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mintCast 300 Blast from the past
Correction: It is, in fact, 2019, not 2018.
Correction: At ~7:10 in the podcast, Leo says interviews will be released Monday. The correct day that interviews will begin their release is Wednesday, January 16th. And one a day thereafter.
Interview Intros:
- Charles
- Leo: Charles and I were having trouble with Mumble and after a bit of frustration, ended up using our phones in a throwback to the original episodes with Rothgar.
- Rothgar
- Bo
- SiKing
- Tony W: Shorter convo. Still on Mint! Intro to mumble
- Rob
- Leo: Almost made the teaser the part about the Canterbury project
- https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=116055
- Tony W: Rob, as ever,the encourager
- Joe Ressington
- Tony H
- Isaac
- Bo
mintCast 299 Last Episode of 2018
Bi-Weekly Wanderings:
- Leo
- Fresh install of Linux Mint 19.1, but wine-staging was weird
- Making loads of backgrounds https://linux.pictures
- Joe
- Playing Watch Dogs
- UPlay on linux. BOOOO
- Updating the tablets to 19.1
- Using sshfs and vpn from far away
- Server is down!!!!!!!!!!
- Watching Linus Tech Tips
- Playing Watch Dogs
- Tony Watts
- Updated podcast/recording machine to 19.1
- Windows hard drive clone attempt in GParted not going so well today
- Retropie setup with PS2 controllers is awesome!
- Bo
- Playing Alan Wake on Proton
- Enable FXAA
- Playing Alan Wake on Proton
- Tony Hughes
- Installing Mint 19.1 on a Lenovo x61s. Runs well for a 11+ year old laptop.
- Updated my Mint 19 installs to 19.1
- LUG Xmas party
- As it’s been the Holidays, visiting relatives in Scotland and only got back this afternoon.
- Watching YouTube videos on restoring and customizing diecast metal cars.
mintCast 298 Lots of News
Bi-Weekly Wanderings:
- Leo
- Testing Linux Mint 19.1 Beta in a VM and on my main desktop
- Joe
- Setting up a car server entertainment system for upcoming road trip
- Plex
- Easytether
- Mopidy?
- Which device to use
- New keyboard
- Odd shaped keys and extra keys
- What to script to the extra keys
- Lg hbs 810 headset soldering,
- Why i like it and the pitfalls.
- Setting up a car server entertainment system for upcoming road trip
- Tony Watts
- Looking at DD-WRT and Open WRT install on TP Link AC1200 following DNS settings disappearing in proprietary firmware settings
- SSD upgrades for podcasting machine and family computer
- Tony Hughes
- Playing with Mint 19.1 beta, both in Virtualbox and on a Dell E6220 No major issues but no major improvements unless it’s background stuff.
- Pricing up an Entroware Desktop system that I’m thinking of buying in the new year. I’ve not had a NEW, new system for over 15 years and just came into a little money and fancy something to last at least the next 5-10 years.
- Buying used laptops at my local computer auction for a friend so her son can have a newer laptop for Christmas. This is where I get most of my PC’s and Laptops.
- Also playing with MX 17.1 32 bit in VB and it will run with 256mb Ram, although as the test was on an i5 laptop not quite a true test so I may install the 18beta on a Lenovo X61s dual core to see how it plays with 10+ year old hardware.
- At the LUG Yesterday I helped a member install windows 10 onto a Dell optiplex 7010 so he can write a magazine article on using the Pi as a Steam link controller.
- Moss
- Raspberry Pi 1 is a Gateway Drug.
- Computer was not working right. Turned out, Mullvad did not automatically recognize my laptop on wifi, but works properly with Ethernet. This is a setup issue, not a Mullvad issue.
- My Fire cover came in, it’s not that nice (poor fit, and plastic is not gel).
- And the Uber app “required” me to upgrade my phone. I had trouble with a refurb X4, am waiting for the replacement.
mintCast 297 PI in the sky – Edited
Bi-Weekly Wanderings:
- Leo
- Played with OSMC at Tony Hughes’ recommendation.
