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Recent Episodes of Linux Lads


Episode 123: Cloudy with a Chance of Games

Episode 123: Cloudy with a Chance of Games

Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!

You can find our episodes on YouTube

The lads chat about Theia, a VS Code-like IDE from the Eclipse Foundation, and its growing ecosystem (including an integrated plugin marketplace!), the Hypnotix IPTV app from Linux Mint, FOSS video games, and game/animation engines.

Discussion

Theia IDE VS Codium Open VSX Registry Theia Cloud Theia Adopter Story: The new Arduino IDE 2.0 Gitpod GitHub Codespaces Hypnotix SuperTuxKart: On the way towards 1.5… and 2.0! Xonotic 0 A.D. Mindustry OpenTTD OpenRA Zero-K Beyond All Reason Liblast Godot three.js Hoot Sc...

Episode 26 June 2024 25m and 28s


Episode 122: A Look Inside Our Drawers

Episode 122: A Look Inside Our Drawers

Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!

You can find our episodes on YouTube

Discussion

Conor's watch

The Android games console

Acer C710 Chromebook

ThinkPad X200

Raspberry Pi model post on Wkipedia

Home Assistant

ROCKPro64

Original Pinebook

Pinebook Pro

PinePower desktop power supply

Pinecil soldering iron

PineTime

Sony something something XM3

MX Master mouse

FRITZ!Box 7530

Game Boy Advance SP

DS...

Episode 4 June 2024 29m and 53s


Episode 121: Note to Self

Episode 121: Note to Self

Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!

You can find our episodes on YouTube

Whilst Mike was away, Amolith, Conor and Shane discussed Logseq and note taking, Automatic buying Beeper, Proton buying Standard Notes, chat platforms and social networks.

Discussion

LogSeq

Obsidian

Dataview plugin

Org Mode

Syncthing

Joplin

LogSeq sync

Simplenote

Beeper bought by Automattic (via Ars Technica)

Beeper

Automattic

Signal

Telegram

reddit's old interface<...

Episode 16 May 2024 41m and 28s


Episode 120: VideoLads

Episode 120: VideoLads

Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!

You can find our episodes on YouTube

With Shane and Mike away, Conor and Amolith talk to Vibhoothi from the VideoLAN project (of VLC fame).

Discussion

OggCamp 2024

Back door in xz leads to SSH server compromise

NIST page

The Register article

Evan Boehs's blog post

Chat with Vibhoothi

Google Summer of Code

VideoLAN GSoC programme

AV1

rav1e AV1 encoder written in Rust

Mozilla's 2020 layoffs

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Episode 1 May 2024 31m and 11s


Episode 119: Boxing up a Distro

Episode 119: Boxing up a Distro

Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!

You can find our episodes on YouTube

Mike has been fighting with Windows. Conor is curious about Bluefin. Mike has a plastic notebook and Conor got a new watch.

Discussion

Boxes

Running Windows 10 in Boxes

Sleuth Kit Autopsy

Project Bluefin

Introductory video

Homebrew

Input Remapper

BoxBuddy

Ptyxis terminal

Rocketbook

OnePlus Watch 2

Garmin Instinct 2 Solar

Amazfit

Contact Us

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Episode 24 April 2024 47m and 36s


Episode 118: KDE Plasma 6 and the Future of AI Avatars

Episode 118: KDE Plasma 6 and the Future of AI Avatars

Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!

You can find our episodes on YouTube

News

KDE MegaRelease 6 (KDE.org)

KDE PLASMA 6 review: was it worth the wait? (The Linux Experiment, YouTube)

Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media (TechCrunch)

GNOME 46 shipped with experimental support for variable refresh rate (Phoronix)

Finds

AI avatar generator (HuggingFace.co)

Interesting Linux apps (It's FOSS)

Contact Us

We have a store And a Steam Community ...

Episode 7 April 2024 36m and 49s


Episode 117: Read All About It

Episode 117: Read All About It

Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!

You can find our episodes on YouTube

Discussion

Conor was quoted in the Irish Times about the Dublin Linux install fest

NixOS

SnowflakeOS

Swatch Internet Time

Republican calendar Mostodon bot

Stardate

Julian calendar

Biel in Switzerland

i3

EndeavourOS

Sway

Contact Us

We have a store And a Steam Community We are on Telegram And on Mastodon And on Matrix And on Discord You can email...

Episode 6 March 2024 26m and


Episode 116: As Seen in Apt

Episode 116: As Seen in Apt

Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!

You can find our episodes on YouTube

Discussion

With Shane away, Amolith, Conor and Mike discuss advertising in package managers, a fork of Firefox and a snazzy window manager with a darker side.

Ubuntu Pro package manager advertising (from omg! ubuntu!)

Messaging in npm

Freexian

The Debian Administrator's Handbook

Ubuntu repos

Ubuntu Pro on the welcome screen

Floorp fork of Firefox (from It's FOSS)

Firefox sync

Vivaldi browser<...

Episode 18 February 2024 23m and 54s


Episode 115: This Episode Was (not) Generated By AI

Episode 115: This Episode Was (not) Generated By AI

Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!

You can find our episodes on YouTube

Discussion

Watt-Wise Game Jam

Backlash against Kagi using Brave's API

Copilot key

ElementaryOS

OpenBSD

Cwm

Ardour

Audacity

Contact Us

We have a store And a Steam Community We are on Telegram And on Mastodon And on Matrix And on Discord You can email us on show@ And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

Support Us

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Episode 25 January 2024 47m and 26s


Episode 114: Ubuntu Summit 2023

Episode 114: Ubuntu Summit 2023

Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!

You can find our episodes on YouTube

Discussion

This is the recording of our Ubuntu Summit 2023 discussion. We talk about interesting talks and the conference experience. Then we chat with the audience in the room.

Please note that the audio quality is lower than usual, due to it being a live recording.

The Dreamworks talk recording

The Asahi Linux talk recording

The Portals talk recording

The Owncast talk recording

The Typst talk recording

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Episode 27 December 2023 46m and 34s

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