Whether the idea of “lightweight Linux” is outdated, your feedback about taming Windows and workspaces, a quick look at Bodhi, and digital waste – all the useless data that sits on hard disks and is never even accessed. We mentioned Linux Matters and Linux Lads Episode 100 . ServerMania ServerMania offers a wide range of fully customizable dedicated, cloud, colocation, and IP Transit services, and free initial consultations. Go to servermania.com/lad and use the promo code linuxafterdark to get ...
Apr 28, 2023•32 min
Great new releases of Fedora and Ubuntu, growing pains as Red Hat turns 30, Firefox continues to improve, old drive encryption can be cracked, and KDE Korner. News Linux Matters has launched Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically Resist Fingerprinting PSA: upgrade your LUKS key derivation function Red Hat: Biggest Linux company of them all turns 30 More layoffs at Red Hat Fedora 38 released Ubuntu 23.04 released Azure AD authentication comes to Ubuntu Desktop 23.04 KDE Korner KDE G...
Apr 25, 2023•31 min
Liam from Gaming on Linux joins us to talk about the current state of Linux gaming, the Steam Deck, how things progressed to this point, Valve being the driving force behind it all, whether the lack of native Linux games matters when Proton exists, and loads more. Gaming on Linux YouTube channel Check out Linux Matters ServerMania ServerMania offers a wide range of fully customizable dedicated, cloud, colocation, and IP Transit services, and free initial consultations. Go to servermania.com/ldt ...
Apr 23, 2023•23 min
There’s a new show in the Late Night Linux Family! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, and Martin Wimpress (from the old Ubuntu Podcast) have got the band back together for a new podcast called Linux Matters . In the first episode Alan discusses running Mastodon for a group of friends , Martin is looking for the best Linux-loving laptop to rival the Apple Silicon offerings, and Mark uses the Steam Deck as his primary gaming device. RSS : Subscribe to the RSS feeds here...
Apr 18, 2023•37 min
A tried and tested way to stream your music collection, Silverblue but hot rodded, a GUI to monitor your network traffic, the modern way to do 2FA, KDE Korner, and loads more. Discoveries Logitech Media Server (LMS) First Universal Blue image Mission – Universal Blue Scope – Universal Blue CLARK sniffnet Yubikey Manager Feedback ngrep rsyncy KDE Korner Plasma Mobile catchup ktechlab isoimagewriter a pile of snaps Krita Yearly report Most plasma widgets ported to 6 & Nate’s weekly updates Lin...
Apr 17, 2023•30 min
Windows is much better and so much worse than Joe remembers, and it makes him very grateful for desktop Linux. Plus what preparation (if any) we’ve made for our untimely demise. simplewall Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 20 devices. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed ....
Apr 14, 2023•20 min
25 years of Mozilla, Twitter’s token open source efforts make us grateful for Mastodon, 3D printing faces a familiar open source challenge, and two (more) potential ways to help solve the FOSS funding problem. News A quarter century of Mozilla Making the impossible possible — again A new era of transparency for Twitter Twitter posts the code it claims determines which tweets people see, and why Twitter’s Open Source Algorithm Is a Red Herring Welcome to open source, Elon. Your Twitter code just ...
Apr 11, 2023•29 min
We are joined by Amolith from Linux Lads and Alan Pope to discuss Generation Z’s view of technology, and whether modern abstraction layers ultimately detract from ideas of software freedom and digital rights. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed ....
Apr 09, 2023•19 min
Keeping your house plants alive using open hardware, searching for apps in multiple package formats at once, processing and analysing smartwatch data, working out who is using all the bandwidth on your network, and building a minimal Linux ISO to play Doom. Plus a novel way to solve the FOSS funding problem, and Proton as the ultimate Linux gaming platform. Discoveries chob Chirp plant alarm Garmin watch offline sync with Postrunner ntopng DoomLinux Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoi...
Apr 03, 2023•33 min
As companies tighten their belts during these uncertain times, could there be a silver lining for open source and self-hosting? Plus our brief thoughts on workspaces. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed .
Mar 31, 2023•17 min
Docker damages what little FOSS goodwill it has left, the Internet Archive inevitably loses a legal fight, GitHub’s SSH key snafu, Microsoft fails to read the room regarding crypto, Mozilla’s foray into AI raises an eybrow or two, a national treasure takes the piss out of Félim, and more. News Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder and creator of Moore’s Law, has died Docker is deleting Open Source organisations – what you need to know We apologize. We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Fre...
Mar 28, 2023•32 min
We are joined by Alex from Self-Hosted to talk about home media setups. Is it a good idea to use a NAS running a desktop while connected to a TV, or does something like an Nvidia Shield make more sense? See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed ....
Mar 26, 2023•21 min
Will is annoyed with calculators, Félim adds GUIs to his ropey Python, Graham attempts to tune a Piano, and Joe dreams of playing darts without the maths. Plus your feedback about robot vacuums, guitar cables, Arch, why we don’t talk about Fedora, KDE wins, and more. Discoveries qalculate NiceGUI Entropy Piano Tuner Autodarts ( video of it in action ) Feedback Quinny DustBuilder Valetudo Material for MkDocs Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develo...
Mar 20, 2023•30 min
A year on from our episode about Ubuntu, we still have concerns about the direction of the project. Or should we just call it a product at this point? Plus your feedback about challenges, and Raspberry Pi alternatives. Our previous episode about Ubuntu zimaboard Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 20 devices. See our contact page for ways ...
