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Aug 11, 2021 • 56min
Episode 245: Apple Thinks Different About Encryption
Apple has announced a new update that will allow scanning of your private photos. Firefox 91 is released, and the new US infrastructure bill means you might be paying per mile to drive an EV.
-- During The Show --
03:00 Manually Connecting Services - Jim
Yes look for a developer
Make sure you understand what needs doing
Andreas Spiess YT Lora Info
07:20 Career Advice? - Robert
Start based on Value
Start with what you know well
Start with a LLC on the side
If moving to a new employer, be honest about how long you will work there
Put the customer's needs first
Anticipate needs
Set up a full LLC or Corp, not a DBA, pass through, or sole proprietorship
18:00 Email & PGP - Barking Bandicoot
AU Gov can force back doors
Symmetric vs (Public/Private key pair) Asymmetric/PKI encryption
GPG Guide
Enigmail
24:00 Pick of the Week
Stingle
Stingle White Paper
FOSS Photo backup app
Photos locally encrypted
ArsTechnica
26:20 Gadget of the Week
HulkMan Alpha100
Heavy Duty vehicle jump-starter/battery bank
Amazon Affiliate
30:30 Firefox 91
Total Cookie Protections Enhancement
Supports Log In and SSO on more sites
Simplify Page for printing is back
HTTPS First
31:45 Valve & Arch vs Debian
Debian - "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"
Arch - Faster fixes, Faster updates
PC Gamer
37:45 Infra Bill Includes Per Mile Road Tax
Per Mile Usage Fee
Data collected via
Third Party OBDII modules
OEM Telematics
Insurance Companies
"Any other method"
Nothing about data privacy
TheDrive.com
45:00 Apple & Encryption
Communication Safety Feature
iOS and MacOS
On-Device Machine Learning
Dangerous potential
Apple Privacy Letter
Apple Child Safety
Odysee Video
Snowden's Twitter Post
EFF Article
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Aug 4, 2021 • 1h 6min
Episode 244: Starting Fresh: Part 2
Steve Ovens returns to lay out his plans for his new house as well as ask the community for input on best practices. Standford AIMI center is expanding it's free repository of medical datasets for AI research, and Steam hits 1% Linux users again!
-- During The Show --
01:25 Hardware Keys, Ciphers, SSH - Jordan
OpenPGP
PKCS11
NitroKey, Onlykey, Yubikey, Solokey, etc secures your key
Most secure way is use a different key per hardware device
Corporate centrally manages SSH keys (FreeIPA, Active Directory)
Central Management
09:20 Swisscows vs Duckduckgo - Cory
DuckDuckGo is more private
DuckDuckGo Privacy Policy
12:00 Open Source Health Data Tracking - Alexei
Open Hak
Simblee 32bit BLE/MCU module
13:52 WiFi Phones - Charlie
Great Idea
I too am moving all communications to IP based
19:15 Gadget of the Week
Axis M3067-P
360° panoramic view Camera
Local Configuration
Multiple Views/Streams Available
24:10 Open-Source Medical Data Sets (AIMI)
Stanford.edu
AI Spots things better than the human eye
AI needs large data sets to train
Stanford provides an open source data set for training AI
Allows researchers to train AI for "non profitable" uses
28:28 Steam is back to 1% Linux Users
PCMag.com
Happened before steam deck was announced
Linux is taking over
Microsoft is pushing people to "Windows as a service"
33:44 Open Compute Project
Sharing data center design and management standards
Mind Drip Media Open Compute Project Video
Whole new way of looking at data centers
Build racks and data centers to use case
DataCenterKnowledege
Jeffgeerling.com
ArsTechnica
38:50 NEST
Fedora Linux Conventions
Flock to Fedora
In Person
Virtual Should remain when continued
Nest with Fedora
Virtual
Replacing Flock (Covid)
FUD Con
Fedora Users and Developers Convention
Replaced by Flock
Virtual Release parties will continue
50:55 Building Steve's House Continued
Kid friendly video chat station
Comfy Gaming area
Projector Room
Vlan Setup/Switches
Netgear Switch Rabbit Hole
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Jul 28, 2021 • 56min
Episode 243: Starting Fresh: Part 1
Steve Ovens joins us as we discuss the steam deck, Matrix getting 30 million in funding to polish the rough edges, and with Steve moving into a new house we talk about starting fresh!
