Control Structure #125: Hey, I Need Some Batteries

Andrew talks about how he got fired, then Steve jumps in, and they talk about XFCE, Orange Pi, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, AMD, Google, Ubuntu, and so much more. It's been a while!

Banter

• Fallout 4 | the Andrew Bailey
• This Xfce Bug Is Wrecking Users’ Monitors – OMG! Ubuntu!

News

• Raspberry Pi Zero W rival: New $10 Orange Pi 2G-IoT hooks into mobile networks | ZDNet
• Daring Fireball: The Mac Pro Lives
• Shutting down CodePlex | Brian Harry’s blog
• Microsoft · GitHub
• Windows Vista Support is ending – Windows Help
• Trump move to kill privacy rules opposed by 72% of Republicans, survey says | Ars Technica
• Sousveillance – GovTrack.us
• Amazon.com: R. Martin’s review of Garadget – Remotely Control and Monitor Yo…
• iPhone App will not stay open – just flashes when trying to launch – Device Setup – Garadget Community
• AMD confirms Ryzen screen freeze fix
• New game and BIOS updates promise to boost Ryzen performance – The Tech Report
• Research Blog: Announcing Guetzli: A New Open Source JPEG Encoder
• GitHub – mozilla/mozjpeg: Improved JPEG encoder.
• Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank
• Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? | Hacker News
• Ubuntu Manpage: purge-old-kernels – remove old kernel and header packages from the
• 5.106-0ubuntu1 : byobu package : Ubuntu
• Hacker News feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it | Christian Schaller

Appreciate Deprecate

• FLAC – changelog
• Notepad++ v7.3.3 – Current Version
• Notepad++ DLL Hijack
• GitHub – markdown-it/markdown-it: Markdown parser, done right. 100% CommonMark support, extensions, syntax plugins & high speed

Don’t forget

• International Backup Awareness Day
• Save 10% on Road Redemption on Steam

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• big giant circles (@BigGiantCircles) | Twitter
• Music | Big Giant Circles

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #422: CS #125 — The Cat Bug!

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