Security – mintCast https://mintcast.org The podcast by the Linux Mint community for all users of Linux Sun, 12 Oct 2025 21:53:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://mintcast.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-small-logo-32x32.png Security – mintCast https://mintcast.org 32 32 mintCast false CC-BY-SA 4.0 CC-BY-SA 4.0 podcast Security – mintCast https://mintcast.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/big-logo-1600.png https://mintcast.org TV-G 164426984 470 – Laptop Rescue Service AKA “Send us your stuff!” https://mintcast.org/470-laptop-rescue-service-aka-send-us-your-stuff/ Sun, 12 Oct 2025 21:53:38 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=7680 First up in the news: LMDE 7 ‘Gigi” release imminent, Mint Monthly News, Ubuntu 25.10 is out and breaking stuff, Firefox shaking is loved by TIME, Windows 10 is officially dead and lots more!

In security and privacy: Charles has some interesting news on AI and new laws in Spain

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

]]> First up in the news: LMDE 7 ‘Gigi” release imminent, Mint Monthly News, Ubuntu 25.10 is out and breaking stuff, Firefox shaking is loved by TIME, Windows 10 is officially dead and lots more!

In security and privacy: Charles has some interesting news on AI and new laws in Spain

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Link To Full Show Notes

The News:


LMDE 7 Release Imminent


Mint Monthly News – September 2025


Ubuntu 25.10 released, and breaks flatpaks!


Ubuntu Linux 26.04 LTS Officially Named Resolute Raccoon


Cosmic Beta released


Mozilla Firefox is about to add an important feature other browsers have had for years: Profile Management


Mozilla Firefox Shake To Summarize feature gets special mention in TIME’s Best Inventions of 2025


Opera Wants You To Pay $19.90 a Month for Its New AI Browser


Android Security or Vendor Lock-In? Google’s New Sideloading Rules Smell Fishy


Open Source Android Repository F-Droid Says Google’s New Rules Will Shut It Down


Amazon Ditches Android — Launches ‘Linux-Based’ Vega OS for Fire TV


TiVo Exiting Legacy DVR Business


California Law Forces Netflix, Hulu To Turn Down Ad Volumes


Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025



PC Sales Explode In Q3 As Windows 11 Deadlines Force Millions To Upgrade


Microsoft Is Plugging More Holes That Let You Use Windows 11 Without an Online Account

Security and Privacy:


AI for America – “A Roadmap to Make AI Work for All Americans, Not Just Big Companies”


Spain’s New age Verification

Check This Out:


Workaround for Flatpaks

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 470 470 Laptop Rescue Service AKA "Send us your stuff!" full 1:43:58 7680 469 – Bill Loves Windows https://mintcast.org/469-bill-loves-windows/ Sun, 28 Sep 2025 22:45:46 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=7666 First up in the news: LMDE 7 ‘Gigi” BETA released

In security and privacy: Mississippi enforces Age Assurance Law, NPM suffers a security breach.

Then in our Wanderings, Joe works with Proxmox, and Openmediavault, Jim Troubleshoots hard disks, Majid goes back to work, and Bill works on his "Immich."

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

]]> First up in the news: LMDE 7 ‘Gigi” BETA released

In security and privacy: Mississippi enforces Age Assurance Law, NPM suffers a security breach.

Then in our Wanderings, Joe works with Proxmox, and Openmediavault, Jim Troubleshoots hard disks, Majid goes back to work, and Bill works on his “Immich.”

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Link To Full Show Notes

The News:


LMDE 7 ‘Gigi” BETA released


Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human

Security and Privacy


Mississippi’s Age Assurance Law


NPM Packages Security Breach

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 469 469 Bill Loves Windows full 2:24:28 7666 468 – Very Plexable https://mintcast.org/468-very-plexable/ Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:40:22 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=7640 First up in the news: Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” released, Mint Monthly News – August

In security and privacy: Plex is a problem again

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

]]> First up in the news: Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” released, Mint Monthly News – August

In security and privacy: Plex is a problem again

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Link To Full Show Notes

The News:


Mint 22.2 ‘Zara’ released


From the Mint blog by Clem


What’s new in Mint 22.2 Zara


Release Notes for Mint 22.2 Zara


How to upgrade from Mint 22.1


LMDE 7 beta expected in Sep. 2025; Mint 22.3 in Dec. 2025


KDE launches its own distribution (again)


Firefox To End 32-bit support in 2026


Run Windows apps in Linux using open source WinBoat


Is Roku Driving the Final Nail in the Coffin of Traditional TV?


Not completely linux related but Borderlands 4 released Sept 12


Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Linux Performance Improving But Short Of AMD Ryzen & Intel Core Ultra

Security and Privacy


Plex User Data Exposed


An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too)

Check This Out


NerdyDayTrips


The Bullshit Machine

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>

]]> 468 468 Very Plexable full 1:57:04 7640 467 – Line Of Sight https://mintcast.org/467-line-of-sight/ Sun, 31 Aug 2025 23:01:30 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=7620 First up in the Mint news: Another birthday for Mint!, Mint 22.2 final ISOs now being tested

In security and privacy: Arch is Ddossed and malware abounds

Then in our Wanderings: Joe does a lot, Majid achieves very little, Charles, Bill falls off the ARC and Jim is a photographic genius

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

]]> First up in the Mint news: Another birthday for Mint!, Mint 22.2 final ISOs now being tested

In security and privacy: Arch is Ddossed and malware abounds

Then in our Wanderings: Joe does a lot, Majid achieves very little, Charles, Bill falls off the ARC and Jim is a photographic genius

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Link To Full Show Notes

The News:


Another birthday for Mint!


Mint 22.2 ‘Zara’ final ISOs being tested

Security and Privacy:

Ringreaper Linux Malware


Arch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>

]]> 467 467 Line Of Sight full 2:14:39 7620 465 – “Won’t Someone Think Of The Children!” https://mintcast.org/465-wont-someone-think-of-the-children/ Sun, 03 Aug 2025 22:17:14 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=7578 First up in the news: Mint 22.2 betas now in testing, Arch AUR Under Fire Once More as Malware Resurfaces, Debian 13 Trixie Release Date is Officially Confirmed, and Hyprland Hyprperks have been launched.

In Security and Privacy, Introducing Proton Authenticator – secure 2FA, your way and Microsoft Recall issues

In Check This Out, Ignition allows you to manage startup apps and scripts

And finally, Vibrations From the Ether

]]> First up in the news: Mint 22.2 betas now in testing, Arch AUR Under Fire Once More as Malware Resurfaces, Debian 13 Trixie Release Date is Officially Confirmed, and Hyprland Hyprperks have been launched.

In Security and Privacy, Introducing Proton Authenticator – secure 2FA, your way and Microsoft Recall issues

In Check This Out, Ignition allows you to manage startup apps and scripts

And finally, Vibrations From the Ether

  • 00:00:00 – Intro
  • 00:00:50 – News
  • 01:20:34 – Security And Privacy
  • 01:34:40 – Check This Out
  • 01:37:32 – Vibrations From The Ether
  • 01:40:10 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
  • 01:41:00 – Wrap Up
  • 01:43:12 – Special Thanks
  • 01:43:51 – Outro
Link To Full Show Notes

The News:


Mint 22.2 Beta ISOs now in testing


Arch AUR Under Fire Once More as Malware Resurfaces


Debian 13 Trixie Release Date is Officially Confirmed


Hyprperks have been launched!


Ubuntu Concept For Snapdragon X1 Laptops Moves To Linux 6.16, Enables More Devices


The big news out of the UK this week is all the blocking they’re doing due to the Online Safety Act

Security And Privacy:


Introducing Proton Authenticator – secure 2FA, your way


Microsoft Recall can still capture credit cards and passwords, a treasure trove for crook

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 465 465 "Won't Someone Think Of The Children!" full 1:45:01 7578 463 – Tacos And TikTok https://mintcast.org/463-tacos-and-tiktok/ Mon, 07 Jul 2025 10:29:03 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=7552 First up in the news: Linux hits 5%, Nintendo does what we feared, The orange baby eats a TACO, Steam prefers Proton to Native, Fedora might have killed Bazzite and a new Firefox release

We also welcome Charles as a new co-host!

In security and privacy: more password leakage by big tech

And finally, the Feedback and a couple of suggestions

]]> First up in the news: Linux hits 5%, Nintendo does what we feared, The orange baby eats a TACO, Steam prefers Proton to Native, Fedora might have killed Bazzite and a new Firefox release

We also welcome Charles as a new co-host!

In security and privacy: more password leakage by big tech

And finally, the Feedback and a couple of suggestions

Full Show Notes Here

The News:


Trump extends deadline for US TikTok sale to September


Steam Client Now Enables Proton by Default for Games without Native Linux Builds


Firefox 141 Promises to Use Less Memory on Linux Systems, Beta Out Now


Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA


F44 Change Proposal: Drop i686 support (system wide)


The whole truth about Fedora’s 32-bit proposal w/ Kyle from Bazzite


Nintendo is nuking Switch 2 accounts for using Mig Flash

Security And Privacy


16 billion passwords leaked in Google, Facebook, Apple massive data breach

Check This Out:


WHW03 Mesh Router openwrt


GL.iNet GL-SFT1200

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>

]]> 463 463 Tacos And TikTok full 1:24:29 7552 461 – Virtualization https://mintcast.org/461-virtualization/ Sat, 17 May 2025 23:45:31 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=7511 First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, BackBlaze backups may be in trouble, you can run Arch inside Windows, Linux kernel drops 486 and early 586 support, and a new RaspberryPiOS release, and the end of Windows 10 support brings new opportunities

In security and privacy: openSUSE removes Deepin Desktop over security issues, Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law

Then in our Wanderings: Bill goes mobile, Moss plays with a Pangolin, Eric finally fixes his WiFi.

In our Innards section: we talk about Virtual Machines

In Bodhi Corner, just a bit about theming

]]> First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, BackBlaze backups may be in trouble, you can run Arch inside Windows, Linux kernel drops 486 and early 586 support, and a new RaspberryPiOS release, and the end of Windows 10 support brings new opportunities

In security and privacy: openSUSE removes Deepin Desktop over security issues, Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law

Then in our Wanderings: Bill goes mobile, Moss plays with a Pangolin, Eric finally fixes his WiFi.

In our Innards section: we talk about Virtual Machines

In Bodhi Corner, just a bit about theming

Full Show Notes Here

The News:


Mint Monthly News


Your Backblaze Backups Might Be in Trouble


Linux Kernel to Drop Support for Legacy i486 and Early 586 CPUs


A new Raspberry Pi OS release


The End of 10 group aims to save Windows 10 PCs from landfills using Linux

Security and Privacy:


openSUSE Removes Deepin Desktop Over Security Policy Violations


Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>

]]> full 2:30:10 7511 458 – The Mobile Generation https://mintcast.org/458-the-mobile-generation/ Sat, 05 Apr 2025 20:19:27 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=7458 First up in the news: New GIMP, Debian comes to a RISC-V tablet, Google explains why the are putting Terminal on Android, Asahi Linux loses another top dev, Plex goes for the gold – yours, meet EU OS, Kernel 6.14 is released, Gnome 48 released, new GRUB updates, AerynOS is released with GNOME 48

In security and privacy: “MyTerms” wants to let the user dictate privacy

Then in our Wanderings: Moss plays Musical Tablets, Joe Moxes the Prox, Dale has a burpday, Majid is on holiday and Bill is off truckin’ somewhere...

In our Innards section: Dale takes us through Mobile Networks

In Bodhi Corner, Moss covers new translations and work on the next version.

]]> First up in the news: New GIMP, Debian comes to a RISC-V tablet, Google explains why the are putting Terminal on Android, Asahi Linux loses another top dev, Plex goes for the gold – yours, meet EU OS, Kernel 6.14 is released, Gnome 48 released, new GRUB updates, AerynOS is released with GNOME 48

In security and privacy: “MyTerms” wants to let the user dictate privacy

Then in our Wanderings: Moss plays Musical Tablets, Joe Moxes the Prox, Dale has a burpday, Majid is on holiday and Bill is off truckin’ somewhere…

In our Innards section: Dale takes us through Mobile Networks

In Bodhi Corner, Moss covers new translations and work on the next version.

Full Show Notes Here

The News:


GIMP 3.0 Image Editor Is Now Available for Download


A Debian-Based Distro and Hardware Upgrades Come to the PINE64 RISC-V Tablet


Google Explains Why It Added a Linux VM to Pixel Phones


Asahi Linux loses another prominent dev as GPU guru calls it quits


Plex is cracking down on its version of password sharing, and it’s coming with a price hike


EU OS Is a New Community-Led Linux Alternative for Europe’s Public Sector


Linux Kernel 6.14 Officially Released, This Is What’s New


GNOME 48 lands with performance boosts, new fonts, better accessibility


GRUB Bootloader Received 73 Patches To Fix A Variety Of Recent Security Issues


AerynOS 2025.03 Released with GNOME 48, Mesa 25, and Linux Kernel 6.13.8

Security And Privacy:


“MyTerms” wants to become the new way we dictate our privacy on the web

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>

]]> 458 458 The Mobile Generation full 2:31:23 7458 457- mozillaCast https://mintcast.org/457-mozillacast/ Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:48:20 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=7437 First up in the news: Firefox’s new terms aren’t that bad, uBlock Origin is the Most Popular Firefox Add-on, Cloudflare bounces browsers, and PocketCast goes free

In security and privacy: French government rejects security backdoors, and TAILS replaces balenaEtcher with Rufus as installer for Windows

Then in our Wanderings: Joe moxxes the prox, Bill goes deep in the heart of Texas, Moss sings again, and Majid finally learns Audacity...sort of

]]> First up in the news: Firefox’s new terms aren’t that bad, uBlock Origin is the Most Popular Firefox Add-on, Cloudflare bounces browsers, and PocketCast goes free

In security and privacy: French government rejects security backdoors, and TAILS replaces balenaEtcher with Rufus as installer for Windows


Then in our Wanderings: Joe moxxes the prox, Bill goes deep in the heart of Texas, Moss sings again, and Majid finally learns Audacity…sort of

Full Show Notes Here

The News:


Firefox’s Updated Terms of Use Are Not As Bad As They Sound


uBlock Origin is the Most Popular Firefox Add-on


Cloudflare’s bot bouncer blocks weirdo browsers


Thunderbird 136 Release Adds New Appearance Controls


Pocket Casts Makes Its Web Player Free and Criticizes Corporate-Owned Rivals

Security and Privacy:


France rejects controversial encryption backdoor provision


TAILS replaces balenaEtcher with Rufus as installer for Windows

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 457 457 457 - mozillaCast full 1:56:58 7437 451 – Cinnamon Toast https://mintcast.org/451-cinnamon-toast/ Tue, 10 Dec 2024 09:49:30 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=7301 First up in the news: mintCast turned 16 while we weren’t watching, Mint 22.1 being tested, Cinnamon 6.4 Desktop Environment released, US lawyers pushing Google to divest Chrome, El Capitan takes the lead

In security and privacy: Hackers push fake BitWarden updates, Chinese hackers push Linux-focused WolfsBane, WordPress security flaw gives hackers admin access

Then in our Wanderings: Bill cools the runnings, Joe cools his printer, Moss cools his ereaders, Majid gives in to temptation, and Eric finds value and delight in his secondhand hardware.

]]> First up in the news: mintCast turned 16 while we weren’t watching, Mint 22.1 being tested, Cinnamon 6.4 Desktop Environment released, US lawyers pushing Google to divest Chrome, El Capitan takes the lead

In security and privacy: Hackers push fake BitWarden updates, Chinese hackers push Linux-focused WolfsBane, WordPress security flaw gives hackers admin access,

Then in our Wanderings: Bill cools the runnings, Joe cools his printer, Moss cools his ereaders, Majid gives in to temptation, and Eric finds value and delight in his secondhand hardware.

Full Show Notes Here

The News:


mintCast is 16!


Linux Mint 22.1 ISOs are now being tested


US lawyers will reportedly try to force Google to sell Chrome and unbundle Android


All hail our new leader — AMD-powered El Capitan becomes officially the world’s fastest supercomputer

Security and Privacy:


Hackers pushing fake Bitwarden updates hit thousands of devices with data stealing malware


Chinese hackers target Linux with new WolfsBane malware


Security plugin flaw in millions of WordPress sites gives admin access

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 451 451 Cinnamon Toast full 1:44:21 7301 449 – 3D Podcasting https://mintcast.org/449-3d-podcasting/ Thu, 31 Oct 2024 23:50:00 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=7256 First up in the news: Ubuntu 25.04 gets perfect name, WinAmp deletes entire Github code, Ubuntu 24.10 released for Snapdragon X Elite, Arm cancels Qualcomm’s architecture license, Paranoia and Fear inhabit Automattic, Internet Archive breached again, Rand removal of Russian coders spurs debate about Linux kernel’s politics

In security and privacy: Concerns raised over Bitwarden, Fortigate Admins Report Active Zero-Day Exploit

Then in our Wanderings: Joe mods, Moss gets edumacated, and Eric times out

]]> First up in the news: Ubuntu 25.04 gets perfect name, WinAmp deletes entire Github code, Ubuntu 24.10 released for Snapdragon X Elite, Arm cancels Qualcomm’s architecture license, Paranoia and Fear inhabit Automattic, Internet Archive breached again, Rand removal of Russian coders spurs debate about Linux kernel’s politics

In security and privacy: Concerns raised over Bitwarden, Fortigate Admins Report Active Zero-Day Exploit

Then in our Wanderings: Joe mods, Moss gets edumacated, and Eric times out

Full Show Notes

The News:


Ubuntu 25.04 Codename is Revealed – And It’s Pretty Perfect


Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks


Ubuntu 24.10 Developer Preview Released For Snapdragon X1 Elite Laptops


Arm cancels Qualcomm’s architecture license


Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic Over WordPress Chaos


Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens


Removal of Russian coders spurs debate about Linux kernel’s politics

Security and Privacy:


Bitwarden Open Source Concerns


Fortigate Admins Report Active Zero-Day Exploit

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 449 449 449 - 3D Podcasting full 7256 447 – Real Time Linux https://mintcast.org/447-real-time-linux/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 04:00:00 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=7188 First up in the news: Linux Kernel 6.11 released, Intel spins off its foundry business, Real Time comes to Linux, Qualcomm wants to buy Intel, WP Engine faces off against Automattic, Nvidia publishes open source Linux vGPU driver, Proton finishes open-sourcing all its apps

In security and privacy: Kaspersky deletes itself and inserts UltraAV

Then in our Wanderings: Bill goes loco(l), Majid folds, Moss goes Full Circle, Joe modifies something, Eric dodges another bullet, and Ken uses all the words

Happy 41st Birthday GNU!

]]> First up in the news: Linux Kernel 6.11 released, Intel spins off its foundry business, Real Time comes to Linux, Qualcomm wants to buy Intel, WP Engine faces off against Automattic, Nvidia publishes open source Linux vGPU driver, Proton finishes open-sourcing all its apps

In security and privacy: Kaspersky deletes itself and inserts UltraAV

Then in our Wanderings: Bill goes loco(l), Majid folds, Moss goes Full Circle, Joe modifies something, Eric dodges another bullet, and Ken uses all the words

Happy 41st Birthday GNU!

Full Show Notes Here

The News:


Linux Kernel 6.11 Officially Released, Here’s What’s New


Intel frees its Foundry biz


Real-time Linux is officially part of the kernel after decades of debate


Qualcomm wants to buy Intel


WP Engine Filed Legal Action Against WordPress


NVIDIA Publishes Open-Source Linux Driver Code For GPU Virtualization “vGPU” Support


All Proton Drive apps are now open source

Security and Privacy:


Kaspersky deletes itself, installs UltraAV antivirus without warning

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>

]]> 447 447 Real Time Linux full 2:18:33 7188 446 – The Beauty of Cinnamon, and The Downfall of Redbox https://mintcast.org/446-the-beauty-of-cinnamon-and-the-downfall-of-redbox/ Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:41:56 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=7170 First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – August 2024, Software Freedom Day,

In security and privacy: Apple Suddenly Drops NSO Group Spyware Lawsuit;

Then in our Wanderings: Bill flirts with Ladybird, Joe gets jiggy with his ports, Moss does something or other, Eric gets COSMIC;

In our Innards section: we discuss DRM and digital media providers

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

]]>
First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – August 2024, Software Freedom Day,

In security and privacy: Apple Suddenly Drops NSO Group Spyware Lawsuit;

Then in our Wanderings: Bill flirts with Ladybird, Joe gets jiggy with his ports, Moss does something or other, Eric gets COSMIC;

In our Innards section: we discuss DRM and digital media providers


And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Full Show Notes Here

The News:


Mint Monthly News – August 2024


Software Freedom Day


Mozilla Firefox 130 Released with Labs, Overscroll & Web Codecs API


ArchBang Calls It Quits


Upgrades to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Paused [Update: Now Resolved]


Linux Mint Tease ‘Improved’ Default Cinnamon Theme


Linux Mint Tease ‘Improved’ Default Cinnamon Theme

Security And Privacy


Apple Suddenly Drops NSO Group Spyware Lawsuit

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>

]]> 446 446 The Beauty of Cinnamon, and The Downfall of Redbox full 1:46:33 7170 445 – Wearable https://mintcast.org/445-wearable/ Wed, 11 Sep 2024 23:09:07 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=7141 First up in the news: KITE OS educational Linux developed in Kerala, India, Microsoft rolls out Windows Recall again, Linus regrets merging BCacheFS again, 4M Linux 46 released;

In security and privacy: “Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update, “sedxp” Linux malware avoids detection for two years;

Then in our Wanderings: Majid is back from his travels, Moss, Joe, Eric gets his PineTime

In our Innards section: we do wearables

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

]]> First up in the news: KITE OS educational Linux developed in Kerala, India, Microsoft rolls out Windows Recall again, Linus regrets merging BCacheFS again, 4M Linux 46 released;

In security and privacy: “Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update, “sedxp” Linux malware avoids detection for two years;

Then in our Wanderings: Majid is back from his travels, Moss, Joe, Eric gets his PineTime

In our Innards section: we do wearables

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Full Show Notes Here

The News


KITE develops FOSS-based OS for public schools


Upgrades to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Paused Due to ‘Critical Bug’


Microsoft will try the data-scraping Windows Recall feature again in October


Linus Torvalds Begins Expressing Regrets Merging Bcachefs


4MLinux 46 Mini Linux Distro Released with New Apps, Integrated LAMP Server

Security and Privacy


“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update


Stealthy ‘sedexp’ Linux malware evaded detection for two years

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 445 445 Wearable full 2:13:07 7141 444 – The News is HUGE! https://mintcast.org/444-the-news-is-huge/ Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:06:04 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=7122 First up in the news: Canonical Moves To Shipping Very Latest Upstream Kernel Code, Google Search is playing Monopoly, Wordstar7 is open sourced, SuSE goes way long, Chrome blocks uBlock, GitLab is on the market and Funtoo is back (sort of)

In security and privacy: Hackers leak 2.7 billion data records with Social Security numbers, and there are lots of zeros attacking Mac and Linux browsers

Then in our Wanderings: Bill is broken down Joe goes virtual, Moss has stopped watching, Majid is in India and will be back next month.

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First up in the news: Canonical Moves To Shipping Very Latest Upstream Kernel Code, Google Search is playing Monopoly, Wordstar7 is open sourced, SuSE goes way long, Chrome blocks uBlock, GitLab is on the market and Funtoo is back (sort of)

In security and privacy: Hackers leak 2.7 billion data records with Social Security numbers, and there are lots of zeros attacking Mac and Linux browsers

Then in our Wanderings: Bill is broken down Joe goes virtual, Moss has stopped watching, Majid is in India and will be back next month.

