OpenSUSE Leap 16 and the Fate of Google's Fuchsia OS

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00:00 Intro

01:26 OpenSUSE Leap 16 will be immutable

https://linuxiac.com/opensuse-leap-15-6-to-be-the-last-in-its-current-form/

05:24 Google pretty much gives up on Fuchsia

https://9to5google.com/2024/01/15/google-is-no-longer-bringing-the-full-chrome-browser-to-fuchsia/

07:45 Steam Snap creates problems for Valve

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/01/valve-dont-recommend-ubuntu-steam-snap

11:01 Sponsor: Thunderbird

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12:30 Flathub wants better quality apps

https://linuxiac.com/flathub-strategic-shift-to-highlight-high-quality-apps/

15:52 Ubuntu adds patches to improve GNOME’s performance

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-More-GNOME-Perf

18:10 Plasma 6 will get better fractional scaling

https://blog.broulik.de/2024/01/on-the-road-to-plasma-6-vol-5/

21:02 A proposal to make Ai content more identifiable

https://mindmatters.ai/2024/01/framework-for-ai-legislation/

24:28 Online search is getting worse

https://mashable.com/article/google-search-low-quality-research

28:27 Google will let the EU unlink data from their services

https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/if-youre-in-the-eu-you-can-now-decide-how-much-data-to-share-with-google

30:34 Gstreamer gets 200K€ funding

https://linuxiac.com/stf-funds-gstreamer-with-203k/

32:20 A new flaw in many AMD, Apple and Qualcomm GPUs

https://www.wired.com/story/leftoverlocals-gpu-vulnerability-generative-ai/

34:26 Gaming: Wine 9.0, the Hangover project

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-9.0

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hangover-9.0-Released

38:03 Outro