-- During The Show --
00:45 Affiliate Link Typo - Chris
Feel free to google the model and buy else where
Lenovo Dock (Affiliate Link) works with MAC
OWC Dock (Affiliate Link) preferred MAC dock
02:50 Unexpected IPv6 - Hesham
IPv4 has NAT, firewall optional
IPv6 no NAT, firewall required
06:15 ANS Telegram - Advait
Geeklab.ninja no account required
GeekLab Telegram
GeekLab Matrix
Matrix and Telegram are bridged
07:20 Resizing Windows Drives - Chris
Use the windows partition manager
Remove unnecessary files
Disable Swap File
Start>Settings>System>About System
Advanced System Settings (About half way down)
Click Settings Button Under "Performance"
Click Advanced Tab
Under Virtual Memory click change button
Un-check "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives"
Select no paging file
Click OK and reboot
JkDefrag
From an administrative command prompt run: jkdefrag -a 5
Shrink partition using Windows partition manager
Remember to leave enough room to turn swap file back on
[Chris DeLuca (naelr) Matrix ID](@naelr:linuxdelta.com)
09:30 Email Feedback - Will
Posteo doesn't allow custom domains
Having control over your email domain is important
11:00 Pick Of the week
OtterCast
Audio line out
Audio Headphones out
Audio IN
WiFi
Ethernet
USB Sound card mode
Webinterface (Configuration)
Shairport-Sync
Pulseaudio sink/source
Snapcast server/client
Spotify Connect (librespot)
13:20 Gadget of the week
Steam Link Discussion with Steve Ovens
Will probably buy for the family instead of a switch
Steam controller is a favorite controller
Steambox/Steam Controller vs Steam Link comparison
Valve is pushing game shops to use Proton instead of linux native
Price discussion
FOSS vs Proprietary discussion
24:30 Ear 1 Wireless Ear Buds
Verge Article
Earbuds from OnePlus
$99
11.6 Drivers by Teenage Engineering
Qi and Type-C charging
26:30 Matrix Gets 30M
Access Act bill, HR 3849
World is waking up to decentralized services
Managing locked in platforms are too much for gov to manage
150,000 German Health care organizations on Matrix
Funding from Protocol Labs
Makers of Matrix don't "need" this funding
EMS currently makes enough to fund matrix development
This funding simply accelerates development and "Polish"
Funding planned for:
Full P2P support
Native E2EE VOIP/Web Conferencing
Decentralized Reputation system
Barinsta Cease and Desist Reddit
Barinsta Cease and Desist Github
Cease and Desist seems slightly over reaching
42:30 Alma Linux Office Hours
Alma Linux Post
Monday 4pm UTC
Beginning August 2nd 2021
You can email your questions in too!
Haven't been able to reach Rocky Linux folks
Alma Linux very accessible and involved
46:00 K9Mail Upgrade
Android Police
Huge Upgrade
Lots of fixes
Lots of new features
Version 5.8 is not quite available in Play Store
47:47 Steve Ovens Move/Tech
Where do I centralize things?
Access Points/Ethernet drops
Types of mounting/racks
Smurf Tube (Affiliate Link)
TV Boxes
Device Charging Setup
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Jul 21, 2021 • 56min
Episode 242: Selling Spyware
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is warning of world in which no phone is safe from state-sponsored hackers. A new version of Plasma Mobile is out, and Valve has released a portable gaming device, running Arch with KDE!
