Season 1 - Episode 3: There's cocaine in it

Creativity tools, spreadsheets, desktop environments, choice, freedom, progress and the lameness of ‘e-government’. Tangent is the word.

News & Discussion

film making and photography on Linux (Blender, kdenlive, Shotcut, darktable, digiKam. Blender as a video editor)

Deepin has a new release and it looks good as ever. It purports to use less RAM than Ubuntu.

not letting Google own the whole of your digital life

Jeremy Corbyn would like a publicly funded Facebook alternative. Would the Irish government please step up? We need public digital infrastructure and it needs to be done right.

Adobe Air, the technology of choice of governments everywhere

Google Makes it Easier to Run Linux Apps on Chromebooks. Chrome OS is based on Gentoo, who knew?

Are Google and Apple walled gardens slowly starting to crumble?

Don’t confuse Kodi and piracy.

How to explain what is Linux and free as in freedom to people outside our bubble? Is open source a better description?

Linux is choice.

Thunderbird is getting updated and the guy’s name is Ryan Sipes

Get your ThinkPad firmware update on Linux

Lubuntu are going Wayland. That’s a good thing. Ubuntu are careful.

The trouble with Gnome and Dropbox

Favourite desktop environments - Mate, Cinnamon, XFCE, LXQT, KDE.

VisiData a command line spreadsheet that can handle massive amounts of data made by Saul Pwanson.

WebDAV and FileZilla, easy ways to do remote files.

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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.