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• June 14, 2023Hardware, MP3, News, OGG, Podcast, Software

  414 – Salt and Battery

  First up in the news, Mint Monthly News, All-Snap Ubuntu Desktop Will Be Available Next Year, Red Hat Stops Packaging LibreOffice as RPM for RHEL & Fedora, Mozilla Thunderbird’s Next Big Update Is Now in Beta, Windows XP activation algorithm cracked - keygen now works on Linux

  In security and privacy, we meet Blacksuit

  Then in our Wanderings, Bill chases burning trucks, Moss is feeling the pressure, and Majid needs to stop spending money

  In our Innards section, we discuss laptop battery life

  And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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• May 10, 2023Interview, MP3, Podcast, Software

  411.5 – Origins of The GUI

  In our Innards section, we talk about the origins of the desktop

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• March 22, 2023MP3, News, OGG, Podcast, Software

  408 – Ffmpegged

  First up in the news: Meet Ubuntu Flatpak Remix, KDE Plasma 6 Begins, No Peeking, Vanilla goes to Debian, LibreOffice 7.4.6, Nitrux goes “sh”, Elementary updates, DuckDuckGo goes AI on Wikipedia, Debian gets new APT, Proton joins the fight against censorship, Firefox 111 features, Kali 2023.1 released, and Wine 8.4 with old Wayland released.

  In security and privacy, Brave needs no permission to do Google, NordVPN open sources code;

  Then in our Wanderings, we are posting no Bills this episode,

  In our Innards section, Joe talks ffmpeg

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• February 24, 2023Interview, MP3, News, OGG, Podcast, Software

  406 – It’s Elementary, Dear Listener

  First up in the news: Looks like the end for Mycroft, Proton offers Drive for everybody, MidnightBSD takes on helloSystem, Fedora 38 now with full Flathub access, new Transmission, Android 14 Preview, Framework has new SSDs, new versions of KaOS and Parrot, Ardour and Clonezilla have new releases, and systemd is the future;

  In security and privacy, several PyPI packages steal crypto;

  Then in our Wanderings, Joe’s back hurts, Moss is underworked, and Bill is not.

  In our Innards section, we have invited Danielle Foré to come and talk about her Elementary OS project, and other changes;

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• February 8, 2023MP3, News, OGG, Podcast, Software

  405 – Method Not Allowed

  First up in the news, Mint 21.2 has the codename Victoria, OpenSuse updates, helloSystem says hello for the 0.8th time, new Firefox allows imports, Xfce goes Waylanding, Cosmic DE speeds up, OBS Studio fixes Linux Wayland bug, and Elementary has a new release.

  In security and privacy, we report on after log4j, Boldmove, and Malvirt.

  Then in our Wanderings, Joe calls Texas for Icing, and Moss is having New Phone Fever; Bill is in Colorado doing a rescue and will be back next episode.

  In our Innards section we discuss what you can do with old Android devices.

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