-- During The Show --
00:30 What Noah uses - Jon
Software
Distro - Kubuntu/Fedora
DE - KDE Plasma
Terminator/Konsole
Thunderbird
Fastmail (Work)
Proton Mail (Personal)
VLC/MPV
MakeMKV/Brasero
QMMP MP3 Player
KeepassXC (Personal)
Bitwarden (Public)
Virtual Box/KVM Libvirt
Audacity
Zoom/Jitsi
Sublime Text (Work)/EncryptPad/Joplin/VIM/Kate
Gimp (Images)/Inkscape (Graphic Design)
Element/Nheko/SchildiChat (The turtle one)
Okular
Install Method - Flatpak, AppImage, Snap
Phone
Work - Galaxy S10/iPhone
Personal - Nexus 6P with LineageOS
Personal Disconnected device - Sony Xperia SailfishOS
GPD Pocket on order
Play Device - Pinephone
In the Backpack
Dual Type-C charger RavPower
Apple Type-C charger
2TB External Drive
Small tool kit
Screw drivers
wirecutters
Flash drives
Portable Battery Pack
Netgear Nighthawk Mobile Broadband
Noise Canceling Headphones Sony WH1000xm4
Emergency Kit
Backup Phone (S7)
Backup Wallet
Minimal Viable Battle Station
Pelican 1620
Docking station Lenovo Dock Affiliate
Portable Desk
27" 2K Display
21:15 Decentralized Tech - Jay
Offline First
0Data
Unhosted
Web3
IPFS
22:45 ARP vs MAC Tables - Octavio
MAC Tables
Built by "MAC Learning"
Snooped
Used by switches to prevent HUB behavior
Used for switching
ARP tables
Built with ARP protocal
Used for routing
26:45 Pick of the Week
Tauon Music Box
Drag n Drop file importing
CUE sheet support
MOD tracker
Network Playback
Flathub
27:55 Make Good
SonoBus
High Quality, Low Latency, Peer-to-Peer Audio oever the internet
AAC-LD/AAC-HE
New commercial boxes use OPUS codec
31:30 Gadget of the Week
Omega Charger
World's Smallest 100W & 200W USB-C Charger
World's first 200W Gallium Nitride (GaN) charger
Quick charge 4 devices simultaneously
Estimated Shipping July 2021
34:00 Red Hat To expand Offerings
ZDnet
Low cost/Free RHEL for education
Conan Kudo Link
Open to Primary and Secondary Schools as well
38:20 Snowden Spyware / Mobile Phones Pegasus
Pegasus Malware Made by the NSO Group
Access to
Photos
Emails
Records Calls
Secretly Activate Microphones/Cameras
WhatsApp Chat
GPS Data
Calendar
Contacts
Over 50,000 numbers suspected targets
New "zero-click" attacks
Tech advancing too fast for normal people to keep up
Courts have ruled FaceID/Fingerprints can be compelled
Guardian
Jul 18th Guardian Article
Amnesty Article
49:40 Plasma Mobile 21.07 Released
Plasma Mobile Post
Join the Matrix room - #plasmamobile:matrix.org
52:55 Steam Deck
Steam Handheld
4 core, 8 threads AMD APU
64GB, 256GB, 512GB
$399-$649
Runs SteamOS (Arch+KDE+Big Picture Mode)
Goal: Get every Windows Game working before launch
Tech Radar
IGN
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Jul 14, 2021 • 56min
Episode 241: Gmail Alternatives
We've received a ton of email asking how to get off Gsuite, and what alternative providers are out there. This week we dig in and go through the top alternatives to Gsuite.