Full Show Notes Here

The News


Canonical Moves To Shipping Very Latest Upstream Kernel Code For Ubuntu Releases


Google’s online search monopoly is illegal, US judge rules


WordStar 7, the last ever DOS version, is re-released for free


Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line


SUSE upgrades its distros with 19 years of support – no other Linux comes close


Google is killing one of Chrome’s biggest ad blockers


GitLab is reportedly up for sale


Robbins Changed His Mind, Funtoo Shifts to “Hobby Mode”

Security and Privacy


Hackers leak 2.7 billion data records with Social Security numbers


0.0.0.0 Day: 18-Year-Old Browser Vulnerability Impacts MacOS and Linux Devices

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 444 444 The News is HUGE! full 1:39:49 7122 443 – Wilma Has Arrived https://mintcast.org/443-wilma-has-arrived/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 21:38:51 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=7089 First up in the news: Linux Mint 22 “Wilma” released, Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source, Intel suffers stock losses, Intel admits to damage on 13th and 14th gen processors, Funtoo calls it quits, and SerpentOS makes its first appearance

In security and privacy: SecureBoot is broken on over 200 computers from 5 major vendors, new Android malware drains bank accounts and wipes your device afterwards, and TGRat attacks Linux;

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First up in the news: Linux Mint 22 “Wilma” released, Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source, Intel suffers stock losses, Intel admits to damage on 13th and 14th gen processors, Funtoo calls it quits, and SerpentOS makes its first appearance

In security and privacy: SecureBoot is broken on over 200 computers from 5 major vendors, new Android malware drains bank accounts and wipes your device afterwards, and TGRat attacks Linux

Full Show Notes Here

The News:


Linux Mint 22 “Wilma” released


Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source


Intel Suffers Major Stock Loss Due to Workforce Restructuring


Proton Now Has a Bitcoin Wallet


Intel admits damage to unstable 14th-gen and 13th-gen CPUs is permanent – incoming patch is a preventative, not a cure


Funtoo Calls It Quits


The long-awaited Linux distro Serpent OS is finally here

Secuity and Privacy:


Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers


New Android malware wipes your device after draining bank accounts


Telegram-Controlled TgRat Attacking Linux Servers to Exfiltrate Data

Contact Info:

Special Thanks:

  • Bill for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
]]> 443 443 Wilma Has Arrived full 1:10:52 7089 442 – AMD Support is Cachy(ing) On https://mintcast.org/442-amd-support-is-cachying-on/ Sat, 27 Jul 2024 22:09:09 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=7066 First up in the news: Mint 22 update, Red Hat may replace GRUB, Fedora drops X11, CachyOS adds AMD support, Apple approves PC emulator, SUSE Requests openSUSE to Rebrand, EXT4 Has A Very Nice Performance Optimization For Linux 6.11

In security and privacy: CrowdStrike broke Linux and nobody noticed, Firefox's New Controversial Feature

Then in our Wanderings: Bill puts his foot down, Joe is working on magnetism, Moss has new toys,

In our Innards section: We talk about Pine64 products

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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First up in the news: Mint 22 update, Red Hat may replace GRUB, Fedora drops X11, CachyOS adds AMD support, Apple approves PC emulator, SUSE Requests openSUSE to Rebrand, EXT4 Has A Very Nice Performance Optimization For Linux 6.11


In security and privacy: CrowdStrike broke Linux and nobody noticed, Firefox’s New Controversial Feature


Then in our Wanderings: Bill puts his foot down, Joe is working on magnetism, Moss has new toys,


In our Innards section: We talk about Pine64 products


And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Full Show Notes Here

The News:


Mint 22 Update


Red Hat may replace GRUB


X11 Is No Longer Part of Fedora Workstation 41


CachyOS Introduces New Repository Optimized for AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 CPUs


Apple Approves First PC Emulator App for iOS – Can it Run Linux?


SUSE Requests openSUSE to Rebrand


EXT4 Has A Very Nice Performance Optimization For Linux 6.11

Security and Privacy


CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed


Firefox’s New Controversial Feature: Is it a problem?

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill Houser for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 442 442 AMD Support is Cachy(ing) On full 1:51:18 7066 441 – Mint’s Back and Rocking https://mintcast.org/441-mints-back-and-rocking/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 14:02:04 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=7031 First up in the news: Mint 22 Beta Released, Mint Monthly News – June, Firefox has a Weather tab, Seattle computer collection is being auctioned, Proton adds Docs to Proton Drive, Linux runs on Google Drive

In security and privacy: KDE Plasma Flaw Opens Door to Unauthorized System Access

Then in our Wanderings: Majid has overdosed on Schadenfreude, Bill screams at OnlyOffice, Joe has fun with his 3D printer, Moss makes a mess of things

]]> First up in the news: Mint 22 Beta Released, Mint Monthly News – June, Firefox has a Weather tab, Seattle computer collection is being auctioned, Proton adds Docs to Proton Drive, Linux runs on Google Drive

In security and privacy: KDE Plasma Flaw Opens Door to Unauthorized System Access

Then in our Wanderings: Majid has overdosed on Schadenfreude, Bill screams at OnlyOffice, Joe has fun with his 3D printer, Moss makes a mess of things

Full Show Notes Here

The News:

Linux Mint 22 Betas Released

Mint Monthly News – June 2024

Firefox’s New Weather Tab

Seattle’s Living Computers Museum logs off for good as Paul Allen estate will auction vintage items

Proton launches its own version of Google Docs

Linux Distro Can Run on Google Drive: This Developer Made It Happen

Security and Privacy:

KDE Plasma Flaw Opens Door to Unauthorized System Access

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 441 441 441 - Mint's Back and Rocking full 1:22:40 7031 439 – Doin’ The Proton Dance https://mintcast.org/439-doin-the-proton-dance/ Thu, 13 Jun 2024 01:47:09 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6971 First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, Another US state repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition, Internet Archive Hit With DDoS Attacks, ProtonPass is released for MacOS and Linux, and new features come to VLC

In security and privacy: Linux Exploit found by US Federal agency

Then in our Wanderings: Bill distro-hops, Moss has returned from his musical excursion, and Eric deals with multiple security issues.

]]> First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, Another US state repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition, Internet Archive Hit With DDoS Attacks, ProtonPass is released for MacOS and Linux, and new features come to VLC

In security and privacy: Linux Exploit found by US Federal agency

Then in our Wanderings: Bill distro-hops, Moss has returned from his musical excursion, and Eric deals with multiple security issues.

Full Show Notes Here

The News

Linux Mint Monthly News

Another US state repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition

Internet Archive Hit With DDoS Attacks

Proton Pass brings secure and private password management to all devices

VLC Adds AMD VQ Enhancer Filter, Improved Opus Ambisonic + More

Security And Privacy

Federal agency warns critical Linux vulnerability being actively exploited

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 439 439 Doin' The Proton Dance full 1:01:56 6971 438.5 – Behold the AI Overlords https://mintcast.org/438-5-behold-the-ai-overlords/ Wed, 05 Jun 2024 04:00:00 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6944 In our Innards section: We have a free-form discussion on AI utility, privacy and security

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

]]> In our Innards section: We have a free-form discussion on AI utility, privacy and security

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Full Show Notes Here

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 438 438 Behold the AI Overlords full 1:14:14 6944 438 – Copilot Takeover https://mintcast.org/438-copilot-takeover/ Fri, 31 May 2024 23:26:32 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6940 First up in the news: Mozilla Reveals New Features Coming to Firefox, Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for NVIDIA Users, KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta Released With Wayland Explicit Sync, Input Capture Portal & More, KDE Plasma 6.1 Lands Dynamic Triple Buffering Support, Btrfs Sends In Fixes For Linux 6.10 & Restores "norecovery" Mount Option, Turkey bans Distrowatch

In security and privacy: High-severity GitLab flaw lets attackers take over accounts, Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs with generative AI capabilities baked in, including one that is causing concern for a UK-based watchdog group.

Then in our Wanderings: Joe gets his shots, Bill endeavors to dual boot, Majid creates Frankensteins Ubuntu, and Eric dips his toe into the world of digital art pens and illustration as well as honing his Audacity skills.

]]> First up in the news: Mozilla Reveals New Features Coming to Firefox, Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for NVIDIA Users, KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta Released With Wayland Explicit Sync, Input Capture Portal & More, KDE Plasma 6.1 Lands Dynamic Triple Buffering Support, Btrfs Sends In Fixes For Linux 6.10 & Restores “norecovery” Mount Option, Turkey bans Distrowatch

In security and privacy: High-severity GitLab flaw lets attackers take over accounts, Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs with generative AI capabilities baked in, including one that is causing concern for a UK-based watchdog group.

Then in our Wanderings: Joe gets his shots, Bill endeavors to dual boot, Majid creates Frankensteins Ubuntu, and Eric dips his toe into the world of digital art pens and illustration as well as honing his Audacity skills.

Full Show Notes Here

The News

Mozilla Reveals New Features Coming to Firefox

Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for NVIDIA Users

KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta Released With Wayland Explicit Sync, Input Capture Portal & More

KDE Plasma 6.1 Lands Dynamic Triple Buffering Support

Btrfs Sends In Fixes For Linux 6.10 & Restores “norecovery” Mount Option

Turkey bans Distrowatch

Security and Privacy

High-severity GitLab flaw lets attackers take over accounts

The next two articles will actually be discussed during the innards (next episode) but we’ve linked them here anyway.

Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs with generative AI capabilities baked in

UK watchdog looking into Microsoft AI taking screenshots

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 438 438 Copilot Takeover full 1:35:08 6940 437 – X-citing News! https://mintcast.org/437-x-citing-news/ Wed, 15 May 2024 04:00:00 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6909 First up in the news: Mint Monthly News for April, Ubuntu 24.04 released, Ubuntu 24.10 Codename Revealed, systemd introduces run0, Google threatens RISC-V support for Android, RISC-V OS arrives, and BitWarden launches MFA for Android & iOS

In security and privacy: a new ransomware threat is found, and a GitLab maximum security flaw is found

Then in our Wanderings: Majid Endeavours to Fail, Bill Endeavours to succeed, and Joe gets skimmed

]]> First up in the news: Mint Monthly News for April, Ubuntu 24.04 released, Ubuntu 24.10 Codename Revealed, systemd introduces run0, Google threatens RISC-V support for Android, RISC-V OS arrives, and BitWarden launches MFA for Android & iOS

In security and privacy: a new ransomware threat is found, and a GitLab maximum security flaw is found

Then in our Wanderings: Majid Endeavours to Fail, Bill Endeavours to succeed, and Joe gets skimmed

Full Show Notes Here

The News

Mint Monthly News – April 2024

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) released

Ubuntu 24.10 Codename Revealed as Development Begins

Systemd v256 Introduces run0: A Safer Alternative to sudo

RISC-V support in Android just got a big setback

RISC-V OS V5.30 arrives – with RPi Wi-Fi support

Bitwarden launches new MFA Authenticator app for iOS, Android

Security and Privacy

Cybersecurity researchers spotlight a new ransomware threat – be careful where you upload files

GitLab flaw allowing account hijacking under active exploitation

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 437 437 X-citing News! full 1:46:46 6909 435 – Eric’s Back! https://mintcast.org/435-erics-back/ Fri, 19 Apr 2024 18:25:53 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6843 First up in the News: Mint Monthly News, Mint is testing new CDN setup for repositories, EndeavourOS ends ARM branch due to lack of help, Proton buys Standard Notes, Dynebolic portable Linux renewed after 10 year hiatus, APT 2.9 released, 3.0 announced

In Security and Privacy: Over 92,000 DLink NAS devices exposed via backdoor, with no patch (out of service)

Then in our Wanderings: Bill gets his game on with a new handheld device, Joe gets his game on with every device, Majid gets to be the family IT guy, and Eric deals with technical debt

]]> First up in the News: Mint Monthly News, Mint is testing new CDN setup for repositories, EndeavourOS ends ARM branch due to lack of help, Proton buys Standard Notes, Dynebolic portable Linux renewed after 10 year hiatus, APT 2.9 released, 3.0 announced

In Security and Privacy: Over 92,000 DLink NAS devices exposed via backdoor, with no patch (out of service)

Then in our Wanderings: Bill gets his game on with a new handheld device, Joe gets his game on with every device, Majid gets to be the family IT guy, and Eric deals with technical debt

Full Show Notes Here

The News

Mint Monthly News – March 2024

Mint testing new CDN setup for repositories

EndeavourOS Devs Say “Goodbye” to Their ARM Branch, Maintainers Needed

Standard Notes is joining the Proton family

Dynebolic is a portable Linux distribution that can be used without installation

APT 2.9 Released: Debian’s APT 3.0 To Have A New UI With Colors, Columnar Display & More

Security and Privacy

Over 92,000 exposed D-Link NAS devices have a backdoor account

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill Houser for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 435 435 Eric's Back! full 2:08:19 6843 434 – Open Source, Close Malware https://mintcast.org/434-open-source-close-malware/ Tue, 02 Apr 2024 03:59:33 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6825 First up in the news: Red Hat Announces Nova Graphics Driver for NVIDIA GPUs, Blender 4.1 released, MakuluLinux brings LinDoz back this time with AI, the end of EXT2

In security and privacy: Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections, Suspected Russian Data-Wiping 'AcidPour' Malware Targeting Linux x86 Devices

Then in our Wanderings: Moss needs some salt for his new battery, Bill goes vrroom vrroom in a big truck, Joe is getting Steamed, Majid chillaxes, and Dale is Scaling his NAS

]]> First up in the news: Red Hat Announces Nova Graphics Driver for NVIDIA GPUs, Blender 4.1 released, MakuluLinux brings LinDoz back this time with AI, the end of EXT2

In security and privacy: Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections, Suspected Russian Data-Wiping ‘AcidPour’ Malware Targeting Linux x86 Devices

Then in our Wanderings: Moss needs some salt for his new battery, Bill goes vrroom vrroom in a big truck, Joe is getting Steamed, Majid chillaxes, and Dale is Scaling his NAS

Full Show Notes Here

The News

Red Hat Announces Nova, a Rust-Based GSP-Only Graphics Driver for NVIDIA GPUs

Blender 4.1 Officially Released with Quality-of-Life and Performance Improvements

LinDoz Returns With Advanced AI To Revamp the MakuluLinux Lineup

The Journey of Linux’s ext2 Filesystem Comes to an End

Security and Privacy

Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections

Suspected Russian Data-Wiping ‘AcidPour’ Malware Targeting Linux x86 Devices

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill Houser for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 434 434 Open Source, Close Malware full true 1:38:39 6825 433 – They’re All Out To Get You! https://mintcast.org/theyre-all-out-to-get-you/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:55:24 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6802 First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – February 2024, Linux market share passes 4% for first time, SerpentOS makes progress, AMD is told hands off HDMI 2.1, Google blocks RCS on rooted devices, AMDGPU has limits, ProtonMail comes to all desktops, and NVidia bans translation layers

In security and privacy: Avast is fined bigly for selling browser data

Then in our Wanderings: Joe plays a lot of games, Majid does mirrors

In our Innards section: We discuss scams and trying to protect the people we care about

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

]]> First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – February 2024, Linux market share passes 4% for first time, SerpentOS makes progress, AMD is told hands off HDMI 2.1, Google blocks RCS on rooted devices, AMDGPU has limits, ProtonMail comes to all desktops, and NVidia bans translation layers;

In security and privacy: Avast is fined bigly for selling browser data;

Then in our Wanderings: Joe plays a lot of games, Majid does mirrors

In our Innards section: We discuss scams and trying to protect the people we care about

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Full Show Notes Here

The News:

Mint Monthly News – February 2024

Linux market share passes 4% for first time

Serpent OS Makes Progress On Packaging The GNOME 45 Desktop

HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver

Google is blocking RCS on rooted Android devices

AMDGPU Linux Driver No Longer Lets You Have Unlimited Control To Lower Your Power Limit

Proton Mail is coming to all major desktop platforms

Nvidia bans using translation layers for CUDA software

Security and Privacy

Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill Houser for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 433 433 They're All Out To Get You! full 2:37:20 6802 432 – “Podcasts Are Better” https://mintcast.org/432-podcasts-are-better/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 04:53:59 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6736 First up in the news: KDE MegaRelease 6, No open source HDMI 2.1 driver

In security and privacy: New Wi-Fi Vulnerabilities Expose Android and Linux Devices to Hackers

Then in our Wanderings: Bill stops rolling, Joe surprises people by fixing things, Majid needs audio files to become an audiophile

Right Click Here To Download
]]> First up in the news: KDE MegaRelease 6, No open source HDMI 2.1 driver

In security and privacy: New Wi-Fi Vulnerabilities Expose Android and Linux Devices to Hackers,

Then in our Wanderings: Bill stops rolling, Joe surprises people by fixing things, Majid needs audio files to become an audiophile

Full Show Notes Here

The News

KDE MegaRelease 6

HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver

LibreOffice 24.2.1 Office Suite Is Out with More Than 100 Bug Fixes

GParted 1.6 Open-Source Partition Editor Improves exFAT Support and Fixes Bugs – 9to5Linux

Nintendo Sues Yuzu Emulator Developers for Facilitating Switch Piracy

Security And Privacy

New Wi-Fi Vulnerabilities Expose Android and Linux Devices to Hackers

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill Houser for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 432 432 "Podcasts Are Better" full true 1:52:11 6736 431 – Artificially Intelligent https://mintcast.org/431-artificially-intelligent/ Wed, 21 Feb 2024 05:00:00 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6683 First up in the news: Linux Mint Monthly News, Google Is Dying News, Samsung defends GenAI, India bans Protonmail, NGINX Core Dev Quits and Forks

In security and privacy: Critical bootkit vulnerability affects most Linux distros, BitLocker smashed in minutes with pico SBC, and Mozilla helps you wipe your data

Then in our Wanderings: Joe plays games, Moss survives, and Majid finally “gets” Arch

In our Innards section: we discuss the current mintCast infrastructure

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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]]> First up in the news: Linux Mint Monthly News, Google Is Dying News, Samsung defends GenAI, India bans Protonmail, NGINX Core Dev Quits and Forks

In security and privacy: Critical bootkit vulnerability affects most Linux distros, BitLocker smashed in minutes with pico SBC, and Mozilla helps you wipe your data

Then in our Wanderings: Joe plays games, Moss survives, and Majid finally “gets” Arch

In our Innards section: we discuss the current mintCast infrastructure

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

New Feature: Now the links below open show notes to the specific section covered on the show! Try It!

  1. 00:00:00 – Intro
  2. 00:01:29 – News
  3. 00:29:27 – Security And Privacy
  4. 00:43:53 – Bi-Weekly Wanderings
  5. 01:06:54 – Innards
  6. 01:32:40 – Vibrations From The Ether
  7. 01:38:17 – Check This Out
  8. 01:38:37 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
  9. 01:39:30 – Wrap Up
  10. 01:41:58 – Outro
Full Show Notes Here

The News

Linux Mint Monthly News

Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead

“There is no such thing as a real picture”: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24

Nginx core developer quits project in security dispute, starts “freenginx” fork

Indian government moves to ban ProtonMail after bomb threat

Security And Privacy

Critical vulnerability affecting most Linux distros allows for bootkits

BitLocker encryption broken in 43 seconds with sub-$10 Raspberry Pi Pico — key can be sniffed when using an external TPM

Mozilla’s new service tries to wipe your data off the web

Check This Out

There is a really long, detailed, highly informative, and extremely well-written article explaining The Fediverse on The Verge. If you’re interested, you should check it out.

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill Houser for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 431 431 Artificially Intelligent full 1:43:08 6683 430 – Darn Small(er) Linux https://mintcast.org/430-darn-smaller-linux/ Wed, 07 Feb 2024 05:00:00 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6637 First up in the news: Mint 21.3 "Edge" is out, Ubuntu taking heat over Pro packages, Bazzite 2.2 is out, BunsenLabs Boron is out, Parrot 6.0 is out, we say Goodbye to Ginny, RPi Compute Module 5 is in the works, Say Hello to Wilma, RH causes issues for CentOS, and DSL Linux makes a resurgence

In security and privacy: Ring will stop giving video to police, and AnyDesk responds to a major hack

Then in our Wanderings: Bill is moving gear around, Joe upgrades, Moss takes a new tablet, and Majid is drinking the Samsung Kool-Aid

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]]> First up in the news: Mint 21.3 “Edge” is out, Ubuntu taking heat over Pro packages, Bazzite 2.2 is out, BunsenLabs Boron is out, Parrot 6.0 is out, we say Goodbye to Ginny, RPi Compute Module 5 is in the works, Say Hello to Wilma, RH causes issues for CentOS, and DSL Linux makes a resurgence

In security and privacy: Ring will stop giving video to police, and AnyDesk responds to a major hack

Then in our Wanderings: Bill is moving gear around, Joe upgrades, Moss takes a new tablet, and Majid is drinking the Samsung Kool-Aid

  1. 00:00:00 – Intro
  2. 00:01:36 – News
  3. 00:45:45 – Security And Privacy
  4. 00:56:50 – Bi-Weekly Wanderings
  5. 01:34:03 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
  6. 01:34:48 – Wrap Up
  7. 01:37:45 – Outro
Full Show Notes Here

The News

21.3 “Edge” ISO Now Available

Ubuntu Pro Packages in ‘Software Updater’ Garner Criticism

SteamOS alternative Bazzite v2.2 out now with lots of enhancements

Lightweight Distro BunsenLabs Linux Boron Is Here Based on Debian Bookworm

Ethical Hacking Distro Parrot OS 6.0 Brings Linux 6.5, Raspberry Pi 5 Support

After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends

Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 is official and expected to launch sometime in 2024

LM 22 Announced

RHEL’s Source Code Access Change Is Causing Issues For CentOS SIGs

DamnSmallLinux is Back!

Security and Privacy

Ring Announces It Will No Longer Facilitate Police Requests for Footage from Users

AnyDesk says hackers breached its production servers, reset passwords

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill Houser for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 430 430 Darn Small(er) Linux full true 1:38:55 6637 429 – Do You Desktop? https://mintcast.org/429-do-you-desktop/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:51:30 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6587 First up in the news: Mint 21.3 released, Linux kernel 4.14 goes EOL, Google sued over patent infringement, OpenSSH phases out DSA keys, Canonical snap steams Valve

In security and privacy: NoaBot worms its way into Linux; Pixieboot vulnerabilities show up in UEFI, and SlippyBook rears its head

Then in our Wanderings: Joe buys things cheap, and Eric talks audio production

In our Innards section: We talk about whether there’s a need for desktop computers anymore.

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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In security and privacy: NoaBot worms its way into Linux; Pixieboot vulnerabilities show up in UEFI, and SlippyBook rears its head

Then in our Wanderings: Joe buys things cheap, and Eric talks audio production

In our Innards section: We talk about whether there’s a need for desktop computers anymore.

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Sorry, No Chapters of Timestamps this episode folks. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Full Show Notes Here

The News

Mint 21.3 released

Linux Kernel 4.14 Reaches End of Life After More Than 6 Years of Maintenance

Google’s TPUs could end up costing it a billion-plus, thanks to this patent challenge

OpenSSH Announces Plan to Phase Out DSA Keys

PipeWire Camera Support Is Coming to OBS Studio for Linux Desktops

Canonical’s Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve

Security and Privacy

Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm

New UEFI vulnerabilities send firmware devs industry wide scrambling

Breaking Down Slippy-Book: The New RCE Flaw in Linux Distros

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • Eric Adams for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 429 429 Do You Desktop? full 1:43:41 6587 427 – “Virginia is For Lovers.” https://mintcast.org/427-virginia-is-for-lovers/ Wed, 13 Dec 2023 03:32:20 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6506 First up in the news: Linux Mint 21.3 “Virginia” – BETAs released, Mint Monthly News – November 2023, Gnome shell updates on Ubuntu 23.10; Zorin has a new desktop; Calibre offers new formats; KDE fixes bugs ahead of Plasma 6; Intel does some driver code clean up; Canonical ports Multipass to Qt6; Linux 6.8 is Dropping Support For Very Old Graphics Drivers.

