Linux Lads

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• Please note that this podcast may contain swearing or mature references.

• Antergos with Plasma for your dose of Linux freshness.

• Plex Media Server is just a snap install --beta plexmediaserver away as it joins the ever growing list of snapped popular apps. Available from Gnome Software near you. Or use Emby as an alternative. Need a storage for your movies? NAS-up with openmediavault on a Raspberry Pi. Some configuration might be needed.

• Ubuntu-based betas are looking crisp: Xubuntu, elementary OS, Kubuntu, Ubuntu propper with the Yaru theme and Lubuntu now on LXQt. Don’t care for the hype? Linux Mint just works.

• Some say that Flatpak is a ‘security nightmare’, others like OMG Ubuntu, point out that you can’t blame a tool for how it’s used. Portals could help some of the issues.

• Etcher ignores privacy settings via Ubuntu Podcast. If this bothers you, there’s always UNetbootin and ddrescue.

• Linus Torvalds is addressing his non-cuddliness after publicly apologising while Linux is getting code of conduct. Be excellent to each other (apparently, that’s from a film).

• Facebook got breached, Bloomberg claims that there’s spy micro hardware on servers and Google don’t even bother any more - should we? Stay safer online with Mozilla’s guide.

• Google+ is shutting down, is this the year of Mastodon and Diaspora? You can find us on Mastodon. Twitter is trying to deal with abuse. Social networks should be interchangeable with everyone having an ID that could log into any network. Something similar, but for data could be Tim Berners-Lee’s new project Solid.

• Microsoft joined the Open Invention Network to ‘help protect Linux and open source’ and donated 60,000 patents. The Free Software Foundation says ‘keep on going’. The GPL protects code contributions to the kernel. Could Windows OS run on the Linux Kernel? Should Linux be the only OS? Is this the year…

• The EU might allow copyrighting data generated by self-driving cars. Not much news about this from either the EU or the press. The John Deere travesty. The right to repair movement.

• Linux boners:
• Mike: Joplin
• Shane: TiddlyWiki

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• The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq which was released under the CC BY NC SA License.