-- During The Show --
00:30 Another Gmail Migration Suggestion - Charims
https://imapsync.lamiral.info/
email address: charims@pcwideopen.com
01:00 More Gmail Suggestions - Freddie
Import mbox file into Thunderbird then export in the format you need
01:30 NFS/Freenas issue - Charliebrownau
NFS shares broke with kernel 5.13
FreeNAS offers a snapshot solution to rollback
03:15 NFS - Gary
Could be a NFS file locking issue
03:45 OpenMedia Vault - Cory
Works great on a RaspberryPi
LVM not working however
04:25 Pick of the Week
Deskreen
Allows any device to be a second monitor
Cross platform
05:30 Gadget of the week
Pockethernet
Smartphone connected Ethernet network analyzer
Pairs via bluetooth
Supports:
Cable toner with customizable tones
Wiremap
PoE
TDR
TDR Graph
Link
CDP / LLDP
Outgoing VLAN Tag
DHCP
Ping
Traffic
BER
07:40 Linux foundation - 3D foundation
Tech Republic
Open source 3D engine
20 founding partners
Linux Foundation can "speak corporate"
Benefits not just gaming
Github
13:16 CBL Mariner
Beta News
Github
Microsoft's Linux
uses RPM-OSTree
Follows a secure-by-default principle
15:50 Audacity Update
ArsTechnica
Telemetry is off by default
Telemetry is optional
Telemetry is intentionally easy to remove
Convenience of Yandex and Google is at odds with community wishes
Going forward Audacity will self host metrics
4Chan forced/doxed/threatened a fork of audacity into ending
Github Sneeds
Github Tenacity Maintainer post
21:40 Ansible considers switching to Matrix
Ansible Github Post
IRC issues:
out of date
blocked in many network environments
Lack good moderation tools
missed messages when not logged in
lack of name space ownership
Matrix benefits:
Issues in Matrix are client limitations not protocol limitations
control over name space
Federates like email
Federated, auto updating blacklist
Red Hat is providing funding for EMS hosting
EMS, Mozzila, and Red Hat are fantastic partners
Blacklist Post
34:20 Firefox 90.0
Https only mode in about:config
Print to PDF now produces working hyperlinks
FTP support removed
Firefox Post
35:30 Tony from the matrix chat
Bring in IP cam to web conferencing software
VLC capture
OBS
37:00 Gmail Alternatives
Hushmail
Plain text only
been around since 1999
MsgSafe.io
4096-bit GPG encryption
Virtual Identities
Free plan available
GMX
OpenPGP
Based in Germany
Ad supported
Send up to 50 MB attachments
Mailbox.org
Setup after Snowden revelations
Based in Germany
25 years of experience in providing secure communications
Standard subscription includes many tools
Stores IP addresses for 4 days
Up front with their privacy policy
Posteo
Combines privacy with sustainability
Powered by 100% green energy
Anonymous Sign-up and Payment
ad-free
50 MB Attachments
Runbox
100% hydro-electric energy
Based in Norway
Zoho Mial
Free up to 5 users
Full email and office suite
Encryption
Fastmail
Great for business
Fantastic Management interface
Data belongs to you
you are the customer not the product
Stored data encrypted with LUKS
Has added features like "topic box"
Based in Australia
Australia is part of the "Five Eyes"
Australia has the Assistance and Access Bill
Mail Fence
Based in Belgium
OpenPGP end-to-end encryption
free and paid plans
KoLab Now
Full collaboration suite
Based in Switzerland
100% Free & open source software
No vendor lock-in
Startmail
Founded by Dutch private search engine Startpage team
Track record of privacy
IP address is kept for 3 days
Tracking cookies strictly forbidden
Offers PGP encryption
Encryption is done server side
Accepts crypto currency
Tutanota
Based in Germany
Free and Paid Plans
Discounts for non-profits
End-to-End encryption
secure calendar
Proton Mail
Open source and Independently audited
End-to-End encryption
No-logs
Supports 2FA
You control the encryption key
Password protect non Proton Mail emails
Message expiration
Secure calendar and file sync
Ctemplar
Icelandic law
No data retention
advanced protections (JS injection, malicious SRI)
100% audited and open source
Zero data access
end to end encryption
powered by green energy
Anonymous (including payments)
App in Fdroid
Email Comparison Chart
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Jul 7, 2021 • 56min
Episode 240: Forked FTW
After a privacy policy update to Audacity, a FOSS audio editing software has been forked. Google is forcing new apps to use app bundles instead of APKs starting in August, and Jim Whitehurst steps down from his role just 14 months in.
