Discussion Thunderbird with Matrix chat client built in (via The Register) Mozilla use Matrix themselves Thunderbird is now part of MZLA Technologies Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation according to Thunderbird's website Mutt and NeoMutt email clients Amolith uses Emacs's mu4e , because no text editor is complete without an email client Shane trying Bitwig Studio on Linux Use the Deb, Luke - click on "Ubuntu" on the download page Flatseal Ableton Live MIDI Bitwig's CLAP ...
Jul 14, 2022โข56 min
Interview With Bill, the ham radio guy Wikipedia's amateur radio article (also explains why it's called "ham") Civil Air Patrol Radiosport DXCC call sign nomenclature Chirp FOSS for radio programming Computer aided transciever flrig to control bigger devices CQRLOG a ham radio logger WSJT-X helps with weak-signal communication Irish Radio Transmitters Society European Radio Amateur's Organization The American National Association for Amateur Radio The global International Amateur Radio Union The...
Jun 27, 2022โข1 hr 15 min
Please donate to the Red Cross to help people stricken by the war in Ukraine. Discussion Battery Drain ๐ชซ: Amolith's ๐ post on battery usage Mike's testing results ๐งช: 94% left after 8 hrs with optimised apps and no Google apps 95% left after 8 hrs with unoptimised apps and no Google apps 96% left after 8 hrs with Google apps LineageOS ๐ฒ ๐ฅ Firebase ๐ OpenGApps MindTheGapps ๐ ๐ค microG Ubuntu Touch ๐ Modos ๐ป e-ink laptop The specs ๐ค ๐ SouthEast LinuxFest ๐ 10-12 June 2022 in Sheraton Ch...
May 26, 2022โข28 min
Donate to Ukraine Please donate to the Red Cross to help people stricken by the war in Ukraine. Discussion A chat with Adam Pigg ๐ฌ InfiniTime โ๏ธ Amazfish ๐ฉโ๐ป Pine64 ๐ฒ PineTime Pinecil E Ink PineNote PineSound and PineBuds Drew DeVault's take on what Pine64's priorities should be ๐ช Adam's porting Sailfish OS to the PinePhone and PinePhone Pro F(x)tec Pro1 X PocoPhone F3 ๐ฑ Sailfish ๐ Sailfish VoLTE demo Xperia 10 II and Xperia 10 III TechView Podcast's Sailfish OS 4.4 release video NemoMobi...
May 14, 2022โข1 hr 16 min
Discussion ๐ซ Ubuntu 22.04 is out (from omg! ubuntu!) Firefox is a snap now ๐ฆ (from Make Use Of) Nvidia users are stuck on Xorg (from Phoronix) Mike was wrong, accent colours are not (yet?) in Gnome 42. Ubuntu has them now ๐ด๐ต๐ข (from omg! ubuntu!) Asahi Linux ๐ง๐ You can tell it's a Dell... with a touchbar ๐ Asahi feature support ๐ค Apple is looking for a ๐ Linux engineer (from listener Joey) FreeBSD on the Framework laptop ๐ฑโ๐ป Framework reviewed on Linux After Dark ๐๏ธ Framework on Free...
Apr 29, 2022โข48 min
Donate to Ukraine Please donate to the Red Cross to help people stricken by the war in Ukraine. Discussion ๐ฐ Conor's back from Cork Mike's been (almost) daily driving macOS ๐๐ฅ, comparing it to Fedora AppArmour ๐ก ๐ SELinux ๐บ HomeBrew elementary OS ๐ป ๐งข Conor's been trying Fedora Kinoite Flathub is still lacking some important software, especially compared to the AUR ๐ฆ ๐น SteamOS AppImage ๐ Amolith has a new Pixel 6 ๐ฒ He's been running GrapheneOS on it ๐ฎโโ๏ธ ๐ชจ๐๐ธ๐ชจ Vanadium browser PDF...
Apr 19, 2022โข1 hr 1 min
Donate to Ukraine Please donate to the Red Cross to help people stricken by the war in Ukraine. Discussion Dirty Pipe ๐ฑ is the most serious vulnerability in years (via Ars Technica) โ ๏ธ ๐ฒ Exploits exist, on Android too (via Ars Technica) Dirty ๐ฎ COW Android application sandbox ๐๏ธ ๐ฆ Flatpak sandboxing ๐ฉ ๐ฆ Flatpaks on Fedora โธ๏ธ Flathub Peacenotwar , a malware used by Node IPC ๐ฃ (via The Register) ๐บ๐ฆ Stand with Ukraine Humble bundle Contact Us We have a store We are on Telegram And on Mast...
