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• Berlin with Brent Meetup — Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 7:00 PM
• Berlin Buds on Matrix
• Things are Changing | Office Hours 32 — We've got a radically new format idea for Office Hours and want to tell you all about it.
• Linux Action News 299 — Recent advances in embedded Linux, Canonical takes full control of LXD, ZFS gets a handy Btrfs feature, and updates on the show's production.
• Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base — Behind the scenes, the Canonical team has been actively exploring the benefits of Ubuntu Core beyond the realm of IoT, most notably in the context of developers and daily users.
• ubuntu-core-desktop on GitHub — This directory contains an image of Ubuntu Core 22 with the GDM display manager loaded into the boot file system.
• Actions · canonical/ubuntu-core-desktop - GitHub
• canonical/workshops on GitHub — Workshops provides a user friendly interface to create and manage LXD containers as well as provides a full featured terminal.
• Workshops on the Snap Store
• Snikket Dev's take on XMPP and Embrace Extend Extinguish
• snikket-server: Image builder for Snikket server
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Plus, the reunion road trip hits a bump, some community news, feedback, picks, and more.

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• The Light Phone — The Light Phone II is a premium, minimal phone. It will never have social media, clickbait news, email, an internet browser, or any other anxiety-inducing infinite feed.
• Ingenuity Is So Good, NASA’s Mars Helicopter Mission Just Got an Exciting Update — Given its stunning and unexpected success, NASA has extended Ingenuity's mission indefinitely.
• KDE’s Plasma Wayland Session Is “Finally Reaching Stability” Following Many Fixes — "Gazillions of bugfixes...Including many for the Plasma Wayland session! It’s finally reaching stability. I know it’s taken a while, but I think we’re very nearly there!"
• This week in KDE: gazillions of bugfixes
• Nftables reaches 1.0 — The release of nftables 1.0.0 can be seen as a signal that it is time for the laggards to get more serious about making the switch. While it is hard to imagine iptables support being removed anytime soon, it's rather easier to foresee that enthusiasm for maintaining it will continue to wane. It only took 13 years, but this transition finally appears to be heading into its final stage.
• nftables wiki
• Garuda Linux — Garuda Linux is a rolling release distro based on Arch Linux, which ensures always getting the latest software updates.
• Garuda Whoogle
• Garuda Startpage
• Stickers | Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale
• Pick: yt-dlp — A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes.
• Pick: ytmdl — A simple app to get songs from YouTube in mp3 format with artist name, album name etc from sources like iTunes, Spotify, LastFM, Deezer, Gaana etc.

And why everyone will be looking for an open-source LastPass alternative.

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• AmpliPi - Home Audio System — Kickstarter — One thing that sets apart the AmpliPi design is that we have made it open source, from the software, to the firmware, to the schematics. The REST API and Web App are written in Python and run on a Raspberry Pi 3+ Compute Module.
• The Coder — The Coder is made from 100% cotton terry velour for soft, cozy wear. Embroidered on the left chest with a classic white on black Coder Radio logo.
• Windows Refund Day — For those who hadn't heard the story, February 15th 1999 was windows refund day. It was a worldwide day when open source OS users went to microsoft's offices to return their unused licenses of windows that they were forced to acquire since they were bundled with the machine they bought.
• VLC 4.0 is coming later this year with a new UI, focus on online video and security — The new version will also focus more on playing videos from the Internet, relying on extensions to find third-party content. The team is also working on a version of VLC that will work inside the browser (based on WebAssembly).
• The Movie Database (TMDb)
• Facebook’s Linux Desktop Choice Is Fedora But Ramping Up CentOS Stream — Among the reasons Facebook is now pursuing CentOS Stream on the desktop is to serve as a stable rolling-release, binary compatibility, punctual security updates, and its close relationship with Fedora.
• Changes to LastPass Free - The LastPass Blog — Starting March 16th, 2021, LastPass Free will only include access on unlimited devices of one type, Desktop or Mobile.
• KeePass Password Safe
• Bitwarden Open Source Password Manager | Bitwarden
• 1Password Linux
• Manjaro Linux on Twitter — We updated #PlasmaMobile to the latest #Plasma 5.21 stable release. This comes with the latest 5.10 LTS kernel and updated development packages. Checkout the latest software by @kdecommunity powered by @ManjaroLinuxARM for your #Pinephone!
• Manjaro on Shells.com
• JupiterBroadcasting Telegram Group
• The Opinion Dominion Episode 28 — A wild Chris Fisher appears… for an interview.
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Plasma 5.2 — Apart from the numerous improvements in stability, there are quite a few Plasma components that are getting much better support in Wayland. KRunner, for example, is now able to list all open windows in Wayland, a new component in the panel’s system tray informs you of the keyboard layout, and we now support features required for GTK 4, so all GTK 4 applications will now work.
• M.2 Enclosure for SATA NGFF SSD
• Feedback: Arch Upgrade Tips
• Feedback: Arch on the laptop of Chris’ son
• SonoBus — SonoBus is an easy to use, open-source, application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network.

