Discussion GTA III and Vice City reverse engineering project was DMCAd ๐ฉ๐ฎ (via GamingOnLinux) ๐ฆ๐ฅ๏ธ The Plasma people did something pretty Manjaro is now the default on the PinePhone ๐ฑ (via omg! ubuntu!) Firefox 86 ๐ฅ๐ฆ is out Contact Us We have a store We are on Telegram And on Mastodon And on Matrix 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 โค ๏ธ๐ป, or support us on Ko-fi Dis...
Feb 27, 2021โข30 min
Chitchat Conor : I got a new mic so my audio should be awesome or I'm getting my money back :D Discussion ๐ฐ Godot gets $120k grant money (via GamingOnLinux) Mozilla is a platinum member of the new Rust Foundation ๐โ๏ธ Blender sponsors ๐๏ธ Martin Wimpress is leaving ๐ช Canonical (via omg! ubuntu!) ๐ JingOS, Linux for tablets has an alpha out (via omg! ubuntu!) Changes in ๐ซ Gnome 40 (via Tech Republic) The Linux Unplugged episode where they discuss Gnome 40 ๐ Contact Us We have a store We are ...
Feb 13, 2021โข28 min
Discussion This episode is shorter than usual due to some audio gremlins ๐งโ๐ฆฒ๐งโ๐ฆฒ๐งโ๐ฆฒ๐งโ๐ฆฒ A chat with Adam Pigg, the porter of Sailfish Sailfish OS โต๐ KOffice ๐ ๐พ KEXI Nokia N950 ๐ฑ N9 ๐คณ PinePhone ๐ฒ ๐ผ๏ธ Volla Phone F(x)tec PROยน ๐ค NemoMobile โต Spotify ๐ถ on the PinePhone Anbox ๐ฆ Qt LTS versions are now commercial only ๐ โ Adam's Amazfish app Plasma Mobile โ๏ธ KaiOS ๐ Kate , KDevelop , Qt Creator ๐ Catch up with Adam Twitter ๐ฅ Feedback Cal asks "Do you think we'll see mainstream smar...
Jan 30, 2021โข23 min
Chitchat Conor : I am now back to running KDE, I really like it so far. It has it's little annoyances (less so than last time, could be that I am more familiar with it) but then, no DE is perfect. ๐ I've been playing GTA V all Xmas. Mike : Got myself a Teclast f5 hybrid laptop. Landed on EndeavourOS ๐ Shane : I was running Ubuntu Studio with KDE Plasma for a week and then abruptly moved to Elementary OS . It's basic looking and user-friendlied to death but it's minimal-looking and responsive ....
Jan 23, 2021โข27 min
Discussion In this episode we welcome back Wayne and Mark, formerly of the Binary Times ๐๏ธ๐๏ธ๐๏ธ๐๏ธ๐๏ธ. We discuss offensive employment practices, Centos Stream, and the new release of Raspberry Pi OS. Also: Competition redesigned! ๐ฆ Microsoft ๐ต๏ธ๐จ๐ปโ๐ญ๐ apologize for "worker spyware" (via The Guardian) The Linux Lads Employee of the Month is Debbie in Accounts ๐ Centos is dead ๐ตโฐ๏ธ๐ชฆ, but is it though ๐ฉ๐จ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐? ๐ main story (via Ars Technica) some ๐ด alternatives (via Ars Technica) The...
Dec 19, 2020โข38 min
Chitchat Mike : A cat got us ๐ Obligatory Twitter photo ๐ท ๐ฅ Streaming video with Raspberry Pi and Motion Shane : I have been ๐จ Blendering more and I have discovered a great resource ( That's my referral link so if people don't feel like indulging my self-serving plug you can go to https://www.sheepit-renderfarm.com/ ) Conor : 6 hours ๐ด sleep, not recommended ๐ Discussion In this episode we welcome back DM and talk about YouTube-DL, browsers, a new phone, Gimp and the suitability of FOSS fo...
