Season 2 - Episode 14: A Break in Tradition

Linux Lads

English - July 29, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 49.2 MB - ★★★★ - 3 ratings
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Facebook fined • Blender supported • Windows KDEConnect-ed • Android scrcopied • Pinebook demoed • OnlyOffice updated • Linux on an old laptop • Ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife

News

Facebook got 💢💰 slapped with a $5B fine (CNN via Linux Journal)

The Cambridge Analytica scandal 🤯
Facebook 👌 Open Source
⚛️ React JavaScript library
Btrfs at 💽 Facebook
EEE 🤗↔️💀
Microsoft joins private 🔒📧 Linux kernel mailing list

✏️ Ubisoft and 🎮 Epic to support 💶💶💶 Blender (GamingOnLinux)

KDEConnect 📱🔗🖥️ is being ported to Windows 10 (omg! ubuntu!)

The effort is part of ⛱️🤖 Google Summer of Code

Mirror 📱➡️🖥️ you Android phone from Ubuntu (omg! ubuntu!)

New Pinebook Pro 🌲📗💻 video 📹demos 4K video, external monitor 📺, and WebGL (omg! ubuntu!)

The PbP preorders 📦 are now live for community members

OnlyOffice 🏢 gets updated (omg! ubuntu!)

Events

Ubucon, 🐧📛 10th to 13th of October, Sintra, Portugal
Oggcamp 🥳🐧, 19th to 20th of October, Manchester, UK

Discussion

Running Linux on an old 🕰️💻 laptop (submitted via Twitter by Joey Fallon

Quick fixes if 🔥🦊 Firefox slows down

NoScript ⛔📜 for Firefox

Auto Tab Discard 🗃️🗑️ addon for Firefox

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Attribution

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

Twitter Mentions

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