Plus the changes coming to Fedora, and what GNOME is focusing on next year.

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• Rust Watch: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive — Utilizing an in-development Flash emulator called Ruffle, we have added Flash support to the Internet Archive’s Emularity system, letting a subset of Flash items play in the browser as if you had a Flash plugin installed.
• Ruffle — Flash Player emulator written in the Rust programming language
• Ubuntu Web Remix Wants to Be a Chrome OS Alternative, Beta Available Now - 9to5Linux — Ubuntu Web Remix uses Mozilla’s Firefox web browser, offers support for Web apps, and you can also install regular Linux applications from Ubuntu’s software repositories.
• FydeOS beta brings Chromium OS to the PineBook Pro (Android app support too) - Liliputing — The developers say they plan to add support for more ARM-based systems in the future.
• We’re Building the Future of GNOME — Our plans for 2021 are even more ambitious and involve sustaining our ongoing work while building up new initiatives and support for the growing GNOME project and community.
• GNOME Foundation Planning For More Initiatives In 2021 - Phoronix
• Fedora’s i3 team is working on an official Fedora Spin for Fedora 34 : Fedora
• i3 Kickstart files :: Fedora Docs Site
• Fedora 34 to Introduce KDE Plasma Spin for 64-bit ARM - debugpoint.com — The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) approved the recent proposal to provide a Fedora 34 KDE Plasma Spin for 64-bit ARM (AArch64) architecture.
• Fedora 34 Might Try To Use PipeWire By Default To Replace PulseAudio/JACK - Phoronix — For a while now Fedora has offered PipeWire packages but not yet used by default when it comes to audio handling. A pending change proposal for Fedora 34 would now route all audio through PipeWire rather than the existing JACK and PulseAudio.
• PulseAudio 14.0 Released With Better USB Gaming Headset Support — PulseAudio 14.0 comes with many changes compared to PulseAudio 13.0 that shipped all the way back in September of 2019.
• PulseAudio 14.0 Release Notes
• ASUS Offers First Motherboard Firmware Update Via LVFS+Fwupd For Linux Users - Phoronix — The ASUS P11C-C-4L is an EATX motherboard for the Intel Xeon E platform.
• fwupd 1.5.2 – Technical Blog of Richard Hughes — A plugin for the Pinebook Pro laptop has been added, although it needs further work from PINE64 before it will work correctly.
• Jasem’s Ekosphere: KStars v3.5.0 is Released — This release marks a significant milestone for KStars with the integration of StellarSolver, the Cross Platform Sextractor and Astrometry.net-Based Internal Astrometric Solver.
• Wave-share — Serverless, peer-to-peer, local file sharing through sound.
• Wave-share on GitHub — A proof-of-concept for WebRTC signaling using sound. Works with all devices that have microphone + speakers. Runs in the browser.
• Feedback: Eric’s Wonderful Workstation
• Feedback: Container Host Choices
• Feedback: Podify
• Pick: podify — Create podcasts from anything youtube-dl can handle.
• Pick: Dev Fonts
• Hear Audio From NASA's Perseverance As It Travels Through Deep Space | NASA — A microphone aboard NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has recorded the sounds of the spacecraft as it hurtles through interplanetary space.
• Perseverance Rover’s Interplanetary Sounds by NASA

Plus some highlights from Arch Conf, and our reaction to Mint finally fixing their Chromium problem.