Nov 28, 2020โข1 hr 7 min
Discussion This week we chat about the new Raspberry Pi, Chromium on Mint, YouTube-DL takedown, Ubuntu, carrier lock, HBO Max. ๐ฅง The Raspberry Pi 400 Quidsup Ubuntu on RPi 4 YouTube ๐น video IQ 151 โญ Linux Mint are now ๐๏ธ building and packaging Chromium The RIAA got โ๏ธ YouTube-DL taken off GitHub (via Torrent Freak) Our Article 13 episode ๐๏ธ Microsoft Dublin data centre case ๐ฝ (via Irish Times) ๐ The Principality of Sealand Ubuntu 21.04 is gonna be called Hirsuite ๐ฆ Hippo (via TechRadar) -...
Nov 06, 2020โข54 min
Discussion ๐ In this episode we tip our hat to the Fedora guys, and talk to them about the new release, the project, the Universe and everything. Chat with Matthew Miller, Fedora Project Leader and Ed Lucena, Fedora Marketing Rep : ๐ด๐ฉ Red Hat the company supporting Fedora The multiple editions can be found on their main page ๐ ๐ป Gnome-based workstation is the main one, but there are many other spins Centos gets a lot of goodness from Fedora (eventually โ) Extra options can be set using โ๏ธ G...
Oct 23, 2020โข55 min
Chitchat Shane has a Minetest let's play YouTube ๐น video Vim Golf is a thing ๐๏ธโโ๏ธ ๐จโ๐ป Conor works way too much Mike talks way too much ๐ค Discussion This week we mostly chat about empowerment and barriers ๐ง to entry. Purism's AweSim ๐ฑ๐ฒ ๐๏ธ This Week in Linux episode Azire VPN ๐ธ๏ธ Fortinet for Gnome Network Manager ๐ Manjaro Cinnamon ๐ผ๏ธ UK Covid Excel fail ๐๐
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Oct 12, 2020โข44 min
Chitchat Shane passed his driving test ๐ Conor ๐ went to County Kerry Mike is going back to school ๐, went on Linux Spotlight Discussion And we are back! This time we mostly chat about hardware, as Nvidia dropped 40 biiiiiiillion on Arm and Linux laptops are all the rage. ๐น Nvidia ๐ค buys Arm. (via ZDNet) RISC-V desktop CPU ๐ฅ (via CNX Software) Microsoft ๐ญ release kernel source code for Surface Duo (via Windows Central) Pinebook Pro and ๐ฑ Pinephone Linux ๐ป laptops by HP (via omg! ubuntu!...
Sep 25, 2020โข50 min
Chitchat This is the last episode of the season, we'll be taking a break and will be back in September Conor: I haz new PC ๐ฅ AMD Ryzen 5 3600 ๐ฆธ ๐ฎ Radeon RX 5700 Graphics Timeshift โbackup tool Mike: ๐นDrinking in LA (fat chance) News Ireland โ contributes the open-source part of the COVID Tracker app to the Linux Foundation PinePhone news ๐ฑ๐ข A beefier ๐ช PinePhone now available (via omg! ubuntu!) Android 10 ๐ค for the PinePhone (via omg! ubuntu!) Phosh Purism's phone shell ๐ ๐ฆ Flutter for...
Jul 24, 2020โข41 min
Chitchat Mike: Was on PTO, ๐งณ๐ฎ๐ช went to Carlingford and Kilkenny Mark: Still playing with ๐ฑ Volla phone and loving it. Upgrading โฌ openSUSE Conor: Adventures in ๐ง KDE continue.... we can do this, we have the technology News Ikey Doherty moves back to Ireland ๐ฌ๐งโก๐ฎ๐ช, starts a new distro called ๐ Serpent OS (not necessarily in that order). Lispy Snake game engine is still his "primary company and job" ๐โก๐ Barclays UK ๐ฆ used the Internet Archive as their CDN ๐ Volla ๐ฑ phone beta is out...
