Late Night Linux

Saving abandonded IoT devices with FOSS, watching directories for changes, monitoring disk usage, window managers vs desktop environments, further thoughts on work-supplied hardware, and more.   Discoveries Tuya Convert entr hw-probe Insteon Abruptly Shuts Down, Users Left Smart-Home-Less Parallel Disk Usage psst   Feedback Touristic Guide — DebConf 22 adblock · PyPI         Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/3tONetk   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

A new Ubuntu LTS is here and it’s mostly great, the Steam Deck is a huge success, Brave proves that nuance isn’t dead, people flock to Mastodon, KDE Korner, and more.   News Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is released Canonical now hopes to IPO in 2023 Ubuntu Founder Explains Why Distro Won’t Support Flatpak Sinclair’s 8-bit home computer, ZX Spectrum, turns 40 The Steam Deck is not a flop De-AMP: Cutting Out Google and Enhancing Privacy   Discoveries LNL Matrix Element New official Mastodon apps for Android and iOS Create Twitter RSS Feeds   KDE Korner KDE Gear 22.04.0 is out Nice theming improvements iOS KDEConnect getting better Alerts Simple Tasks App       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Our discoveries including a better diff, a way to replace Snaps with Flatpacks, a command line cheat sheet, help with YAML, and signing PDFs. Plus your feeback about supporting us with crypto nonsense, running Linux on work machines, an esoteric browser, and more.   Discoveries  Saltstack linter difftastic Xournalpp navi qddcswitch unsnap asciinema   Feedback Qutebrowser Nyxt Browser Interview with Gavin Freeborn about Nyxt     Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/3tONetk   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Moving on from legacy BIOS and Xorg, Raspberry Pi OS finally catches up with security basics, the UK government give us more reasons to be angry, the usual KDE goodness, and more.   News Work with Will writing Go Fedora 37 Looks To Deprecate Legacy BIOS Support Fedora 37 Considering Removal Of Legacy X.Org Drivers An update to Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye elementary update Ubuntu gets a new rolling-release remix GPD are getting quite desperate against the Steam Deck Her Majesty’s Treasury is working on a new kind of mint: NFTs   Admin Check out Linux Downtime and Linux After Dark   KDE Korner KDE Itinerary has barcodes for the gate/seating and now a barcode reader This week and the previous update-a-geddon         Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

A varied selection of Discoveries including Telegraf, writing tools, a book about networking, and fixing a Mac. Plus your feedback about Matrix bridges, virtualisation, Pocket alternatives, the BBC, game development, and more.   Discoveries Computer Networks from Scratch a bit like Julia Evans Telegraf FocusWriter and PanWriter, and also Horcrux It takes a Mac to save a Mac but there is a FOSS alternative   Feedback Vagrant wallabag Shaarli Archiving and Digital Preservation Bookmarks and Link Sharing Read-it-later Lists get-iplayer bashpodder PICO-8 TIC-80 Scratch Appel       Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/3tONetk   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

The Mars helicopter continues to excel, Linux arrives on M1 Macs, Canonical’s hiring methods cause a stink, Graham eats his words about MDM, KDE korner, and more.   News You can now support us on Kofi and Liberapay Software upgrades help Mars helicopter keep flying The first Asahi Linux Alpha Release is here! Linux Downtime Episode about Asahi This was the first step in the interview process at Canonical – I withdrew my application My Interview Process Experience With Canonical Ask Shuttleworth a question! Introducing MDN Plus: Make MDN your own   KDE Korner Okular – First Eco Certified QT6 work progresses with Frameworks+Plasma and now Kate/Kwrite Some KDE items of interest from Wikidata Data Reuse Days Nate’s usual weekly updates         Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

We discuss whether computing become less interesting as performance and abstraction have increased over the years. Plus our discoveries including two way radios, synths, HTML from colourful terminal output, and a personal wiki for Vim.   Discoveries aha blame Canada for computer translation Chirp vimwiki Open Collidoscope (video) Borderlands synth   Computers are really fast, but less exciting now 114 billion transistors, one big meh Unity Store         Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Arch and the Web make us feel old, the BBC makes us rather cross, a kernel vulnerability makes us laugh, Mozilla makes us wonder, and KDE makes us happy.   News Arch is 20 years old The Web is 33 years old A new year, a new MDN (MDN Plus cling soon) Something is up with elementary GNOME, Mono, Xamarin founder Miguel de Icaza leaves Microsoft Linux has been bitten by its most high-severity vulnerability in years Click here to see why the BBC HATES RSS   Admin Check out Linux Downtime and Linux After Dark   KDE Korner Wikidata reuse days… non now… Steamdeck runs KDE PIM Update & KDE Gear updates New Firmware Security tab coming in Plasma 5.25 Translation help Signature support is now Okular in on Android Eco Software Multi-cursors in Kate         Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

A varied selection of Discoveries including suspending apps, easy VMs, and controlling pretty lights. Plus your feedback about Linux gaming, whether bug fixes should be more important than new features, and more.   Discoveries Pandas (10mins to pandas) WLED XSuspender subnetcalc Quickemu and Quickgui     Feedback French Keyboard bug in KDE asus-linux.org GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom protondb         Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

The Raspberry Pi turns 10, the Steam Deck reviews are here, Android is getting proper virtualisation, Arm ThinkPads are coming, and KDE is even better than ever.   News One decade, 46 million units: Happy birthday, Raspberry Pi Android 13 virtualization hack runs Windows (and Doom) in a VM on Android Steam Deck review: it’s not ready Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad Qualcomm’s new PC chips are good, but they still can’t match Apple’s M1   Admin Check out Linux Downtime and Linux After Dark   KDE Korner Fix all the things Kate Improvements coming soon SoK Flathubbing It’s Normal and it Works       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here