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This is Episode 476!

Recorded on Sunday, January 4, 2026.

Tired of the tower issues im Joe; … Moss; … Bill; freezing, I’m Majid; … Eric; …Charles; now an OCR czar, I’m Jim

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• First up in the news: A retraction,
• Review of our predictions for last year, and what we predict for 2026
• Then our Wanderings:

• In our Innards section:
• In Bodhi Corner,
• And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
• Please remember if you want to follow along with our discussions, the full show notes for this episode are linked in the show’s description at mintcast.org/show-notes

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Retraction from our last episode (475)

• Two mistakes were made during our last episode that we’d like to clear up and apologize for.
  • The first is from the mint monthly blog where we said there would be a way to upgrade to the beta of 22.3 directly from 22.2. This was a misunderstanding of the information, and is in fact not true. There is, as has been the case in the past no way to upgrade in place from any version of Mint to any beta. That has just never been a thing. The confusion stems from the line stating there will be an announcement when the links are available. If you want to run the beta, you will have to install it (Nuke and Pave)
  • The other thing is when Bill mentioned the new Cinnamon menu was currently available to use with 22.2. Bill was confused by an update he saw come down for an alternative menu, “CinnVIIStarkMenu” which is a very feature rich, traditional menu much like the Arc menu in Gnome, The Brisk Menu in Budgie, and the Whisker Menu in XFCE. The new menu will be available in the up-coming 22.3 release of Linux Mint Cinnamon.
  Please accept our apologies for the confusion, and remember this podcast is and always will be a community effort. So, if you hear something that doesn’t sound quite right, don’t be afraid to reach out and let us know.

Review of our predictions for last year

PREDICTIONS 2025

In episode 452 we had our 2025 predictions.

• Bill
  • Cannonical will announce AI features for an upcomming release of Ubuntu
  • Apple will announce a new, less expensive AR headset
  • TicTok will not be bought by an American company, but will also not be shut down.
  • Wayland will become standard in Cinnamon, and nobody will notice.
• Majid
  • SteamOS will become widely available to be installed on other hardware, further driving linux market share.
  • Next Gen Steam Deck will come out, and a Steam desktop/machine will come outt for Xmas time
  • Ubuntu 25.10 will have an official immutable flavour
  • Desktop Linux share will increase due to more adoption in emerging markets.
  • More ARM WIndows Laptops, and some Linux Distros which will come with Snapdragon Elite versions
  • Google will launch Android Laptops possibly under the Pixelbook name
  • Apple Vision Pro will be abandoned, but there will be more Meta Ray-Ban-esque devices and there will be wider adoption.
  • Foldable market will decrease, and so there may be fewer devices, which is a shame as Android on foldables has got good
  • BlueSky will try and be the new twiter, but the same problems that affected twitter will happen there.
  • Google will be forever chaged by the antitrust trial, maybe chrome spun off.
  • AI in general will fail, but some specific aspects will take off. Probably around specific tasks.
• Eric
  • I think the new administration in the US is going to green light just about every pro big business tech item. For instance, Net neutraility is dead and Google’s antitrust case with be dropped. AI companies will face zero scrutiny for their rampant theft of IP. The list goes on. Suffice to say, any momentum that the FTC was ablel to achieve is forfeit.
  • Contrary to my prediciton for 2024, AI hype will not die but will in fact continue to be shoved into any use case that’s even remotely plausible and even many that are completely implausible and laughable. But hey, there’s gold in them thar AI hills, right? It just speaks to the overall lack of innovation and creativity in the tech industry.
  • VC firms will keep tightening their belts and money will continue to dry up for coompanies that operate at a loss year over year and have no plan to make a profit. The list of failed companies is long and will keep getting longer.
• Joe
  • The steam deck did a lot to increase the metrics for how many users of linux there are out there. I think that the release of Steam OS will make those number go up even more
  • We will hear less and less about AI and it will fade into the background of our lives. Either that or everybody loses their jobs
  • The economy is going to suck unless of course you are a billionare

