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

The News:

• Krita launches ask.krita.org
  • Community can ask questions, answers provided by staff and community members.
• Nvidia 410 and 415 driver updates could break Vulcan, Link to fix issue
  • “library_path”: “libGLX_nvidia.so.0”
  • Tested on my system and did not have this issue.
• Ubuntu 18.04 will be supported for ten years.
  • https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-18-04-ten-year-support/
• Fedora 27 End of Life
• In Linux related news, systemd has introduced a new feature
  • https://itsfoss.com/systemd-features/ to help in case of boot failures.
• Finnish company Nekuno working on Linux phone running Plasma Mobile
  • https://www.zdnet.com/article/first-truly-open-source-smartphone-necuno-unveils-its-kde-on-linux-handset/

Linux Innards:

• Tony W
  • Pi Zero with Berryboot (Raspbian, OpenElec etc) and Retropie card.
  • Used berryboot built in options to install Raspbian (very slow on the zero) and Openelec
  • Used Etcher to make retropie SD
  • Etcher was an app image
  • Struggled with controller detection (wired PS2, XBox One, old MS Sidewinder, arcade controls)
  • Worked with keyboard
  • Bluetooth controls are supported for XBox One, Wiimotes. Requires some config
• Bo
  • Pi 3 icecast2 streaming server/client
  • Liquidsoup + icecast2 = server side audio playback
  • Icecast2 install on DO + pi3 relay icecast server
• Leo
  • Flatpak, why the big size?
  • Used OSMC on a Pi B+ and a Pi 2 B+. Obviously the Pi 2 was better, but Pi 1 was quite usable.
• Joe:
  • Got a new Microphone: Blue Snowball
  • PI stuff
  • Mopidy JukeBox build rework
  • External drive
  • SD filling up
  • Attempting to install alexa pi
  • Berryboot build of wonder
  • BB build using 32gb usb3.o
  • Got it setup with openelec and retropie as well as raspbian and ubuntu server
  • Retropie woes
  • BB build using 120gb external
• Moss
  • Waiting for the wifi dongle
  • Got BerryBoot on SD, haven’t run it yet.

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Ep 298 on December 16th at 2PM US/Central

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