In security and privacy: Stealthy Linux rootkit found in the wild after going undetected for 2 years

Then in our Wanderings: Bill is mumbling for a week straight; Joe is droning on

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In security and privacy: Stealthy Linux rootkit found in the wild after going undetected for 2 years

Then in our Wanderings: Bill is mumbling for a week straight; Joe is droning on

  1. 00:00:00 – Intro
  2. 00:01:37 – News
  3. 00:33:05 – Security And Privacy
  4. 00:43:53 – Bi-Weekly Wanderings
  5. 00:58:22 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
  6. 00:59:20 – Wrap Up
  7. 01:03:09 – Special Thanks
  8. 01:03:53 – Outro
Full Show Notes Here!

The News

Linux Mint 21.3 “Virginia” – BETAs released

Mint Monthly News – November 2023

GNOME Shell 45.2 Update Rolling out to Ubuntu 23.10

Zorin OS 17 Beta Includes New ‘Spatial Desktop’ Features

Calibre eBook App Now Supports Audio ePubs & Custom Notes

KDE Developers Continue On Bug Fixing Spree Ahead Of Plasma 6.0

Intel Striving To Overhaul Their Multiple Ethernet Linux Drivers: “The Great Code De-dup”

Canonical Releases Multipass 1.13 RC With Snapshots Support, Migrated To Qt6

Linux 6.8 Dropping Support For Very Old Graphics Drivers

Security and Privacy

Stealthy Linux rootkit found in the wild after going undetected for 2 years

Feds Warn Health Sector to Watch for Open-Source Threats

Wrap Up

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill Houser for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 427 427 "Virginia is For Lovers." full 1:05:07 6506 426 – Happy Birthday, mintCast! https://mintcast.org/426-happy-birthday-mintcast/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 04:34:37 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6485 First up in the news: mintCast has a birthday, Mint 21.3 is named, Amazon works on a Linux fork for their devices, Ubuntu commits to Netplan, Firefox attempts Wayland, FreeBSD 14 is out, Endeavour releases Galileo, Vivaldi comes to Flathub, Google kills magazine content, OpenMandriva releases Rock 5.0, Pipewire reaches 1.0.0

In security and privacy: Google Chrome’s Privacy Washing

Then in our Wanderings: Bill may just be losing his mind, (there are doubts?), Joe prints everything but money, Majid does VR, Moss hangs on, and Eric spends more quality time with his Linux tablet.

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In security and privacy: Google Chrome’s Privacy Washing

Then in our Wanderings: Bill may just be losing his mind, (there are doubts?), Joe prints everything but money, Majid does VR, Moss hangs on, and Eric spends more quality time with his Linux tablet.

  1. 00:00:00 – Hacker Public Radio New Years Eve Promo
  2. 00:00:56 – Intro
  3. 00:01:23 – New Intro Music
  4. 00:02:41 – News
  5. 00:54:13 – Security And Privacy
  6. 01:04:49 – Bi-Weekly Wanderings
  7. 01:58:35 – Housekeeping and Announcements
  8. 01:59:43 – Wrap Up
  9. 02:02:24 – Special Thanks
  10. 02:03:10 – New Outro Music

The News

mintCast Turns 15

Linux Mint 21.3 has been named

Amazon moves from Android Fork to Linux

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Committing Fully To Netplan For Network Configuration

Firefox is going to try to ship Wayland as default

FreeBSD 14 Released

EndeavourOS Releases Galileo Desktop

Vivaldi comes to Flathub

Google News is shutting down purchased magazine content, offering refunds

OpenMandriva LX 5 released

Pipewire reaches 1.0.0

Security and Privacy

Google Chrome’s IP Protection is privacy washing

Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here

Wrap Up

Special Thanks To:

  • Someone (probably Bill) for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 426 426 Happy Birthday, mintCast! full 2:04:20 6485 424 – Meh Snap https://mintcast.org/424-meh-snap/ Thu, 02 Nov 2023 05:27:30 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6430 First up in the news: Mint Monthly News; Ubuntu 23.10 re-released; GNOME gets new CEO; new RaspPi Imager released; Plasma 6 Release Dates released; Matrix reaches 115 Million users; Bodhi Linux 7.0 AppPack released

In security and privacy: BlackCat ransomware attacks Linux and VMs; 1Password Breach – no harm, no foul; new vulnerabilities found and patched in XWayland, X.org

Then in our Wanderings: Bill shuffles cards; Joe tests more things; Moss keeps busy

Then in our Innards section: We discuss containerized package systems

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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In security and privacy: BlackCat ransomware attacks Linux and VMs; 1Password Breach – no harm, no foul; new vulnerabilities found and patched in XWayland, X.org

Then in our Wanderings: Bill shuffles cards; Joe tests more things; Moss keeps busy

Then in our Innards section: We discuss containerized package systems

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

  1. 00:00:00 – Intro
  2. 00:01:36 – News
  3. 00:24:26 – Security And Privacy
  4. 00:29:56 – Wanderings
  5. 00:45:57 – Innards
  6. 01:11:52 – Vibrations From The Ether
  7. 01:15:30 – Check This Out
  8. 01:20:45 – Housekeeping and Announcemtns
  9. 01:21:28 – Wrap Up

The News

Mint Monthly News – October 2023

Ubuntu 23.10 Desktop ISOs Re-Released Following Translation Snafu

GNOME Foundation Welcomes Holly Million as Executive Director

Raspberry Pi Imager Gets New Tabbed OS Customization UI, Raspberry Pi 5 Support

KDE Plasma 6.0 Release Date Revealed

Raspberry Pi 5 Available Now

Decentralized Matrix messaging network says it now has 115M users

Bodhi 7.0 64-bit AppPack Released

Security and Privacy

BlackCat ransomware uses new ‘Munchkin’ Linux VM in stealthy attacks

Okta Support System incident and 1Password

XWayland & X.Org Server See New Releases Due To Three More Security Vulnerabilities

Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here

Wrap Up

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill Houser for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contribution
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 429 429 Meh Snap full 1:25:03 6430 423 – Lay Down A *buntu https://mintcast.org/423-lay-down-a-buntu/ Sat, 21 Oct 2023 21:27:36 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6410 First up in the news: Mint 21.2 Cinnamon EDGE released, new version of Raspberry Pi OS released, new Ubuntu 23.10+flavours

In security and privacy: Curl patches 'worst' security flaw in ages, Encrypted Client Hello

Then in our Wanderings: Joe prints the D-handle, Moss tries out a new chair, Bill spends more money, Majid is finally Apple-free and Eric manages to stay alive for days without a smartphone.

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In security and privacy: Curl patches ‘worst’ security flaw in ages, Encrypted Client Hello

Then in our Wanderings: Joe prints the D-handle, Moss tries out a new chair, Bill spends more money, Majid is finally Apple-free and Eric manages to stay alive for days without a smartphone.

The News

Mint 21.2 Cinnamon EDGE released

Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur Released (along with the flavours)

New version of Raspberry Pi OS released

Security and Privacy

Curl patches ‘worst’ security flaw in ages

Encrypted Client Hello

Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here

Wrap Up

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill Houser for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contribution
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> full 1:54:00 6410 422 – Bit of a Hodgepodge https://mintcast.org/422-bit-of-a-hodgepodge/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:00:00 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6398 First up in the news: LMDE 6 FAYE released, Mint 21.2 EDGE iso approved, Long-term support for Linux kernel to be cut

In security and privacy: Update LibreOffice Now to Fix a Security Flaw, Chinese hackers have unleashed a never-before-seen Linux backdoor

Then in our Wanderings: Joe is Pining for Manjaro, Majid mixes his compartments, and Eric...well - you'll see.

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In security and privacy: Update LibreOffice Now to Fix a Security Flaw, Chinese hackers have unleashed a never-before-seen Linux backdoor

Then in our Wanderings: Joe is Pining for Manjaro, Majid mixes his compartments, and Eric…well – you’ll see.

The News

LMDE 6 “FAYE” released

Mint 21.2 EDGE iso approved

Long-term support for Linux kernel to be cut

Security and Privacy

Update LibreOffice Now to Fix a Security Flaw

Chinese hackers have unleashed a never-before-seen Linux backdoor

Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here

Wrap Up

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill Houser for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contribution
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 422 422 Bit Of A Hodgepodge full 1:42:06 6398 421 – Fun and Feckless https://mintcast.org/421-fun-and-feckless/ Wed, 20 Sep 2023 04:00:00 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6377 First up in the news: LMDE 6 “Faye” BETA Released, Fedora and Asahi Linux revamp installation process, Plasma 6 release date is set, IBM raises cloud prices, Manjaro 23 released, Mozilla rushes out patches, and ZFS returns to Ubuntu

In security and privacy, a huge security breach affects all browsers, and Google does user tracking

Then in our Wanderings, Majid has been a busy bunny, Joe is having troubles with 3D, Dale has been driven crazy, Bill gears up for public education, and Eric hates computers.

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In security and privacy, a huge security breach affects all browsers, and Google does user tracking

Then in our Wanderings, Majid has been a busy bunny, Joe is having troubles with 3D, Dale has been driven crazy, Bill gears up for public education, and Eric hates computers.

The News

LMDE 6 “Faye” – BETA Released

Fedora and Asahi Linux revamp installation process

Plasma 6 will be released in February 2024

Price shock: IBM to increase cloud costs by up to 26% in 2024

Manjaro 23.0 Uranos released

Mozilla patches Firefox, Thunderbird against zero-day exploited in attacks

Ubuntu 23.10 Restores ZFS File-System Support In Its Installer

Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here

Wrap Up

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill Houser for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contribution
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 421 421 Fun and Feckless full true 2:01:58 6377 417 – All Hail Avrecon https://mintcast.org/417-all-hail-avrecon/ Sat, 29 Jul 2023 02:23:02 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6284 First up in the news: Mint 21.2 Victoria released, Canonical’s Leading LXD Engineer Quits, Ubuntu Plans to Ditch its ‘Minimal’ Install Option, a new BlendOS v3, SUSE forks Red Hat

In security and privacy, Avrecon malware affects 70,000 Linux servers, turns them into a botnet, and we meet RCE Flaw and PyLoose Malware

Then in our Wanderings Joe has a bad reaction, Moss forgot to write something here, Bill more of the same, Majid pretends to be a socialist

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In security and privacy, Avrecon malware affects 70,000 Linux servers, turns them into a botnet, and we meet RCE Flaw and PyLoose Malware

Then in our Wanderings Joe has a bad reaction, Moss forgot to write something here, Bill more of the same, Majid pretends to be a socialist

The News

Mint 21.2 Victoria released

Canonical’s Leading LXD Engineer Quits

Ubuntu Plans to Ditch its ‘Minimal’ Install Option

Blend OS v3 Bhatura released

In a Blow to IBM, SUSE is Forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Security and Privacy

Avrecon infects 70,000 Linux Servers, turns them into a botnet

OpenSSH Agent RCE Flaw Let Attackers Execute Arbitrary Commands

PyLoose Linux Malware Mines Crypto Directly From Memory

Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here

Wrap Up

Special Thanks To:

  • Bill Houser for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contribution
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 417 417 All Hail Avrecon full true 1:24:08 6284 415 – Future Appears Cloudy https://mintcast.org/415-future-appears-cloudy/ Wed, 28 Jun 2023 19:45:56 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6241 First up in the news, Mint 21.2 betas have been released, Debian 13 gets a name, Ardour 7.5 does remaps, RHEL goes closed-source, and Opera One ships with AI

In security and privacy, Tsunami comes to SSH

Then in our Wanderings Joe goes on a little trip, Moss musics, and Majid has toys

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In security and privacy, Tsunami comes to SSH

Then in our Wanderings Joe goes on a little trip, Moss musics, and Majid has toys

The News

Mint 21.2 betas have been released

Debian 13 gets a name

Ardour 7.5 Remaps Tempo Maps Editing, more

Red Hat now limited RHEL sources to CentOS Stream

Now Shipping: Opera One, first browser with AI

Security and Privacy

Hackers infect Linux SSH servers with Tsunami Botnet Malware

Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here

Wrap Up

We would like to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

  • Bill Houser for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contribution
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 415 415 Future Appears Cloudy full 1:10:48 6241 414 – Salt and Battery https://mintcast.org/414-salt-and-battery/ Wed, 14 Jun 2023 04:00:00 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6222 First up in the news, Mint Monthly News, All-Snap Ubuntu Desktop Will Be Available Next Year, Red Hat Stops Packaging LibreOffice as RPM for RHEL & Fedora, Mozilla Thunderbird’s Next Big Update Is Now in Beta, Windows XP activation algorithm cracked - keygen now works on Linux

In security and privacy, we meet Blacksuit

Then in our Wanderings, Bill chases burning trucks, Moss is feeling the pressure, and Majid needs to stop spending money

In our Innards section, we discuss laptop battery life

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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In security and privacy, we meet Blacksuit;

Then in our Wanderings, Bill chases burning trucks, Moss is feeling the pressure, and Majid needs to stop spending money

In our Innards section, we discuss laptop battery life;

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

The News

Mint Monthly News – May 2023

All-Snap Ubuntu Desktop Will Be Available Next Year

Red Hat Will Stop Packaging LibreOffice as RPM for RHEL, Fedora

Mozilla Thunderbird’s Next Big Update Is Now in Beta

Windows XP activation algorithm cracked – keygen now works on Linux

Security and Privacy

New Linux Ransomware “Blacksuit”, looks like “Royal”

Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here

Wrap Up

We would like to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

  • Bill Houser for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and other valuable contribution
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 414 414 Salt and Battery full 1:36:01 6222 413 – Flying Wigs https://mintcast.org/413-flying-wigs/ Wed, 31 May 2023 05:00:00 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6198 First up in the news, Arch migrates Git, Ubuntu changes PPAs, Fedora Onyx is approved, Google to remove old accounts, Debian re-imposes a moratorium, Proton goes Family, Red Hat unveils a new Desktop, Fedora plans to drop X11, Thunderbird gets a new logo

In security and privacy, Google’s 2FA isn’t private enough

Then in our Wanderings, Majid is off to University, Joe is manacled to his office, Moss kicks the tires on the new Bodhi, and Bill migrates

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In security and privacy, Google’s 2FA isn’t private enough;

Then in our Wanderings, I’m off to University, Joe is manacled to his office, Moss kicks the tires on the new Bodhi, and Bill migrates

The News

Arch Migrates Git

Ubuntu Makes “Significant Changes” to PPAs for 23.10

Fedora Onyx, Immutable and with Budgie, approved for Fedora 39

Google To Start Removing Inactive Accounts After 2 Years

Google Chrome’s 2023 UI Refresh on Ubuntu

Debian Votes to Reinstate Merged-usr File Movement Moratorium

Proton Unveils Family Plan

Red Hat Reveals Podman Desktop 1.0

Fedora Intends To Completely Drop X11 in Plasma 6

Thunderbird Gets a Brand New Logo

Security And Privacy

Google’s New 2FA Isn’t End-to-End Encrypted

Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here

Wrap Up

We would like to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

  • Bill Houser for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contribution
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 413 413 Flying Wigs full 1:39:56 6198 412 – Coldpause https://mintcast.org/412-coldpause/ Wed, 17 May 2023 03:45:00 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6150 First up, in the news, Mint News for April, Mozilla Thunderbird is adding paid features and services, Raspberry Pi OS updates, sudo and su get Rusty, Flatseal gets GTK4, new Framework laptop gets Ryzen 7040 series, Kingston firmware contains lyrics, YouTube tests blocking adblock, Star5’s Vision 2 RISC-V gets Ubuntu, and Microsoft wants Firefox to switch to Bing

In security and privacy, India bans open-source messaging apps “for security reasons”;

Then in our Wanderings, Bill tells a story, Joe gets political, Moss conquers wifi, and Majid goes back in time.

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]]> First up, in the news, Mint News for April, Mozilla Thunderbird is adding paid features and services, Raspberry Pi OS updates, sudo and su get Rusty, Flatseal gets GTK4, new Framework laptop gets Ryzen 7040 series, Kingston firmware contains lyrics, YouTube tests blocking adblock, Star5’s Vision 2 RISC-V gets Ubuntu, and Microsoft wants Firefox to switch to Bing

In security and privacy, India bans open-source messaging apps “for security reasons”;

Then in our Wanderings, Bill tells a story, Joe gets political, I conquered wifi, and Majid goes back in time.

The News

Mint News for April

Mozilla Thunderbird Is Adding Paid Features and Services

Raspberry Pi OS updates with new kernel, chromium

Sudo and su are being rewritten in Rust for better security

Flatseal 2.0 released with GTK4, libadwaita

Framework Laptop gets Ryzen 7040 Series

Coldplay Lyrics Hidden in Kingston SSD Firmware

YouTube Is Testing Blocking AdBlockers

Star5’s Vision 2 RISC-V Gets Ubuntu

Microsoft wants Firefox to ditch Google, switch to Bing

Security and Privacy

India bans open source messaging apps for security reasons. FOSS community says good luck

Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here

Wrap Up

We would like to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

  • Bill Houser for our audio editing
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time syncs
  • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 412 412 Coldpause full true 1:43:18 6150 408 – Ffmpegged https://mintcast.org/408-ffmpegged/ Wed, 22 Mar 2023 09:03:22 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6016 First up in the news: Meet Ubuntu Flatpak Remix, KDE Plasma 6 Begins, No Peeking, Vanilla goes to Debian, LibreOffice 7.4.6, Nitrux goes “sh”, Elementary updates, DuckDuckGo goes AI on Wikipedia, Debian gets new APT, Proton joins the fight against censorship, Firefox 111 features, Kali 2023.1 released, and Wine 8.4 with old Wayland released.

In security and privacy, Brave needs no permission to do Google, NordVPN open sources code;

Then in our Wanderings, we are posting no Bills this episode,

In our Innards section, Joe talks ffmpeg

Download ]]> First up in the news: Meet Ubuntu Flatpak Remix, KDE Plasma 6 Begins, No Peeking, Vanilla goes to Debian, LibreOffice 7.4.6, Nitrux goes “sh”, Elementary updates, DuckDuckGo goes AI on Wikipedia, Debian gets new APT, Proton joins the fight against censorship, Firefox 111 features, Kali 2023.1 released, and Wine 8.4 with old Wayland released;

In security and privacy, Brave needs no permission to do Google, NordVPN open sources code;

Then in our Wanderings, we are posting no Bills this episode,

In our Innards section, Joe talks ffmpeg;

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

Wrap-up

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

Archive.org for hosting our audio files

Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo

Londoner for our time syncs

Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio

The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about

]]> 408 408 Ffmpegged full 1:17:00 6016 407 – “There’s an App For That” https://mintcast.org/407-theres-an-app-for-that/ Wed, 08 Mar 2023 04:55:00 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5993 First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – February, Ubuntu Flavors Agree to Stop Using Flatpak, Linux desktop powers consider uniting for an app store, Ubuntu Devs Working on ‘Mini’ Installer, Mesa 23 released, Mozilla narcs on Android apps, Fedora caught thinking, Linux supports Apple chips, OnlyOffice integrates, Falkon accelerates

In security and privacy, LastPass Devs accounts get breached, NSA wants to help

Then we have our usual Wanderings

In our Innards section, we talk about the Android apps we can't live without.

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  • First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – February, Ubuntu Flavors Agree to Stop Using Flatpak, Linux desktop powers consider uniting for an app store, Ubuntu Devs Working on ‘Mini’ Installer, Mesa 23 released, Mozilla narcs on Android apps, Fedora caught thinking, Linux supports Apple chips, OnlyOffice integrates, Falkon accelerates,
  • In security and privacy, LastPass Devs accounts get breached, NSA wants to help
  • Then we have our usual wanderings.
    • In our Innards section we discuss the Android Apps We can’t live without
    • And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

    Archive.org for hosting our audio files

    Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo

    Londoner for our time syncs

    Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio

    The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about

    ]]>     407 407 "There's an App For That" full 2:20:10 5993     406 – It’s Elementary, Dear Listener https://mintcast.org/406-its-elementary-dear-listener/ Fri, 24 Feb 2023 15:41:20 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5971 First up in the news: Looks like the end for Mycroft, Proton offers Drive for everybody, MidnightBSD takes on helloSystem, Fedora 38 now with full Flathub access, new Transmission, Android 14 Preview, Framework has new SSDs, new versions of KaOS and Parrot, Ardour and Clonezilla have new releases, and systemd is the future;

    In security and privacy, several PyPI packages steal crypto;

    Then in our Wanderings, Joe’s back hurts, Moss is underworked, and Bill is not.

    In our Innards section, we have invited Danielle Foré to come and talk about her Elementary OS project, and other changes;

    Download]]>     First up in the news: Looks like the end for Mycroft, Proton offers Drive for everybody, MidnightBSD takes on helloSystem, Fedora 38 now with full Flathub access, new Transmission, Android 14 Preview, Framework has new SSDs, new versions of KaOS and Parrot, Ardour and Clonezilla have new releases, and systemd is the future;

    In security and privacy, several PyPI packages steal crypto;

    Then in our Wanderings, Joe’s back hurts, Moss is underworked, and Bill is not.

    Shape2

    In our Innards section, we have invited Danielle Foré to come and talk about her Elementary OS project, and other changes;

    And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions.

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

    AudioFreak (Riyo) for our audio editing

    Archive.org for hosting our audio files

    Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo

    Londoner for our time syncs

    Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio

    The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about

    ]]>     406 406 It's Elementary, Dear Listener full 2:55:19 5971     405 – Method Not Allowed https://mintcast.org/405-method-not-allowed/ Wed, 08 Feb 2023 14:29:19 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5925 First up in the news, Mint 21.2 has the codename Victoria, OpenSuse updates, helloSystem says hello for the 0.8th time, new Firefox allows imports, Xfce goes Waylanding, Cosmic DE speeds up, OBS Studio fixes Linux Wayland bug, and Elementary has a new release.

    In security and privacy, we report on after log4j, Boldmove, and Malvirt.

    Then in our Wanderings, Joe calls Texas for Icing, and Moss is having New Phone Fever; Bill is in Colorado doing a rescue and will be back next episode.

    In our Innards section we discuss what you can do with old Android devices.

    Download
    ]]>     First up in the news, Mint 21.2 has the codename Victoria, OpenSuse updates, helloSystem says hello for the 0.8th time, new Firefox allows imports, Xfce goes Waylanding, Cosmic DE speeds up, OBS Studio fixes Linux Wayland bug, and Elementary has a new release;

    In security and privacy, we report on after log4j, Boldmove, and Malvirt;

    Then in our Wanderings, Joe calls Texas for Icing, and Moss is having New Phone Fever; Bill is in Colorado doing a rescue and will be back next episode.

    Shape2

    In our Innards section we discuss what you can do with old Android devices;

    And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

    AudioFreak (Riyo) for our audio editing

    Archive.org for hosting our audio files

    Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo

    Londoner for our time syncs

    Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio

    The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about

    ]]>     405 405 Method Not Allowed full 1:15:43 5925     403 – 2023 Predictions https://mintcast.org/403-2023-predictions/ Sat, 14 Jan 2023 18:46:05 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5896 First up in the news: Linux Mint 21.1 Vera released, Goodbye SHA-1: NIST Retires 27-Year-Old Widely Used Cryptographic Algorithm, Pine Tab2 announced, More developers reportedly now use Linux than macOS

    In Security and Privacy, Serious Linux kernel security hole uncovered

    The in our wanderings: Moss is in Atlanta this week but has sent in his predictions, Joe does HPR, Bill sets up servers

    In our innards section, We go over last years predictions and our new predictions

    Download
    ]]>     First up in the news
    Linux Mint 21.1 Vera released, Goodbye SHA-1: NIST Retires 27-Year-Old Widely Used Cryptographic Algorithm, Pine Tab2 announced, More developers reportedly now use Linux than macOS

    In security and privacy
    Serious Linux kernel security hole uncovered

    Then in our Wanderings, Moss is in Atlanta this week but has sent in his predictions, Joe does HPR, Bill sets up servers

    In our Innards section
    We go over last years predictions and our new predictions

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

    The News

    Linux Mint 21.1 Vera released
    Goodbye SHA-1: NIST Retires 27-Year-Old Widely Used Cryptographic Algorithm

    More developers reportedly now use Linux than macOS

    Security and Privacy

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

    • AudioFreak (Riyo) for our audio editing

    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files

    • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo

    • Londoner for our time syncs

    • Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio

    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about

    ]]>     403 403 2023 Predictions full 1:43:42 5896     mintCast 402 – Linux Mint Beta https://mintcast.org/mintcast-402-linux-mint-beta/ Wed, 14 Dec 2022 21:08:29 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5854 First up in the news: Mint 21.1 beta has been released, vivaldi adds mastodon plugin.