Jul 13, 2020โข1 hr 36 min
Discussion Interview with DM What is โก๐ PowerShell VS Code and the open source VSCodium ๐ Zenity ๐งโ๐ป ๐ฆธ PSAvalonia Out-GridView ๐ผ PowerShell ๐ Selenium module Catch up with DM ๐ Web ๐ฅ Twitter AzireVPN coupon code We have a coupon code for 30% off when you pay for 3 months of AzireVPN , a security-focused VPN provider based in Sweden. The law there doesn't require them to log traffic, so they don't . They operate servers in 5 locations in Europe and north America . Their servers are owned...
Jul 03, 2020โข40 min
Chitchat Mike : ๐ฎ Playing BioShock Infinite Shane : I discovered PureRef ๐ผ and I'm making a space station ๐ฐ in Blender Conor : I've been trying out Manjaro KDE ๐ต๐ง on my laptop and quite liking it. News US ๐บ๐ธ Senate ๐ Republicans ๐ฅ attack ๐ encryption ๐คฏ (via cnet) Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition ๐ป now comes with Ubuntu 20.04 (via 9to5Linux) KDE plasma ๐ฅ changes the window list to icons only by default (via omg! ubuntu!) Pine64 ๐๐ฑ announced PinePhone Community Edition (via omg! ubuntu...
Jun 26, 2020โข1 hr 4 min
Chitchat Mike: Having a go at Godot โจ๐น Shane: Pop!_OS hard drive ๐ฝ๐ฝ woes continue. Probably not their fault though as it seems to be related to an upstream systemd issue. News ๐๐ฆ Blender 2.83 is the first longterm support release from the project with many new great features. Microsoft's recent "mis-steps" ๐ฅพ๐ฅพ in open source: ๐ฅก Winget Appget grab (via The Verge) Maui ๐๐ฅ name clash (via Phoronix) Linux market share moved ๐ up (via omg! ubuntu!) Roaming within the EU ๐ช๐บ๐ฒ PineTab is ๐ฆ...
Jun 12, 2020โข1 hr 3 min
Chitchat Mike : I've been playing ๐จโ๐ป with Julia Shane : I am reaching convergence โฏ nirvana in my workspace. Conor : I installed โก Ubuntu 20.04 on my Win 2 , then wiped it and put on โก Manjaro Gnome . Also I went from Manjaro Cinnamon to โก KDE to โก Budgie to โก Mate (clean install each time). PPSSPP PlayStation Portable Emulator ๐ฎ News Gnome and patent troll ๐ค settled The $150K ๐ฐ could have gone into filing fees (via Slashdot, in the comments) EU ๐ช๐บ Parliament recommends open source (via ...
May 29, 2020โข44 min
Chitchat Shane : So long off the distro hopping wagon but I went on an odyssey ๐งณ and also on Linux Spotlight Conor : It was my birthday ๐ recently and I turned mutters under breath Mike : Moving โ DL web stuff Discussion Interview with Mathieu from Lutris Basic info about ๐ฆฆ๐ฎ Lutris MAME and Retro Arch emulators ๐น ๐ท Wine is famously not an emulator PlayOnLinux makes Wine easier ๐ฆ itch.io indie game repo ๐ช ๐ฌ Good Old Games (GoG) - a store for DRM-free games Old Lutris logo ๐ผ (Forbes, wit...
May 15, 2020โข1 hr 4 min
Chitchat Mike : Being quarantined ๐ท๐ Conor : Playing Twin Snakes in Dolphin ๐๐๐ฌโโ News Ubuntu 20.04: ๐ 21 Must-Have Apps for Ubuntu (2020 Edition) (via omg! ubuntu!) ๐ Better fingerprints scanning (via omg! ubuntu!) Ubuntu 20.10 will be called ๐บ๐ฆ Groovy Gorilla (via omg! ubuntu!) Conor's LBRY vids ๐ฅ Fedora 32: Fedora 32 is ๐ง๐ released Lenovo laptops ๐ป๐ง will soon come with the distro pre-loaded . The ๐ Linux Unplugged episode with Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller. Vivaldi 3.0 T...