What we predict for 2026

• Joe
  • AI will not go away but will hopefully be heard about less. The demand for ram that was caused by it will not be much lessened so prices are going to get worse before they get better
  • Microsoft will push harder for upgrades to windows 11 by decreasing the functionality of 10 by updating 11 applications and not 10
  • Drones are going to be big business as wars continue
• Bill
  • Duck Duck Go will release a version of their Chromium-based AI browser for Linux
  • Wayland will DEFINITELY be default in some version of Cinnamon during 2026.
  • Intel will end full time support of the intel-microcode package. Making AMD the only safe option moving forward for first-class Linux support
• Jim
  • At least one more major Linux distro goes Wayland only.
  • At least one desktop environment gets abandoned or deprecated.
  • Microsoft announces a successor operating system to Windows 11.
  • Hot Take: Adobe announces intention to make a version of Photoshop or the Creative Suite for Linux.
• Majid
  • Its the year of the linux desktop!
  • more Ubuntu flavours dying/less supported. This might actually be a good thing!
  • Windows on ARM (and by extension on Linux) will die
  • I hope I’m worng, but I think Firefox will die, as will Gecko
  • more AI browsers but Apple will abandon their platform
  • iFold will come out

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Bi-Weekly Wanderings

30 minutes (~5-8 mins each)