- Digging through Snap, Flatpak and AppImages
- Tony W
- SSDs, Google home mini + chromecast, chromecast audio, stuff for the pi
- Played with pi zero with limited success (more on that later)
- Richard Thompson concert
- Joe
- Started playing Skyrim again along with purchasing Fallout 4.
- Tried to get them to play under Linux but severe audio and lockup issues. More tinkering required
- Trying out Cairo toolbar in mint
- Tony H
- For the first time I’ve been playing with OBS to record my screen so I can make video tutorials of how to use some of the software I use
- I’ve also been continuing to play with the Raspberry Pi 3B and run Ubuntu Maté
- I ordered and received a new mic boom and pop filter and set that up, to improve the quality we can achieve.
- Installed Mint 19 on a spare Dell E6220 i5 with 4Gig Ram
- Moss
- Added LMDE 3 to sda4 and LM 19 Cinnamon to sda6 + Peppermint Oil
- Lots of little purchases to make the Pi work. Almost done
- Still trying to get an orange cover for my Fire tablet
- Working with Nova launcher
mintCast 296 VPN and PI
Bi-Weekly Wanderings:
- Leo
- Setting up PiVPN and Pi-Hole on Pi’s and migrating them to a full Ubuntu VM.
- Testing out K/Ubuntu 18.10.
- Solus broke for me, gamingwise.
- Tony H
- Using a USB sound card so I could use my headset with integrated microphone on my Toshiba z30 with only a combined audio jack, while on the road last week. Worked flawlessly during the mumble discussion
- Playing with OSMC on raspberry pi
- flashing up my Motorola lapdock more on that later.
- Tony W
- Tinkering with Plex, Kodi for Xbox One, bulk file renamer (built into Caja, Thunar)
- Procured a Pi Zero
- Moss
- USB Sticks – color-coded distros for helpful installations
- Continued playing with OpenMandriva 3.03. Had a glitch in GRUB after kernel upgrade, fixed it.
- Tried Rosa, it locked stuff on my computer, had to install something else on that partition to fix it. Will wait for OM4 and install that.
- Received a Raspberry Pi 1 with clear case from Joe.
- Got a cover for my Fire tablet we talked about, another gift from the mintCast crew.
- Bo
- Jack audio setup podcast studio
- Linux servers never die
- Joe
- More work on youtube-dl and sshfs
- David
- Working on kidsbizclub.org
mintCast 295 – Linux on Mobile
Bi-Weekly Wanderings:
- Tony H
- Playing with Audacity, and putting some of the tutorial that Rob did after the last recording on editing the show audio, into practice.
- Installed and had a little play with LMDE in a VirtualBox machine.
- Pulling a couple of very old laptops apart for the spares
- Tinkering with Lenovo X200 tablet with Mint 19 Mate.
- Moss
- I installed Ubuntu Studio 18.10, got tired of how XFCE works and put MATE on it. Happy now.
- My wife had a problem with her Ubuntu MATE 16.04 installation. Easiest way to fix it was with LM19
- I downloaded the latest versions of OpenMandrivaLx 3.03 and Mageia 6. Mageia 6 refused to install, with a very clunky installation process.
- Looking at OpenMandriva installation disk, the first few screens act like my laptop and tv are halves of the same monitor
- OpenMandriva can write to my printer without a driver download and with only a few mouse clicks.
- Leo
- Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet 2. Bootloader seems like it’s locked or is just really good at ignoring me
- Moving Plex from OpenMediaVault to its own VM. Trying out the snap.
- Playing with my Yeti to get better audio quality.
- Tony Watts
- Lots of tinkering with Linux mobile OS, the Nexus 5 and LG Urbane smartwatch
- Met somebody moderately famous playing acoustic “gig” at Mexican restaurant
- Joe
- Playing with Libresonic and Plex to change how i see my podcasts
- Youtube-dl used for some that are only on youtube