May 01, 2020โข48 min
Chitchat Mike : Used X2Go in anger ๐ฅ๏ธ and it was good Shane : Dug out an old ๐คณ OnePlus One . Still works fine! Going to test it with Ubuntu Touch . ๐ Conor My 5T is back after attempted /e/ install, thanks to ๐ฆ PowerShellOnLinux 's help ๐ฑ OneUI - not big fans ๐ News The Heron ๐ผ๏ธ is back (via omg! ubuntu!) The Ubuntu startup sound ๐ (YouTube) NDISwrapper ๐ง QT might get forked ๐ด because the QT Company's possible releas changes . The QT Company responded with a extremely short blog post d...
Apr 17, 2020โข47 min
Discussion Chat with Rocco Big Daddy Linux ๐ธ๏ธ website ๐๏ธ BDLL YouTube channel ๐ฅ Linux Spotlight <- Mark Shuttleworth episode Big Daddy Linux Telegram , Twitter ๐ค ๐ฎ Metal Gear Solid ๐๏ธ Destination Linux Wubi installer ๐พ ๐ฅ๏ธ KDE 3.5 and Trinity Desktop Pop!_OS ๐ ๐๏ธ gedit OBS ๐ฟ Studio ๐ผ DaVinci Resolve AlternativeTo ๐ฎ Zoom โ๏ธ ๐๐ง Linux Mint Debian Edition Sparky Linux and MX Linux ๐ ๐ค Shure SM7B MeWe ๐ง TweetDeck ๐ฆ๐ด Ubuntu 20.04 ๐
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Apr 03, 2020โข1 hr 16 min
Chitchat Mike: ๐ Reduced his existence to messing on his computer in his flat and getting paid for it and messing on his computer in his flat in his spare time. Shane - Has spent much of the last week in an existential crisis wondering if he has to start sharpening sticks and learning how to work leather into armour ๐ก๏ธ. Conor: Been working from home, I've tested Ubuntu 20.04 in a VM and am very impressed, adventures in /e/ ๐งฑ๐ฑ Stay safe Wash your hands, cough and sneeze into your elbow, keep ...
Mar 20, 2020โข1 hr 24 min
Chitchat Mike was traveling Shane is traveling Conor installed Manjaro Cinnamon and is also considering getting an ultrawide monitor (like this one on Amazon ). Artyom is preparing a new release Support Debian GNU/Linux Debian, also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software, developed by the community-supported Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993. The first version, Debian 0.01, was released on September 15, 1...
Mar 09, 2020โข1 hr 19 min
Chitchat Shane: Getting a cat ๐ Conor: ๐ค Being sick Mike: Learning ๐ซ Dash Support the EDRi and Digital Rights Ireland ๐ธ Technology brings with it countless benefits to society but it also brings with it a real potential for misuse and unethical practices. Fighting for privacy and against censorship and surveillance is not something we can do as individuals so we would like to shout out organizations like the EDRi and Digital Rights Ireland . They fight against the relentless march of big tec...
Feb 21, 2020โข1 hr 5 min
Chitchat Shane made a low poly Tux in Blender . ๐๏ธ๐จ๐ผ๏ธ Any ideas for future projects? Mike played with ๐๏ธ Ansible Support the Document Foundation ๐ถ๐ธ The Document Foundation are the maintainers of LibreOffice which is a Free and Open Source alternative to the likes of Microsoft Office and Google Docs. It is a long-standing project as it is a direct continuation of the OpenOffice and StarOffice projects. They also maintain the open document formats which are an open standard alternative to th...
