Ask Noah Show Episode 220: Multi-Monitor in Gnome 40
The Gnome team is revamping multi-monitor support. Firefox 86 is released and features Total Cookie Protection to make cross site tracking more difficult increasing user privacy. Kodi 19 has landed with a lot of new features around metadata and a better music interface.
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How to rename USB Audio interface? - Steve
pacmd update-sink-proplist alsa_output.usb-c-Media_electronics_inc._USB-Audio_Device-00.analog-stereo.2 device.description=What-We-Call-It-Now
Self Hosted Music - Sloth56
Self host or managed services - Mike
- Good Email providers
18:15 RHCSA Training - Adam
- Getting to ask questions is good
- Classes can create community
- In person training is best
- Udemy Course Link
- VTC is almost as good as official RedHat training
- RHCSA Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Training and Exam Preparation Guide Second Edition
23:15 Linux Accessibility - Brendan
- Trackball + Onboard on screen keyboard
27:50 Affiliate link for register4less? - Jerremy
- 14.99/yr
- Privacy included
- Free email aliases
- Free 10MB of web hosting (no SSL)
- Sub Accounts for managing
- Customer service is beyond amazing
29:45 Pick of the Week
- Game Clock (count down/up)
- Adjust on the fly
- Keyboard Bindings
- Set Team Logo
- Multiple Scoreboard Tabs
- Control multiple Scoreboard scoreboards through one control window.
- Packaged as an AppImage
- Cross Platform
- FOSS
34:20 Gadget of the Week
BitBarista: fully autonomous coffee machine built using Raspberry Pi and Bitcoin
- Pi Controlling the BitBarista uses Raspbian
- Uses Electrum for the BitCoin payments.
- Code is on GitHub
- Pays people to restock it
- Can even call a technician to get repairs
36:40 Multi-Monitor on Gnome 40
- Workspaces changes on primary monitor by default
- Supports changing workspaces on all displays
- Introduction of the workspaces navigator on secondary display
- Transitioning to Horizontal workspaces
New additional shortcuts
- switch workspaces will be Super+Alt+←/→.
- Moving windows between workspaces will be Super+Alt+Shift+←/→.
- Super+Alt+↑ will also open the overview and then app grid
- Super+Alt+↓ will close them
These directional keyboard shortcuts have matching touch-pad gestures:
- Three-finger swipes left and right will switch workspaces
- Three-finger swipes up and down will open the overview and app grid
Gnome is doing and explaining changes in the open
44:00 Kodi 19.0 (Matrix)
- Nearly 50 developers contributed code
- About 5,000 commits
- Over 1,500 pull requests since the first release of 18.x "Leia"
- Over 5,500 changed files
- 600,000 lines of code added, changed or removed
- significant improvements to meta-data handling
- New Matrix-inspired visualization
- Database and meta-data improvements
- Many more improvements
- Kodi 19 replaces the old XML meta-data scrapers with Python
- Most new features here revolve around usability
49:50 Nextcloud Hub
- High performance back end for Nextcloud files
- Wide range of performance improvements
- Nextcloud talk improvements
- Debuts message status indicators
- Raise hand feature
- Group conversation description
- And more!
- Wide Range of Groupware improvements
- drag’n’drop
- Nicer threading in Mail
- Syncing social media avatars in Contacts
53:00 Firefox 86 Released
New Features
- Total Cookie Protection (each site gets it's own ("cookie jar")
- Multiple videos Picture-in-Picture
Fixed Issues
- Reader mode now works with local HTML pages
- Orca and other screen reader fixes
- Reader View links have more color contrast
- various security fixes
55:00 New Platform for the Show
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