Big Plasma 6, GNOME & COSMIC updates, Youtube's anti user moves

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Nov 26, 2023•41 min•Season 1Ep. 47

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00:00 Intro

00:57 Cosmic Updates

https://blog.system76.com/post/a-cosmic-thanksgiving-2023

06:14 PLasma 6 and GNOME get even better

https://pointieststick.com/2023/11/24/this-week-in-kde-the-plasma-6-feature-freeze-approaches/

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/11/twig-123/

14:22 Sponsor: Thunderbird

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15:49 Youtube has a 5s delay against adblockers

https://www.404media.co/youtube-says-new-5-second-video-load-delay-is-supposed-to-punish-ad-blockers-not-firefox-users/

https://www.techradar.com/computing/browsers/youtube-may-now-have-annoying-delays-if-you-use-an-ad-blocker-heres-why

20:25 Google moves forward with manifest v3

https://www.techradar.com/computing/chrome/chromes-ad-blocking-plan-could-be-a-privacy-disaster-and-a-reason-to-switch-to-firefox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KWCLhHrblE&pp=ygULbWFuaWZlc3QgdjM%3D

23:04 Linux outperforms Windows 11

https://www.phoronix.com/review/threadripper-7995wx-windows-linux

25:35 Microsoft contributes to Mesa

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-OpenGL-4.6-D3D12

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Microsoft-MFTs-Prep

28:50 Open Source Nvidia drivers now VUlkan compliant

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/open-source-nvidia-vulkan-driver-nvk-hits-vulkan-10-conformance/

31:16 Linux kernel won’t accept CPU specific patches

https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-Linux-No-Uarch-Opts

34:24 Gaming: improved Steam, Wine 8.21, DX12 support

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/valve-gives-steam-a-nice-upgrade-for-controller-friendly-games/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/vkd3d-proton-211-released-with-directx-raytracing-enabled-by-default/

https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.21

40:11 Outro

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