• Bill
  • I ended up working the week of Christmas, but then only worked two days the week of New Years. During the time off I did two PC Builds:
    • Asus TUF-Gaming X570 Plus with:
    • Ryzen 7 5700X
    • Radeon Pro W76700
    • 32 GB of Corsair Vengeance RAM
    • Redragon RGPS-850W 80+ Gold 850 Watt Power Supply
    • Samsung 980 Pro 2TB NvME
    • Samsung 980 EVO Plus 256GB
    • Seagate Iron Wolf 2TB Spinning Rust
    • GAMDIAS ATX Mid Tower Gaming Computer PC Case
  • This motherboard was not updated to run the 5700 line so I had to purchase a cheap Ryzen 3 2000 series so as to upgrade the bios and use the better CPU
  • I also built a second machine with stuff I had sitting around:
    • Asus Z170 with:
    • Intel i7-6700K (Overclocked)
    • Intel ARC A380 GPU
    • 32GB of Corsair Vengeance RAM
    • Redragon RGPS-850W 80+ Gold 850 Watt Power Supply
    • Samsung 980 Pro 500GB NvME
    • Seagate FireCuda 2TB Spinning Rust
    • Noctua NH-D15 chromax.Black, Dual-Tower CPU Cooler
    • Zalman i3 NEO ATX Mid Tower PC Case
  • The gubbins in this machine are older, less efficient, uses more power (especially when overclocked) so that’s why I went with the rather aggressive Noctua dual tower cooler. The amount of heat this processor puts out is considerable. Both of these machines are a kind of Christmas gift to myself.
  • I pulled most of the additions I made to the HP TP-01 200X that was giving me all the headaches. I put Windows 11 Pro back on it, and slid it under my desk. The machines I use from here on out will be of my making. I’m not sure what I will do with the HP. It’s still a very capable machine, but It’s just not a good fit for me. I may either donate it, or sell it. It was over a grand base price, so I have no illusions that I can get my money out of it. Donating it, or giving it to someone who needs it may be the most rewarding option. We’ll see.
• Joe
  • It has been a while since we have done a wanderings and wow have i been busy.  I have tried to cut it back as much as possible and still cover the things i find interesting and will be working more on in the future.
  • I rehooked that empty 8tb hard drive to the mini rack the one that previously had issues and i reformatted after hooking it to the garage pc before it died.
  • Then i started using it for movies to free up space on another drive.  It has worked well so far but i did have a lot of trouble getting it re set up on the OMV instance.  Ii was still being referenced by uuid in OMV and when i passed it back to the VM it couldnt find the shares that were there previously on the drive and i couldnt make new ones.  So i had to make sure that all the different references were removed including the one for NFS.  After that i was able to get a few things set up on it and i should now also be able to use the unused space for more vms and lxcs if needed.
  • Also before last wanderings show some of the mounting gear for mic went missing to never be found again.  So i grabbed my 3d printer and PLA-F which is a mix of PLA and ABS and found a stl that i thought should work.  i had never printed with it before but after a the first print failed i was able to get the bed and nozzle temp to the correct range.  It also seems to need some thicker walls if you want something a bit more rigid.  it has done well though after it had a chance to cool. 
  • I also got a package from Bill.  there is a tablet that needs the usb port replaced and galaxy note 10 that got more damaged in transit so i will need a full front screen replacement which is a pain in the butt on those devices.
  • The tablet just takes a lot of heat and some patience.  The phone is going to take 60 dollars in parts at least so it will have to wait for some money and some motivation.  I should have a replacement USB port for the tablet. 
  • He also sent a stadia controller that needed to be converted to bt which is a quick fix.  I also 3d printed a gopro style mount for a phone holder and i was able to use it play some games but i will get more into that shortly
  • I had another scare with some of my drives on my nas when the power went out again for a few seconds and when things came back on there were a couple of issues with starting the vm back up. I was able to clear the issue but i think that if i had a UPS that it would not be as much of a problem and i will be able to keep those drives working correctly for longer. So after much research and missing all the Cyber Monday sales i went out to micro center and picked up a decently priced one. The power at my house never goes out for very long because we are on the same grid as a firestation and an emergency care facility. So i only need the UPS to power the mini rack and possibly my garage PC for a few seconds at a time and not very often at that.
  • After that i was able to hook it up but i had to bring everything down to do it. I did it the right way but i thought i needed to work on a power sequence switch for the powersupply to the hard drives because i needed to go in again and run e2fsck to fix one of the drives that was causing an issue but since then it is running well and i have restarted the node several times. And then shortly after it wasnt.  it started doing the same thing again and i even brought the whole system down and ran fsck from recovery mode which gave me some new information and some things to think about.  With all the drives dropping at the same time it finally occurred to me that it might not be the drive.  I should have realized it sooner but my m.2 to sata controller died.  But before that:
  • I designed and printed a side mount for 2.5 inch drives for the side of the mini rack. The first design was a bit rough but worked as a really good proof of concept. After i updated the issues that came up in the first print. Couple of tolerance issues and needing to adjust the temps for better layer adhesion. Everything seems to work well. Used the same power supply as the other drives and i will have to swap out atleast one of the drives that is not working but using a usb c to m.2 adapter and a m.2 to sata adapter i was able to get all of the drives hooked up.
  • While doing this i had some issues with bumping the cables to the other hard drives on the rack and them disconnecting. So i took the rack down from the shelf and took it partially apart so that i could remove and rerun some cables to make everything a bit more stable and secure. At the same time i reran some of the cables for hdmi and ethernet to the keystone jacks and mounted and routed the power supplies as well. This makes the back and the bottom of the device much neater and easier to work on.
