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• January 12, 2024MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  428 – 32 bit’s Days Are Numbered

  First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, Fedora Asahi Remix Officially Released for Apple Silicon Macs

  In security and privacy: Nothin'. We got nothin'.

  Then in our Wanderings: Bill becomes “unstable”; Majid bricks and un-bricks; Moss is counting pixels; Joe …; and Eric does some Homebrewing

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• December 12, 2023MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  427 – “Virginia is For Lovers.”

  First up in the news: Linux Mint 21.3 “Virginia” – BETAs released, Mint Monthly News – November 2023, Gnome shell updates on Ubuntu 23.10; Zorin has a new desktop; Calibre offers new formats; KDE fixes bugs ahead of Plasma 6; Intel does some driver code clean up; Canonical ports Multipass to Qt6; Linux 6.8 is Dropping Support For Very Old Graphics Drivers.

  In security and privacy: Stealthy Linux rootkit found in the wild after going undetected for 2 years

  Then in our Wanderings: Bill is mumbling for a week straight; Joe is droning on

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• November 29, 2023MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  426 – Happy Birthday, mintCast!

  First up in the news: mintCast has a birthday, Mint 21.3 is named, Amazon works on a Linux fork for their devices, Ubuntu commits to Netplan, Firefox attempts Wayland, FreeBSD 14 is out, Endeavour releases Galileo, Vivaldi comes to Flathub, Google kills magazine content, OpenMandriva releases Rock 5.0, Pipewire reaches 1.0.0

  In security and privacy: Google Chrome’s Privacy Washing

  Then in our Wanderings: Bill may just be losing his mind, (there are doubts?), Joe prints everything but money, Majid does VR, Moss hangs on, and Eric spends more quality time with his Linux tablet.

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• November 18, 2023MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  425 – Firefox Down

  First up in the news: Ubuntu 24.04 gets a name, Mozilla Doubles Down on Firefox DEB Package, Discord is now official on Flathub, scrcpy gets an update, LXQt 1.4.0 is released, Firefox Accounts gets a Mozilla rename, Brave launches an AI, there is a new Audacity, OpenELA forms to preserve RHEL access, Element gets a new license, Proton has a new app, Fedora 39 is released, and OBS Studio 30 is out

  Then in our Wanderings: Bill gets things linked up, Joe plays with Nextcloud, Moss shuffles his files around, Majid plays musical chairs, and Eric finally buys a tablet.

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• November 2, 2023MP3, News, OGG, Podcast, Software

  424 – Meh Snap

  First up in the news: Mint Monthly News; Ubuntu 23.10 re-released; GNOME gets new CEO; new RaspPi Imager released; Plasma 6 Release Dates released; Matrix reaches 115 Million users; Bodhi Linux 7.0 AppPack released

  In security and privacy: BlackCat ransomware attacks Linux and VMs; 1Password Breach – no harm, no foul; new vulnerabilities found and patched in XWayland, X.org

  Then in our Wanderings: Bill shuffles cards; Joe tests more things; Moss keeps busy

  Then in our Innards section: We discuss containerized package systems

  And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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