    In Security and Privacy, Eufy shows your videos, samsungs lost some keys, and more rootkits.

    The in our wanderings: Guy talk

    In our innards section, Bill discusses setting up podcasts.

    Download
    ]]>     News 00:00:45
    BiWeekly Wanderings 31:19
    Linux Innards 58:05
    Check This Out 1:40

    First up in the news: Mint 21.1 beta has been released, vivaldi adds mastodon plugin.

    In Security and Privacy, Eufy shows your videos, samsungs lost some keys, and more rootkits.

    The in our wanderings: Guy talk

    In our innards section, Bill discusses setting up podcasts.

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

    The News

    Security and Privacy

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

    • Norbert, Londoner, Tony H, AudioFreak(Riyo) and all others for our audio editing
    • Josh Lowe, and Bill Houser for all his work on the website
    • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
    • Linode for hosting mintcast.org
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!
    ]]>     402 402 Linux Mint Beta full 1:49:54 5854     mintCast 401 – Bill Hammers Nextcloud https://mintcast.org/mintcast-401-bill-hammers-nextcloud/ Wed, 30 Nov 2022 23:40:13 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5771 First up in the news: Network-crashing leap seconds to be abandoned, Asahi Linux Improves Apple Silicon Support
    In security and privacy: OpenSSL3 Patch Arrives
    In security and privacy: updates are required
    Then in our Wanderings: Bill hammers nextcloud, Joe does tinkering
    In our Innards section: we discuss more history and finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

    Download
    ]]>     First up in the news: Network-crashing leap seconds to be abandoned, Asahi Linux Improves Apple Silicon Support

    In security and privacy: updates are required

    Then in our Wanderings: Bill hammers nextcloud, Joe does tinkering

    In our Innards section: we discuss more history and finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

    The News

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

    • Norbert, Londoner, Tony H, AudioFreak(Riyo) and all others for our audio editing
    • Josh Lowe, and Bill Houser for all his work on the website
    • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
    • Linode for hosting mintcast.org
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!
    ]]>     401 401 Bill Hammers Nextcloud full 1:40:29 5771     400.5 – Leave It To The Dads https://mintcast.org/mintcast-400-5-leave-it-to-the-dads/ Wed, 23 Nov 2022 20:01:50 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5753 In our Innards section, we continue our historical journey through Linux distros;

    Download
    ]]>

    In our Innards section, we continue our historical journey through Linux distros;

    And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

    • Norbert, Londoner, Tony H, AudioFreak(Riyo) and all others for our audio editing
    • Josh Lowe, and Bill Houser for all his work on the website
    • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
    • Linode for hosting mintcast.org
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!
    ]]>     400 400 Leave It To The Dads full 1:01:48 5753     400 – Elon Musk vs Trolls https://mintcast.org/400-elon-musk-vs-trolls/ Wed, 16 Nov 2022 18:38:32 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5738 First up in the news: New Mint Stuff, Nitrux gets 6.0, Linux Steams forward, exFAT repair is now possible, LXQt gets Wayland, a pioneer passes, Mastodon blossoms, Nouveau and Nvidia updates, Clonezilla gets a new kernel, and Fedora refreshes Live Creation;
    In security and privacy: OpenSSL3 Patch Arrives
    Then in our Wanderings: Moss unMints his Studio, Joe sadly loses a Beto, and Bill doesn’t have much.

    Download
    ]]>     00:2:07 – News
    00:50:03 – Biweekly Wanderings
    00:45:31 – Security & Privacy
    01:32:00 – Housekeeping & Announcements

    First up in the news: New Mint Stuff, Nitrux gets 6.0, Linux Steams forward, exFAT repair is now possible, LXQt gets Wayland, a pioneer passes, Mastodon blossoms, Nouveau and Nvidia updates, Clonezilla gets a new kernel, and Fedora refreshes Live Creation;

    In security and privacy: OpenSSL3 Patch Arrives

    Then in our Wanderings: Moss unMints his Studio, Joe sadly loses a Beto, and Bill doesn’t have much.

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

    The News

    Check This Out

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

    • Norbert, Londoner, Tony H, AudioFreak(Riyo) and all others for our audio editing
    • Josh Lowe, and Bill Houser for all his work on the website
    • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
    • Linode for hosting mintcast.org
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!
    ]]>     400 400 Elon Musk vs Trolls full 1:38:43 5738     399 – Lunar Eclipse? No, Lunar Lobster https://mintcast.org/399-lunar-eclipse-no-lunar-lobster/ Wed, 02 Nov 2022 04:45:39 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5712 up in the news: The Kudu is out, with a Lobster on its tail, Fedora 37 is dragging, the next Kernel takes less power from the people, Steam Snap switches stacks, Flatpak gets Meson, and Linus wants to forget about 486; 
    In security and privacy: we get the first security update for the Kudu;
    Then in our Wanderings: Joe goes to Micro Center, Moss is having a ball, and Bill is clouding around
    In our Innards section, we continue our historical journey through Linux distros;
    And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

    Download
    ]]>     News 1:29
    Security and Privacy 18:35
    Biweekly Wanderings 20:8
    Linux Innards 47:40
    Vibrations By The Ether 1hr 25m
    Housekeeping and Announcements 1h 32m

    First up in the news: The Kudu is out, with a Lobster on its tail, Fedora 37 is dragging, the next Kernel takes less power from the people, Steam Snap switches stacks, Flatpak gets Meson, and Linus wants to forget about 486;

    In security and privacy: we get the first security update for the Kudu;

    Then in our Wanderings: Joe goes to Micro Center, Moss is having a ball, and Bill is clouding around

    In our Innards section, we continue our historical journey through Linux distros;

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

    The News

    Security and Privacy Update

    Check This Out

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

    • Norbert, Londoner, Tony H, AudioFreak(Riyo) and all others for our audio editing
    • Josh Lowe, and Bill Houser for all his work on the website
    • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
    • Linode for hosting mintcast.org
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!
    ]]>     399 399 Lunar Eclipse? No, Lunar Lobster full 1:37:07 5712     398 – I Hear A Leak, Must Be Android https://mintcast.org/398-i-hear-a-leak-must-be-android/ Wed, 19 Oct 2022 16:23:18 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5675 First up in the news: Debian carries buffer patches, IceWM 3, Wireshark 4, free Ubuntu Pro for all, KDE winds down Plasma 5, VirtualBox 7, Proton drives prices, and dreams of Forky; 
    In security and privacy: New Chinese malware for everything, Intel springs a leak, and Android’s leak exposed;
    Then in our Wanderings: Joe futzes with his 3D printer, while Moss continues to fight with Mint 21;
    In our Innards section, we begin a historical journey through Linux distros;
    And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

    Download
    ]]>     First up in the news: Debian carries buffer patches, IceWM 3, Wireshark 4, free Ubuntu Pro for all, KDE winds down Plasma 5, VirtualBox 7, Proton drives prices, and dreams of Forky; 

    In security and privacy: New Chinese malware for everything, Intel springs a leak, and Android’s leak exposed;

    Then in our Wanderings: Joe futzes with his 3D printer, while Moss continues to fight with Mint 21;

    In our Innards section, we begin a historical journey through Linux distros;

    And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

    The News

    Security and Privacy Update

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

    • Norbert, Tony H, and all others for our audio production
    • Leo for timestamps and publishing
    • Josh Lowe, and Bill Houser for all his work on the website
    • Hobstar for our logo
    • initrd for the animated Discord logo
    • Londoner for our time sync
    • Linode for hosting mintcast.org
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!
    ]]>     398 398 398 - I Hear A Leak, Must Be Android full 1:25:12 5675     397 – Bye Bye Stadia https://mintcast.org/397-bye-bye-stadia/ Fri, 07 Oct 2022 23:02:38 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5633 In security and privacy, a new virus for Windows and Linux
    Then in our Wanderings, Joe is fixing bikes on his audiobookshelf, Moss has more classes, and Bill gets Nextcloud running.
    Download
    ]]>     First up in the news, Monthly Mintyness, Gnome gnarliness, and KDE K-ness, Ubuntu 22.10 gets fresh, Ubuntu now on AWS, Brave blocks consent, Google kills another app, GNU Toolchain moves, Matrix patches holes, new Shotcut, new Audacity, and more…

    In security and privacy, a new virus for Windows and Linux;

    Then in our Wanderings, Joe is fixing bikes on his audiobookshelf, Moss has more classes, and Bill gets Nextcloud running;

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

    The News

    Security and Privacy Update

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

    • Norbert, Tony H, and all others for our audio production
    • Leo for timestamps and publishing
    • Josh Lowe, and Bill Houser for all his work on the website
    • Hobstar for our logo
    • initrd for the animated Discord logo
    • Londoner for our time sync
    • Linode for hosting mintcast.org
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!
    ]]>     full 5633     396 – Ransomware Goes Wild https://mintcast.org/396-ransomware-goes-wild/ Tue, 04 Oct 2022 21:47:16 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5622 In security and privacy, we have multi-stage malware, website leaks, and shell attacks;
    Then in our Wanderings, Norbert is cutting corners, Moss tries a different mint, Joe keeps modding, and Bill fixes a broken Arch …again.
    In our Innards section, Ransomware goes to school;
    And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
    Download
    ]]>     First up in the news, Stallman goes manual on C, DNF5 arrives in Fedora, LibreOffice gets fumigated, GNOME comes into its Shell, they have put hair in the Blender, Avast buys your cookies, and Intel fogs the processor market;
    In security and privacy, we have multi-stage malware, website leaks, and shell attacks;
    Then in our Wanderings, Norbert is cutting corners, Moss tries a different mint, Joe keeps modding, and Bill fixes a broken Arch …again.

    In our Innards section, Ransomware goes to school;

    And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

    The News

    Security and Privacy Update

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

    • Norbert, Londoner, Tony H, and all others for our audio editing
    • Leo for timestamps and publishing
    • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
    • Hobstar for our logo
    • initrd for the animated Discord logo
    • Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!
    ]]>     full 5622     394.5 – A Distro of a Different Kaliber https://mintcast.org/394-5-a-distro-of-a-different-kaliber/ Wed, 31 Aug 2022 20:40:11 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5605 Download
    ]]>     1:00 Linux Innards
    37:03 Vibrations from the Ether
    39:56 Check This Out
    41:10 Housekeeping & Announcements

    In our Innards section, Bill falls down a rabbit hole called “pentesting.”

    And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions.

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

    Linux Innards

    • This week we will be taking a look at Penetration Testing Distributions.
    • According to Wikipedia, A penetration test, colloquially known as a pen test or ethical hacking, is an authorized simulated cyberattack on a computer system, performed to evaluate the security of the system; this is not to be confused with a vulnerability assessment. The test is performed to identify weaknesses (also referred to as vulnerabilities), including the potential for unauthorized parties to gain access to the system’s features and data, as well as strengths, enabling a full risk assessment to be completed.
    • Let’s take a look at a couple of the more popular pen-testing offerings out there. For the sake of this show, I’ve installed two of those options in KVM virtual machines;

    Check This Out

    Housekeeping & Announcements

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

    • Norbert and Tony H for our audio production
    • Leo for timestamps and publishing
    • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
    • Hobstar for our logo
    • initrd for the animated Discord logo
    • Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!
    ]]>     394.5 - A Distro of a Different Kaliber full 44:35 5605     394 – With music on our side to break the old hard drives https://mintcast.org/394-with-music-on-our-side-to-break-the-old-hard-drives/ Fri, 26 Aug 2022 15:20:07 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5598 In security and privacy, Discord and your passwords are pythoned, and hard drives apparently have a taste in music
    Then in our Wanderings, Joe plays with his handheld, Bill is setting up a new server, Moss skips the assault and gets a couple batteries, and Norbert has had done some things.
    Download
    ]]>     1:25 The News
    16:15 Security and Privacy
    26:03 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    1:22:59 Housekeeping and Announcements

    First up in the news, The Kernel gets a bump, LibreOffice adds a point, Android 13 is out if you have a Pixel, and Gnome has a birthday,

    In security and privacy, Discord and your passwords are pythoned, and hard drives apparently have a taste in music

    Then in our Wanderings, Joe plays with his handheld, Bill is setting up a new server, Moss skips the assault and gets a couple batteries, and Norbert has had done some things.

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

    The News

    Security and Privacy Update

    Announcements

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

    • Norbert, Londoner, Tony H, and all others for our audio editing
    • Leo for timestamps and publishing
    • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
    • Hobstar for our logo
    • initrd for the animated Discord logo
    • Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!
    ]]>     394 - With music on our side to break the old hard drives full 1:26:24 5598     393 – Quantum of Solus https://mintcast.org/393-quantum-of-solus/ Fri, 12 Aug 2022 23:38:08 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5584 In security and privacy, Sale of over a billion Chinese users’ data found, DuckDuckGo is (finally) blocking Microsoft trackers, and Linux 6.0 to have run-time verification for running on safety critical systems
    Then in our Wanderings, Bill is hearing things, Moss is losing power, Joe is soldering on, and Norbert is taming the fox
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    ]]>     1:12 The News
    16:00 Security and Privacy
    49:28 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    1:30:48 Housekeeping and Announcements

    First up in the news: Vanessa is finally here, so is the Linux kernel version 5.19, which was published from an M1 Mac by Linus Torvalds

    In security and privacy, Sale of over a billion Chinese users’ data found, DuckDuckGo is (finally) blocking Microsoft trackers, and Linux 6.0 to have run-time verification for running on safety critical systems

    Then in our Wanderings, Bill is hearing things, Moss is losing power, Joe is soldering on, and Norbert is taming the fox

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

    The News

    Security and Privacy Update

    Announcements

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

    • Norbert and Tony H for our audio production
    • Leo for timestamps and publishing
    • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
    • Hobstar for our logo
    • initrd for the animated Discord logo
    • Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!
    ]]>     393 - Quantum of Solus full 1:35:57 5584     392 – Return of the Trampolines https://mintcast.org/392-the-return-of-the-trampolines/ Fri, 05 Aug 2022 23:57:37 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5559 In security and privacy, the Retbleed speculative exploit is more than just speculation, but the kernel team already have a fix, and Lightning Framework flashes our way;
    Then in our Wanderings, Bill is back from Pennsylvania again and again, Norbert polishes his laptop, Moss is doing the Makulu Shift, Joe is working the mods, Josh T is fixing watches, and Tom is channeling.
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    ]]>     2:30 The News
    29:46 Security and Privacy
    42:06 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    1:30:26 Housekeeping and Announcements

    First up in the news: Vanessa is almost here, Xfce flirts with Wayland, GNOME is touching up the touchscreen experience, and STAR protects data on Brave browsers;

    In security and privacy, the Retbleed speculative exploit is more than just speculation, but the kernel team already have a fix, and Lightning Framework flashes our way;

    Then in our Wanderings, Bill is back from Pennsylvania again and again, Norbert polishes his laptop, Moss is doing the Makulu Shift, Joe is working the mods, Josh T is fixing watches, and Tom is channeling.

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

    The News

    Security and Privacy Update

    Announcements

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

    • Norbert and Tony H for our audio production
    • Leo for timestamps and publishing
    • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
    • Hobstar for our logo
    • initrd for the animated Discord logo
    • Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!
    ]]>     392 - Return of the Trampolines full 1:35:20 5559     391- Putting our Money where our mouths are https://mintcast.org/391-putting-our-money-where-our-mouths-are/ Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:59:08 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5546 In security and privacy, CISA sounds the alarm, and Firefox strips
    Then in our Wanderings, Bill repaves his Omen, Moss goes back to school, Joe is still in 3D and Norbert is typing still
    In our Innards section We talk subscription Services
    And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
    Download
    ]]>     First up in the news, Mint is coming, Lennart Poettering has left the building, Vim speaks a new language, WebApps come to GNOME 43, Fedora lets Flatpak out of jail and wants to talk, GTK5 is dropping the X, Linux gets Siri, er, Cortana, er, Carola.

    In security and privacy, CISA sounds the alarm, and Firefox strips,

    Then in our Wanderings, Bill repaves his Omen, Moss goes back to school, Joe is still in 3D and Norbert is typing still

    In our Innards section We talk subscription Services

    And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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    The News

    20 minutes

    Security and Privacy

    Linux Innards

    Subscription Services: Anything based on recurring payment: streaming, email, storage, VPNs, etc.

    Check This Out

    Housekeeping & Announcements

    Wrap-up

    • Nishant – nishant@mintcast.org, riconghost on instagram, riconghost@Github, Ghost.Ricon on Discord, maverick00783 @ Steam

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

    • Our team of audio editors, including Norbert, Londoner, Tony Hughes, and others. We continue to need volunteers for our audio editing, please contact us.
    • Bill Houser and Josh Lowe for their work on the website, and Bill Houser for hosting the Linode which runs our website
    • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
    • Londoner for our time syncs
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about
    ]]>     391- Putting our Money where our mouths are full 1:34:05 5546     383 – Ubuntu is out-fedoring Fedora https://mintcast.org/383-ubuntu-is-out-fedoring-fedora/ Tue, 07 Jun 2022 15:55:26 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5442 Download
    ]]>     2:05 The News
    20:32 Security and Privacy Update
    67:15 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    37:40

    First up in the news: Ubuntu is out-fedoring Fedora; Linux 5.18 brings new optimizations; the Budgie has landed; Debian 12 has a projected birthday, and Asahi has its first Alpha;

    In security and privacy, a new Spectre has arisen;

    Then in our Wanderings, Bill gets “Jitsi with it”, Moss goes down the “pi-hole”, and Norbert hops onto the Fedora bandwagon

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    The News

    Security Update

    Announcements

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

    • Norbert and Tony H for our audio production
    • Leo for timestamps and publishing
    • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
    • Hobstar for our logo
    • initrd for the animated Discord logo
    • Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!
    ]]>     full 42:29 5442     382 – Kernel Metamorphosis https://mintcast.org/382-kernel-metamorphosis/ Sat, 14 May 2022 01:14:52 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5393 Download
    ]]>     1:30 The News
    20:32 Security and Privacy Update
    31:45 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    56:04 Announcements & Outro

    First up in the news: Linux crosses the C; We look into Steam; Flatpak improves; Gnome gets more customizable.

    In security and privacy: Bvp47 found after 10 years.

    Then in our Wanderings: Moss is shaking in his boots and singing about it; Joe fixes more things; JoshT is back from the farm; Bill keeps trucking; and Norbert goes to Maui.

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    The News

    Security Update

    Bi-Weekly Wanderings

    • Moss: This is my first time hosting mintCast. Distro Madness is back at It’s MOSS! I participated in Eurofolk a week ago.
    • Joe: I was able to get another motherboard for that Dell XPS 13 9360.  Between going back to the office and working on the campaign for AISD school board of trustees I have not had much time to work on my own projects. I am back in the office which does make things more difficult when it comes to projects and getting things done. Along with the school board I am feeling a little under prepared today. Also I have been having problems with my garage computer again.
    • Norbert: Since I’ve become a host on mintCast and have been spending more time talking with native English speakers on this show and occasionally on Linux Saloon, I’ve become more conscious about my pronunciation of certain words, as well as I’ve been trying to improve my accent. I decided to take another look at the Maui Shell, the upcoming DE from Nitrux, which aims to be a good experience on desktops, tablets and phones.
    • Josh T: I took a trip out to my cousin’s farm in the foothills of California last weekend and spent a couple of days with him and his family. I’d been wanting a decent bluetooth speaker for a while but didn’t want to break the bank on one, so I purchased a Soundcore Motion+ by Anker off of Amazon for a little over $100. I came into the new year firmly set on selling my motorcycle as I just don’t ride much these days but with fuel prices now having eclipsed $5 a gallon. I started to improve my diet this past week and many salads were eaten.
    • Bill: This week has been more iterative improvements to the work-flow with regards to my other podcast, 3 Fat Truckers. I’ve been having a lot of fun learning how to make proper podcast episodes using Audacity. My work week was somewhat standard, though a bit hectic towards the end. Some challenges we will need to address for the future are the state of Dave and Steve’s internet service. They both have a similar situation where they have excellent download speed, though their upload speed is – shall we say less than stellar.

    Announcements

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

    • Norbert and Tony H for our audio production
    • Leo for timestamps and publishing
    • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
    • Hobstar for our logo
    • initrd for the animated Discord logo
    • Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!
    ]]>     382 - Kernel Metamorphosis full 59:54 5393     379.5 – Phishing Season https://mintcast.org/379-5-phishing-season/ Sat, 09 Apr 2022 18:39:37 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5354 In security, Ubuntu Kernel Security Patches, FGKASLR gets closer to mainline, Data stealing malware hides on Linux servers, Go Daddy data breach
    In our Wanderings, Joe does some 3d printing, Josh got a new monitor, Norbert switches OS’s, and Clayton looks back
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    ]]>     1:06 Linux Innards
    42:46 Check This Out
    44:16 Announcements & Outro

    In our Innards section, we talk about how much security is enough.

