Episode 487 Show Notes
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the Podcast by the Linux Mint Community for All Users of Linux
This is Episode 487!
Recorded on Sunday, June 7, 2026.
Dealing with existential dread, I’m Joe; Still like my search the old fashioned way- without A.I., I’m Jim; Staying Brave, I’m Charlie
- First up in the news:
- We have a great little tool in the “Check This Section”
- 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.
The News
20 minutes
- Linux is Getting a Free Pass on Age Verification in California and Colorado (Jim)
- DuckDuckGo Installs Up 30% After Google Announced AI Search (Jim)
- New social features further Plex’s evolution from media server business (Jim)
- Euro-Office: General availability set for June 9 (Charlie)
- Acer Launching Streaming-Only Handheld Gaming PC Running Debian (Joe)
- Microsoft cut its engineers off from AI because the bill got too big — why AI might not take your job after all (Joe)
- EU plots long game against US digital supremacy (Joe)
- Brave Software inc releases a stable version of the Brave Origin Browser (Charlie)
Security and Privacy
10 minutes
Check This Out
10 minutes
- Handy is a free, private, local AI speech-to-text app.
Housekeeping & Announcements
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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 & Charlie).
- Majid – [email protected], AtypicalDoctor on Discord, and The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC and Distrohoppers Digest.
- 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
- Charlie – ImmutableCharlie on Discord, [email protected]. Also on the Linux OTC podcast.
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
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- .initrd for the animated logo on Discord
- 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!>