  • That was right before i realized the controller had gone bad that was inside the system.  So i ended up taking apart both of my g3 minis and trying one of the two other adapters that i had and neither of them worked on the inside but did work with the usb c adapter.  well one of them did the other was cooked as well.  So i switched to usb c adapter and got everything working again.  except for the 2.5 inch drives until i get another adapter. While i was doing this i replaced the fan that was going bad and swapped all the drives from one device to the other so that now my i7 system has the more ram and is doing all of the heavy lifting instead of the i5.  Had to do some config changes but everything seems pretty good so far.  I also noticed that it takes much longer with the USB c adapter for OMV and my Mint VM to start up so i would like to switch back to an internal one eventually.  But the Mint VM has another problem
  • Also one of our listeners that is active on the Discord LemonZest has been posting about playing UnrealTournament on linux. So i decided to give it a try. The install was kinda easy with steam proton. Just needed to unzip the installer and have steam add it as a non steam game. Run the installer using proton compatibility but make sure to point it to a location that you can access. Then an exe is created for the game itself and you need to go through the adding process again and setting it to run using proton and it works just fine. i am sure that there are other ways to do it but this was the easiest for me at the time. I love this game and Quake Arena which i have on steam already. I played through a couple of rounds and then I got that nostalgia bug and started playing Arcanum. That game takes some time and i think that i need to add some of the fixes to shorten the transition screens but i do enjoy playing it and all the crazy things that you can do through out the game.
  • Also started playing around with GameHub which is mentioned in one of the articles that we recently covered. I used it to install steam games on my phone. wow is that cool. I am going to pull out a bunch of my controllers and test things out on there with that. The phone was starting to warm up a bit with just the download and install. But i was also using DEX at the same time and typing up some notes and chatting with several people on various applications. I have now tried out a few games on it with different settings to see what does and does not work. Also tested out the stadia controller that i mentioned before with the phone mount on it and it was brilliant. I was not able to get borderlands 2 working on there or quake arena, both of which got to the splash and then crashed. But i was able to get skyrim working well enough though it did not look the smoothest it was playable with mouse and keyboard. But the best looking and working game that i had on there has to be Victor Vran which is an awesome top down action rpg and i would say is much more playable with a controller than without.  My next test will probably be to see if i can set up Unreal on there and give that a try.
  • Wow there was a lot of time between wanderings shows.  After all of that work on the mini rack one of the 8tb drives just plain died.  Could not get it to be seen on any computer.  This was after i had rehooked all of the drives to my other computer and accessed them directly and disconnect them one at a time until i found the issue.  After that all of the drives were easily able to get through fsck without any problems.  The drive stopped being seen shortly after when i had it hooked up alone and was seeing if i could access the data to try to recover.  I got everything hooked back up and then i started hearing that sound.  That hard drive is dying chirp.  So another drive is dying, specifically the drive that has the mint VM and my nextcloud.  The nextcloud quit working.  But i had a snapshot so i was able to restore to restore to another drive and get it back up and running without any data loss thanks to being able to reupload my notes from joplin.
  • Beyond that i had another hard drive go bad on another machine.  specifically the one that i was using as a set top box in the living room.  It is also set up as a proxmox box that i use as a backup for my dns sinkhole and my wireguard so that i can bring them up if anything happens to the other machine.  that one had an ssd but that died.  once again no amount of fsck would fix it and so i replaced it with a working spinning disk that i had handy.  does make things slower but at least i was able to get it working again.  Did the normal install for proxmox and used the iventoy to install mint into a vm.  Yes i could have set up a share with the image and installed from that but this was already there.  I also hooked up an external drive to it for some extra space so i can put some slow vms and containers on there.  i still need to copy the images over to it from the other device.  the wireguard and the pihole i mean.
  • Also did some other 3d printing but i think that i will save that for the next wanderings episode
• Moss
• Majid
  • Bloody cold
  • Work bit quiet during festive period
  • DHD Dec episode
    • Reviewed GhostBSD
    • Next review will be Ubuntu Budgie
    • groomed by Dale on to Ultramarine
    • KDE for desktops
    • Odd bugs around sharing/bluetooth with LocalSend, Packet and KDE Connect
    • Was even tempted to reset my phone thinking that was the problem (which it wasnt!)
  • Server
    • CloneZilla win!
    • ?could I do it from device to device?
  • Son wants a new laptop… So Im Trying to convert my son to Linux.
    • DIdnt like Budge
    • MATE really long in the tooth
    • Cinamon FTW
    • BUT Bluetooth headphone issues
  • New Phone! OP15
    • did like the foldable I had, but honors software was annoying
  • more ear bud stories. Finally settled on some oneplus and soundcores
  • Speaking of OnePlus… now im in their ecosystem!
  • TV
    • Started a lot, but difficulty finishing
    • Beast in Me
    • Cant be bothered with Witcher
    • Assassin was ok as throwaway
    • Night Manager season 2 is brilliant
    • Started Alien Earth, want to watch the originals now, been so long
  • Eagerly waiting the new Megadeth album
  • 168 Songs about Hatred and Failure