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

    Check This Out

    Announcements

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Norbert for our audio production
    • Leo for timestamps and publishing
    • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
    • Hobstar for our logo
    • initrd for the animated Discord logo
    • Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     379.5 - Phishing Season full 48:19 5354     377 – Zero Days of Christmas https://mintcast.org/377-zero-days-of-christmas/ Thu, 06 Jan 2022 05:08:48 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5316 In security, a grub update causes problems with Ubuntu and a Log4shell update
    Then in our wanderings, Joe's on vacation, Norbert's full of gingerbread, Nishant is surviving the winter, Josh is on Windows, and Bill's just glad to be here
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    ]]>     1:56 The News
    21:20 Security Update
    32:54 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    1:20:55 Announcements & Outro

    In the news, Pop OS 21.10 is released, GNOME 42 – Top New Feature and Release Detail, ReactOS 0.4.14 has been released, Krita 5.0 has been released, and there’s yet another desktop environment on the horizon

    In security, a grub update causes problems with Ubuntu and a Log4shell update

    Then in our wanderings, Joe’s on vacation, Norbert’s full of gingerbread, Nishant is surviving the winter, Josh is on Windows, and Bill’s just glad to be here

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

    The News

    Security Update

    Bi-Weekly Wanderings

    • Joe
      • Vacationing, Troubleshooting, Testing Docker, and VPNing
    • Norbert
      • XFCE WM Hybrid, zentile, OpenSUSE
    • Nishant
    • Josh
    • Bill

    Announcements

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Norbert for our audio production
    • Leo for timestamps and publishing
    • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
    • Hobstar for our logo
    • initrd for the animated Discord logo
    • Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 1:25:24 5316     376 – Joe, Do You Copy? https://mintcast.org/376-joe-do-you-copy/ Sun, 19 Dec 2021 18:40:05 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5299 In security, Ubuntu Kernel Security Patches, FGKASLR gets closer to mainline, Data stealing malware hides on Linux servers, Go Daddy data breach
    In our Wanderings, Joe does some 3d printing, Josh got a new monitor, Norbert switches OS’s, and Clayton looks back
    Download
    ]]>     1:46 The News
    16:16 Security Update
    23:52 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    52:38 Announcements & Outro

    First up in the news, Linux Mint monthly news, Europe embraces open source, Debian has browser issues, Fedora goes all in on Wayland, Firefox helps you fight spam, And the Linux kernel gets rusty

    In security, Ubuntu Kernel Security Patches, FGKASLR gets closer to mainline, Data stealing malware hides on Linux servers, Go Daddy data breach

    In our Wanderings, Joe does some 3d printing, Josh got a new monitor, Norbert switches OS’s, and Clayton looks back

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

    The News

    Security Update

    Bi-Weekly Wanderings

    • Joe
      • 3d printing, crypto, food
    • Josh
      • Health, monitors, outdoors
    • Norbert
      • Debian testing, Gnome, Japanese
    • Clayton
      • The old days, SSD’s, printing

    Announcements

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Norbert for our audio production
    • Leo for timestamps and publishing
    • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
    • Hobstar for our logo
    • initrd for the animated Discord logo
    • Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     376 - Joe, Do You Copy? full 58:02 5299     375 – Linux! I Choose You! https://mintcast.org/375-linux-i-choose-you/ Fri, 03 Dec 2021 01:17:59 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5285 In security, more ransomware for Linux, EU wants more cyber security, and apt is now safer to use
    Then in our Wanderings, Joe has bluetooth problems, Norbert goes mad scientist, Josh does a flip, and Tony has some sad news
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    ]]>     1:47 The News
    17:04 Security Update
    22:13 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    47:16 Announcements & Outro

    First up in the news, a German state chooses Linux, Slackware is closer to release, Cinnamon has an update, and more
    In security, more ransomware for Linux, EU wants more cyber security, and apt is now safer to use
    Then in our Wanderings, Joe has bluetooth problems, Norbert goes mad scientist, Josh does a flip, and Tony has some sad news

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

    The News

    Security Update

    Bi-Weekly Wanderings

    Announcements

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Norbert for our audio production
    • Leo for timestamps and publishing
    • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
    • Hobstar for our logo
    • initrd for the animated Discord logo
    • Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     375 - Linux! I Choose You! full 52:58 5285     374 – Mounted Archery https://mintcast.org/374-mounted-archery/ Wed, 17 Nov 2021 07:16:41 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5274 In security, A Dutch newspaper gets hacked, Azure is vulnerable, and AMD and Intel have more security flaws
    Then in our Wanderings, Joe works on an xbox, Josh remodels a bathroom, Tony got a new phone and Norbert tells us about running arch
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    ]]>     1:49 The News
    10:37 Security Update
    20:35 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    41:38 Announcements & Outro

    First up in the news, Linux Mint Monthly News, Firefox 94 released, Steam OS announcement, System76 Desktop announcement, Intel has been doing this for a long time and Nvidia released a fix

    In security, A Dutch newspaper gets hacked, Azure is vulnerable, and AMD and Intel have more security flaws

    Then in our Wanderings, Joe works on an xbox, Josh remodels a bathroom, Tony got a new phone and Norbert tells us about running arch

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

    The News

    Security Update

    Bi-Weekly Wanderings

    Announcements

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Norbert for our audio production
    • Leo for timestamps and publishing
    • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
    • Hobstar for our logo
    • initrd for the animated Discord logo
    • Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     374 - Mounted Archery full 45:14 5274     373 – Ex-SUSE Me, Microsoft? https://mintcast.org/373-ex-suse-me-microsoft/ Wed, 03 Nov 2021 05:08:09 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5258 In security, an NPM library gets hijacked, Proton will not retain your data, Firefox implements GPC, and black Friday scams abound
    Then in our Wanderings, Joe tries his hand at tv repair, Norbert plays with legos, Tony shops for a new pc, and Josh gets a new throne
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    ]]>     1:49 The News
    10:37 Security Update
    21:47 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    45:39 Announcements & Outro

    First up in the news, Raspberry PI Zero 2 W, Xorg has something new, SUSE goes Edge, A new MX linux, and Microsoft Blunders

    In security, an NPM library gets hijacked, Proton will not retain your data, Firefox implements GPC, and black Friday scams abound

    Then in our Wanderings, Joe tries his hand at tv repair, Norbert plays with legos, Tony shops for a new pc, and Josh gets a new throne

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

    The News

    Security Update

    Bi-Weekly Wanderings

    • Joe
      • https://github.com/bluppfisk/coinprice-indicator
    • Norbert
    • Tony
    • Nishant

    Announcements

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Norbert for our audio production
    • Leo for timestamps and publishing
    • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
    • Hobstar for our logo
    • initrd for the animated Discord logo
    • Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     373 - Ex-SUSE Me, Microsoft? full 50:34 5258     372 – Ryzen Sun https://mintcast.org/372-ryzen-sun/ Wed, 20 Oct 2021 04:49:53 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5244 In security Retpolines patches for performance and Azure Linux boot failures
    Then in our Wandering, Joe has some Pi, Norbert edits video, Tony Updates a BIOS, and Nishant upgrades Fedora
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    ]]>     1:44 The News
    18:21 Security Update
    21:43 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    56:20 Announcements & Outro

    First up in the news Pinephone Pro, KDE’s 5.23 on their 25th, Ubuntu Frame, Windows 11 Ryzen slowdowns, and Nvidia updates

    In security Retpolines patches for performance and Azure Linux boot failures

    Then in our Wandering, Joe has some Pi, Norbert edits video, Tony Updates a BIOS, and Nishant upgrades Fedora

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

    The News

    Security Update

    Bi-Weekly Wanderings

    Announcements

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Bo for our audio production
    • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
    • Hobstar for our logo
    • initrd for the animated Discord logg
    • Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     372 - Ryzen Sun full 1:03:16 5244     371 – Rounded Corners https://mintcast.org/371-rounded-corners/ Wed, 06 Oct 2021 05:37:05 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5230 In security, More bugs and more malware
    Then in our Wanderings, Joe does vacation, Norbert Listens to the Doctor, Josh tries ventoy, Tony is making ice cream trucks, Leo plays D2
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    ]]>     1:49 The News
    28:03 Security Update
    38:05 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    1:19:37 Announcements & Outro

    First up in the news, Linux Mint Monthly updates, Ubuntu news, Windows being Windows and Steam deck news

    In security, More bugs and more malware

    Then in our Wanderings, Joe does vacation, Norbert Listens to the Doctor, Josh tries ventoy, Tony is making ice cream trucks, Leo plays D2

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

    The News

    Security Update

    Bi-Weekly Wanderings

    Announcements

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio production
    • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
    • Hobstar for our logo
    • initrd for the animated Discord logg
    • Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     371 - Rounded Corners full 1:27:49 5230     369 – Cache Flushing https://mintcast.org/369-cache-flushing/ Wed, 08 Sep 2021 06:05:00 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5198 In security cache flushing and Bluetooth flaws
    Then in our Wanderings Joe pines a phone with plasma, Tony walks 500 miles, and I search for a keyboard
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    ]]>     1:49 The News
    27:48 Security Update
    32:18 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    1:01:28 Announcements & Outro

    First up in the news Linux Mint is ready for the facelift, Snaps get an upgrade, Kernel 5.14 is out, and 5.15 is looking good, and Ubuntu gets a release date

    In security cache flushing and Bluetooth flaws

    Then in our Wanderings Joe pines a phone with plasma, Tony walks 500 miles, and I search for a keyboard

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

    The News

    Security Update

    Bi-Weekly Wanderings

    Announcements

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     369 - Cache Flushing full 1:05:23 5198     368 – Unlimited Steam Games https://mintcast.org/368-unlimited-steam-games/ Wed, 25 Aug 2021 04:40:34 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5181 And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
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    ]]>     1:28 The News
    24:36 Security Update
    28:51 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    42:30 Announcements & Outro

    First up in the news OpenSSH takes another step, Firefox and Thunderbird match now, Lots of new releases and AV1 headed for kernel support

    In security, you were this close to having all games on Steam

    Then in our Wanderings Joe started Joe’s Plumbing Service and I’ve been boring

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit.

    The News

    Security Update

    Bi-Weekly Wanderings

    • Joe
    • Leo

    Announcements

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 49:04 5181     367 – What’s Old Is New Again https://mintcast.org/367-whats-old-is-new-again/ Wed, 11 Aug 2021 04:07:42 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5169 In security, Open Source Security has a big problem!
    Then in our Wanderings, I’ve been arching, Tony has been watching Cricket, Joe has been working on games consoles.
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    ]]>     2:17 The News
    27:55 Security Update
    42:15 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    1:05:45 Announcements & Outro

    First up in the news, Linux Mint working on the website, more on the SteamDeck, Ubuntu debuts its new installer, and some release dates

    In security, Open Source Security has a big problem!

    Then in our Wanderings, I’ve been arching, Tony has been watching Cricket, Joe has been working on games consoles.

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit.

    The News

    Security Update

    Bi-Weekly Wanderings

    Announcements

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     367 - What's Old Is New Again full 1:10:17 5169     mintCast 365 – Upgrade Time https://mintcast.org/mintcast-365-upgrade-time/ Wed, 14 Jul 2021 05:57:18 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5137 In security Kaseya and PrintNightmare
    Then in our Wanderings, Leo migrates his blog, Joe gets busy, Tony struggles with 5.11, and Mike jumpstarts a MacOS VM.
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    ]]>     2:10 The News
    20:42 Security Update
    32:02 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    1:10:09 Announcements & Outro

    First up in the news, we realize the Kernel is 30, Ubuntu tweaks its themes, Mint 20.2 is here and Audacity owners are causing a stir in the community again. 

    In security Kaseya and PrintNightmare

    Then in our Wanderings, Leo migrates his blog, Joe gets busy, Tony struggles with 5.11, and Mike jumpstarts a MacOS VM.

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit.

    The News

    Security Update

    Bi-Weekly Wanderings

    Announcements

    Wrap-up

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 5137     mintCast 363 – Audacity Rewind https://mintcast.org/mintcast-363-audacity-rewind/ Wed, 16 Jun 2021 17:43:40 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5100 Then, our news we have a Linux Mint update, Audacity backtracks, a top 10 and OBS’s wayland support
    In security, polkit
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    43:26 The News
    1:26:28 Security Update
    1:29:58 Announcements & Outro

    First up, in our Wanderings, I miss a delivery, Joe forgets to backup, Bo tinkers with pipewire, and Tony turns the amperage up to 10.

    Then, our news we have a Linux Mint update, Audacity backtracks, a top 10 and OBS’s wayland support

    In security, polkit

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit.

    Bi-Weekly Wanderings

    The News

    Security Update

    Announcements: 

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 5100     mintCast 362 – The Takeover https://mintcast.org/mintcast-362-the-takeover/ Wed, 02 Jun 2021 06:54:23 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5082 Then in our news, Freenode taken over by Andrew Lee and Ubuntu and Fedora abandon ship, Material Shell for Gnome 40, Fedora 32 is end of life, and more
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    3:02 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    1:06:36 The News
    1:34:45 Security Update
    1:44:36 Announcements & Outro

    First up, in our Wanderings, I’ve been system building, Joe has been playing with his new 3D printer, Bo has range anxiety and Tony has been learning about creating YouTube videos

    Then in our news, Freenode taken over by Andrew Lee and Ubuntu and Fedora abandon ship, Material Shell for Gnome 40, Fedora 32 is end of life, and more

    In security, a Linux rootkit that shows its face…fish.

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit.

    BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS:

    THE NEWS:

    SECURITY UPDATE:

    ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 5082     mintCast 361 – The Launch Launch https://mintcast.org/mintcast-361-the-launch-launch/ Wed, 19 May 2021 06:30:07 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5067 Then, our news Audacity gets bought up, System76 Launches the Launch, and LibreOffice Lets you Search!
    In security, the death of CAPTCHA
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    2:16 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    38:33 The News
    1:02:53 Security Update
    1:19:36 Announcements & Outro

    First up, in our Wanderings, I start building, Joe writes with a pinecil, Tony upgrades, Josh fights a game, and Bo tries to leaf.

    Then, our news Audacity gets bought up, System76 Launches the Launch, and LibreOffice Lets you Search!

    In security, the death of CAPTCHA

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit.

    BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS:

    THE NEWS:

    SECURITY UPDATE:

    ANNOUNCEMENTS:

    • We’re putting OGG to sleep. Forever.
      • Mp3 has been patentless for more than three years now and that’s free enough for us. It cuts down on back end workload since we do most everything manually when it comes to getting the show out there.
      • No need to change feeds! The mp3 will now come down in the OGG feed. Just don’t look under the covers, and hopefully absolutely nothing noticeable will change.
    • Moss extended hiatus
    • The New Saturday Show (mintNight? mintTalk? No official name yet.)
    • Our next episode will be at 2 pm US Central time on May 30, 2021.
    • Get the show time converted to your time zone!

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     mintCast 361 - The Launch Launch full 1:27:49 5067     mintCast 360 – Uno Reverse Card (mp3) https://mintcast.org/mintcast-360-uno-reverse-card-mp3/ Wed, 05 May 2021 05:17:39 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5053 Then, in the News, a Linux Mint update, Ubuntu too! Wenty-1.04, everyone’s favorite: NFTs, and more.
    In Security, meet the new hacking tools, same as the old hacking tools, a reverse Uno card, QNAP, and the University of Minnesota.
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    3:11 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    43:58 The News
    1:24:58 Security Update
    1:41:51 Announcements & Outro

    First up, in our Wanderings, I fly like an eagle, Joe goes to Florida, Moss is attacked by the trees, Mike wings it.

    Then, in the News, a Linux Mint update, Ubuntu too! Wenty-1.04, everyone’s favorite: NFTs, and more.

    In Security, meet the new hacking tools, same as the old hacking tools, a reverse Uno card, QNAP, and the University of Minnesota.

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit.

    BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS: 

    THE NEWS:

    SECURITY UPDATE: 

    ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 5053     mintCast 360 – Uno Reverse Card https://mintcast.org/mintcast-360-uno-reverse-card/ Wed, 05 May 2021 05:06:59 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5048 Then, in the News, a Linux Mint update, Ubuntu too! Wenty-1.04, everyone’s favorite: NFTs, and more.
    In Security, meet the new hacking tools, same as the old hacking tools, a reverse Uno card, QNAP, and the University of Minnesota.
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    3:11 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    43:58 The News
    1:24:58 Security Update
    1:41:51 Announcements & Outro

    First up, in our Wanderings, I fly like an eagle, Joe goes to Florida, Moss is attacked by the trees, Mike wings it.

    Then, in the News, a Linux Mint update, Ubuntu too! Wenty-1.04, everyone’s favorite: NFTs, and more.

    In Security, meet the new hacking tools, same as the old hacking tools, a reverse Uno card, QNAP, and the University of Minnesota.

    Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit.

    BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS: 

    THE NEWS:

    SECURITY UPDATE: 

    ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 5048     mintCast 359 – COSMIC Proportions (mp3) https://mintcast.org/mintcast-359-cosmic-proportions-mp3/ Wed, 21 Apr 2021 06:36:29 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5029 Then, in the News, we get hypnotized, we look at Apple M1 support again, celebrate a birthday, and look to the stars.
    In Security, Skynet.
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    1:59 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    39:55 The News
    1:18:36 Security Update
    1:26:05 Announcements & Outro

    First up, in our Wanderings, I get a fresh stream, Joe sends his keystrokes over the air, Josh has a server dilemma, and Mike heads to space.

    Then, in the News, we get hypnotized, we look at Apple M1 support again, celebrate a birthday, and look to the stars.

    In Security, Skynet.

    BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS: 

    THE NEWS:

    SECURITY UPDATE: 

    ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 5029     mintCast 359 – COSMIC Proportions https://mintcast.org/mintcast-359-cosmic-proportions/ Wed, 21 Apr 2021 06:25:28 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5024 Then, in the News, we get hypnotized, we look at Apple M1 support again, celebrate a birthday, and look to the stars.
    In Security, Skynet.
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    1:59 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    39:55 The News
    1:18:36 Security Update
    1:26:05 Announcements & Outro

    First up, in our Wanderings, I get a fresh stream, Joe sends his keystrokes over the air, Josh has a server dilemma, and Mike heads to space.

    Then, in the News, we get hypnotized, we look at Apple M1 support again, celebrate a birthday, and look to the stars.

    In Security, Skynet.

    BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS: 

    THE NEWS:

    SECURITY UPDATE: 

    ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 5024     mintCast 358 – The Ethical Ethos (mp3) https://mintcast.org/mintcast-358-the-ethical-ethos-mp3/ Wed, 07 Apr 2021 05:02:24 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5004 Then, in the News, Mint sends relief, Ventoy has a birthday, JingPad gets closer, new docs Man up, and AlmaLinux soothes the soul.
    In Security, your smartphone is spying on you, Facebook springs another leak, and we disclose our vulnerability.
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    2:24 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    39:21 The News
    1:02:28 Security Update
    1:20:20 Announcements & Outro

    First up, in our Wanderings, I make a handoff, Joe repairs more stuff, Moss is in the news, Tony Hughes continues the challenge, and Mike the Builder makes a bike.

    Then, in the News, Mint sends relief, Ventoy has a birthday, JingPad gets closer, new docs Man up, and AlmaLinux soothes the soul.

    In Security, your smartphone is spying on you, Facebook springs another leak, and we disclose our vulnerability.

    BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS: 

    • Leo
      • Dropping FCWN, but it’s not going far.
      • Linux User Space Season 1 is wrapped up.
      • Revising some of my audio editing workflow
        1. The “Compress Dynamics” plugin replaces Audacity’s own AND the Amplify plugin.
        2. The Noise Gate by Audacity, but that isn’t installed by default, is absolutely fantastic
      • Went with a pop filter over a wind screen for this episode. We’ll see if there’s a big difference in sibilants.
    • Joe
      • Well I need to redo one of the two Razers and reverse the connections on one of the 1mores, the Razer I guess I went a bit harsh at first with the soldering iron and I need to get a new 3.5mm connector
      • I also disassembled a couple of mice with my new Pinecil soldering iron.  I like it.  The price is 25 dollars for a good working soldering iron that heats up very fast and is easily portable.  I am still looking for a stand for it that I like.
        1. I took apart the mice for the switches so that I can use them to fix a couple of other M570 mice so that I don’t have to buy more of them.  The M570 seems to have a bit of a short half life.
      • I ordered and received the Dell Latitude 5290, which cost a bit more than I wanted to pay for a tablet but I have to say that it works well.  I also discovered that there may be a good reason to switch to the i7 instead of the i5 version even with the minimal performance gains.  The i7 version has actual Thunderbolt ports instead of just USB 3.1 but I am very happy with the tablet as is.
        1. I first installed Endeavour and then added Gnome because I wanted to give it more of a try
        2. That did not last long and I had the same issues with Steam and my ongoing dislike for Gnome out of the box
        3. Switched to Mint and things started working, other than rotation which had the issue where it would rotate the screen but not the touch.  This was easily fixed by installing screenrotate in the exact same way as with arch.
        4. Steam just plain worked and looked pretty good with Torchlight and Borderlands 2, I would have tried Borderlands 3 but the game takes 112 Gb and that would have fit on the 256 Gb SSD but would not have much left room for anything else.  BL2 was installed using proton so I could use all of the DLC
        5. I will say that BL2 sent the thing from 75 percent battery to shutdown very fast but I am also not done putting the battery through its testing to make sure that it is good
        6. The only thing that I have not been able to get working is the cameras.  Neither of them work.  Didn’t work on Arch or Mint and from what I have found online no one else has been able to get them to work either
      • Ordered a 128 Gb SSD that was supposed to work and it didn’t fit into the WAN port, so I did my research the second time and found out I need a b+m SSD in order to make it work. And it needed to be a 2242 instead of the 2230 that was marked on the board.  But the b+m 128 that I ordered came and did not match the picture or the writing on the front which also said b+m the thing was only an m.  So IDK 
      • I did put a 64Gb micro SD into it but really want the faster m.2 drive either for game storage or for a second operating system.  Maybe I should get a much larger 2280 drive instead.
      • Tried to install Garuda Linux to an external drive to test it out on my tablet but after multiple tries with issues caused by the drives and not the OS I gave up the idea of running Garuda from external media and wiped out Mint on the device and installed Garuda bare bones
      • I have to say that, for Arch, it is extremely robust and takes most of the work out of everything
      • I also found out that the game that I was using as a test case that was not working in steam in endeavour was also not working in Garuda but the reason is because it was a 32-bit game.  So there is an issue with 32-bit libraries needing to be pointed to. 
      • I also should mention that I installed the Gnome version of Garuda but I will get into that in the innards section
      • Also yesterday i picked up a large volume of broken electronics for a decent price.  Lots of bluetooth and wired headphones that need some work.  Already got a couple of them working.  My current favorite is the Razer Nari Ultimate.  I will talk more about them later but some highlights are 2 DT770s, several Shure SE215 and SE315’s and several AT M30, M40, M50
    • Moss
      • In a surprise development, I got a message in Telegram from Ronnie Tucker, congratulating me as the new voice of Full Circle Weekly News podcast. I have only one person to thank for this. Thank you, Leo. Big shoes to fill, but I hope to fill them *weekly*.
      • I had some problems for a week or so with Linux Mint 20.1, the system was locking up or sometimes just the mouse buttons stopped working. A number of other people reported similar issues on the Linux Mint group on MeWe, but nothing made it to the Mint Forum. After a couple more updates, including a kernel update and two systemd updates, my machines are working fine… the Zia800 was locking up when things get plugged into the top USB port on the front of the machine but I think this has been resolved by magic. The Fellowes keyboard I bought on eBay proved to not work so we went to Voldemart and bought her a Logitech keyboard.
      • I plugged Suzanne’s Fellowes keyboard into my computer to test it, and proved it really was not working… but in doing so, I broke off the headphone jack on my nice old Koss headphones. I thought that was all, but when I plugged my other headset into the jack to do Distrohoppers’ Digest Episode 021 on Wednesday, I found I could not hear anyone. Tony Hughes reminded me I had a USB soundcard on my Raspberry Pi 4 and I used it, and continue to do so. Should get a second identical card in the mail in the next couple days.
      • Tony Hughes, Dale Miracle and I recorded Distrohoppers’ Digest Episode 021 last Wednesday and it is out now, following our record-breaking Episode 020 which exceeded 800 downloads. We had a great time as usual, and covered Mageia, Debian Unstable, Endeavour, and others. I’m already working on Episode 022. Episode 020 is at 818 downloads as of this recording.
      • It’s time to get your votes in on Distro Madness, Elite Eight; voting will close this Friday before moving on to the Semifinals. Surprise! Most of my readers come from mintCast listeners, so all four versions of Mint are favored to make the Final Four… but can Solus sneak in?
    • Tony Hughes
      • Lots and lots of walking. Last Monday I did a 12.5 mile walk with my wife along the coast from South Blackpool to Fleetwood to the North of us. I’m regularly doing 5+ miles a day. It is getting quite addictive to complete the virtual walk challenge I’m on.    
      • As Moss has said we recorded Distrohoppers’ Digest last Wednesday and I managed to get it all edited and Posted by Friday so all is good with the world. 
      • During the pre show chat last night I did manage to get Audacity 3.0.0 installed on Endeavor although I have not had a chance to play with it as yet. On my main box I have tried the Snap install and it opens the previous .aup files without a hitch but as it is in a snap it can only see the drive the OS is on so I had to copy a folder from another drive to the PC to try this out. One day I will work out these permission issues with Snap and Flatpak apps.   
    • Mike
      • Proton suite – VPN works very well if you’re comfortable with light CLI usage. Minor adjustments need to be made to work properly (add startup script). Drive is pretty bare bones in its current form but works perfectly, I signed up to beta test iOS app. Mail is mail.
      • Whonix – An operating system designed to help protect your privacy and anonymity. It runs on a VM and forces all programs to connect through Tor network, all clearnet connections are blocked, DNS leaks are blocked.
      • I’ve been wanting to buy a bicycle lately but the prices are so high due to increased demand and the pandemic ($1200 – $1500) that I decided to build a bicycle instead. I found a company that sells a bike partially built for a cheap price, you must complete half of it. City cruiser bicycle. I’m somewhat worried because I’m not mechanically inclined and I’ve never built a bicycle before. [Get the bike tires from Mars next year – Moss]

    THE NEWS:

    • Mint News: New Linux Mint notification system. “We designed a notification system which acts as a gentle and welcome reminder and took great care not to turn it into an annoyance.” The notification system will be a desktop popup notification which can be easily dismissed and won’t reappear for 2 days. Default settings have casual users in mind and will show a notification if an update has been available for 7 “logged-in” days or older than 15 calendar days. By default the Update Manager only considers security and kernel updates. The notification system has a grace period, where if you’ve installed ANY updates in any way (update manager, terminal, synaptic) in the last 30 days then it won’t notify you. The notification system is completely configurable for more intermediate to advanced users.
      • Clem on the release for the update changes: This is planned for Mint 20.2 but it could also be backported. We’ve a journalistic slack, we can send you an invite if you contact us by email.
      • Clem noted in the comments that Flatpak will also be controllable through the Update Manager. Clem also notes that a Flatpak update from 1.6.5 to a more current one is on the roadmap.
      • Clem said of Wayland and GTK4: There are no plans to move to GTK4 right now but like anything new this is something we have an interest in and so we’re keeping an eye on it. Regarding Wayland I have no news. We’re investigating the idea of making the latest Cinnamon work with Mutter, there are many pros and cons associated with that, it’s not directly related to Wayland but it could help getting closer.
      • Clem on more Desktop Environments: Not at the moment. We’re very happy with the Cinnamon – MATE – Xfce trio.
      • Clem on usrmerge for LMDE: Although we’re likely to move to a merged system in LMDE 5, in LMDE 4 you don’t need to merge your system. First, our build environment for LMDE is not merged. Second, Debian has been aware of this issue and actively fixed it in their repositories. The Ubuntu version of plymouth produces unreproducible builds, the Debian version does not. Debian detected this issue and already patched it.
    • Londoner reminds us that ventoy-1.0.00 was released on April 5th in 2020.
    • JingOS released v. 0.8 to the public, with a lot of new features, and further announced they were starting a crowdfunding campaign for the JingPad A1 – the world’s first consumer-level Linux tablet. JingOS is intended to be a full-Linux experience for tablet computers, but with an interface that could be mistaken easily for iPad OS. They are designing a product with a 2k+ screen, Gorilla Glass, 4:3 screen ratio, and premium components, with a pen and a keyboard both available. They have Discord, Telegram, Facebook, and other forums to get involved in. It should be pointed out that they got this announcement in under the wire on March 31, there were murmurings about it being a joke.
    • Man-Pages 5.11 released featuring 50,000 line changes and 480 commits by 40 contributors. 950 pages have been changed (more than 90%). The release features various patches and bug fixes. One of the largest man-pages updates in 20 years.
    • AlmaLinux is Official

    SECURITY UPDATE: 

    • Your smartphone is spying on you more than you realize. Researchers from the University of Dublin have found that smartphones transmit telemetry data “back home” on average every 4½ minutes, however Android transmits 20x more data back to Google than iOS sends to Apple. This transfer happens even when the device is idle. Currently there are very few, if any, options to prevent telemetry collection. – Mike
    • 533,000,000 Facebook users have their data leaked online – Moss
    • Vulnerability Disclosure Norms
      • What are your feelings on hackers/security researchers dropping their research to the public directly without letting developers know first.
      • Do you think the typical 90-day requirement is enough?
      • Do you think companies should have an indefinite amount of time to fix issues?

    ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 1:26:13 5004     mintCast 358 – The Ethical Ethos https://mintcast.org/mintcast-358-the-ethical-ethos/ Wed, 07 Apr 2021 04:48:21 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5000 Then, in the News, Mint sends relief, Ventoy has a birthday, JingPad gets closer, new docs Man up, and AlmaLinux soothes the soul.
    In Security, your smartphone is spying on you, Facebook springs another leak, and we disclose our vulnerability.
    Download
    ]]>     Download

    2:24 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    39:21 The News
    1:02:28 Security Update
    1:20:20 Announcements & Outro

    First up, in our Wanderings, I make a handoff, Joe repairs more stuff, Moss is in the news, Tony Hughes continues the challenge, and Mike the Builder makes a bike.

    Then, in the News, Mint sends relief, Ventoy has a birthday, JingPad gets closer, new docs Man up, and AlmaLinux soothes the soul.

    In Security, your smartphone is spying on you, Facebook springs another leak, and we disclose our vulnerability.

    BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS: 

    • Leo
      • Dropping FCWN, but it’s not going far.
      • Linux User Space Season 1 is wrapped up.
      • Revising some of my audio editing workflow
        1. The “Compress Dynamics” plugin replaces Audacity’s own AND the Amplify plugin.
        2. The Noise Gate by Audacity, but that isn’t installed by default, is absolutely fantastic
      • Went with a pop filter over a wind screen for this episode. We’ll see if there’s a big difference in sibilants.
    • Joe
      • Well I need to redo one of the two Razers and reverse the connections on one of the 1mores, the Razer I guess I went a bit harsh at first with the soldering iron and I need to get a new 3.5mm connector
      • I also disassembled a couple of mice with my new Pinecil soldering iron.  I like it.  The price is 25 dollars for a good working soldering iron that heats up very fast and is easily portable.  I am still looking for a stand for it that I like.
        1. I took apart the mice for the switches so that I can use them to fix a couple of other M570 mice so that I don’t have to buy more of them.  The M570 seems to have a bit of a short half life.
      • I ordered and received the Dell Latitude 5290, which cost a bit more than I wanted to pay for a tablet but I have to say that it works well.  I also discovered that there may be a good reason to switch to the i7 instead of the i5 version even with the minimal performance gains.  The i7 version has actual Thunderbolt ports instead of just USB 3.1 but I am very happy with the tablet as is.
        1. I first installed Endeavour and then added Gnome because I wanted to give it more of a try
        2. That did not last long and I had the same issues with Steam and my ongoing dislike for Gnome out of the box
        3. Switched to Mint and things started working, other than rotation which had the issue where it would rotate the screen but not the touch.  This was easily fixed by installing screenrotate in the exact same way as with arch.
        4. Steam just plain worked and looked pretty good with Torchlight and Borderlands 2, I would have tried Borderlands 3 but the game takes 112 Gb and that would have fit on the 256 Gb SSD but would not have much left room for anything else.  BL2 was installed using proton so I could use all of the DLC
        5. I will say that BL2 sent the thing from 75 percent battery to shutdown very fast but I am also not done putting the battery through its testing to make sure that it is good
        6. The only thing that I have not been able to get working is the cameras.  Neither of them work.  Didn’t work on Arch or Mint and from what I have found online no one else has been able to get them to work either
      • Ordered a 128 Gb SSD that was supposed to work and it didn’t fit into the WAN port, so I did my research the second time and found out I need a b+m SSD in order to make it work. And it needed to be a 2242 instead of the 2230 that was marked on the board.  But the b+m 128 that I ordered came and did not match the picture or the writing on the front which also said b+m the thing was only an m.  So IDK 
      • I did put a 64Gb micro SD into it but really want the faster m.2 drive either for game storage or for a second operating system.  Maybe I should get a much larger 2280 drive instead.
      • Tried to install Garuda Linux to an external drive to test it out on my tablet but after multiple tries with issues caused by the drives and not the OS I gave up the idea of running Garuda from external media and wiped out Mint on the device and installed Garuda bare bones
      • I have to say that, for Arch, it is extremely robust and takes most of the work out of everything
      • I also found out that the game that I was using as a test case that was not working in steam in endeavour was also not working in Garuda but the reason is because it was a 32-bit game.  So there is an issue with 32-bit libraries needing to be pointed to. 
      • I also should mention that I installed the Gnome version of Garuda but I will get into that in the innards section
      • Also yesterday i picked up a large volume of broken electronics for a decent price.  Lots of bluetooth and wired headphones that need some work.  Already got a couple of them working.  My current favorite is the Razer Nari Ultimate.  I will talk more about them later but some highlights are 2 DT770s, several Shure SE215 and SE315’s and several AT M30, M40, M50
    • Moss
      • In a surprise development, I got a message in Telegram from Ronnie Tucker, congratulating me as the new voice of Full Circle Weekly News podcast. I have only one person to thank for this. Thank you, Leo. Big shoes to fill, but I hope to fill them *weekly*.
      • I had some problems for a week or so with Linux Mint 20.1, the system was locking up or sometimes just the mouse buttons stopped working. A number of other people reported similar issues on the Linux Mint group on MeWe, but nothing made it to the Mint Forum. After a couple more updates, including a kernel update and two systemd updates, my machines are working fine… the Zia800 was locking up when things get plugged into the top USB port on the front of the machine but I think this has been resolved by magic. The Fellowes keyboard I bought on eBay proved to not work so we went to Voldemart and bought her a Logitech keyboard.
      • I plugged Suzanne’s Fellowes keyboard into my computer to test it, and proved it really was not working… but in doing so, I broke off the headphone jack on my nice old Koss headphones. I thought that was all, but when I plugged my other headset into the jack to do Distrohoppers’ Digest Episode 021 on Wednesday, I found I could not hear anyone. Tony Hughes reminded me I had a USB soundcard on my Raspberry Pi 4 and I used it, and continue to do so. Should get a second identical card in the mail in the next couple days.
      • Tony Hughes, Dale Miracle and I recorded Distrohoppers’ Digest Episode 021 last Wednesday and it is out now, following our record-breaking Episode 020 which exceeded 800 downloads. We had a great time as usual, and covered Mageia, Debian Unstable, Endeavour, and others. I’m already working on Episode 022. Episode 020 is at 818 downloads as of this recording.
      • It’s time to get your votes in on Distro Madness, Elite Eight; voting will close this Friday before moving on to the Semifinals. Surprise! Most of my readers come from mintCast listeners, so all four versions of Mint are favored to make the Final Four… but can Solus sneak in?
    • Tony Hughes
      • Lots and lots of walking. Last Monday I did a 12.5 mile walk with my wife along the coast from South Blackpool to Fleetwood to the North of us. I’m regularly doing 5+ miles a day. It is getting quite addictive to complete the virtual walk challenge I’m on.    
      • As Moss has said we recorded Distrohoppers’ Digest last Wednesday and I managed to get it all edited and Posted by Friday so all is good with the world. 
      • During the pre show chat last night I did manage to get Audacity 3.0.0 installed on Endeavor although I have not had a chance to play with it as yet. On my main box I have tried the Snap install and it opens the previous .aup files without a hitch but as it is in a snap it can only see the drive the OS is on so I had to copy a folder from another drive to the PC to try this out. One day I will work out these permission issues with Snap and Flatpak apps.   
    • Mike
      • Proton suite – VPN works very well if you’re comfortable with light CLI usage. Minor adjustments need to be made to work properly (add startup script). Drive is pretty bare bones in its current form but works perfectly, I signed up to beta test iOS app. Mail is mail.
      • Whonix – An operating system designed to help protect your privacy and anonymity. It runs on a VM and forces all programs to connect through Tor network, all clearnet connections are blocked, DNS leaks are blocked.
      • I’ve been wanting to buy a bicycle lately but the prices are so high due to increased demand and the pandemic ($1200 – $1500) that I decided to build a bicycle instead. I found a company that sells a bike partially built for a cheap price, you must complete half of it. City cruiser bicycle. I’m somewhat worried because I’m not mechanically inclined and I’ve never built a bicycle before. [Get the bike tires from Mars next year – Moss]

    THE NEWS:

    • Mint News: New Linux Mint notification system. “We designed a notification system which acts as a gentle and welcome reminder and took great care not to turn it into an annoyance.” The notification system will be a desktop popup notification which can be easily dismissed and won’t reappear for 2 days. Default settings have casual users in mind and will show a notification if an update has been available for 7 “logged-in” days or older than 15 calendar days. By default the Update Manager only considers security and kernel updates. The notification system has a grace period, where if you’ve installed ANY updates in any way (update manager, terminal, synaptic) in the last 30 days then it won’t notify you. The notification system is completely configurable for more intermediate to advanced users.
      • Clem on the release for the update changes: This is planned for Mint 20.2 but it could also be backported. We’ve a journalistic slack, we can send you an invite if you contact us by email.
      • Clem noted in the comments that Flatpak will also be controllable through the Update Manager. Clem also notes that a Flatpak update from 1.6.5 to a more current one is on the roadmap.
      • Clem said of Wayland and GTK4: There are no plans to move to GTK4 right now but like anything new this is something we have an interest in and so we’re keeping an eye on it. Regarding Wayland I have no news. We’re investigating the idea of making the latest Cinnamon work with Mutter, there are many pros and cons associated with that, it’s not directly related to Wayland but it could help getting closer.
      • Clem on more Desktop Environments: Not at the moment. We’re very happy with the Cinnamon – MATE – Xfce trio.
      • Clem on usrmerge for LMDE: Although we’re likely to move to a merged system in LMDE 5, in LMDE 4 you don’t need to merge your system. First, our build environment for LMDE is not merged. Second, Debian has been aware of this issue and actively fixed it in their repositories. The Ubuntu version of plymouth produces unreproducible builds, the Debian version does not. Debian detected this issue and already patched it.
    • Londoner reminds us that ventoy-1.0.00 was released on April 5th in 2020.
    • JingOS released v. 0.8 to the public, with a lot of new features, and further announced they were starting a crowdfunding campaign for the JingPad A1 – the world’s first consumer-level Linux tablet. JingOS is intended to be a full-Linux experience for tablet computers, but with an interface that could be mistaken easily for iPad OS. They are designing a product with a 2k+ screen, Gorilla Glass, 4:3 screen ratio, and premium components, with a pen and a keyboard both available. They have Discord, Telegram, Facebook, and other forums to get involved in. It should be pointed out that they got this announcement in under the wire on March 31, there were murmurings about it being a joke.
    • Man-Pages 5.11 released featuring 50,000 line changes and 480 commits by 40 contributors. 950 pages have been changed (more than 90%). The release features various patches and bug fixes. One of the largest man-pages updates in 20 years.
    • AlmaLinux is Official

    SECURITY UPDATE: 

    • Your smartphone is spying on you more than you realize. Researchers from the University of Dublin have found that smartphones transmit telemetry data “back home” on average every 4½ minutes, however Android transmits 20x more data back to Google than iOS sends to Apple. This transfer happens even when the device is idle. Currently there are very few, if any, options to prevent telemetry collection. – Mike
    • 533,000,000 Facebook users have their data leaked online – Moss
    • Vulnerability Disclosure Norms
      • What are your feelings on hackers/security researchers dropping their research to the public directly without letting developers know first.
      • Do you think the typical 90-day requirement is enough?
      • Do you think companies should have an indefinite amount of time to fix issues?

    ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 1:29:17 5000     mintCast 357 – Surfboard Building Lunch (mp3) https://mintcast.org/mintcast-357-surfboard-building-lunch-mp3/ Wed, 24 Mar 2021 04:50:28 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=4983 Then, in the News, new LibreOffice and Audacity, 7zip is native, Calamares can use more butter, and a new kernel is coming
    In Security, how easy it is to buy up your information
    Download
    ]]>     Download

    2:19 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    53:33 The News
    1:14:50 Security Update
    1:27:13 Announcements & Outro

    First up, in our Wanderings, I do a little scripting, Joe drops a laptop, Moss is feeling phone-y, Tony walks a thousand miles, Josh visits Piggly Wiggly, Bo battles trolls, Mike gets a new-to-you Q2u

    Then, in the News, new LibreOffice and Audacity, 7zip is native, Calamares can use more butter, and a new kernel is coming

    In Security, how easy it is to buy up your information

    BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS: 

    • Leo
      • I wrote that backup script I promised. It will backup all contents of your home folder, including dot files, into a gz, xz, bz2 or 7z archive.
      • It’s in my personal, local gitea, but I can post it to my public github if there’s interest.
    • Joe
      • One of the 1more headsets the cable has gone bad which is why I have had so many problems with it.  Basically the cable just deteriorated away.  So I took the driver end apart and pulled the cable all the way through and put in another one.  The first one that I tried to replace it with was too thick so I removed some cable from another headset that I had no use for, that was for a side with a mic and used two wires for each connection.  It came out well and I may do it to another of the 1mores where I have had to do a lot of repairs because the wire was falling apart
      • On that 5285 tablet I was not able to get anything working on it despite trying to figure out what needed to be replaced.  I know it is one of the surface mount components but I don’t have the proper tools to remove and replace and while I do know the area I need to start in I don’t have the replacement parts.
        1. So instead I have ordered a replacement motherboard.  It is the i3 version instead of the i5 version but it was 60 dollars and it will still be an improvement over a couple of the other systems that I use
        2. I will eventually get to order another one with the specs I want.  Or maybe a 5290.  My analysis of price to performance leads me to believe that it is the current winner for value when it comes to cpu performance.  The 7000 series does not provide much of a difference in performance for a large price bump and the 5290 has double the performance of the 5285 for a marginal price difference
        3. Also ordered a 2230 ssd for 15 dollars that should add a lot of high performance hard drive space to the tablet for a similar price to the much slower micro sd. I may also throw in whatever micro sd I have sitting around but we shall see, well I will when I get another one anyway
        4. Did get the new motherboard and put it in easy enough but it turns out the creen is bad.  So I have repurposed it along with a usb c adapter to work as a set top box for my living room tv.  The problem is that used screens cost nearly as much as new ones which is in the 150 dollar range
        5. I am thinking about writing a buyer’s guide for Windows tablets that seem to have a good record of running Linux or could be made to work with a little work.  My problem with it is it would not be good for more than a year or two other than the general guidelines because of how technology changes. I would like to know if people would want to read it before I write it though. I suppose that I could write a new guide every year or two.
      • I got wrapped up in the headphone cord that was attached to my laptop.  The laptop ended up on the floor but thankfully I have not been able to find any damage for that.  The cable for my 99 neos however was damaged.  A new cable costs 20 dollars so I am fixing the old one.  I may still buy a new one but I do want to replace the 3.5mm jack anyway.  Cant have too many cables.  It is a 4 pole connector and I have not had much luck getting those to work correctly. But I was able to get some practice recently when I was able to pick up 2 razer kraken pro v2s and an xbox headset for free from FB marketplace.  The last person had tried to do a jack replacement and gotten the cabling wrong.  So far I have been able to get one of the Razers working like new by fixing the work that was already done.
      • I ended up replacing the battery in my bluetooth/wired mechanical keyboard.  The battery that was in it was not holding a charge for very long and that would make the connection very wonky after only a short period of time.  I am hoping that the issue was an aging battery but I did also replace the 750 mAh with 4000 mAh battery. It should not be a problem moving to a larger capacity battery on the lower power charger, it will just take a lot longer to charge.  But slow charging is supposed to be better for batteries anyway.
    • Moss
      • I spent an hour here and an hour there getting the Zia800 up and running. I met with complete success on the 13th, dual-booting Linux Mint 20.1 MATE and Windows 10 Pro. I still need to install and configure Kodi for her, and she still has some configuring to do. She continues to use her T430 exclusively; I have not seen her turn the Zia800 on to this point. She blushes and goes silent when I ask her why not.
      • I have a problem. I have one swap partition on my Kudu, and every time I install a distro, that distro finds it and renames it, so other distros can’t find it anymore. This makes for a really slow boot. With help from Londoner, I tried to delete Mint’s use of the swap partition and install a swapfile. The attempt failed, and I had to do a complete reinstall. Even so, I learned enough to get it right this time. So now I have one fewer distro looking for the swap partition. Seven to go.
      • Here is the info I was using from Londoner:
        • To configure swapfile (as root or using sudo). 2G creates 2 GiB swapfile.
        • sudo swapoff /swapfile
        • sudo fallocate -l 2G /swapfile
        • sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
        • sudo mkswap /swapfile
        • sudo nano /etc/fstab
      • Delete existing entry for swap partition and replace with
        • /swapfile none swap sw 0 0
        • Save & reboot
      • I got a new phone yesterday, a Google Pixel 3a XL. I charged it up and was going to root it and put Lineage OS on it before using it… but… As soon as I turned it on, it started installing Android 11, which I’ve never gotten close to. I caved. I have moved all my files over, which required the use of my Wavlink toaster as the Pixel does not accommodate SD cards. I will, however, go ahead and put Lineage on my old Moto X4, and will make that available as a business phone for AWH…which still hasn’t taken off but we’re being promised a lot of things.
      • I’ve been keeping neofetch data on every installation I do one every machine I own, and updating it as needed. The file is available on our Telegram and Discord groups. The result shows how much memory is used by the system with nothing running, except Terminal and neofetch, and makes a good baseline for deciding which distro to use according to your system’s amount of memory.
      • We’re getting ready for another exciting episode of Distrohoppers’ Digest, scheduled for March 31st. For the first time since Episode 001, our current episode 020 is our most-viewed episode at 781, with Episode 019 next at 745 and Episode 018 in 3rd at 727! 
      • I have managed to successfully install three distros this month, and instead of reviewing more than one, our Telegram group voted on it and picked Mageia 8, which I had hinted earlier I *might* be reviewing. This means I know what I’m reviewing for April as well, also based on the votes and comments.
      • It’s time to get your votes in on Distro Madness, Round 3; voting will close this Friday before moving on to Round 4. There were some interesting upsets in Round 2. We’re getting a lot of participation in this fun little diversion. We would like to encourage you to become a member of the site; we have some plans in the works for making additional features for members only, and membership is free.
      • Dresden fights on. [Chapter 32 of Small Favors] And we have just been gifted a complete collection of The Expanse novels and shorts, as well as the rest of the Codex Alera collection.
    • Tony Hughes
      • Lots of walking, Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th March, myself and my wife went on 2 long walks. On Monday 8th, we walked 8 Miles and Tuesday 9th, nearly 12 miles. Myself and my Wife also started a virtual walking challenge last Wednesday, “Mizen to Malin Virtual Challenge” which is 360 miles from the North Coast of Ireland to the South coast. My Wife has just completed the Lands End to John O Groats challenge which was 874 miles and now has a T shirt and shiny medal to prove it.   
      • Not talked about it for a while but I have been doing some Diecast restoration work, preparing castings for repaint, it has been quite cold here so painting in my outside workshop was out so I have been busy getting the castings dismantled, paint striped and the posts drilled and tapped out ready for reassembly. I managed to get some prepared castings painted and reassembled this last week as the weather has warmed up enough to make painting possible. 
      • I nearly missed the show this week as I hadn’t been given the heads up about the clocks going forward in the US, ours don’t go forward till next week, so my time is an hour earlier than my usual 8pm. (to echo another podcast) I blame Leo lol. 
    • Josh
      • CKP ep 3 coming to a podcatcher near you soon!
      • Linux Mint is still the champion of Linux gaming!
      • Did some distrohopping going from Mint to openSUSE Tumbleweed to Endeavor back to Mint all in one 3 day period.
      • dd + pigz is going to be my method of backup from now on even though it’s slower.
      • Btrfs send/receive is awesome but I need to learn more about it…
      • Got a new audio interface, the Presonus Audiobox usb96. Also getting a new mic, the Audio Technica AT2020!
    • Bo
      • The 3d printed dice tray heard round the world
      • Valheim server
      • CKP progress
    • Mike
      • I THOUGHT I finally fixed WiFi. New microphone (Samsung Q2u), new headphones (Sony WH1000XM3), work on recording room.
      • Removed my information (People Finder, White Pages, MyLife) [Moss-HOW?]
      • New hardware wallet (Ledger Nano S)

    THE NEWS:

    SECURITY UPDATE: 

    ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

    Our next episode will be at 2 pm Central US time on April 4th, 2021.

    Get the show time converted to your time zone!

