mintCast 276 – Mint news and what’s next for MintCast
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News:
- Linux Mint news for Nov
- What’s new in Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon
- What’s new in Linux Mint 18.3 MATE
- Goodbye Apple, goodbye Microsoft… hello Linux
Main Topic:
- Rob talks about some computer cleanup he had to do. Rob and Isaac debate on what to do for the future of MintCast.
Tips & Websites:
What are you reading?:
- Rob
- Idiot’s Guide to Philosophy – Jay Stephenson
- Reasonable Faith – William Lane Craig
- Tomorrow’s Kin – Nancy Kress
- Sabbath as Resistance – Walter Brueggemann
- Isaac
- Infinite Ascent: a short history of mathematics – David Berlinski
- Finished
- Everything and more: a compact history of infinity — David Foster Wallace
- Mister B Gone — Cliver Barker
- Finished…not bad but he has better books
- Imagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen) — Barry Mazur
- Robert Oppenheimer: A life inside the center
- A bunch of JavaScript and AngularJS books
- Infinite Ascent: a short history of mathematics – David Berlinski
What are you listening to?:
- Rob
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- Malicious Life – https://malicious.life/
- The Minimalists – https://www.theminimalists.com/podcast/
- Talk Python To Me – https://talkpython.fm/
- Mortification of Spin – http://www.alliancenet.org/mos/podcast
- The Briefing – http://www.albertmohler.com/the-briefing/
- Breakpoint Podcast – http://www.breakpoint.org/podcast/
- The EntreLeadership Podcast – https://www.entreleadership.com/posts.podcast
- Isaac
- The Cynical Developer – https://cynicaldeveloper.com/
- JavaScript Jabber – https://devchat.tv/js-jabber
- JavaScript to Elm – https://player.fm/series/javascript-to-elm/1-helloworld
- The Sunday Stoic – https://sundaystoic.wordpress.com/
Pre-Show Music:
- “Yesterday’s Conversation” by Angus Wallace
- “The Red Stone” by Ground & Leaves
Podcast Announcements:
- Next podcast will be Sunday, October 9, 2017 to talk about getting a Linux Mint build environment set up and look at next steps on our new project.
More Information:
Hosts: Rob and Isaac
Live Stream every other Monday 6:00 p.m.(Central): mintcast.org/livestream
Contact Us:
- Forum: forums.linuxmint.com (rarely)
- Email: [email protected]
- Twitter: @mintCast @txhawkins @Linux_Mint
- IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast
- Google+: mintCast
More Linux Mint info: website, blog, forums, community
Credits:
Podcast Entry and exit music provided by Mark Blasco (podcastthemes.com). Podcast bumpers provided by Oscar.
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You mention that you use an adblocker, Rob; and tell websites to “find some other ways of making money”. Would you be willing to pay websites directly instead?
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Flattr can be a great way to contribute to the developers, organizations, and creators you enjoy content from every month.
Flattr charges fees comparable to Patreon, but as a user you become a Patreon of every corner of the web that you frequent instead of just a few individual creators. (Swedish company, so strict EU privacy protection laws apply to the data Flattr collects about your browsing.)
Rob, adding the jessie-backports repo to your sources in LMDE 2 will get you to kernel 4.9, and make a ton of other updates available.
https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/
Thank you for the podcast! Can I support you on Patreon?
Just switched to Linux Mint and enjoyed listening to your most recent episode. Would like to support your efforts with a small donation.
Thanks for the email Robert and thanks for listening!
We don’t do Patreon, but feel free to donate to Linux Mint since that’s the distro that the podcast is all about and what keeps us going.
Done! Keep discussing Linux Mint and focus primarily on the Mint universe. That’s my wish for the show. 🙂