• Jim
  • Problem: The ephemeral nature of online content
  • Case study:Entire web sites, forums, subreddits, social media sites as well as the individual posts, Tweets and replies that comprise such forums are all subject to deletion individually or en masse
  • Solution:Make local copies in near real time of selected content by various methods, especially screencaps
  • Method: My near real time method is to make individual screencaps or otherwise save pages for content on an ongoing basis that one wants to archive that may be deleted immediately or sometime later on. This, as opposed to capturing or downloading a whole web site or forum at one moment in time which requires different tools and would be a whole different topic of discussion.
  • Project: Make my large collection of saved screencaps text searchable and thereby turn Dead Data into Live Data via OCR

• Install latest Tesseract-ocr via PPA to extract text from images, and more specifically make a pdf as my preferred format
• Test PNG to PDF conversion in command line following examples online was successful
  • Single PNG to PDF: tesseract filename.png filename pdf
• Downloaded ~2800 screencaps from Google Photos
• Batch Process all 2800 PNG to PDF in command line successfully following examples online
  • Batch PNG to PDF (from directory): for i in *png; do b=`basename “$i” .png`; tesseract “$i” “$b” pdf; done
• Browsing: How to quickly browse PDFs like a collection of images. No obvious solution. So must find & install a PDF browsing app for Linux Mint on laptop
  • mupdf command line app, but PDFs not in order, so not desirable:
    • find “/path” -iname ‘*\.pdf’ | xargs -n1 mupdf -r 25
  • Impressive command line app, correct order and also needs no path defined. Works nicely.
    • impressive -T0 -w *.pdf
• Document Search: Find/install document search app for Linux Mint that can search text inside the PDF documents, not in the filenames
  • grep doesn’t work with PDF, fwiw
  • Installed Searchmonkey, which requires no index but it crashes, maybe too many items
  • Installed Recoll, but it was over-complicated in my opinion
  • Installed DocFetcher portable as a binary to /opt folder (simple)
  • Installed pdfgrep for command line search. Works nicely in the terminal to search all pdf files in the directory.
    • pdfgrep ‘pattern’ *.pdf
• Find & install PDF browsing app Android unsuccessful so far.
  • mupdf doesn’t work in Termux according to reports online
  • So I end up simply browsing the PNGs on the phone instead of the PDFs.
• Find & install search app for Android to search text inside the PDFs.
  • DocSearch+ Search File Content at the Play store
    • Limit of 5 search previews in free tier. Shows all results, but only 5 previews. Can still double click to open all results even with no preview.
  • Termux + pdfgrep, Couldn’t figure out how to get that to work.
• Other Projects:

