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• Linux Mint updates (blog.linuxmint.com)
  • More notes about Mint 18
• Let’s Encrypt is leaving Beta and has new sponsors (https://letsencrypt.org//2016/04/12/leaving-beta-new-sponsors.html)
• Nest is permanently disabling the Revolv smart home hub (http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/4/11362928/google-nest-revolv-shutdown-smart-home-products)
  • The time that Tony Fadell sold me a container of hummus (https://medium.com/@arlogilbert/the-time-that-tony-fadell-sold-me-a-container-of-hummus-cb0941c762c1#.tsud8t7hs)
• Nest’s Hub Shutdown Proves You’re Crazy to Buy Into the Internet of Things (http://www.wired.com/2016/04/nests-hub-shutdown-proves-youre-crazy-buy-internet-things/)
  • When your tech becomes an expensive paperweight
  • Revolv devices bricked as Google’s Nest shuts down smart home company (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/05/revolv-devices-bricked-google-nest-smart-home)
  • Google’s parent company is deliberately disabling some of its customers’ old smart-home devices (www.businessinsider.com/googles-nest-closing-smart-home-company-revolv-bricking-devices-2016-4) 

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