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 4983     mintCast 357 – Surfboard Building Lunch https://mintcast.org/mintcast-357-surfboard-building-lunch/ Wed, 24 Mar 2021 04:39:13 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=4979 Then, in the News, new LibreOffice and Audacity, 7zip is native, Calamares can use more butter, and a new kernel is coming
    In Security, how easy it is to buy up your information
    Download
    ]]>     Download

    2:19 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    53:33 The News
    1:14:50 Security Update
    1:27:13 Announcements & Outro

    First up, in our Wanderings, I do a little scripting, Joe drops a laptop, Moss is feeling phone-y, Tony walks a thousand miles, Josh visits Piggly Wiggly, Bo battles trolls, Mike gets a new-to-you Q2u

    Then, in the News, new LibreOffice and Audacity, 7zip is native, Calamares can use more butter, and a new kernel is coming

    In Security, how easy it is to buy up your information

    BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS: 

    • Leo
      • I wrote that backup script I promised. It will backup all contents of your home folder, including dot files, into a gz, xz, bz2 or 7z archive.
      • It’s in my personal, local gitea, but I can post it to my public github if there’s interest.
    • Joe
      • One of the 1more headsets the cable has gone bad which is why I have had so many problems with it.  Basically the cable just deteriorated away.  So I took the driver end apart and pulled the cable all the way through and put in another one.  The first one that I tried to replace it with was too thick so I removed some cable from another headset that I had no use for, that was for a side with a mic and used two wires for each connection.  It came out well and I may do it to another of the 1mores where I have had to do a lot of repairs because the wire was falling apart
      • On that 5285 tablet I was not able to get anything working on it despite trying to figure out what needed to be replaced.  I know it is one of the surface mount components but I don’t have the proper tools to remove and replace and while I do know the area I need to start in I don’t have the replacement parts.
        1. So instead I have ordered a replacement motherboard.  It is the i3 version instead of the i5 version but it was 60 dollars and it will still be an improvement over a couple of the other systems that I use
        2. I will eventually get to order another one with the specs I want.  Or maybe a 5290.  My analysis of price to performance leads me to believe that it is the current winner for value when it comes to cpu performance.  The 7000 series does not provide much of a difference in performance for a large price bump and the 5290 has double the performance of the 5285 for a marginal price difference
        3. Also ordered a 2230 ssd for 15 dollars that should add a lot of high performance hard drive space to the tablet for a similar price to the much slower micro sd. I may also throw in whatever micro sd I have sitting around but we shall see, well I will when I get another one anyway
        4. Did get the new motherboard and put it in easy enough but it turns out the creen is bad.  So I have repurposed it along with a usb c adapter to work as a set top box for my living room tv.  The problem is that used screens cost nearly as much as new ones which is in the 150 dollar range
        5. I am thinking about writing a buyer’s guide for Windows tablets that seem to have a good record of running Linux or could be made to work with a little work.  My problem with it is it would not be good for more than a year or two other than the general guidelines because of how technology changes. I would like to know if people would want to read it before I write it though. I suppose that I could write a new guide every year or two.
      • I got wrapped up in the headphone cord that was attached to my laptop.  The laptop ended up on the floor but thankfully I have not been able to find any damage for that.  The cable for my 99 neos however was damaged.  A new cable costs 20 dollars so I am fixing the old one.  I may still buy a new one but I do want to replace the 3.5mm jack anyway.  Cant have too many cables.  It is a 4 pole connector and I have not had much luck getting those to work correctly. But I was able to get some practice recently when I was able to pick up 2 razer kraken pro v2s and an xbox headset for free from FB marketplace.  The last person had tried to do a jack replacement and gotten the cabling wrong.  So far I have been able to get one of the Razers working like new by fixing the work that was already done.
      • I ended up replacing the battery in my bluetooth/wired mechanical keyboard.  The battery that was in it was not holding a charge for very long and that would make the connection very wonky after only a short period of time.  I am hoping that the issue was an aging battery but I did also replace the 750 mAh with 4000 mAh battery. It should not be a problem moving to a larger capacity battery on the lower power charger, it will just take a lot longer to charge.  But slow charging is supposed to be better for batteries anyway.
    • Moss
      • I spent an hour here and an hour there getting the Zia800 up and running. I met with complete success on the 13th, dual-booting Linux Mint 20.1 MATE and Windows 10 Pro. I still need to install and configure Kodi for her, and she still has some configuring to do. She continues to use her T430 exclusively; I have not seen her turn the Zia800 on to this point. She blushes and goes silent when I ask her why not.
      • I have a problem. I have one swap partition on my Kudu, and every time I install a distro, that distro finds it and renames it, so other distros can’t find it anymore. This makes for a really slow boot. With help from Londoner, I tried to delete Mint’s use of the swap partition and install a swapfile. The attempt failed, and I had to do a complete reinstall. Even so, I learned enough to get it right this time. So now I have one fewer distro looking for the swap partition. Seven to go.
      • Here is the info I was using from Londoner:
        • To configure swapfile (as root or using sudo). 2G creates 2 GiB swapfile.
        • sudo swapoff /swapfile
        • sudo fallocate -l 2G /swapfile
        • sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
        • sudo mkswap /swapfile
        • sudo nano /etc/fstab
      • Delete existing entry for swap partition and replace with
        • /swapfile none swap sw 0 0
        • Save & reboot
      • I got a new phone yesterday, a Google Pixel 3a XL. I charged it up and was going to root it and put Lineage OS on it before using it… but… As soon as I turned it on, it started installing Android 11, which I’ve never gotten close to. I caved. I have moved all my files over, which required the use of my Wavlink toaster as the Pixel does not accommodate SD cards. I will, however, go ahead and put Lineage on my old Moto X4, and will make that available as a business phone for AWH…which still hasn’t taken off but we’re being promised a lot of things.
      • I’ve been keeping neofetch data on every installation I do one every machine I own, and updating it as needed. The file is available on our Telegram and Discord groups. The result shows how much memory is used by the system with nothing running, except Terminal and neofetch, and makes a good baseline for deciding which distro to use according to your system’s amount of memory.
      • We’re getting ready for another exciting episode of Distrohoppers’ Digest, scheduled for March 31st. For the first time since Episode 001, our current episode 020 is our most-viewed episode at 781, with Episode 019 next at 745 and Episode 018 in 3rd at 727! 
      • I have managed to successfully install three distros this month, and instead of reviewing more than one, our Telegram group voted on it and picked Mageia 8, which I had hinted earlier I *might* be reviewing. This means I know what I’m reviewing for April as well, also based on the votes and comments.
      • It’s time to get your votes in on Distro Madness, Round 3; voting will close this Friday before moving on to Round 4. There were some interesting upsets in Round 2. We’re getting a lot of participation in this fun little diversion. We would like to encourage you to become a member of the site; we have some plans in the works for making additional features for members only, and membership is free.
      • Dresden fights on. [Chapter 32 of Small Favors] And we have just been gifted a complete collection of The Expanse novels and shorts, as well as the rest of the Codex Alera collection.
    • Tony Hughes
      • Lots of walking, Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th March, myself and my wife went on 2 long walks. On Monday 8th, we walked 8 Miles and Tuesday 9th, nearly 12 miles. Myself and my Wife also started a virtual walking challenge last Wednesday, “Mizen to Malin Virtual Challenge” which is 360 miles from the North Coast of Ireland to the South coast. My Wife has just completed the Lands End to John O Groats challenge which was 874 miles and now has a T shirt and shiny medal to prove it.   
      • Not talked about it for a while but I have been doing some Diecast restoration work, preparing castings for repaint, it has been quite cold here so painting in my outside workshop was out so I have been busy getting the castings dismantled, paint striped and the posts drilled and tapped out ready for reassembly. I managed to get some prepared castings painted and reassembled this last week as the weather has warmed up enough to make painting possible. 
      • I nearly missed the show this week as I hadn’t been given the heads up about the clocks going forward in the US, ours don’t go forward till next week, so my time is an hour earlier than my usual 8pm. (to echo another podcast) I blame Leo lol. 
    • Josh
      • CKP ep 3 coming to a podcatcher near you soon!
      • Linux Mint is still the champion of Linux gaming!
      • Did some distrohopping going from Mint to openSUSE Tumbleweed to Endeavor back to Mint all in one 3 day period.
      • dd + pigz is going to be my method of backup from now on even though it’s slower.
      • Btrfs send/receive is awesome but I need to learn more about it…
      • Got a new audio interface, the Presonus Audiobox usb96. Also getting a new mic, the Audio Technica AT2020!
    • Bo
      • The 3d printed dice tray heard round the world
      • Valheim server
      • CKP progress
    • Mike
      • I THOUGHT I finally fixed WiFi. New microphone (Samsung Q2u), new headphones (Sony WH1000XM3), work on recording room.
      • Removed my information (People Finder, White Pages, MyLife) [Moss-HOW?]
      • New hardware wallet (Ledger Nano S)

    THE NEWS:

    SECURITY UPDATE: 

    ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

    Our next episode will be at 2 pm Central US time on April 4th, 2021.

    Get the show time converted to your time zone!

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 4979     mintCast 356 – Forced-o-Matic Updates (mp3) https://mintcast.org/mintcast-356-forced-o-matic-updates-mp3/ Wed, 10 Mar 2021 06:32:34 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4959 Then, in the News, SteamLink is on Linux, Mageia 8 is out, and Brave Searches for itself.
    In Security, LastPass tracks you.
    Download
    ]]>     Download

    2:05 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    45:33 The News
    1:18:37 Check This Out
    1:26:12 Announcements & Outro

    First up, in our Wanderings, I’ve upgraded my ears, Joe fixes everything, Moss gets ready to attack a monster, Tony Hughes takes a walk with tools, Josh is getting NAS-ty, and Mike weeps over wifi woes.

    Then, in the News, SteamLink is on Linux, Mageia 8 is out, and Brave Searches for itself.

    In Security, LastPass tracks you.

    BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS: 

    • Leo
      • I got some new headphones. ATH-M50Xbt
      • An ssd I thought died didn’t. It’s in an external USB enclosure now, and I used it to do the backup testing for the Innards.
    • Joe
      • Had to go back and re-fix my MMCX connections on the 1mores again.  Which means that I did not do as good of a job as I thought last time.  Kinda wish it had some kind of built in tension reliever which would help a little bit.
      • Had a lot of trouble getting the last Anker Soundcore put together and then once again like the other one it would not charge.  I could go into the whole sordid tale of broken ribbon cables and screws popping out of mountings but it just makes me angry.  So in the end, of the 4 I was only able to get one working properly so the whole product line is going to be a no-go for me.  I took the custom made cables from it and put them onto one of the HBS 770s that I still have in reserve.  I may do a few more 770s just for the fun of it but I am looking for alternatives since I don’t think they are being made anymore
      • Ordered a broken pair of Samsung Level U headphones with ANC.  Requires a solvent to break down the glue in order to take it apart.  Also got a really cheap iHome Medallion headset that my wife was able to get for 5 dollars (got 2 of them).  They are in new condition, fresh out of the box, but I am going to mod them anyway. I don’t think that I will get much battery life out of them and I want to modify the Medallion so that it will sit on the collar without moving and so that it can also use the 1mores which should improve sound quality.  
        1. Also going to look into possibly printing a new case for it and giving it a larger battery.  Or at least a new back case but I will need to check and see where the hole for the mic is.  If it is on the back I will need to be creative with how I situate said battery.
        2. I did get the Level U’s. I was able to get it taken apart with minimal damage to the casing.  I probably would not have taken it apart at all except that instead of a bad side on the headset it had a bad battery.  I was able to use one of the batteries from the Ankers which is a little smaller but the replacement batteries that would fit all cost more than I wanted to pay.  Have not done the mmcx mod to the headset and I won’t because they suck.  I am not impressed with the top end volume on them and call quality is terrible.  Don’t know if I somehow tugged the mic and put it into the wrong location but I won’t be working more on this if that is the call quality
      • Thinking about resituating my tablets and seeing if I can get some more use out of them.  Going to sell the 7140 and use the 7130 as a bedroom computer. 
        1. I did spin both of those back up to make sure that the batteries are still good and both updated easily with no issues.
        2. Even I now think that the 7130 is getting a bit long in the tooth but I have yet to find a proper affordable tablet replacement that can run Linux, has a decent screen and fast processing speed.
        3. The Dell Latitude 7200 shows some promise but the price is still a bit high for about $400 same with the 5290
        4. I was able to order a Dell Latitude 5285 for $120 that should have been an easy fix with a bad display cable.  Turned out it had a lot more wrong with it.  Including the USB ports to the point where one of the times that I hooked it up the magic smoke got out.  So $120 wasted. But I should be able to get some good parts out of it for the next one if I can get another at a good price, when I have money again. I did message the seller and he said that I purchased “as is” but then they refunded me anyway
        5. I do have to say though for the few minutes that it was running it it seemed to run Linux well.  The only issue that I saw was the touch screen rotation was inverted to the screen rotation.  But that would probably not be a difficult fix.
      • BTSync has been acting up again.  Had to delete my shares and recreate them a couple of times to get things working again so I may need to find a different syncing solution.  The application did not crash or anything just silently stopped syncing changes.  Seems like it is starting to have problems with syncing time stamps.
        1. https://leochavez.org/index.php/2019/09/21/installing-nextcloud-in-ubuntu/
      • Have still not done much 3-D printing lately, but with the warmer temperatures I did print another adapter for the olympic weights to standard bar.  Which allows me to increase the weights for deadlifts and curls.
    • Moss
      • I have installed Mageia 8. I installed Plasma on the Kudu. The installer was more involved than most but was understandable even to me, although it needed to be more graphical and use a larger font. I installed Mageia 8 XFCE on the Inspiron, the same steps but with better graphics and fonts. It doesn’t feel Mandrake-level user-friendly, but it appears to be what I’m reviewing for Episode 021 of Distrohoppers’ Digest. I have also grabbed Emmabunt̎ũs and Robolinux for further evaluation.
      • Speaking of distros, Distrohoppers’ Digest Episode 018 was at 718 downloads today, and Episode 019 leaped ahead of it with 721. We had a lot of fun doing Episode 020, which is already at 424 downloads, and I’m already at work on the script for 021. 
      • Listener and old friend firecat sent me a Series 5 Yubikey, he says it does not have NFC and he apparently got it with a subscription to Wired Magazine. I have had a lot of adventures with this, as it did not work after setting it up as 2FA on Bitwarden. Eventually I somehow tricked Bitwarden into letting me delete that 2FA feature and set up another one. I’m a little concerned that it did not work the first time I tried to use it for 2FA, and a little concerned I managed to defeat the security to fix it. I got all the recovery information saved — I printed it out, and deleted the text file, and hopefully will find a memorable safe place for the printout. I’m still having trouble deciding what to do with it, as most of the uses suggested don’t really tell me what they do, or what they are for, in words I understand. Yet, even if I don’t figure it out, I’m extremely grateful for the gift.
      • We’ve done more work on It’s MOSS, adding articles, graphics, and people, with Dale Miracle being added to the team and one or two others talking to me about future articles. We also have come to an agreement to share articles with Full Circle Magazine, and to publish our articles under the same CC/BY-SA license. Dylan is going back over our site to attach the license info to our articles.
      • Speaking of It’s MOSS, It’s time to get your votes in on Distro Madness, Round 2; voting will close this Friday before moving on to Round 3. We’re getting a lot of participation in this fun little diversion. We would like to encourage you to become a member of the site; we have some plans in the works for making additional features for members only, and membership is free.
      • My wife’s new HP Zia800 came in, and it is a monstrous thing of beauty. The keyboard seller sent the wrong keyboard, but the right one got here Friday. The seller did not ask for the other keyboard to be returned, so if anyone wants a Microsoft Sculpt keyboard, without the mouse and 10-key pad which usually are boxed with it, and is willing to pay the postage, I have one. We have received the wifi card. As soon as I’m feeling up to it, I will install the wifi card and plug things in. It came with Windoze 10 on it, she’ll be dual-booting it to Mint…or rather, dual-booting to Windows with Mint primary.
      • I’ve been having a bit of a rough time, with my mother’s interment, work as a substitute teacher being intermittent at best, and other things. But I’ll be OK. And Dresden is still plugging along in Book 10, Chapter 20.
    • Tony Hughes
      • Recorded the latest episode of Distrohoppers Digest with Dale and Moss. This one was 1 hour long, as having 3 hosts and a new section we have expanded the time taken. It’s a good thing I am not doing a regular review anymore, as due to my health issues I am concentrating on the post production side of the show. I will still be there each episode to keep everyone on track lol. 
      • Aldi here in the UK did a sale of tools last week and I picked up a couple of 10w LED battery portable workshop lights which can also be used as power banks. I also got a digital caliper for £8/$11.20 which is good value as in the local hardware store they were £20 the last time I looked. I also had to buy a new LED bulb for my workshop/office as the old one just stopped working. The replacement seems a lot brighter so maybe the other one had been on the way out for a while.
      • Went on a long walk with my better half last Monday, we walked all the way along the Prom here in Blackpool to the next Town along, Cleveleys, which is about 8 miles away; a few years ago I was not able to walk from the lounge to the kitchen which is about 10 steps, due to arthritis, my final tally for the day was just under 21K. Getting fit is helping keep the arthritis controlled so I have more good days than bad at the moment.
      • I was looking at a Dell 9th gen i7 XPS15 but I missed the boat as they have all gone, so I’m now looking at an Entroware 17” Hybris which for the price with 32Gb of RAM is less than a £1000, I would add my own PCie NVME m.2 card later as I can pick one up for half the quoted upgrade prices on the site and the same with the SSD. There is a link in the show notes to the site if you are interested, and NO we are not sponsored by them. 
    • Josh
      • Crowbar Kernel Panic has a website! https://crowbarkernelpanic.fireside.fm
      • Crowbar Kernel Panic is officially on Spotify as well! Just search Crowbar Kernel Panic on Spotify and you will find it.
    • Ryzen 7 5800x totally changed my Linux gaming experience. 
    • TrueNAS is really cool but I have not had success sharing files over the network. I have created a user and a dataset and enabled SMB on the dataset and the sharing settings but I still cannot log into my SMB from another computer.
    • TrueNAS is working now I didn’t do anything and now I can log in to my share with no issues.
    • Mike
      • WiFi woes – 5/30, modem, router, sig strength, packets, net man, kernel, live USB, timeshift…
      • New Dell XPS DE…

    THE NEWS:

    SECURITY UPDATE: 

    ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

    Our next episode will be at 2 pm Central US time on March 21, 2021.

    Get the show time converted to your time zone!

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 4959     mintCast 356 – Forced-o-Matic Updates https://mintcast.org/mintcast-356-forced-o-matic-updates/ Wed, 10 Mar 2021 06:21:31 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4955 Then, in the News, SteamLink is on Linux, Mageia 8 is out, and Brave Searches for itself.
    In Security, LastPass tracks you.
    Download
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    2:05 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    45:33 The News
    1:18:37 Check This Out
    1:26:12 Announcements & Outro

    First up, in our Wanderings, I’ve upgraded my ears, Joe fixes everything, Moss gets ready to attack a monster, Tony Hughes takes a walk with tools, Josh is getting NAS-ty, and Mike weeps over wifi woes.

    Then, in the News, SteamLink is on Linux, Mageia 8 is out, and Brave Searches for itself.

    In Security, LastPass tracks you.

    BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS: 

    • Leo
      • I got some new headphones. ATH-M50Xbt
      • An ssd I thought died didn’t. It’s in an external USB enclosure now, and I used it to do the backup testing for the Innards.
    • Joe
      • Had to go back and re-fix my MMCX connections on the 1mores again.  Which means that I did not do as good of a job as I thought last time.  Kinda wish it had some kind of built in tension reliever which would help a little bit.
      • Had a lot of trouble getting the last Anker Soundcore put together and then once again like the other one it would not charge.  I could go into the whole sordid tale of broken ribbon cables and screws popping out of mountings but it just makes me angry.  So in the end, of the 4 I was only able to get one working properly so the whole product line is going to be a no-go for me.  I took the custom made cables from it and put them onto one of the HBS 770s that I still have in reserve.  I may do a few more 770s just for the fun of it but I am looking for alternatives since I don’t think they are being made anymore
      • Ordered a broken pair of Samsung Level U headphones with ANC.  Requires a solvent to break down the glue in order to take it apart.  Also got a really cheap iHome Medallion headset that my wife was able to get for 5 dollars (got 2 of them).  They are in new condition, fresh out of the box, but I am going to mod them anyway. I don’t think that I will get much battery life out of them and I want to modify the Medallion so that it will sit on the collar without moving and so that it can also use the 1mores which should improve sound quality.  
        1. Also going to look into possibly printing a new case for it and giving it a larger battery.  Or at least a new back case but I will need to check and see where the hole for the mic is.  If it is on the back I will need to be creative with how I situate said battery.
        2. I did get the Level U’s. I was able to get it taken apart with minimal damage to the casing.  I probably would not have taken it apart at all except that instead of a bad side on the headset it had a bad battery.  I was able to use one of the batteries from the Ankers which is a little smaller but the replacement batteries that would fit all cost more than I wanted to pay.  Have not done the mmcx mod to the headset and I won’t because they suck.  I am not impressed with the top end volume on them and call quality is terrible.  Don’t know if I somehow tugged the mic and put it into the wrong location but I won’t be working more on this if that is the call quality
      • Thinking about resituating my tablets and seeing if I can get some more use out of them.  Going to sell the 7140 and use the 7130 as a bedroom computer. 
        1. I did spin both of those back up to make sure that the batteries are still good and both updated easily with no issues.
        2. Even I now think that the 7130 is getting a bit long in the tooth but I have yet to find a proper affordable tablet replacement that can run Linux, has a decent screen and fast processing speed.
        3. The Dell Latitude 7200 shows some promise but the price is still a bit high for about $400 same with the 5290
        4. I was able to order a Dell Latitude 5285 for $120 that should have been an easy fix with a bad display cable.  Turned out it had a lot more wrong with it.  Including the USB ports to the point where one of the times that I hooked it up the magic smoke got out.  So $120 wasted. But I should be able to get some good parts out of it for the next one if I can get another at a good price, when I have money again. I did message the seller and he said that I purchased “as is” but then they refunded me anyway
        5. I do have to say though for the few minutes that it was running it it seemed to run Linux well.  The only issue that I saw was the touch screen rotation was inverted to the screen rotation.  But that would probably not be a difficult fix.
      • BTSync has been acting up again.  Had to delete my shares and recreate them a couple of times to get things working again so I may need to find a different syncing solution.  The application did not crash or anything just silently stopped syncing changes.  Seems like it is starting to have problems with syncing time stamps.
        1. https://leochavez.org/index.php/2019/09/21/installing-nextcloud-in-ubuntu/
      • Have still not done much 3-D printing lately, but with the warmer temperatures I did print another adapter for the olympic weights to standard bar.  Which allows me to increase the weights for deadlifts and curls.
    • Moss
      • I have installed Mageia 8. I installed Plasma on the Kudu. The installer was more involved than most but was understandable even to me, although it needed to be more graphical and use a larger font. I installed Mageia 8 XFCE on the Inspiron, the same steps but with better graphics and fonts. It doesn’t feel Mandrake-level user-friendly, but it appears to be what I’m reviewing for Episode 021 of Distrohoppers’ Digest. I have also grabbed Emmabunt̎ũs and Robolinux for further evaluation.
      • Speaking of distros, Distrohoppers’ Digest Episode 018 was at 718 downloads today, and Episode 019 leaped ahead of it with 721. We had a lot of fun doing Episode 020, which is already at 424 downloads, and I’m already at work on the script for 021. 
      • Listener and old friend firecat sent me a Series 5 Yubikey, he says it does not have NFC and he apparently got it with a subscription to Wired Magazine. I have had a lot of adventures with this, as it did not work after setting it up as 2FA on Bitwarden. Eventually I somehow tricked Bitwarden into letting me delete that 2FA feature and set up another one. I’m a little concerned that it did not work the first time I tried to use it for 2FA, and a little concerned I managed to defeat the security to fix it. I got all the recovery information saved — I printed it out, and deleted the text file, and hopefully will find a memorable safe place for the printout. I’m still having trouble deciding what to do with it, as most of the uses suggested don’t really tell me what they do, or what they are for, in words I understand. Yet, even if I don’t figure it out, I’m extremely grateful for the gift.
      • We’ve done more work on It’s MOSS, adding articles, graphics, and people, with Dale Miracle being added to the team and one or two others talking to me about future articles. We also have come to an agreement to share articles with Full Circle Magazine, and to publish our articles under the same CC/BY-SA license. Dylan is going back over our site to attach the license info to our articles.
      • Speaking of It’s MOSS, It’s time to get your votes in on Distro Madness, Round 2; voting will close this Friday before moving on to Round 3. We’re getting a lot of participation in this fun little diversion. We would like to encourage you to become a member of the site; we have some plans in the works for making additional features for members only, and membership is free.
      • My wife’s new HP Zia800 came in, and it is a monstrous thing of beauty. The keyboard seller sent the wrong keyboard, but the right one got here Friday. The seller did not ask for the other keyboard to be returned, so if anyone wants a Microsoft Sculpt keyboard, without the mouse and 10-key pad which usually are boxed with it, and is willing to pay the postage, I have one. We have received the wifi card. As soon as I’m feeling up to it, I will install the wifi card and plug things in. It came with Windoze 10 on it, she’ll be dual-booting it to Mint…or rather, dual-booting to Windows with Mint primary.
      • I’ve been having a bit of a rough time, with my mother’s interment, work as a substitute teacher being intermittent at best, and other things. But I’ll be OK. And Dresden is still plugging along in Book 10, Chapter 20.
    • Tony Hughes
      • Recorded the latest episode of Distrohoppers Digest with Dale and Moss. This one was 1 hour long, as having 3 hosts and a new section we have expanded the time taken. It’s a good thing I am not doing a regular review anymore, as due to my health issues I am concentrating on the post production side of the show. I will still be there each episode to keep everyone on track lol. 
      • Aldi here in the UK did a sale of tools last week and I picked up a couple of 10w LED battery portable workshop lights which can also be used as power banks. I also got a digital caliper for £8/$11.20 which is good value as in the local hardware store they were £20 the last time I looked. I also had to buy a new LED bulb for my workshop/office as the old one just stopped working. The replacement seems a lot brighter so maybe the other one had been on the way out for a while.
      • Went on a long walk with my better half last Monday, we walked all the way along the Prom here in Blackpool to the next Town along, Cleveleys, which is about 8 miles away; a few years ago I was not able to walk from the lounge to the kitchen which is about 10 steps, due to arthritis, my final tally for the day was just under 21K. Getting fit is helping keep the arthritis controlled so I have more good days than bad at the moment.
      • I was looking at a Dell 9th gen i7 XPS15 but I missed the boat as they have all gone, so I’m now looking at an Entroware 17” Hybris which for the price with 32Gb of RAM is less than a £1000, I would add my own PCie NVME m.2 card later as I can pick one up for half the quoted upgrade prices on the site and the same with the SSD. There is a link in the show notes to the site if you are interested, and NO we are not sponsored by them. 
    • Josh
      • Crowbar Kernel Panic has a website! https://crowbarkernelpanic.fireside.fm
      • Crowbar Kernel Panic is officially on Spotify as well! Just search Crowbar Kernel Panic on Spotify and you will find it.
    • Ryzen 7 5800x totally changed my Linux gaming experience. 
    • TrueNAS is really cool but I have not had success sharing files over the network. I have created a user and a dataset and enabled SMB on the dataset and the sharing settings but I still cannot log into my SMB from another computer.
    • TrueNAS is working now I didn’t do anything and now I can log in to my share with no issues.
    • Mike
      • WiFi woes – 5/30, modem, router, sig strength, packets, net man, kernel, live USB, timeshift…
      • New Dell XPS DE…

    THE NEWS:

    SECURITY UPDATE: 

    ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

    Our next episode will be at 2 pm Central US time on March 21, 2021.