• Use directories in /opt for Linux binary downloads (java), Windows software for WINE, and Appimages
• Website favicon downloader: https://onlineminitools.com/website-favicon-downloader
• TV Time app for Android to track TV series watched incl. international series (no ads). Web site syncs.
• Letterboxd web site to track movies watched. Easy keyboard entry. Many sorting options. (Android app has ads.)
• Goodreads for tracking books read
• AdAway from F-Droid works with root or no root via VPN. Removes Letterbxd ads, and annoying ads from other apps but gaps remain.
• Nova Video Player is free and open source on F-Droid. It’s a VLC alternative for playing local files or network shares on phone, tablet, or Android TV device. One can index directories to show thumbnails, which don’t work very well or at all frequently in VLC. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.courville.nova/
• Fire TV 4K Max apps disappearing. Had to reinstall Surfshark VPN and even Silk Browser for some reason. Lost my bookmarks.
• A.I. we are now being overwhelmed by the mistaken calling out of things that are not in fact A.I., like some people’s writing and posts online. Or images of people that are in fact real people. This will be an ongoing and annoying trend now that A.I. is everywhere.
• Installed Mint 22.2 on my Mom’s old Windows 7 Dell Inspiron Pentium desktop from 2014. My octogenarian father now has three computers running Linux Mint.
• Brother HL-L2405W Wireless Compact Monochrome Laser Printer with Mobile Printing. No drivers for Linux & Android and is recognized by both immediately.
• ColorNote to Notesnook for Dad’s notes. He has 141 notes trapped on ColorNote (Android only), most of them as Checklists instead of plain text files. So simple “send to” from the Notesnook app doesn’t work satisfactorily since it creates only plain text files in Notesnook. So needed to find a solution:
  • Jimmy Note Converter that converts notes to and from markdown https://marph91.github.io/jimmy/
  • I manually exported a backup file from ColorNote, moved it to my Linux laptop, converted it with Jimmy in the command line to create markdown file(s). Then imported the markdown file into my laptop version of Notesnook and the checklist I created in ColorNote functions as a Check List in Notesnook. I can check and uncheck items and it makes strikethrough or takes it away. It synced with my Android phone. I’m very impressed.
• Media I enjoyed in the last six weeks:
  • Killers of the Flower Moon non-fiction book NYT Bestseller from 2017 (Martin Scorcese movie)
  • Last Rites by Ozzy Osbourne, posthumous second memoir.
  • Ballerina is the second or third best John Wick movie. Ana de Armas is great as a female assassin. The grenade fight and the flamethrower fight were both novel. The deleted and extended scenes on disc were a nice bonus.
  • Bring Her Back, Australian horror movie is a decent watch
  • Family Guy holiday special, “Disney’s Hulu’s Family Guy’s Hallmark Channel’s Lifetime’s Familiar Holiday Movie” exclusive was funny. Also the Halloween special. New season premieres on Fox February 15th, 2026.
  • “What Would You Do” holiday special on ABC and Hulu with John Quinones was very entertaining. Subscribe to their YouTube for more.
  • Tulsa King season 3 on Paramount+ was okay. Robert Patrick (T2 liquid metal terminator) as Sly’s antagonist was great. Backdoor pilot in the season finale for NOLA King with Samuel A. Jackson as an assassin is a possible jump the shark moment.
  • Alien Earth season 1 on Hulu was entertaining. Brought in elements of Blade Runner, meaning questions about what exactly it means to be human, along with classic xenomorph and other new aliens, some with their own degrees of intelligence. The podcast featuring guests like the show runner, director, actors, and other creatives that worked on the show following each of the eight episodes is a mandatory watch.

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Vibrations from the Ether

20 minutes (~5 minutes each)

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Check This Out

10 minutes

• Topgrade (via londoner)

• topgrade is an intelligent, cross-platform (Linux, BSD, Windows & macOS) command-line utility designed to streamline the process of updating various software components on your system. Instead of manually running `apt update && apt upgrade`, `dnf update`, `pacman -Syu`, `brew update && brew upgrade`, `pip install –upgrade`, `cargo update`, or specific updates for tools like `oh-my-zsh`, topgrade automates this entire sequence.
• It acts as a meta-updater, orchestrating updates across a wide array of package managers (e.g., apt, dnf, pacman, Homebrew, Chocolatey, Nix), programming language environments (e.g., pip, cargo, npm, go), and other tools. This consolidation saves significant time and effort, ensuring your system, development tools, and applications are consistently up-to-date with a single command. topgrade is highly configurable via a `~/.config/topgrade.toml` file, allowing users to enable or disable specific updaters, add custom commands, and control its behavior.
• Usage: Just run topgrade.
• Configuration: See config.example.toml for an example configuration file.
• https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade
• Documentation is at https://topgrade-rs.github.io/
• Also on Discord at https://discord.gg/Q8HGGWundY
• Cinnamenu

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Wrap-up

• Joe – Tllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
• Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected], occasionally on HPR
• Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon, also checkout the other podcast I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid).
• Majid – [email protected] @[email protected], Atypical.doctor on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC.
• Eric – I can be reached by email at [email protected].
• Charles – [email protected], Mr PDX on Discord
• Jim– [email protected], GNU2Linux on Discord, The Linux Shortcut on YouTube

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

• Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
• Archive.org for hosting our audio files
• Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
• Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
• The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>

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