Season 2 - Episode 6: Convergent Solutions

EU passes Article 13, 19.04 Beta, Solus 4, Steam Redesign, KDE Connect Play Store woes, Google Stadia, Wine 4.5, Nextdock2, convergence discussion. Hurray for pizza day!

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Small Talk

KDE Neon
Yes, there is Vim for Windows
The Long Room in the the Library of the Trinity College

News

Articles 13 and 11 pass in the EU parliament

Article 11 strengthens the copyright protections for news publishers against the re-use of their stories by internet companies, while article 13 greatly increases the responsibility internet companies have to prevent their platforms being used for copyright infringement.
How individual MEPs voted PDF
Allegedly, if it weren't for a confusion among some MEPs the articles could have been amended
EDRi

19.04 Beta is out, ther are also images for flavours.

Includes Gnome 3.32 with fractional scaling

Solus 4 has been released

Steam is to be redesigned

KDE Connect is back in the Play Store

Google Stadia
gaming streaming service coming "in 2019"

Wine 4.5 released

Nexdock2 is on Kickstarter

Discussion

Convergence device, would you use one?

Nextdock2

Basically a laptop shell that uses your phone/Raspberry Pi

Maru OS

Works on Nexus 5X, Nexus 5 and Galaxy S9+.

Samsung Dex

The Linux version
The Android version
Both need fairly new Samsung hardware

Purism

Their version of onvergence means the same apps running on laptops and phones

Boners

Mike: Bottle
Shane: Godot Game Engine

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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.