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    Linux Lads

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    Season 7 - Episode 3: Shanes, Great Bunch of Lads Feb 27, 2022
    Show notes

    Discussion

    • Shane's taking a sabatical 🏖️

    • Matrix: Federation is ✍️ a feature

    • 📱 Element Matrix app

    • 📱 Telegram

    • Discord offers a very granular user and room control 🎛️

    • Mattermost has 🔀 threads and channels

    • Matrix spaces are not as easily used as Discord's 🧩

    • The Synapse Matrix reference server 🐘🐍

    • ⚡ The nimbler Conduit Matrix server

    • Mozilla use Matrix 🔥🦊💬

    • FluffyChat iOS Matrix app 🐰🍎💬

    • Telegram is domiciled in the UK and the Emirates 🏢 (via Wikipedia)

    • Telegram is not opposed to making money 💶

    • Telegram's crypto effort was ⚾⬇️ killed by the US Securities Commision (via Reuters)

    • 📲 Signal messenger app is a viable alternative to Telegram

    • Green bubble/blue bubble explained by Marques Brownlee on YouTube 🔵🟢💬

    • Facebook 📉 stumbles (via The Verge)

    • Facebook is finally dying 🪦 according to this YouTube video

    • Apple's privacy rules will cost Facebook 10 biiiiiiilion 💰💰💰 (via CNBC)

    • Facebook 💰💰💰 likely dropped 10 biiiiiiilion on the Metaverse in 2021

    • 🎞️ Ready Player One

    • Second Life 🎮

    • 📖 In Snow Crash, the Metaverse was an ad-ridden dystopia

    • The bone spaceship scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey 🦍🦴🚀

    • Apparently, you can still buy a discman on Amazon 💿

    • 💊 Reportedly, social media is designed to be addictive (via BBC)

    • VPS providers like Hetzner provide Wordpress 🕸️

    Contact Us

    • We have a store
    • We are on Telegram
    • And on Mastodon
    • You can email us on show@
    • And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

      • Support Us

      Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

      Disclaimer

      May contain mature references

      Attribution

      The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq which was released under the CC BY NC SA License.

    Season 7 - Episode 2: A Glitch in the Matrix Feb 10, 2022
    Show notes

    Discussion

    Chatting

    • The Dublin Linux's self-hosted Matrix server broke 💣

      • LXD/LXC containers disappeared 🚪🚶
      • Now switched to Conduit instead of Synapse ⚡

    • The Matrix Spaces YouTube video 📼

    • Video stickers and other Generation Z technologies 👶⚙️ are abundant on Telegram

    • 🍏☺️ Memoji

    • Advertising 🕬 on Telegram

    • Mattermost competes with Slack 🏢

    • 💼 Microsoft Teams

    • Marques Brownlee's iMessage 💬 😱 YouTube video

    Nifty Nuggets

    • Conor: 🎮 ChimeraOS - just enough OS to run Steam
      • Potentially an alternative to 🕹️ SteamOS
    • Mike:
      • Conduit ☇ Matrix server
      • All the basic Linux CLI utilities like Rsync, Tar, etc 🪨

    Contact Us

    • We have a store
    • We are on Telegram
    • And on Mastodon
    • You can email us on show@
    • And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

      • Support Us

      Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

      Disclaimer

      May contain mature references

      Attribution

      The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq which was released under the CC BY NC SA License.

    Season 7 - Episode 1: Money for Nothing and the Tux Is Free Jan 19, 2022
    Show notes

    Chitchat

    • Shane runs Manjaro 🥘
    • Conor runs ⛵ EndeavourOS
    • Mike 🤠 runs Fedora
    • Amolith runs Arch with i3 desktop 🆒

    Discussion

    • 📰 First screenshots of Pop!OS's Cosmic DE (via omg! ubuntu!)_

      • Pamac - Manjaro's package manager 📦
      • Paru, the AUR 🦮 helper, written in Rust

    • Rust and Go 📜

    • Dennis Ritchie 👨‍💻

    • Irish Lotto ☘️

    • 🏎️ Stirling Moss's 250 GTO

    • Bowling for Columbine 🎥

    Nifty Nuggets

    • ⭐ Distrobox

    • Apparently Windows in Docker is a thing 🪟

    • Windows 11 in Gnome Boxes 🍱

    • 🎮 Sonic Colors: Ultimate was made in Godot (via Godot Notes)

    • Patriot Act on game development 🤒

    Catch up with Amolith on his site 📧

    Contact Us

    • We have a store
    • We are on Telegram
    • And on Mastodon
    • You can email us on show@
    • And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

      • Support Us

      Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

      Disclaimer

      May contain mature references

      Attribution

      The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq which was released under the CC BY NC SA License.

