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Graham plays with a synth, old desktops live on, Generation X11 yells at cloud, Will has been a naughty boy, TV alternatives, and Linux on weird hardware.   Discoveries Surge XT synth The Unity desktop is still alive (as is Trinity) 10 hours of a hairdryer noise Star Trek TNG bridge noise   Feedback Cloudfree.shop... Read More

The Mars Helicopter might be on its way out but it’s still a hero, bad things are happening to the UK Internet and we blame the government, whether software can ever be finished, some great discoveries, KDE Korner, and more.   News Martin Wimpress has joined Linux Downtime as a co-host Mars helicopter spots wreckage... Read More

Saving abandonded IoT devices with FOSS, watching directories for changes, monitoring disk usage, window managers vs desktop environments, further thoughts on work-supplied hardware, and more.   Discoveries Tuya Convert entr hw-probe Insteon Abruptly Shuts Down, Users Left Smart-Home-Less Parallel Disk Usage psst   Feedback Touristic Guide — DebConf 22 adblock · PyPI      ... Read More

A new Ubuntu LTS is here and it’s mostly great, the Steam Deck is a huge success, Brave proves that nuance isn’t dead, people flock to Mastodon, KDE Korner, and more.   News Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is released Canonical now hopes to IPO in 2023 Ubuntu Founder Explains Why Distro Won’t Support Flatpak Sinclair’s... Read More

Our discoveries including a better diff, a way to replace Snaps with Flatpacks, a command line cheat sheet, help with YAML, and signing PDFs. Plus your feeback about supporting us with crypto nonsense, running Linux on work machines, an esoteric browser, and more.   Discoveries  Saltstack linter difftastic Xournalpp navi qddcswitch unsnap asciinema   Feedback... Read More

Moving on from legacy BIOS and Xorg, Raspberry Pi OS finally catches up with security basics, the UK government give us more reasons to be angry, the usual KDE goodness, and more.   News Work with Will writing Go Fedora 37 Looks To Deprecate Legacy BIOS Support Fedora 37 Considering Removal Of Legacy X.Org Drivers... Read More

A varied selection of Discoveries including Telegraf, writing tools, a book about networking, and fixing a Mac. Plus your feedback about Matrix bridges, virtualisation, Pocket alternatives, the BBC, game development, and more.   Discoveries Computer Networks from Scratch a bit like Julia Evans Telegraf FocusWriter and PanWriter, and also Horcrux It takes a Mac to... Read More

The Mars helicopter continues to excel, Linux arrives on M1 Macs, Canonical’s hiring methods cause a stink, Graham eats his words about MDM, KDE korner, and more.   News You can now support us on Kofi and Liberapay Software upgrades help Mars helicopter keep flying The first Asahi Linux Alpha Release is here! Linux Downtime... Read More

We discuss whether computing become less interesting as performance and abstraction have increased over the years. Plus our discoveries including two way radios, synths, HTML from colourful terminal output, and a personal wiki for Vim.   Discoveries aha blame Canada for computer translation Chirp vimwiki Open Collidoscope (video) Borderlands synth   Computers are really fast,... Read More

Arch and the Web make us feel old, the BBC makes us rather cross, a kernel vulnerability makes us laugh, Mozilla makes us wonder, and KDE makes us happy.   News Arch is 20 years old The Web is 33 years old A new year, a new MDN (MDN Plus cling soon) Something is up... Read More

A varied selection of Discoveries including suspending apps, easy VMs, and controlling pretty lights. Plus your feedback about Linux gaming, whether bug fixes should be more important than new features, and more.   Discoveries Pandas (10mins to pandas) WLED XSuspender subnetcalc Quickemu and Quickgui     Feedback French Keyboard bug in KDE asus-linux.org GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom protondb... Read More