Mar 23, 2022โข46 min
Donate to Ukraine Please donate to the Red Cross to help people stricken by the war in Ukraine. Discussion Crypto and Podcasting 2.0 A Medium article ๐ฐ on podcasting 2.0 (author Gary Arndt) The Linux Unplugged interview with Dave Jones (about 17:30) โบ๏ธ Apple ๐ Podcasts The Podcast Index ๐ ๐ฑ A list of apps that work at least some part of podcasting 2.0 Issues with NFTs ๐๐ explained in this YouTube video Lightning Network โก BTC ๐ช explained by 3Blue1Brown MetaMask wallet ๐ OpenSea NFT marke...
Mar 14, 2022โข52 min
Discussion Shane's taking a sabatical ๐๏ธ Matrix: Federation is โ๏ธ a feature ๐ฑ Element Matrix app ๐ฑ Telegram Discord offers a very granular user and room control ๐๏ธ Mattermost has ๐ threads and channels Matrix spaces are not as easily used as Discord's ๐งฉ The Synapse Matrix reference server ๐๐ โก The nimbler Conduit Matrix server Mozilla use Matrix ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฌ FluffyChat iOS Matrix app ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ Telegram is domiciled in the UK and the Emirates ๐ข (via Wikipedia) Telegram is not opposed to making mo...
Feb 27, 2022โข1 hr 3 min
Discussion Chatting The Dublin Linux's self-hosted Matrix server broke ๐ฃ LXD/LXC containers disappeared ๐ช๐ถ Now switched to Conduit instead of Synapse โก The Matrix Spaces YouTube video ๐ผ Video stickers and other Generation Z technologies ๐ถโ๏ธ are abundant on Telegram ๐โบ๏ธ Memoji Advertising ๐ฌ on Telegram Mattermost competes with Slack ๐ข ๐ผ Microsoft Teams Marques Brownlee's iMessage ๐ฌ ๐ฑ YouTube video Nifty Nuggets Conor : ๐ฎ ChimeraOS - just enough OS to run Steam Potentially an alternati...
Feb 10, 2022โข38 min
Chitchat Shane runs Manjaro ๐ฅ Conor runs โต EndeavourOS Mike ๐ค runs Fedora Amolith runs Arch with i3 desktop ๐ Discussion ๐ฐ First screenshots of Pop! OS's Cosmic DE (via omg! ubuntu!)_ Pamac - Manjaro's package manager ๐ฆ Paru , the AUR ๐ฆฎ helper, written in Rust Rust and Go ๐ Dennis Ritchie ๐จโ๐ป Irish Lotto โ๏ธ ๐๏ธ Stirling Moss's 250 GTO Bowling for Columbine ๐ฅ Nifty Nuggets โญ Distrobox Apparently Windows in Docker is a thing ๐ช Windows 11 in Gnome Boxes ๐ฑ ๐ฎ Sonic Colors: Ultimate was m...
Jan 19, 2022โข52 min
Discussion The Steam Deck ๐ฎ ๐ฆ Immutable Fedora Silverblue and Wayland LNL episode with Garuda Linux review ๐ค MikroTik routers โ They ๐ urge their users to keep their machines updated and avoid stale passwords European Computer Driving Licence ๐ The Raspberry Pi Foundation ๐ซ LTT ๐ผ Linux challenge Favourite Projects โ
Nextcloud Matrix & Element ๐ฉ PipeWire ๐ KDE ๐ง Pop!_OS ๐ ๐ท Wine Mozilla ๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ธ Software in the Public Interest GNU/Linux Open Hardware PowerPC ๐ป notebook "PPC64 Open...
Dec 27, 2021โข1 hr 10 min
Discussion We ๐ apologize for the worse than usual audio quality. Ubuntu-powered cyberdog ๐ (via omg! ubuntu!) Boston Dynamics makes pricier ๐ฐ cyberdogs Blender 3.0 ๐ฅง is out (via omg! ubuntu!) Geometry Nodes โ tutorial A video showcasing the new UI and features ๐ผ Shane is on Ubuntu Studio ๐ค Unfa's ๐น channel Game on! ๐
Monday 27th December 7.30 pm Dublin time (convert to a US timezone here ) We'll choose a FOSS ๐ game on the day. So far we are looking at the following, other suggestions ...
Dec 11, 2021โข35 min
Chitchat Mike uses Gnome without extensions ๐ฑ Conor uses EndeavourOS ๐ข with Cinnamon with the Pamac package manager ๐ฆ Shane installed PipeWire โซ ๐ธ easier than JACK Unfa's YouTube ๐น Carla ๐ audio app Discussion Linus tries Linux the first video ๐ the ๐ฎ Steam Deck Discover will ๐ผ no longer allow uninstalling Plasma This Week in KDE reports ๐ฐ 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 exi...