    Season 6 - Episode 22: Yippie Ki Yay Mothertuxers Dec 27, 2021
    Show notes

    Discussion

    • The Steam Deck 🎮

    • 📦 Immutable Fedora Silverblue and Wayland

    • LNL episode with Garuda Linux review 🎤

    • MikroTik routers ⛕

      • They 👆 urge their users to keep their machines updated and avoid stale passwords

    • European Computer Driving Licence 🚓

    • The Raspberry Pi Foundation 🏫

    • LTT 📼 Linux challenge

    Favourite Projects

    • ⛅ Nextcloud

    • Matrix & Element 📩

    • PipeWire 🔊

    • KDE 🔧

      • Pop!_OS 📀

    • 🍷 Wine

    • Mozilla 🔥🦊

    • 💸 Software in the Public Interest

    • GNU/Linux Open Hardware PowerPC 💻 notebook

      • "PPC64 Open Hardware Notebook prototype around the corner" 👨‍🏫 talk from SFScon
      • "Prepare yourself to switch computing to Open Hardware Power Architecture" talk from OpenPOWER Summit 2021 👩‍🏫

    • Squishbox 🎶

    Game on!

    • 📅 Monday 27th December 7.30 pm Dublin time (convert to a US timezone here)

    • We'll choose a FOSS 🆓 game on the day. So far we are looking at the following, other suggestions are welcome:

      • 🎮 Zero K

      • 🎮 Super Tux Kart

      • 🎮 Xonotic

    • For 🎙chat, we'll try Mumble with Jitsi as a backup

    • ❓If you have any questions or suggestions, get in touch with us on Telegram or Matrix (details in the contact section)

    Contact Us

    • We have a store
    • We are on Telegram
    • And on Mastodon
    • You can email us on show@
    • And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

      • Support Us

      Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

      Disclaimer

      May contain mature references

      Attribution

      The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq which was released under the CC BY NC SA License.

    Season 6 - Episode 21: Come and Play Dec 11, 2021
    Show notes

    Discussion

    We 🙏 apologize for the worse than usual audio quality.

    • Ubuntu-powered cyberdog 🐕 (via omg! ubuntu!)

    • Boston Dynamics makes pricier 💰 cyberdogs

    • Blender 3.0 🥧 is out (via omg! ubuntu!)

      • Geometry Nodes ☊ tutorial

      • A video showcasing the new UI and features 📼

    • Shane is on Ubuntu Studio 🎤

      • Unfa's 📹 channel

    Game on!

    • 📅 Monday 27th December 7.30 pm Dublin time (convert to a US timezone here)

    • We'll choose a FOSS 🆓 game on the day. So far we are looking at the following, other suggestions are welcome:

      • 🎮 Zero K

      • 🎮 Super Tux Kart

      • 🎮 Xonotic

    • For 🎙chat, we'll try Mumble with Jitsi as a backup

    • ❓If you have any questions or suggestions, get in touch with us on Telegram or Matrix (details in the contact section)

    Contact Us

    • We have a store
    • We are on Telegram
    • And on Mastodon
    • You can email us on show@
    • And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

      • Support Us

      Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

      Disclaimer

      May contain mature references

      Attribution

      The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq which was released under the CC BY NC SA License.

    Season 6 - Episode 20: No, Not that Linus, the OTHER One Nov 23, 2021
    Show notes

    Chitchat

    • Mike uses Gnome without extensions 😱
    • Conor uses EndeavourOS 🚢 with Cinnamon
      • with the Pamac package manager 📦
    • Shane installed PipeWire ♫
      • 🎸 easier than JACK
      • Unfa's YouTube 📹
      • Carla 🔊 audio app

    Discussion

    Linus tries Linux

    • the first video 🚗
    • the 🎮 Steam Deck
    • Discover will 👼 no longer allow uninstalling Plasma
    • This Week in KDE reports 📰

    Contact Us

    • We have a store
    • We are on Telegram
    • And on Mastodon
    • You can email us on show@
    • And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

      • Support Us

      Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

      Disclaimer

      May contain mature references

      Attribution

      The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq which was released under the CC BY NC SA License.

    Season 6 - Episode 19: I CAN HAZ SERVICES? Nov 03, 2021
    Show notes

    Chitchat

    • Mike is sunning his arse in Spain
    • Shane is still missing and has (almost) built a new house at this stage
    • Conor is holding fort kickass

    News

    • Meta is the new name of Facebook.

