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• March 7, 2023MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  407 – “There’s an App For That”

  First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – February, Ubuntu Flavors Agree to Stop Using Flatpak, Linux desktop powers consider uniting for an app store, Ubuntu Devs Working on ‘Mini’ Installer, Mesa 23 released, Mozilla narcs on Android apps, Fedora caught thinking, Linux supports Apple chips, OnlyOffice integrates, Falkon accelerates

  In security and privacy, LastPass Devs accounts get breached, NSA wants to help

  Then we have our usual Wanderings

  In our Innards section, we talk about the Android apps we can't live without.

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• February 24, 2023Interview, MP3, News, OGG, Podcast, Software

  406 – It’s Elementary, Dear Listener

  First up in the news: Looks like the end for Mycroft, Proton offers Drive for everybody, MidnightBSD takes on helloSystem, Fedora 38 now with full Flathub access, new Transmission, Android 14 Preview, Framework has new SSDs, new versions of KaOS and Parrot, Ardour and Clonezilla have new releases, and systemd is the future;

  In security and privacy, several PyPI packages steal crypto;

  Then in our Wanderings, Joe’s back hurts, Moss is underworked, and Bill is not.

  In our Innards section, we have invited Danielle Foré to come and talk about her Elementary OS project, and other changes;

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• February 8, 2023MP3, News, OGG, Podcast, Software

  405 – Method Not Allowed

  First up in the news, Mint 21.2 has the codename Victoria, OpenSuse updates, helloSystem says hello for the 0.8th time, new Firefox allows imports, Xfce goes Waylanding, Cosmic DE speeds up, OBS Studio fixes Linux Wayland bug, and Elementary has a new release.

  In security and privacy, we report on after log4j, Boldmove, and Malvirt.

  Then in our Wanderings, Joe calls Texas for Icing, and Moss is having New Phone Fever; Bill is in Colorado doing a rescue and will be back next episode.

  In our Innards section we discuss what you can do with old Android devices.

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• February 1, 2023MP3, OGG, Podcast

  404.5 – 2022 Distro Rundown

  This week in our Innards, We do a rundown of our favorite distros of 2022

  In "Check This Out" we talk about a graphical tool Londoner shared that makes light work of scheduling a shutdown or reboot. Moss shares his experience with the Flatpak of a favorite game of his; and we share an article postulating the death of Unix.

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• January 24, 2023MP3, News, OGG, Podcast, Software

  404 – The Tenacity of Tenacity

  First up in the news, RPi adds an autofocus camera, Fairphone2 hits EOL, more Tenacity than ever, new Unity, Xubuntu Minimal arrives soon, Brave adds Bridges, Kodi 20 is released, Libvirt 9.0 is out, Google gets shot down, and new features arrive in Firefox 109

  In security and privacy, nothing to see here, move along

  Then in our Wanderings, Moss is back, Joe has fun with a Pihole, and Bill takes some OTC stuff.

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