The Raspberry Pi turns 10, the Steam Deck reviews are here, Android is getting proper virtualisation, Arm ThinkPads are coming, and KDE is even better than ever.   News One decade, 46 million units: Happy birthday, Raspberry Pi Android 13 virtualization hack runs Windows (and Doom) in a VM on Android Steam Deck review: it’s not ready Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad Qualcomm’s new PC chips are good, but they still can’t match Apple’s M1   Admin Check out Linux Downtime and Linux After Dark   KDE Korner Fix all the things Kate Improvements coming soon SoK Flathubbing It’s Normal and it Works       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Loads of discoveries including window tiling, rich text for CLI Python apps, FOSS Wordle, 3D home design, and fractals. Plus your feedback about JSON, Matrix, audio, and an old Mac.   Discoveries Python Rich Sweethome 3D react-wordle wordle in under 50 lines of bash Bismuth Kröhnkite KWin-Tiling Mandelbulber2   Feedback fx: Command-line tool and terminal JSON viewer jo Unofficial LNL Matrix room Samson mic Podcastage         Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Mixed gaming news, great Raspberry Pi news, Mozilla teams up with Meta and ditches their VR browser, KDE Korner, and more.   News Slackware 15 released Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit) Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit vs. 64-bit Performance Review Network install beta test Update on Firefox Reality Privacy Preserving Attribution for Advertising Pocket migration to Firefox accounts Google Stadia has reportedly been demoted, but it might show up in your Peloton Inside Google’s Plan to Salvage Its Stadia Gaming Service Early Steam Deck previews are out – and battery life is causing concern Steam Deck CAD files now available Twitter thread about the Deck’s size Epic won’t update Fortnite to run on the Steam Deck   Admin Check out Linux Downtime and Linux After Dark   KDE Korner Plasma 5.24 (Nico has a video) & Bug fixes coming with some improvements too Kalendar 1.0 is out Plasma Mobile Gear 22.01 is out 5.25 starts: Discover redesign begins & Navigate panels with the keyboard         Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Why FOSS is unlikely to gain traction in education, what’s great about Discourse, Linux gaming, the uncertain future of Termux, our thoughts on Snap and Flatpak, and more.   Links mentioned: Termux and its plugins are no longer updated on Google Play Store Termux and Android 10 AppImage, Flatpak und Snap in comparison     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

The Steam Deck is nearly here, Will is looking for a new email host, Creative Commons is abused, Joe has kernel problems, Félim upgrades his phone, and Graham plays a synth. Plus KDE Korner.   News Steam Deck Deposit – Steam Deck Launching February 25th Farewell, G-Suite Legacy The Pains Involved In Moving on from Google Apps for Domains A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator   Discoveries Jq Vital synth   Admin Check out Linux Downtime and Linux After Dark   KDE Korner Falkon 3.2.0 15 Minute bug initiative and progress (plus some upcoming features) Runner help Linux App Summit       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Why some people use Mint instead of Ubuntu, and your feedback. Plus all sorts of discoveries including programming lights, Ceefax, and a FOSS alternative to Sonos.   Discoveries HiFi Berry OS Ceefax lives! NimBLE ESP32 iPlayer probably runs on 32-bit Linux   Why use Mint over Ubuntu? Linux Mint 20.3 “Una” Cinnamon released! New Features in Linux Mint 20.3 ‘Una’ Cinnamon Edition         Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

A theme of funding open source development runs throughout the news including npm sabotage, Mozilla accepting crypto donations, and Signal’s CEO standing down. Plus Wordle’s open web problem, the usual great stuff in KDE Korner, and more.   News JavaScript dev deliberately screws up own popular npm packages to make a point of some sort Open source maintainer threatens to throw in the towel if companies won’t ante up New year, new Signal CEO Mozilla backtracks on crypto donations Wordle is being punished by app stores for choosing the open web Dev of namesake app donates proceeds to charity Humble subscription service is dumping Mac, Linux access in 18 days Canon forced to ship ink cartridges without chips   KDE Korner Plasma 5.24 Beta out KVer Graphics & Dev Videos Gnome App ID in KDE Task Manager KDE PIM Updates and 4k LOC from Dolphin refactored out       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

A simple FOSS way to share your mouse and keyboard across multiple machines, and a handy command line tool to find duplicate files. Plus your predictions for 2022 including gaming, GNOME, Firefox, Raspberry Pi, and PipeWire.   Discoveries Barrier rdfind A CPU implemented in a modular synthesizer   Feedback CalyxOS and a site to check which apps will work with de-Googled Android       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Ubuntu might be taking gaming more seriously, more Mozilla missteps, why Her Majesty’s demise might be really bad news, a brand new segment, KDE Korner, and more.   News/discussion Please don’t use Discord for FOSS projects UK tech policy predictions for 2022: pennies dropping everywhere Firefox I Love You, But Can You Shut Up About Mozilla VPN?! Mozilla begs for crypto & jwz lays some smack down Canonical Seeks Linux Desktop Gaming Product Manager  In 2022, security will be priority number one for Linux and open-source developers   Discoveries ts – Prefix any line with the current timestamp The Rockstar Language Specification   KDE Korner Highlights of 2021 and a Roadmap for 2022 Krita 5.0 released! A new browser from kMobile KDE Art Stream       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here