Nov 23, 2021โข50 min
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 And on Matrix You...
Nov 03, 2021โข35 min
Chitchat Conor: I am trying browsers again in the past few days, I've been trying Firefox and Vivaldi ๐๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ป ๐ Vivaldi is now the default browser on Manjaro Cinnamon Mike: Installed EndeavourOS left right and centre ๐ฝ News The PinePhone Pro is out (via 9to5linux) ๐คณ Purism Librem 5 ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ ยต microG Aurora Store ๐ช KDE is 25 years old ๐ ๐ง Jolla is 10 years old thanks Adam Pigg for the reminder Ubuntu 20.10 Impish Indri is out ๐ Quickemu โฉ (via linuxiac) 22.04's codename will be Jammy ...
Oct 23, 2021โข58 min
Discussion Linux Mint's new website ๐๐ธ (via omg! ubuntu!) ๐ด๐๐ฆ Dark Reader for Firefox ๐ด๐๐ต Dark Reader for Chrome-based browsers Linux Mint sponsors ๐ธ ๐ข๐ข๐ข๐ข๐ข The end of Ubuntu Podcast (via omg! ubuntu!) Fairphone 4 5G leaked ๐ฑ๐ฆ (via GSMArena) Linus Sebastian ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฒ invests 200k in Framework Frickin' Lasers by Alphabet, from Space, with love and decent uptime ๐ฐ๏ธ ๐ง Smart glasses are coming.... Xiaomi's ๐ถโช prototype with all-green microLED waveguide display Facebook's RayBan glassh...
Sep 20, 2021โข41 min
Discussion 00:00 Intro ๐ 00:50 Linux turns 30 ๐ 02:30 Diversion into the workings of Irish legislature ๐ฎ๐ช๐ ( Wikipedia for more information) 04:08 Back to Linux About Linus's ๐ข original Linux announcement (via Fossbytes) Linus's style ๐ has not been devoid of controversy (via Ars Technica) 11:04 DIY version of the ๐ป Framework laptop outsells the Windows version (via Gaming on Linux) Linus Tech Tips original video ๐บ The WAN Show video where he discusses investing ๐ธ in the company 21:47 ...
Sep 06, 2021โข40 min
Discussion Zorin OS 16 Zorin's ๐ฏ release post 00:00 Intro - It's been 3 years! ๐ 01:06 Disclosure - we've been given VIP access to the release candidates ๐ 02:58 Pop!_Shop complaints, love for Compiz Synaptic package installer ๐ 05:03 ๐ Startup sounds Ubuntu startup sounds ๐ 06:58 Zorin's Software Centre and repositories ๐ช 10:58 App and software choices ๐๐ 14:29 Zorin ๐
performance and Shane's bad resolution 16:12 The Blanket app ๐๏ธ and our favourite noises 19:16 Desktop layout and ๐...
Aug 21, 2021โข31 min
News KDE Connect on Windows (via omg! ubuntu!) ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ฎ The Steam Deck has been announced (via Ars Technica) Shane's not a fan of the ๐น๏ธ Steam Controller ๐ง๐ธ Gabe Newell: The price point was painful (via PC Gamer) ๐ป๐จ The Framework modular laptop (via Ars Technica) endorsed by Linus Tech Tips ๐น iFixit gave it 10/10 ๐ช The DIY edition has plenty of configuration options ๐ค ๐ฑ Fairphone Project Ara โฐ๏ธ Contact Us We have a store We are on Telegram And on Mastodon And on Matrix You can email us o...
Aug 09, 2021โข40 min
Discussion Ubuntu ๐ 21.10 (in development) got Gnome 40 (via omg! ubuntu!) Yaru theme ๐ ๐ก Adwaita theme Shane on Pop!_OS ๐ Gtile ๐ฉโ๐ป โจ๏ธ StreamPi Elgato Stream Deck ๐ฐ pactl ๐ฅ Switching audio sources from the task bar since Plasma 5.22 ๐ Brave Browser ๐ฆ ๐ฅก Firefox 90 is out (via omg! ubuntu!) Firefox now ๐ 4th by market share, as discussed on Linux Action News 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...
Jul 17, 2021โข28 min
Discussion New ๐Pop!_OS is out and this time it's cosmic ๐ Nick's review on YouTube ๐น ๐ค SiFiveโs launched the P550 RISC-V CPUs (via Ars Technica) OpenStreetMap might relocate to the EU ๐บ (via The Guardian) The Irish spice bag ๐ฅ (via The Irish Times) Breton Kouign-amann butter cake ๐ (via Wikipedia) Cuisine de France ๐ซ๐ท ๐ The AUR for Debian (via Gaming On Linux) The Linux Unplugged episode ๐ where they discuss Pacstall Catchup with Nick ๐ผ YouTube ๐ฆ Twitter ๐ Mastodon ๐ธ Patreon ๐ D...