Feb 07, 2020โข1 hr
Chitchat Mike ๐ switched to Manjaro with i3 Conor got his ๐ hands on the Pinebook Pro Support Mozilla This episode we are bringing to your attention Mozilla ๐งก๐ฆ. They're the only serious competition to Chromium and the Blink engine out there. They care about us users and they don't rely on your data for ad revenue or to sell hardware. They promote free web standards, raise awareness of the social impact of technology, as well as making a damn good browser. Please go to https://donate.mozilla....
Jan 24, 2020โข1 hr 11 min
Discussion Linux in 2020 For real ๐ฆ๏ธ predictions go to omg! ubuntu! ๐ฅ๐ฆ Firefox , LibreOffice ๐๐ข , ๐๐ฅ๏ธ KDE Plasma Manjaro ๐๐ง , XFCE ๐๐ฅ๏ธ ๐ผ๐พ LMMS , Ubuntu Studio Tech in 2020 ๐ CES Dell's foldable screen ๐ป laptop Mobile ๐ฑ devices with foldable screens Samsung's creepy ๐ค๐พ robo tennis ball in a YouTube video Librem 5 Librem 5 ๐ฌ Fairphone 3 ๐ Librem 5 USA ๐คข Shoutout Unofficial Office 365 Snap by Hayden Barnes ๐ AzireVPN coupon code We have a coupon code for 30% off when you pay f...
Jan 10, 2020โข1 hr 2 min
Notes A little extra bonus for the festive period. We hope you enjoy your festivities and we'll (hopefully) be back in the new year. ๐
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Dec 30, 2019โข4 min
Discussion This time we recorded together with Wayne and Mark from the Binary Times Windows 7 to kick the bucket in 2020 โฐ๏ธ Why you should replace Windows 7 with Linux โ๏ธ Mentioned distros ๐: Zorin OS , Elementary OS , Linux Mint , Ubuntu , Solus , Kubuntu , Ubuntu Mate , Red Hat Single sign on ๐ alternatives: RazDC and Univention UCS Does there need to be a "Linux ๐๏ธ Product" ๐ Gnome Desktop , KDE Plasma , XFCE How many Raspberry PIs ๐ฅ๏ธ do you have? SBCs: Raspberry ๐ฅง PI , Rock ๐ฒ 64 , ODR...
Dec 10, 2019โข1 hr 12 min
News ๐จ Glimpse , the fork of GIMP hits ๐ด version 0.1 . (via Phoronix) โก๏ธโ๏ธ๐ฉ๏ธโ Nextcloud vulnerability Nextcry minimally exploited . Here is how to ๐ ๏ธ fix it. The Tesla Cybertruck 0๏ธ๐1๏ธ๐0๏ธ๐1๏ธ๐ is an ugly, idiotically named glorified milk float that Mike somehow really wants. Far Cry 3: Blood ๐ฒ Dragon The memes are ๐ช strong with this one The Slimbook Pro X 15 looks great and promises a lot of power ๐คค๐ป. (via omg! ubuntu!) System76 will design and produce their own laptops ๐ญ๐ป. (via For...
Nov 25, 2019โข1 hr 7 min
News Kdenlive ๐น๐ฆ is now available as a snap . (via omg! ubuntu!) Shotcut , ๐ฝ๏ธ Blender and Openshot are also available If you don't mind being negative in the freedom dimension, ๐ผ there's Davinci Resolve and Lightworks Shadow of the Tomb Rider is now ๐ฎ available for Linux (via Phoronix) Microsoft Edge will be coming to Linux ๐๐ง (via Phoronix) ๐ฅ๐ฆ Shout out to Firefox Indian users ๐ฎ๐ณ๐๐ฅ moving to Mastodon (via India Today) Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix ๐ฅ๏ธ Discussion Lukasz Erecinski from Pine ...
Nov 11, 2019โข56 min