    • Help us John Carmack you're our only hope.

      • Has some serious Oasis vibes.

    • It seems that Meta want to get in on the watch game.

    Discussion

    • Nixnet
    • Hetzner hosting
    • Big Blue Button
    • Etherpad
    • Fediverse
      • Peertube
      • Matodon
    • Tarsnap

    Amolith's site

    Contact Us

    • We have a store
    • We are on Telegram
    • And on Mastodon
    • You can email us on show@
    • And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

      • Support Us

      Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

      Disclaimer

      May contain mature references

      Attribution

      The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq which was released under the CC BY NC SA License.

    Season 6 - Episode 18: Unscheduled Maintenance Oct 23, 2021
    Show notes

    Chitchat

    • Conor: I am trying browsers again in the past few days, I've been trying Firefox and Vivaldi 🌐🔥🦊🎻
      • 💚 Vivaldi is now the default browser on Manjaro Cinnamon
    • Mike: Installed EndeavourOS left right and centre 💽

    News

    • The PinePhone Pro is out (via 9to5linux) 🤳

      • Purism Librem 5 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
      • µ microG
      • Aurora Store 🏪

    • KDE is 25 years old 🎂

    • 🧁 Jolla is 10 years old thanks Adam Pigg for the reminder

    • Ubuntu 20.10 Impish Indri is out 🐒

      • Quickemu ⏩ (via linuxiac)
      • 22.04's codename will be Jammy Jellyfish 📛 (via omg!ubuntu!)

    • LTT's Linus encountered some toxic Linux community members 🤮

    • Mozilla's VPN now available in Ireland 🇮🇪

    Contact Us

    • We have a store
    • We are on Telegram
    • And on Mastodon
    • You can email us on show@
    • And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

      • Support Us

      Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

      Disclaimer

      May contain mature references

      Attribution

      The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq which was released under the CC BY NC SA License.

    Season 6 - Episode 17: Frickin' Lasers Sep 20, 2021
    Show notes

    Discussion

    • Linux Mint's new website 🆕🕸 (via omg! ubuntu!)

      • 🏴📖🦊 Dark Reader for Firefox
      • 🏴📖🔵 Dark Reader for Chrome-based browsers
      • Linux Mint sponsors 💸

    • 😢😢😢😢😢 The end of Ubuntu Podcast (via omg! ubuntu!)

    • Fairphone 4 5G leaked 📱💦 (via GSMArena)

    • Linus Sebastian 💲💲💲 invests 200k in Framework

    • Frickin' Lasers by Alphabet, from Space, with love and decent uptime 🛰️

    • 🧐 Smart glasses are coming....

      • Xiaomi's 🕶↪ prototype with all-green microLED waveguide display
      • Facebook's RayBan glasshole attempt 🥸🤮
        • The 🇮🇪😟 Irish Data Protection Commision is concerned about this

    Contact Us

    • We have a store
    • We are on Telegram
    • And on Mastodon
    • You can email us on show@
    • And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

      • Support Us

      Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

      Disclaimer

      May contain mature references

      Attribution

      The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq which was released under the CC BY NC SA License.

    Season 6 - Episode 16: Linux is 0b11110 Sep 06, 2021
    Show notes

    Discussion

    • 00:00 Intro 👋

    • 00:50 Linux turns 30 🎂

    • 02:30 Diversion into the workings of Irish legislature 🇮🇪📜 (Wikipedia for more information)

    • 04:08 Back to Linux

      • About Linus's 📢 original Linux announcement (via Fossbytes)
      • Linus's style 😠 has not been devoid of controversy (via Ars Technica)

    • 11:04 DIY version of the 💻 Framework laptop outsells the Windows version (via Gaming on Linux)

      • Linus Tech Tips original video 📺
      • The WAN Show video where he discusses investing 💸 in the company

    • 21:47 Shane is building a home server 💽💽💽

      • openmediavault
      • Unraid OS
      • TrueNAS

    • 31:54 The lads recommend 👍

      • Shane: Joplin note app 📔
      • Mike: 📋 Super Productivity

    Contact Us

    • We have a store
    • We are on Telegram
    • And on Mastodon
    • You can email us on show@
    • And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

      • Support Us

      Do you enjoy the Linux Lads podcast? Send us some PayPal love ❤ ️🍻, or support us on Ko-fi

      Disclaimer

      May contain mature references

      Attribution

      The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq which was released under the CC BY NC SA License.

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