Plus Chris' hands-on review of System76's customizable Launch keyboard.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

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• Google Photos is so 2020—welcome to the world of self-hosted photo management | Ars Technica — Alex's comprehensive write-up for Ars.
• rclone Google Photos — The rclone backend for Google Photos is a specialized backend for transferring photos and videos to and from Google Photos.
• Launch keyboard — The Launch Configurable Keyboard is engineered to be comfortable, fully customizable, and make your workflow more efficient.
• Updated storage policy for Google Photos
• Plans & Pricing - Google One
• Install Google Photos Sync on Linux with a Snap
• How To Backup Google Photos To Your Computer With gphotos-sync
• Google Photos Sync — Google Photos Sync downloads your Google Photos to the local file system. It will backup all the photos the user uploaded to Google Photos, but also the album information and additional Google Photos 'Creations' (animations, panoramas, movies, effects and collages).
• Sync Google Photos to your Linux Desktop
• Photonix Photo Manager — Photonix is a photo management application that streamlines the process of storing, presenting and re-discovering photos.
• Photonix Demo
• LibrePhotos — A self-hosted open source photo management service.
• PhotoStructure — Self-hosted, easy to install, and effortless to run. PhotoStructure is your cloud that runs on your computer. Your data stays yours.
• Chevereto — Get your own turnkey image hosting system today. Start your own image sharing website with your own rules.
• Lychee — Self-hosted photo-management done right.
• PhotoPrism — PhotoPrism is a privately hosted app for browsing, organizing, and sharing your photo collection. It makes use of the latest technologies to tag and find pictures automatically without getting in your way.
• Piwigo — Piwigo is open source photo gallery software for the web. Designed for organisations, teams and individuals.
• FileRun File Manager — Self-Hosted File Sync and Sharing.
• exiftool - bulk join json with jpg from Google Takeout
• How To Correctly Export And Migrate Away From Google Photos
• FakeSlice — Discharge USB-C Power Banks before internal battery on newer ThinkPads.
• FOSS Talk Live — FOSS Talk Live 2021 is happening on 12th June at 7pm UK time!
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• bucklespring — This project emulates the sound of my old faithful IBM Model-M space saver bucklespring keyboard.
• Valve’s Steam Data For December Points To A Huge Dip For Linux Gaming Marketshare
• Valve Revises Steam’s December 2020 Linux Marketshare To 0.74% — Valve has updated their numbers and point to Linux still regressing percentage-wise but not as bad as originally reported.
• Linus Torvalds On The Importance Of ECC RAM, Calls Out Intel’s “Bad Policies” Over ECC — "The arguments against ECC were always complete and utter garbage... Now even the memory manufacturers are starting to do ECC internally because they finally owned up to the fact that they absolutely have to."
• Microsoft is building a new Outlook app for Windows and Mac powered by the web — Project Monarch is the end-goal for Microsoft's "One Outlook" vision, which aims to build a single Outlook client that works across PC, Mac, and the Web.
• Bug: Mailspring is an abandoned project. · Issue #2231 · Foundry376/Mailspring · GitHub
• Taking FOSDEM online via Matrix — FOSDEM will have its own dedicated Matrix server at fosdem.org.
• KDE Plasma 5.20.5 Released as the Last in the Series, Update Now — The Plasma-NetworkManager applet received a fix for an issue with the password entry jumping to different networks when searching for Wi-Fi networks.
• KDE Plasma 5.21 Desktop Environment to Ship with a New System Monitor App — The Plasma System Monitor app promises not only a fancier and modern user interface, but also a simpler way for monitoring system resources on your KDE Plasma-based GNU/Linux distribution.
• Get openSUSE
• SDB:NVIDIA drivers - openSUSE Wiki
• New Core Contributor Promo Code: 2021
• Planner — Task manager with Todoist support designed for GNU/Linux 🚀.
• AUR (en) - elementary-planner
• Tuxies Feedback
• Tuxies Voting Suggestion
• Feedback: Gnome 40 Changes