A great FOSS text to speech engine, taking ownership of your audiobooks, and making chiptune music. Plus your feedback about SMS messages, docks, earbuds, being stuck in the Apple ecosystem, and more. Discoveries TTS audible-activator Furnace Feedback Gadgetbridge LNL-Discoveries LNL-Discoveries – GitHub Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security... Read More...
If we could go back in time, what advice would we give our younger, less experienced counterparts about Linux and FOSS? See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
We catch up on a month’s worth of news including GitHub and GitLab controversies, Arduino multitasking, VLC being banned in India, Google’s false positives in scans, and KDE Korner. News Introducing multitasking to Arduino GitLab U-turns on deleting dormant projects after backlash Give nothing, expect nothing: GitLab’s the latest punching bag for entitled users... Read More...
It’s part 2 of our discussion about sustainability in FOSS. Make sure to listen to part 1 first. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Playing with Arduinos, a 1337 h4x0r tool, ChromeOS Flex, a proprietary software win, whether open-sourcing AI makes sense, and more. Discoveries Tauno Serial Plotter kdb-audio ChromeOS Flex is now generally available Discussion Open source isn’t working for AI Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy.... Read More...
How efficient are our whole setups – including servers, client machines, and VPSs? Could we be doing more to save energy and money? See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
It’s the London meetup live show special! Joe is joined by Alex and Gary to discuss how to accept that most people who use/connect to Linux machines don’t use it on the desktop. Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster... Read More
There is a sustainability problem in FOSS. How do we fix it? See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Loads of useful discoveries, a Lineage tale of woe, yet more trolling of Félim, and more. Discoveries bat Beej’s guide to network programming LinuxCommandLibrary and f-droid app Galaxy Buds Client Lineage problems battop Feedback Late Night Linux Discoveries code Joe’s RSS Thingy Bismuth How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries GoatCounter ... Read More...
In a world of cloud and serverless, is there any point in most people learning the command line? See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Torvalds is using an Arm Mac with Asahi, potentially bad news for ChromeOS in Europe, a remarkable Debian server upgrade, Facebook wins a battle in the URL war, Minecraft shuns NFTs, KDE Korner, and more. News London Meetup 5th August near The Eye Microsoft clarifies store policy on commercial FOSS Torvalds is using Asahi... Read More
Hayden explains why he uses Windows Subsystem for Linux on a daily basis, and argues that Microsoft is a very different organisation from the one that was so hostile to FOSS 20+ years ago. He mentioned his unofficial timeline of Microsoft’s transition towards open source. See our contact page for ways to get... Read More
Graham played with a Steam Deck, Will switched to Firefox, Félim cleaned up his home directory, and Joe obsessed over battery health. Plus Copilot follow-up, and more. Discoveries Firefox xdg-ninja Steam Deck inxi coconutBattery Feedback lnl-discoveries LanguageTool Linux Downtime 51 Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee... Read More...
Our smallest and our biggest FOSS wins. Things we mentioned: Homebridge FOG Project boringtun vnStat EasyTAG HAProxy See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Thinkpads that won’t boot Linux by default, Lennart moves to Microsoft, the Firefox Snap is finally a lot faster, Reddit shows its true colours, KDE Korner, and more. News London Meetup 5th August near The Eye Lenovo Secured-core PC unable to boot Linux from a USB stick Responsible stewardship of the UEFI secure boot... Read More
Martin and Hayden explain what it’s actually like to use GitHub Copilot, and why they think it’s going to have a positive impact open source software. Plus Hayden explains the legal nuances. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe... Read More
A modern alternative to the watch command, automating lights, and hacking routers, using FOSS to make installing Windows easier. Plus our thoughts on VC funding in open source, and more. Discoveries viddy Cheerlights & cheerlights-hid Hacking a Netgear router to be a ‘mesh’ satellite Vita3K Rufus 3.19 adds bypass for mandatory Windows 11 22H2... Read More...
We all tried to live with a touch-only experience on x86-64 devices. It turns out that Linux is very close to offering a great experience. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
The community gets angry about GitHub Copilot, Félim gets angry about email, Firefox continues to improve, drawers fill up with more Raspberry Pis, KDE shines as ever, and more. News London Meetup 5th August near The Eye Raspberry Pi Pico W: your $6 IoT platform GitHub Copilot and open source laundering Chris Green on... Read More
Stuart Langridge joins us to discuss the nuances of gatekeeping in the Linux community, and why he thinks we inadvertently engaged in it on the last episode. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.
Will buys a cheap mouse, Félim thinks he’s a meteorologist, Graham hacks his TV, and Joe complains about YouTube. Discoveries libratbag & piper WeeWX Device/DevMode Manager for webOS TV LMN 3: An Open-Source DAW-in-a-Box Doom on coreboot and on a Bluetooth dongle OBS Feedback Deskreen Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure... Read More
Do we use Linux to avoid being locked into proprietary systems and services, or is that just as possible using any OS? Plus we bully Dalton for making us read a very American book. Digital Minimalism book Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the... Read More
Thumbs up for Mozilla and KDE, mixed reaction to mobile Thunderbird and Microsoft, AI definitely isn’t sentient, and more. News Our Plans For Thunderbird On Android Frequently Asked Questions: Thunderbird Mobile and K-9 Mail Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users worldwide How to easily switch from Chrome to Firefox... Read More...
Kyle joins us again, along with Hayden Barnes to answer the question: what exactly is a Linux distribution these days? The rise of immutable filesystems, containerisation, virtualisation, hypervisors, and abstraction layers makes this more complex than it might appear. Buy Hayden’s book about WSL. Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal,... Read More...
Arch is really easy to install now, Graham uses his keyboard as a mouse, replacing expensive security platforms with FOSS, silly AI pictures, and Will baffles us with electronics technobabble. Plus feedback about all sorts, including a chance to hear the noise that sends Joe to sleep. Discoveries Wazuh cheat Sigrok (better write up... Read More
Part 2 of the challenge to do something useful with our lowest-end hardware, and two polar opposite customer support experiences. Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/lad to sign up and get $150 free credit to use in 30 days. ... Read More
The usual love for the Mars helicopter and KDE, rare praise for Mozilla, and fingers pointed at DuckDuckGo and Brave. Plus apprehension about Broadcom’s VMware acquisition, and Intel’s new “features”. News Alex’s London meetup is going to be a day earlier than originally planned. He’s still working on a venue but stay tuned and... Read More
Martin and Joe are joined by Kyle Fazzari to reimagine the Linux desktop. What we’d do differently if we were starting over today, who we’d aim it at, what packaging system we’d use, what interface, and more. Kyle’s Twitter thread Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations... Read More
FOSS alternatives to TeamViewer and Plex, Alexa automation made easy, Thunderbird is in great health, plus your feedback about all sorts including an amazing weird Linux installation. Discoveries RustDesk Virtual Smart Home Jellyfin Thunderbird is very much alive and it has an RSS reader Feedback Geekbench results for Linux on Surface devices barrier... Read More...
The first part of our challenge to do something useful with the lowest-end hardware that we own, and whether forking really is as much of an open source benefit as it’s often considered. Links MorphOS Maru OS Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the... Read More