-- During The Show --
01:00 User Responds to User RE: MBOX - Jay
Mbox Viewer
Supports files larger than 4G
Export all attachments
Export in EML
Export all to separate EML
03:50 File permissions TrueNAS/NFS - Gray
Check your permissions
dataset - including child datasets
NFS share
FreeNAS/TrueNAS configuration is separate from the ZFS dataset
06:30 Matrix server question - Vladimir
EMS (Element Matrix Services)
Matrix is a server/client relationship
Server - Synapse
Client - Element
Account portability/P2P is coming
Dendrite
Matrix Migration Tool
17:30 Feedback/thanks - Lukasz
Thank You Noah
21:22 Email - Charlie Reacts to Audacity - Charliebrownau
Why are governments/companies allowed to hijack opensource projects
Bad things on the horizon for audacity
22:50 Pick of the Week
InkBox
OS replacement for Kobo eReader
Kobox/x11 support
OS built around security
root file system checked on boot
signed packages
Kobo eReader Affiliate Link
Kobo Packages
24:50 Gadget of the Week
Rain Design 10037 mTower Vertical Laptop Stand
High Quality
Aesthetically Pleasing
Fits a variety of Laptops
One piece / nothing to strip
Heavy / doesn't slide around
Rubber padding protect laptop
Amazon Affiliate Link
Lenovo Thunderbolt Dock Affiliate Link
Dell Monitor Affiliate Link
30:20 Jim Whitehurst Leaves IBM
Newsroom Article
Jim stayed on after the IBM acuasition
Jim is leaving after 14 Months
IBM had nothing to do with CentOS
Google Forcing App Bundles
Slash Gear
Google Developers Blog
Google is forcing new apps to use android app bundles (.aab) instead of APKs in August
Play Asset Delivery replaces OBB
better compression
dynamic delivery (deltas)
smaller apps
Play Feature Delivery
allows minimum app download
the rest of the app downloads in the background
Utilizes Google Play only features
Requires developers to do the heavy lifting
Requires developers to maintain 2 versions of their app if they want to distribute their software outside the play store
49:10 Audacity
Github Disccusion
Reddit Discussion
Slashgear
3.0.3 RC1 Released
Adds Binary for Linux via AppImage
Ubuntu Handbook
Switch to 64-bit Windows binary
Dropped Windows XP support
Improved default spectrogram colors
Fix user interface display issue on HiDPI display in Linux.
Fix that font size scales incorrectly.
Updated Privacy Policy
3 Compile Flags
Network Flag = Off Default, no networking features are built regardless of what other flags are set to
Sentry Reporting - Default ON -- Enables error reporting to sentry.io
Crash Reports - Default ON -- Sends crash reports data to breakpad
Updates Check - Default ON -- Requests data from audacityteam.org about latest release
Slashgear
Community Audacity Fork
Nothing bad in the current version
FOSS (GPL) prevents projects from dieing / being taken over
License makes it too easy to cut and run
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Jun 30, 2021 • 56min
Episode 239: Digital Handcuffs
Mix has a new release, The Linux Foundation is working on an open voice network, the Baltimore PD surveillance plane has been shut down by a judge, and we share what we know about Windows 11,
-- During The Show --
00:45 Cost of RTL 308? - Philip
RTL 308
RTL 310
I to am waiting on pricing
02:40 Networking Help - Jordan
New DHCP lease also triggers a fresh ARP entry
05:00 Help Leaving Gmail - Lucas
Use a IMAP + Email Client (like Thunderbird) to sync your mail, then use the email client to export a mbox file
07:55 Reflections on Ep 226 - Bhikhu
Kernel.org post
Github Script
09:20 Pick of the Week
Allows you to turn any website/webapp into desktop app
Web Catalog
12:00 Gadget of the Week
Logitech Rally Plus
Thank you Brett
16:00 Mixxx
MIXX 2.3.0 released
True DJ software
New multithreaded analysis
More accurate key detection
New default "LateNight" skin
Improvements for Rekordbox and Serato users
Opus and HE-AAC codecs added for recording/streaming
New out-of-the-box support for hardware controllers
Improvements for existing hardware controller support
MIXX Release Notes
24:00 Blender
Blender partners with Canonical to provide support
Canonical agrees to build and maintain their own Blender Services Organization
Some of the revenue goes back to Blender
Blender Article
29:00 LF Open Voice Network
Dedicated to advancing open standards in AI-enabled voice assistance systems
Initially Focused on:
Standards Development
Industry Value and Awareness
Advocacy (Regulatory, Data Privacy)
Linux Foundation Press Release
34:45 Air Tracking
Arial Surveillance deemed 4th Amendment violation
Key point - they did not require a warrant to search the data
Reason Article
38:40 Would you pay for Privacy Search Engine?