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• media.ccc.de - Arch Linux: Past, Present and Future
• Project X - Pure Open-Source Coreboot Support On AMD Zen - Phoronix — Project X is about "eXcising binary blobs from the x86 part of Zen CPUs."
• OSFC 2020 - Open Source Firmware Conference
• Linux Mint pre-loads Chromium and Brings New IPTV Player — The package is available Linux Mint repository as “chromium” which you can install using standard “apt-get” or via the package manager. This is pure native Chromium and not a snap version.
• Monthly News – October 2020 – The Linux Mint Blog
• LINUX Unplugged 360: The Hard Work of Hardware
• Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US
• SpaceX Starlink users provide first impressions and unboxing pictures | Ars Technica — New speed-test data collected by Ookla and published by PCMag last week found average Starlink download speeds of 79.5Mbps and average upload speeds of 13.8Mbps in October
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• profile-sync-daemon — Symlinks and syncs browser profile dirs to RAM thus reducing HDD/SDD calls and speeding-up browsers.
• GPU-Viewer — A front-end to glxinfo, vulkaninfo, clinfo and es2_info.
• Ivan Molodetskikh: Video Trimmer — Video Trimmer cuts out a fragment of a video given the start and end timestamps. The video is never re-encoded, so the process is very fast and does not reduce the video quality.
• junegunn/fzf — A command-line fuzzy finder
• Fish shell — fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for Linux, macOS, and the rest of the family.
• cxreg/smartcd — Alter your bash (or zsh) environment as you cd.
• wting/autojump — A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line.
• gsamokovarov/jump — Jump helps you navigate faster by learning your habits.
• muammar/mkchromecast — Cast macOS and Linux Audio/Video to your Google Cast and Sonos Devices
• xat/castnow — commandline chromecast player
• xat/dlnacast — Cast local media to your TV through UPnP/DLNA
• skorokithakis/catt — Cast All The Things allows you to send videos from many, many online sources to your Chromecast.
• tridactyl — A Vim-like interface for Firefox, inspired by Vimperator/Pentadactyl
• philc/vimium — The hacker's browser.
• Use your ~/.local folder!
• Liquorix kernel for Debian users — Liquorix is a distro kernel replacement built using the best configuration and kernel sources for desktop, multimedia, and gaming workloads.
• PipeWire nightly for Fedora users — PipeWire nightly builds from the projects git master. Use at your own risk.
• Firefox Adwaita Theme — This is a bunch of CSS code to make Firefox look closer to GNOME's native apps.
• Feedback: Thoughts after youtube-dl
• Feedback: FreeIPA
• Feedback: Zentyal as an AD Server

Plus our thoughts on the bigger problem exposed by the youtube-dl takedown.

Chapters:
00:00:00 Pre-show
00:03:12 Intro
00:04:40 New LTS Kernel
00:07:16 Pop!_OS 20.10
00:08:47 The youtube-dl Problem
00:29:00 Why 1Password Matters
00:34:52 Housekeeping
00:37:09 Fedora 33 Review
00:56:44 Feedback
01:05:04 Picks
01:08:21 Post-show

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Neal Gompa.

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• XFS File-System With Linux 5.10 Punts Year 2038 Problem To The Year 2486 - Phoronix
• Linux 5.10 Is The Next LTS Kernel - Phoronix
• Thorsten ‘the Linux kernel logger’ Leemhuis on Twitter — #Linux 5.10 will be the next Longterm (aka LTS) #kernel (and thus supported for at least two years, but in the end it often are six). That’s what @gregkh said a few minutes ago in a “Ask the Expert Session” on #OSSummit Europe
• System76 Blog: What’s New in Pop!_OS 20.10
• A Look At The Performance Improvements With System76 Pop!_OS 20.10 - Phoronix
• YouTube-DL Removed From GitHub After DMCA Notice
• GitHub took down popular YouTube downloader — so devs made more copies
• 1Password for Linux beta is now open 🎊 🐧 🎊 | 1Password
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Unfilter.show
• Fedora 33 is officially here!
• Fedora 33 Review: What’s New and How to Upgrade | FOSS Linux
• Fedora 33 Released With Workstation Using Btrfs By Default - Phoronix
• Fedora 33 To Stick With systemd-resolved Following Last Minute Concerns - Phoronix
• Contribute at the Fedora Test Week for Kernel 5.9 - Fedora Magazine
• Feedback: System76 Disclosure
• Feedback: Open Source Support
• Feedback: FreeIPA
• Pick: annie — Fast, simple and clean video downloader.

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