• Bolt Will Tackle Thunderbolt 3 Security on Linux — “[Bolt] provides a D-Bus API to list devices, enroll them (authorize and store them in the local database) and forget them again (remove previously enrolled devices). It also emits signals if new devices are connected (or removed). During enrollment devices can be set to be automatically authorized as soon as they are connected.”
• GStreamer: news — The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new major feature release of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
• Firefox 59 released, these are the key changes — The built-in Firefox screenshot tool lets you copy an image to the clipboard, ready for you to paste elsehwhere.
• Off-Main-Thread Painting – Mozilla Gfx Team Blog — I’m excited to announce Off-Main-Thread painting, our new Firefox graphics performance effort!
• Off-Main-Thread Painting - For Linux — set “layers.omtp.enabled” to true.
• Private Internet Access goes Open Source — As long-time supporters of the Free and Open Source Software community, we have started the process of open sourcing our software, and over the next six months we will be releasing the source code for all our client-side applications, as well as libraries and extensions.
• OpenSnitch — OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall.
• Spotifyd — An open source Spotify client running as a UNIX daemon. Spotifyd streams music just like the official client, but is more lightweight and supports more platforms. Spotifyd also supports the Spotify Connect protocol which makes it show up as a device that can be controlled from the official clients.
• Ilan Rabinovitch — VP, Product & Technical Community at @datadoghq, recovering SysAdmin, SCALE Conference Chair, and other FL/OSS fun.