Mar 17, 2023•21 min
Flathub’s grand plans spark a debate the merits of modern packaging, we feel old 20 years on from the SCO lawsuit, great news for un-Googled Android users, a lengthy quest to stream DRM-restricted media on Arm Macs, KDE Korner, and more. News Flathub in 2023 The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later NewF-Droid repository format for faster and smaller updates The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux KDE Korner Plasma 6 kick off and outline fixes & Wayland zooming Apps in MS Store Tutorial Plasma codemap Ku...
Mar 13, 2023•33 min
What is the right level of customisation for the Linux desktop? See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed .
Mar 12, 2023•20 min
Troubleshooting microcontroller projects, reinstalling Ubuntu the quick and easy way, loads of gaming discoveries, follow-up on backups, playing guitar with Linux, keeping kids safe online, and more. Discoveries mqttshark device IDs to get steering wheel nim Turrican II AGA Zelda a Link to the Past on Linux Feedback Timeshift Kopia Grsync Cronopete UrBackup Neon AI OS for the Mycroft Mark II Nextcloud localization Behringer UMC22 audiophile 2×2 USB audio interface Linode Simplify your cloud infr...
Mar 06, 2023•35 min
We are joined by Jorge Castro to talk about immutable filesystem Linux distros. Check out his project uBlue and his YouTube Channel . Corrections from Jorge: “I mentioned hyperreal when I really meant to say Hyprland, and one is a person working on a ublue, the other is a wayland compositor.” Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 20 devices....
Mar 03, 2023•24 min
Canonical angers the community again – this time by asking Ubuntu flavours to stop shipping Flatpak by default, we can’t decide whether Microsoft or Google are worse, NASA contributes to way more open source software than you might think, ten years of Steam on Linux, and KDE Korner. News Ubuntu Flavor Packaging Defaults NASA and open-source software 10 years ago Steam released for Linux M$ Edge inserts ads on Chrome download page My daughter’s school took over my personal Microsoft account KDE K...
Feb 28, 2023•31 min
Should open source projects use open platforms for their communities, or should they meet people where they are – places like Discord? Join the Discord server , Telegram group , Matrix room , or IRC channel . See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed ....
Feb 26, 2023•21 min
More reverse-engineering, free tech books, a handy tool for fixing things you’ve aCCIDENTALLY CAPITALISED, Chromium in the terminal, putting apps and config files in a “box”, more on aviation tracking, GUI vs CLI backups on Linux, and loads more. Discoveries reveng lurk GoalKicker.com books Late Night Linux – Discoveries Convert Case carbonyl Github Sponsors stops taking Paypal boxxy TheAirTraffic (ADS-B Exchange replacement) Félim’s list of ADS-B Exchange alternatives Feedback BorgBackup Sanoid...
Feb 20, 2023•31 min
What counts as a boutique distro, and do we recommend them? Plus Gary tells us about his experiences at the recent Fosdem conference. Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 20 devices. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed ....
Feb 17, 2023•24 min
Canonical’s latest Ubuntu PR blunder, Mastodon and the fediverse are doing a lot better than some journalists seem to think, yet another telemetry row, the company behind Mycroft is struggling, KDE Korner, and more. News We now have a Discord server (as well as the Telegram group , Matrix room , and IRC channel ). Links to everything on our community page What are ESM Apps, and how do they relate to Ubuntu Pro? Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage Ma...
Feb 14, 2023•32 min
Martin tells us about why he decided to work with Nix and NixOS professionally. He mentioned Determinate Systems and Zero to Nix See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed ....
Feb 12, 2023•22 min
Making Home Assistant easier to configure, scoring music with FOSS, protecting yourself against phishing, 3 very different distro releases, traffic shaping and QoS, and more. Discoveries MuseScore 4 Node Red Home Assistant Contrib No Homo Graphs Phish-protect Awesome-privacy blendOS helloSystem elementary OS 7 Feedback Buster SQM (Smart Queue Management) Getting SQM Running Right SQM scripts traffic shaper Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop...
Feb 06, 2023•33 min
It’s the nested virtualisation challenge! How many levels of VMs can we get running at once? Plus we get the inside story from Lenovo about running Linux on their Arm ThinkPad. Challenge Red Hat article about nested virtualisation Linux on Lenovo’s Arm ThinkPad Mark Pearson from Lenovo joins us to talk about running Linux on their X13s ThinkPad . Lenovo forum Linux section Instructions for flashing and installing the Debian installer on the X13s Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes th...
Feb 03, 2023•27 min
The Mars Helicopter continues to amaze, aviation nerds get burned, Google lays off loads of open source people, running a Mastodon instance isn’t for everyone, KDE Korner, and more. News Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 40th Red Planet flight JETNET Acquires ADS-B Exchange Feeding to adsb.fi Google’s Fuchsia OS was one of the hardest hit by last week’s layoffs What is Google doing with its open source teams? We tried to run a social media site and it was awful KDE Korner Example of KDEnlive & ...
Jan 31, 2023•29 min
In the modern world where we run more and more software from outside our distros’ repositories, how do we know what to trust? See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed .
Jan 29, 2023•19 min
Recovering data from a broken SSD, configuring the lights on a new keyboard, trying stock Android on a Pixel 7, easily blocking ads with DNS, playing with 3D models of ancient museum pieces, and more. Discoveries testdisk Félim’s new keyboard g810-led Pixel 7 Public AdGuard DNS server Nefertiti statue 3D model Feedback Lotus 1-2-3 for Linux Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily...
Jan 23, 2023•30 min
Who has the most compute cores, how many are we actually using, and how many of them are running Linux? We finally find out who has the biggest stack of laptops in our core index challenge. Plus Dalton tells us about hacking a Wii U with open source software. Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 20 devices. See our contact page for ways to ...
Jan 20, 2023•22 min