Jul 03, 2021โข34 min
Discussion Interview with Alex and Zlatan from Shells.com Please excuse the slightly lower quality of the audio in this episode ๐ Shells.com Promo Code ๐ฐ (Doesn't work in Brave and possibly other browsers, tested and proved working in Firefox) Wikipedia article on Mark Karpelรจs 2.5 Admin episode discussing Shells.com in context of Freenode Some previous Shells.com interviews ๐: Linux4Everyone Destination Linux Catchup with Shells.com: ๐ฆ Twitter Keynote at openSuse Virtual Conference ๐ฌ Birds...
Jun 19, 2021โข47 min
News Freenode IRC staff resign en masse, unhappy about new management - The Register . Shit's going down with Audacity They have added a controversial Contributor License Agreement . Response to the controversial telemetry . Ladspa . Google and Samsung are merging Wear OS and Tizen - The Verge . Tizen . MeeGo . Sagem . Amolith's socials Website Fediverse: @amolith@nixnet.social IRC: amolith on Libera and NixNet Contact Us We have a store We are on Telegram And on Mastodon And on Matrix You can e...
Jun 04, 2021โข36 min
Discussion We review the Beta release of elementary OS 6 the release post ๐ซ ๐ฆ elementary OS website elementary devs say elementary is not intended to work like macOS ๐ฌ Gnome Web ๐ธ โญ the elementary icon set Mike was wrong ๐ฑ, the Planner app and the built in elementary OS Task app are 2 different things Simplenote ๐ Joplin ๐ Events FOSS Talk Live ๐ป๐ will be happening as an online event on 12th June Contact Us We have a store We are on Telegram And on Mastodon And on Matrix You can email u...
May 22, 2021โข32 min
Chitchat Toxic a great Britney cover by A Static Lullaby ๐๐ธ Shane had deployed โญ Pi-hole to gobble all them ads OpenDNS โ 9๏ธโข9๏ธโข9๏ธโข9๏ธ Quad9 Shane tried out a new audio interface ๐ but it doesn't ๐ work in Linux :(. If anyone would link to contribute to the driver, it's on GitHub ๐ Conor is eyeing up the RรDE AI-1 audio interface A list of Linux-compatible audio interfaces ๐ Discussion We test Zorin 16 Beta Zorin's blog post with the ISO download link โฌ๏ธ Mike's Realtek RTL8821CE chipset did...
May 01, 2021โข29 min
Discussion Does desktop Linux do all we need it to do? ๐ Some Linux vendors: ๐ช๐บ Slimbook ๐ช๐บ Tuxedo Computers ๐ฌ๐ง Entroware ๐บ๐ธ System76 ๐ฟ Alternatives to commercial software and services: ๐ Dublin Linux list of free software โ๏ธ Dublin Linux list of alternative cloud services ๐ AlternativeTo The ๐ง Linux Lads workflow Jitsi ๐ค Audacity ๐ต ๐ถ Ardour CUPS ๐จ๏ธ Follow-You Printing ๐พ ๐ผ๏ธ Photography software Digikam ๐ท ๐ darktable ๐ฅผ RawTherapee Rapid Photo Downloader ๐ฝ Contact Us We have...
Apr 19, 2021โข31 min
Discussion ๐๐ฅ๏ธ Gnome 40 (via omg! ubuntu!) Fedora 34 Beta ๐ฉ (via TechRepublic) ๐ Linux Unplugged Gnome 40 episode ๐ RMS is back at the FSF among protests from prominent community members RMS's unkindness ๐ 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 Disclaimer May contai...
Apr 03, 2021โข32 min
Chitchat Shane is not feeling ๐ค well, so we are not going to release an episode this week. Hopefully he'll feel better soon, and we'll publish a show next week ๐๏ธ๐
. Apologies for any disappointment caused. 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 Disclaimer May contain m...
Mar 27, 2021โข32 sec
Discussion A chat with Philippe from CrowdSec CrowdSec is an open-source security automation tool ๐ต๏ธ it provides crowd-sourced reputation for IP addresses, log parsing tools and โน๏ธ bouncers it's free of charge ๐ธ to users who share their data, but users can also pay to keep their data private a trust system is in place to prevent abuse of the technology ๐ก๏ธ the code is ๐ open source (MIT) the company makes money by ๐ selling access to non-contributing users and selling premium features parser...
Mar 13, 2021โข46 min
