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• Jupiter Broadcasting East Coast Meetup — Saturday, Apr 9, 2022 · 3:00 PM EDT
• Obsidian — Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
• How To ADHD — Those of us with ADHD have brains that work differently, which means we need to work differently.
• Onion Share — OnionShare is an open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network.
• OnionShare on Flathub
• Kevin Rooke on Twitter — 5,000 podcasts are now on the Lightning Network. 4.2 million to go.⚡️
• Heroic Games Launcher on Flathub — An Open Source GOG and Epic Games Launcher.
• Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish testing week
• Ubuntu ISO Testing Tracker
• New Podcast Apps — The Podcast Index is here to preserve, protect and extend the open, independent podcasting ecosystem.
• The Pomp Podcast — What is the Lightning Network?
• What’s in a Boostagram?
• How the Lightning Network is Innovating Podcasting — Podcast Index allows podcasters to add their podcast and connect your podcast to your own node, or use their service and they run a node for you. Users can set a specific sats per minute to listen, and the content creators stream payment by sats.
• Fountain Podcast App
• BoostCLI — Command line tool to send and review Podcasting 2.0 Value.
• LINUX Unplugged on Podcastindex.org

Plus, an update on Matrix and the recent upgrades we made to our server.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Joshua Strobl.

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• Building an Alternative Ecosystem | Joshua Strobl — While we have been consistent in this vision, though certainly not without flaws in its execution, we have seen a significant shift from GNOME’s development efforts and vision being focused from their desktop experience, to a heavier focus on mobile-to-desktop application scalability and a more touch-oriented, almost iPadOS like user experience that does not (in our opinion) provide the most optimized experience for laptop and desktop users.
• The Truth they are not telling you about “Themes” – Rust in Peace — There seems to be some confusion when it comes to libadwaita’s stylesheet and coloring APIs.
• Red Hat’s Upstream Contributions Are Making For A Great Fedora Workstation 35 - Phoronix — Fedora Workstation 35 will hopefully be out at the end of October (currently the beta is running behind schedule) and when it does ship it's once again at the bleeding-edge of Linux features.
• GNOME 41 has new multitasking settings!
• SeaGL is coming up soon, and is virtual this year — November 5th & 6th, 2021
• This Week in Matrix
• Spaces: The next frontier — Using Spaces and Subspaces to build hierarchies effectively turns Matrix into a global decentralised filesystem for conversations and other real-time data!
• toger5/TheBoard — A collaborative Whiteboard powered by the [matrix] protocol and infrastucture.
• Matrix Live
• Compressing Synapse database | Levans’ workshop — Anyone running a federating instance of the Matrix homeserver Synapse will likely have seen this: synapse is database-hungry. It tends to take a lot of space. In this post, I'm documenting how I shrunk my homeserver database from 100GB to a little under 8GB, during a long maintenance cleanup.
• Pick: Wayfire — Wayfire is a wayland compositor based on wlroots. It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance.
• Garuda Wayfire Download

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.

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• Email from Purism — As previously announced, we will be increasing prices for all new orders of the Librem 5 in stages (the phone will be priced at $1199 from all orders received on or after Nov 1st, 2021 and we expect this price to go upward to $1299 in March 2022) as component prices change and as we deliver greater quantities of product.
• Linux Phones | Madaidan’s Insecurities — Linux phones lack any significant security model and the points from the Linux article apply to Linux phones fully. There is not yet a single Linux phone with a sane security model.
• Linux kernel needs more phones and tablets, says developer — "Especially for guys even running upstream kernel on RPI CM4 like me, more ARM devices with upstream kernel support will just be more happiness. Not to mention this also means super long time support, way longer than the lifespan of those devices."
• Steam Deck dev-kits are on the move Valve say, as some already have it — "All packaged up and ready for devs! This is one of the limited batches of Steam Deck dev-kits heading out today for partners to test their games."
• POKE 756,224 on Twitter — @ChrisLAS I admire your quest to get Linux running on your Thinkpad with the same battery life and perf you get on Windows. I've gotta admit, I've given up and just run Windows on mine, and the ugly truth is that Windows 11 is, for my needs anyway, really nice!
• Pick: Flatseal — Flatseal is a graphical utility to review and modify permissions from your Flatpak applications.