Free for 3 months, 4.95/month after that
Neeva
Fast Company Article
41:25 Windows 11 - What We Know
Free Upgrade for Windows 7 Pro and 10 users
Only supported on 8th Gen Intel and newer
Android app support added
Android apps will be distributed through Microsoft and Amazon stores
Home Addition requires internet and MS online account
Mandatory TPM 2.0 chip
TPMs have unique keys burned in, which allows for increased DRM
TPMs protect the computer, not you the owner
Microsoft will force online accounts for all versions eventually
Commonsware Article
Verge Article
Secret Club Article
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Jun 23, 2021 • 56min
Episode 238: Calls Emails and Questions Oh My!
This week we're focusing on your questions! We take your calls, answer emails, and with the help of the community we solve some Linux problems!
-- During The Show --
02:40 Caller - Bret
Vendor agnostic hybrid conference room
Audio: Audio-Technica Pro
Video: PCI capture device
c920 webcam Amazon Affiate Link
c930e Webcam Amazon Affiliate Link
PTZOPtics
Axis Cameras
22:15 Caller - Tony
Desktop graphics issues
25:55 Guide for installing AMD drivers? - Charlie
Detailed Explanation
26:50 Google Voice Alternative? - David
Google Voice Killing SMS
Matrix SMS Bridge
Twillio Bridge
JMP Chat
Matrix Bifrost
38:00 Caller - Jared
Resizing a windows partition
Use Gparted (defragment the drive first)
Use windows built in Disk Management in the Management Console
40:00 User Responds to 235 Zebre Printers - Skylar
Easypost
42:00 Jordan Replies Fix for WiFi Switching - Jordan
Arch Linux Wiki
Ask Ubuntu Wifi Roaming
Ask Ubuntu Wireless Priority
43:50 Low powered convertable device? - Joel
No personal experience, but go go it
Fedora Wiki 32-bit UEFI support Thank You Conan Kudo
44:50 Pick of the Week
RustDesk
Remote Desktop Support
46:00 Gadget of the Week
Time trace
Reddit Post about Time Trace
47:50 Rocky Linux
Rocky Linux Post
Report bugs or issues via Bugzilla
Released as
Container Images
Docker Hub
Quay.io
Cloud Offerings
Amazon Web Services
Google Cloud Platform
50:20 Right to Repair
Vice Article
Congressman Joseph Morelle (D-NY) filed national right-to-repair legislation with Congress.
Farmers have been locked out of fixing their own tractors
54:40 New HTTP Spec Proposed
Ars Technica Article
ADPC
Two specs proposed
Aims to eleminate cookie banners
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Jun 16, 2021 • 1h 29min
Episode 237: The Future of Matrix with Matthew Hodgson
Matthew Hodgson returns to the program to discuss the current state of Matrix and the exciting features that are coming!
