Season 4 - Episode 13: Not That Kind of Blue Shell

WIth extra DM • Attack on encryption • 20.04 on XPS • Plasma goes icons only • PinePhone CE • Mint snaps out • Not a Mac • Allons-y, Alonso!

Chitchat

Mike: 🎮 Playing BioShock Infinite
Shane: I discovered PureRef 🖼 and I'm making a space station 🛰 in Blender
Conor: I've been trying out Manjaro KDE 🔵🐧 on my laptop and quite liking it.

News

US 🇺🇸 Senate 🐘 Republicans 🥊 attack 🔒 encryption 🤯 (via cnet)

Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition 💻 now comes with Ubuntu 20.04 (via 9to5Linux)

KDE plasma 🖥 changes the window list to icons only by default (via omg! ubuntu!)

Pine64 🎍📱 announced PinePhone Community Edition (via omg! ubuntu!)

Linux Mint 💔📦 disables snaps (via ZDNet)

Daniel from Elementary on Twitter: "Now that macOS looks like hot garbage I hope people will finally stop saying we look anything like it" 🔥♻

iOS, now with more Android 7, Mac OS now with more iOS, also ARM 💻📲 (via The Verge on YouTube)

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