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01:40 Freenode Discussion
There was a change in Freenode leadership
Libera IRC was created
IRC server software was changed, effectively killing all existing rooms
Article from Conan Kudo
09:50 WiFi SSID Priority - Jordan
RSSI "Received Signal Strength Indicator"
10:55 User feedback on Linux ERP Software - Luke
Odoo
15:00 Interview with Matthew from Matrix.org
Matrix team started in 2003
Hired over 30 people before a single UI/UX person
Once the rough edges are shaved off the power of open source will cause it to explode
Matrix team has approached development from a long term and ethical standpoint
Communities was rushed through
Covid helped to push EMS adoption (Commercial hosting by the creators of Element/Synapse/Matrix)
13 Governments, Education, Health care, Emergency Services, etc
Full account portability is coming (needed for P2P support)
Matrix team solved the computer science problem of decentralized access control
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Jun 10, 2021 • 1h 1min
Episode 235: From The Field: VLANs in Practice
Kenny from Altispeed joins us to discuss applying the network concepts covered in episodes 226 and 231. Amazon is rolling out a new feature that's sharing your internet, and it's on by default. OBS, KDE, and Firefox all have new versions plus our gadgets and picks!
-- During The Show --
01:20 Controlling Multiple Computers? - Ryan
HDMI Matrix switcher for monitors + KVM switch for keyboard, mouse, etc
hardware based (good for locked down computer)
depending on switchers used could accommodate more than 2 computers
Synergy Website
Synergy Github
Barrier Open Source + free version of synergy
Thunderbolt Docks
Dell WD19TB Thunderbolt Dock Recommended in ANS 215
Logitech MX Series Keyboard and Mouse
13:40 User responds to user from 234 - Amit
Boom GitHub
Red Hat Blog
Also supports BTRFS
Snapshot Manager Doc
Snapshot Manager + Boom Github
15:30 Linux, security and privacy? - Dan
Got a FLOSS MRP solution? Write In!
16:25 Pick of the Week
Qzind GitHub
Browser plugin for sending documents and raw commands to a printer or attached device
18:50 Gadget of the Week
Zebra ZD420 Series
Native Linux support
Support for external label cutter
22:00 Amazon Sidewalk/Neighbors
Amazon Mass Wireless Sharing
Guardian Article
Privacy, Security & OSINT Show Episode 197
ArsTechnica Article
Capped at 80 Kbps/ 500M
28:50 Plamsa 5.22.0
Plasma Blog Post
Clean up and re-factoring of code
Adaptive Transparency - Maximizing a window causes the panel and panel widgets to turn opaque
Transition to Plasma System Monitor from KsysGuard
Plasma Wayland now supports Activities
System Settings opens to "Speed Dial" providing easy access to commonly used settings
Improved accessibility and keyboard navigation
Variable refresh rate on wayland
External Graphics card support in Kwin (picks up eGPUs with out a reboot)
29:45 Purism Shipping
Purism Post
Purism Shop
$1999
Fraction of the specs and apps
36:55 Matrix / Element
Spaces allows you to have one consistent communication platform but also focus
Matrix adds Thunderbird integration via Libpurple
Not perfect but functional now and only getting better
NeoChat has updates
43:50 Firefox Release
Cleaned Up interface
Streamlined Menus
Updated Prompts
New Tab Design
Fewer Interruptions
Cohesive Calmer Visuals
Firefox 89 implements Total Coookie Protection in Private Browsing
46:00 OBS Studio Release
OBS Studio 27.0 is out!
Added visibility transitions
Added service integration
Added Wayland & Pipewire Support (Thank You George Stavracas)
Added Track Matte mode to stinger transitions
Added a virtual camera toggle to the system tray menu
Automatic rotation on Video Capture Devices can now be disabled
Added auto reset option to v4L2 source
47:25 Kenny Schmidt
Logitech MX Series
Practical Application of Networking Segments
TP Link 5 port managed switch
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