    Get the show time converted to your time zone!

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 4955     mintCast 355.5 – McKnight in Shining Armor (mp3) https://mintcast.org/mintcast-355-5-mcknight-in-shining-armor-mp3/ Wed, 03 Mar 2021 05:39:05 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4945 And finally, the feedback and a couple suggestions
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    1:49 Linux Innards
    27:06 Vibrations from the Ether
    51:29 Check This Out
    58:45 Announcements & Outro

    In our Innards section, we talk to community member Mike!

    And finally, the feedback and a couple suggestions

    LINUX INNARDS:

    Interview Section: Mike

    • What was your first Linux experience?
    • What was the very first Linux distro you ran?
    • What other distros do/have you run?
    • What’s a typical workflow for you entail?
      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remmina
    • Does Linux do everything you need in a system?

    VIBRATIONS FROM THE ETHER: 

    • Henrik Hemrin

    https://www.hemrin.com/business-blog/184-how-ram-memory-hungry-are-linux-distros

    • hilander
    • John Wallis
    wpa_supplicant.service:                        [ UNSAFE ]
    user@1000.service:                             [ UNSAFE ]
    thermald.service:                              [ UNSAFE ]
    getty@tty7.service:                            [ UNSAFE ]
    udisks2.service:                               [ UNSAFE ]

    CHECK THIS OUT!

    Daemon (novel series) Daniel Suarez

    ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

    Our next episode will be at 2 pm Central US time on March 7, 2021.

    Get the show time converted to your time zone!

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 4945     mintCast 355.5 – McKnight in Shining Armor https://mintcast.org/mintcast-355-5-mcknight-in-shining-armor/ Wed, 03 Mar 2021 05:29:22 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4941 And finally, the feedback and a couple suggestions
    Download
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    1:49 Linux Innards
    27:06 Vibrations from the Ether
    51:29 Check This Out
    58:45 Announcements & Outro

    In our Innards section, we talk to community member Mike!

    And finally, the feedback and a couple suggestions

    LINUX INNARDS:

    Interview Section: Mike

    • What was your first Linux experience?
    • What was the very first Linux distro you ran?
    • What other distros do/have you run?
    • What’s a typical workflow for you entail?
      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remmina
    • Does Linux do everything you need in a system?

    VIBRATIONS FROM THE ETHER: 

    • Henrik Hemrin

    https://www.hemrin.com/business-blog/184-how-ram-memory-hungry-are-linux-distros

    • hilander
    • John Wallis
    wpa_supplicant.service:                        [ UNSAFE ]
    user@1000.service:                             [ UNSAFE ]
    thermald.service:                              [ UNSAFE ]
    getty@tty7.service:                            [ UNSAFE ]
    udisks2.service:                               [ UNSAFE ]

    CHECK THIS OUT!

    Daemon (novel series) Daniel Suarez

    ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

    Our next episode will be at 2 pm Central US time on March 7, 2021.

    Get the show time converted to your time zone!

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 4941     mintCast 355 – Deferred Update (mp3) https://mintcast.org/mintcast-355-deferred-update-mp3/ Wed, 24 Feb 2021 06:14:34 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4939 Then, in the News, so much controversy, Linux on Mars, VLC on the moon, Mint and mintCast make the cut, and more
    In Security, patch Mint, patch the kernel, patch your browser
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    2:09 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    59:34 The News
    1:28:22 Security
    1:40:00 Announcements & Outro

    First up, in our Wanderings, Mike shreds a new axe, I’m more and more impressed by Proton, Joe has frozen joints, Moss is going to be rich someday, Tony Hughes gets immunities, and Josh panics with a crowbar. 

    Then, in the News, so much controversy, Linux on Mars, VLC on the moon, Mint and mintCast make the cut, and more

    In Security, patch Mint, patch the kernel, patch your browser

    BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS: 

    • Mike
      • Finished reading 2 Mitnick books recently (Ghost in the Wires and The Art of Invisibility)
      • Bought a new guitar (Fender Newporter Special)
    • Leo
      • Path of Exile runs 95% as good as Windows via Proton Experimental
      • Played with Trinity Desktop Environment for a month
    • Joe
      • It has been cold in Texas which tends to slow me down because it hurts.
      • I did get a new 8 Tb hard drive for my server.  Transferred all the data from my 2 Tb onto it but I still need to swap it into the PC instead of the external enclosure.  Then I will be changing the name to match the 2 Tb drive and after I restart it should work fine with my Plex auto detecting.
      • Picked up 5 Raspberry Pi Picos for future projects but I have not found the right project for me yet
        1. Plus as of yet you can use Thonny which gives you an environment for micropython but I am waiting for arduino to get their UI up and running for it which they say they are doing so that I can more easily use c/c++ and more easily convert some of the pro micro code over.
        2. This will make things easier to build a usb controller although I think I will try  a few other projects first
      • I have spent a lot of time cooking and looking up recipes.  Mostly cause if I’m cooking in the kitchen that means that it is warm in the kitchen
        1. Got an air fryer / toaster oven combo that I have been using quite a bit to make healthier fish and chips.  
        2. Also made another batch of protein bars.  This time it was the caramel chocolate version instead of the Skor bar.  It does not firm up as much as I would like in the freezer but is still very tasty and the silicone dish that I used was very helpful as was adding a bit of nonstick to the wax paper.
        3. The burrito skillet was a big hit and I am looking for other recipes to add to my favorites list
      • Work was a little rough here in Texas with the record cold and snowfall
        1. For most places the cold and the snow that we got would not be a problem.  But because this area never gets that we are not prepared for such a thing.  We don’t have snow plows and salt on standby so things got a little crazy here
        2. Millions of people without power for extended periods of time.  Schools closed even though the majority of students are SFH right now anyway.  Road and business closures
        3. I was lucky in that my power was very stable at my house.  Because of this I also ended up working a lot more because most of my team was unavailable.  Lots of 14 hour days and lots of getting called back into work after hours because everyone else had lost connection
        4. While this was going on I also had a water pipe burst due to freezing.  It was fun.  The pipe actually burst in 2 places so the first fix didn’t work.  Thankfully I was able to get a plumber out pretty quick to get the work done.  Which is surprising considering how many people had the same problem including the local post office.
        5. The drain for the washing machine is also frozen so I will not be able to run clothes for a few days and I will need to remember how to do drywall soon after I am satisfied that the wall is dry
      • Been playing a lot of Borderlands 3 to pass the cold Texas days.  I am still liking it.  Also playing some Victor Vran on occasion.  
        1. Someone on Telegram mentioned that a redone version of Diablo 2 is supposed to be coming out.  I have to wonder if it will be playable on linux.  I know that you can easily get the old one to play on linux but Blizzard and Steam don’t have any kind of deal and probably never will.
    • Moss
      • There are updates taking OpenMandriva Lx to version 4.2. If you run them as upgrades and don’t read the blog posts first, you will have issues. I’ll talk more about that in Distrohoppers’ Digest Episode 020, which we should be recording this week. I have a clean install on the FuzZ400 but have issues with the upgrade on my Kudu, all reported to the OMA Forum.  Distrohoppers’ Digest will also feature a brand new segment, Beautiful Failures. We will talk about the distros we *almost* got to review and what happened. Our most-downloaded episode, 018, has stalled out just below 700 downloads.
      • Listener Dylan Burger has been added to the growing team at It’s MOSS, and added a new feature: Distro Madness 2021. This features head-to-head choices between distros, with a winner emerging. We haven’t had many visitors to the site on a daily basis, so Dylan came up with this idea. The first round of voting is nearly over, so get your votes in now. We intend to have the voting for each round end on the Friday following each whole-numbered episode of mintCast.
      • I have a new sponsor on Sponsus. Every little bit helps, and I am grateful for the support.
      • My other project, All Women Housed, is taking some big steps forward. We are currently in the “almost” phase: almost on the shelves in two southern California grocery chains and in negotiations with a monster chain in Florida most of you have heard of. We have almost completed negotiations for online sales of produce and other products as well. I should have something to actually announce by next episode, don’t wanna jinx it. 
      • My mother’s estate should be settled in 60 days or less, and that will help a lot. She will finally be laid to rest on Friday, February 26th.
      • My wife wants a new computer and wants to learn computer art. I had my eye on a 12-core HP Z800 Workstation for her, but Leo convinced me the 8-core would be a better deal and it’s cheaper. I’ll get that when I get my income taxes back if it’s still there. 
      • We are now reading Book 10 of Dresden Files, Small Favor.
    • Tony Hughes
      • Same old same old here in the UK, still in Lock Down so not able to go anywhere so our Valentines meal was a delivery chinese. On a good note I had my first Covid Jab yesterday (Saturday 20th Feb) so I’m halfway to being a little safer.  
      • I have been doing lots of walking during lock down to keep fit and for the last week or so I’m starting to get some distance in with 5 miles a day the last 4 days.
      • Nothing much Linux wise although I did install EndeavourOS to one of my laptops, my remaining Toshiba Z30, I’ve just sold the other one with Windows 10 installed, I had been asked to do a dual boot with Mint, but Windows took over the boot process and I could not get it to boot into the boot selector or bios so that was a no go. Although since then, the guys gave me a way to get to the boot menu by crashing windows several times to confuse it, for future reference if it ever happens again.
    • Josh
      • Crowbar Kernel Panic the new official unofficial Linux Mint gaming podcast with hosts Bo and Me (Josh). This mintCast spinoff will dive into the nitty gritty of gaming on Linux. We will test games and launchers to see just how good gaming on Linux has become. 
      • SNOW! No seriously too much snow please stop…
      • Other than snow in my life I have actually switched fully over to Debian as my main server distro of choice. There are a few reasons for this. 
    1. It’s not controlled by one entity.
    2. It’s extremely static.
    3. It’s super flexible with iso’s that even include proprietary firmware.
    4. The installer is BETTER than Ubuntu.
    • I have also set up a Matrix-synapse with Debian on the backend all running on Linode. I cannot say enough good things about Linode, they are great. [Moss: And if you sign up with Linode and use the code “mintcast”, you will get exactly zero added benefits!]
    • My dad finally upgraded his TV woot! He got a 65” LG NANO90 4K TV and it’s so beautiful with some tweaking possibly by the user and possibly by AI. There are some caveats to having a 4K TV that I didn’t even know about till now.
    1. On default settings right out of the box the picture quality on 1080p or lower is really really bad.
    2. Netflix price gouging.
    3. webOS kinda sucks compared to Roku’s UI.
    4. Not all 4k or 1080p content is the same even on HD broadcast TV.
    • Last but not least, I am turning LMDE4 into a rolling release.

    THE NEWS:

    SECURITY UPDATE: 

    ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

    Our next episode will be at 2 pm Central US time on March 7, 2021.

    Get the show time converted to your time zone!

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 4939     mintCast 355 – Deferred Update https://mintcast.org/mintcast-355-deferred-update/ Wed, 24 Feb 2021 06:04:46 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4933 Then, in the News, so much controversy, Linux on Mars, VLC on the moon, Mint and mintCast make the cut, and more
    In Security, patch Mint, patch the kernel, patch your browser
    Download
    ]]>     Download

    2:09 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    59:34 The News
    1:28:22 Security
    1:40:00 Announcements & Outro

    First up, in our Wanderings, Mike shreds a new axe, I’m more and more impressed by Proton, Joe has frozen joints, Moss is going to be rich someday, Tony Hughes gets immunities, and Josh panics with a crowbar. 

    Then, in the News, so much controversy, Linux on Mars, VLC on the moon, Mint and mintCast make the cut, and more

    In Security, patch Mint, patch the kernel, patch your browser

    BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS: 

    • Mike
      • Finished reading 2 Mitnick books recently (Ghost in the Wires and The Art of Invisibility)
      • Bought a new guitar (Fender Newporter Special)
    • Leo
      • Path of Exile runs 95% as good as Windows via Proton Experimental
      • Played with Trinity Desktop Environment for a month
    • Joe
      • It has been cold in Texas which tends to slow me down because it hurts.
      • I did get a new 8 Tb hard drive for my server.  Transferred all the data from my 2 Tb onto it but I still need to swap it into the PC instead of the external enclosure.  Then I will be changing the name to match the 2 Tb drive and after I restart it should work fine with my Plex auto detecting.
      • Picked up 5 Raspberry Pi Picos for future projects but I have not found the right project for me yet
        1. Plus as of yet you can use Thonny which gives you an environment for micropython but I am waiting for arduino to get their UI up and running for it which they say they are doing so that I can more easily use c/c++ and more easily convert some of the pro micro code over.
        2. This will make things easier to build a usb controller although I think I will try  a few other projects first
      • I have spent a lot of time cooking and looking up recipes.  Mostly cause if I’m cooking in the kitchen that means that it is warm in the kitchen
        1. Got an air fryer / toaster oven combo that I have been using quite a bit to make healthier fish and chips.  
        2. Also made another batch of protein bars.  This time it was the caramel chocolate version instead of the Skor bar.  It does not firm up as much as I would like in the freezer but is still very tasty and the silicone dish that I used was very helpful as was adding a bit of nonstick to the wax paper.
        3. The burrito skillet was a big hit and I am looking for other recipes to add to my favorites list
      • Work was a little rough here in Texas with the record cold and snowfall
        1. For most places the cold and the snow that we got would not be a problem.  But because this area never gets that we are not prepared for such a thing.  We don’t have snow plows and salt on standby so things got a little crazy here
        2. Millions of people without power for extended periods of time.  Schools closed even though the majority of students are SFH right now anyway.  Road and business closures
        3. I was lucky in that my power was very stable at my house.  Because of this I also ended up working a lot more because most of my team was unavailable.  Lots of 14 hour days and lots of getting called back into work after hours because everyone else had lost connection
        4. While this was going on I also had a water pipe burst due to freezing.  It was fun.  The pipe actually burst in 2 places so the first fix didn’t work.  Thankfully I was able to get a plumber out pretty quick to get the work done.  Which is surprising considering how many people had the same problem including the local post office.
        5. The drain for the washing machine is also frozen so I will not be able to run clothes for a few days and I will need to remember how to do drywall soon after I am satisfied that the wall is dry
      • Been playing a lot of Borderlands 3 to pass the cold Texas days.  I am still liking it.  Also playing some Victor Vran on occasion.  
        1. Someone on Telegram mentioned that a redone version of Diablo 2 is supposed to be coming out.  I have to wonder if it will be playable on linux.  I know that you can easily get the old one to play on linux but Blizzard and Steam don’t have any kind of deal and probably never will.
    • Moss
      • There are updates taking OpenMandriva Lx to version 4.2. If you run them as upgrades and don’t read the blog posts first, you will have issues. I’ll talk more about that in Distrohoppers’ Digest Episode 020, which we should be recording this week. I have a clean install on the FuzZ400 but have issues with the upgrade on my Kudu, all reported to the OMA Forum.  Distrohoppers’ Digest will also feature a brand new segment, Beautiful Failures. We will talk about the distros we *almost* got to review and what happened. Our most-downloaded episode, 018, has stalled out just below 700 downloads.
      • Listener Dylan Burger has been added to the growing team at It’s MOSS, and added a new feature: Distro Madness 2021. This features head-to-head choices between distros, with a winner emerging. We haven’t had many visitors to the site on a daily basis, so Dylan came up with this idea. The first round of voting is nearly over, so get your votes in now. We intend to have the voting for each round end on the Friday following each whole-numbered episode of mintCast.
      • I have a new sponsor on Sponsus. Every little bit helps, and I am grateful for the support.
      • My other project, All Women Housed, is taking some big steps forward. We are currently in the “almost” phase: almost on the shelves in two southern California grocery chains and in negotiations with a monster chain in Florida most of you have heard of. We have almost completed negotiations for online sales of produce and other products as well. I should have something to actually announce by next episode, don’t wanna jinx it. 
      • My mother’s estate should be settled in 60 days or less, and that will help a lot. She will finally be laid to rest on Friday, February 26th.
      • My wife wants a new computer and wants to learn computer art. I had my eye on a 12-core HP Z800 Workstation for her, but Leo convinced me the 8-core would be a better deal and it’s cheaper. I’ll get that when I get my income taxes back if it’s still there. 
      • We are now reading Book 10 of Dresden Files, Small Favor.
    • Tony Hughes
      • Same old same old here in the UK, still in Lock Down so not able to go anywhere so our Valentines meal was a delivery chinese. On a good note I had my first Covid Jab yesterday (Saturday 20th Feb) so I’m halfway to being a little safer.  
      • I have been doing lots of walking during lock down to keep fit and for the last week or so I’m starting to get some distance in with 5 miles a day the last 4 days.
      • Nothing much Linux wise although I did install EndeavourOS to one of my laptops, my remaining Toshiba Z30, I’ve just sold the other one with Windows 10 installed, I had been asked to do a dual boot with Mint, but Windows took over the boot process and I could not get it to boot into the boot selector or bios so that was a no go. Although since then, the guys gave me a way to get to the boot menu by crashing windows several times to confuse it, for future reference if it ever happens again.
    • Josh
      • Crowbar Kernel Panic the new official unofficial Linux Mint gaming podcast with hosts Bo and Me (Josh). This mintCast spinoff will dive into the nitty gritty of gaming on Linux. We will test games and launchers to see just how good gaming on Linux has become. 
      • SNOW! No seriously too much snow please stop…
      • Other than snow in my life I have actually switched fully over to Debian as my main server distro of choice. There are a few reasons for this. 
    1. It’s not controlled by one entity.
    2. It’s extremely static.
    3. It’s super flexible with iso’s that even include proprietary firmware.
    4. The installer is BETTER than Ubuntu.
    • I have also set up a Matrix-synapse with Debian on the backend all running on Linode. I cannot say enough good things about Linode, they are great. [Moss: And if you sign up with Linode and use the code “mintcast”, you will get exactly zero added benefits!]
    • My dad finally upgraded his TV woot! He got a 65” LG NANO90 4K TV and it’s so beautiful with some tweaking possibly by the user and possibly by AI. There are some caveats to having a 4K TV that I didn’t even know about till now.
    1. On default settings right out of the box the picture quality on 1080p or lower is really really bad.
    2. Netflix price gouging.
    3. webOS kinda sucks compared to Roku’s UI.
    4. Not all 4k or 1080p content is the same even on HD broadcast TV.
    • Last but not least, I am turning LMDE4 into a rolling release.

    THE NEWS:

    SECURITY UPDATE: 

    ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

    Our next episode will be at 2 pm Central US time on March 7, 2021.

    Get the show time converted to your time zone!

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 4933     mintCast 354 – sudo make me an update (mp3) https://mintcast.org/mintcast-354-sudo-make-me-an-update-mp3/ Wed, 10 Feb 2021 05:57:09 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4913 Then, in the News, a Linux Mint update, Ubuntu loses the lead, Wayland changes, and some new releases
    In Security, time to patch… again.
    Download
    ]]>     Download

    1:54 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    58:30 News
    1:19:27 Security Update
    1:30:05 Announcements & Outro

    First up, in our Wanderings, I find a new box, Joe’s light as a feather, Moss explodes a DDE, and Bo hosts his own email

    Then, in the News, a Linux Mint update, Ubuntu loses the lead, Wayland changes, and some new releases

    In Security, time to patch… again.

    BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS: 

    • Leo
      • Picked up a Lenovo M715q Tiny. Ryzen 2400GE, 16GB RAM, 256GB NVMe
        • This will be my “studio” machine.
        • Haven’t gamed on it yet, but it’s supposed to be “not horrible”
        • It’ll free up my laptop to be a laptop again
    • Joe
      • So I got some more headphones done.  Replaced the MMCX cable on 2 of the LG HBS 770’s that I constantly use because the cable had gotten hard and cracked.  I am really impressed with how long they lasted, before I was repairing them every couple of months and I think these lasted about 8 months or so before I had to fix them.  I also really like the cables that I got to fix it.  They are a little thicker so they actually tin which makes the whole process a lot easier.  Also did another set of the Ankers with the cables I built myself and they came out well again.  Only one more to go for those. However the cost for making the cables is a bit more and may not be as economically conservative.
        • Since writing that one of the two Ankers has stopped charging.
        • The other is still working well
      • I got my weight down below 230 lbs again which is awesome.  I am not losing weight as quickly as I was when I first changed my diet again but I am not going as hard as I was before either.
      • Made my own protein bars and they are delicious.  I made one mistake though and did not spray the wax paper with a non stick so they are rather difficult to eat.  The ingredients are not cheap so I don’t know if I will be making them again.  But they are tasty.
      • Very interested in the Raspberry Pi Pico as a USB host controller but I want to give the development around it time to grow some but with the $1.99 price tag at MicroCenter I may pick up a few and put them into a drawer until more data is there.
      • Looking to upgrade my MSI GE72 gaming laptop, since the 950m is getting a bit old, but prices are once again going crazy in the used and new market because of the high cost of graphics cards right now and the fact that everyone is still working from home.  If I can wait until the vaccine is more widely distributed and people start going back to the office I imagine there will be a large volume of people off loading computers that will drive the prices back down.
      • I  have a couple of old phones that I am looking to do some projects with since they are just sitting around  but I am not sure what I should do.  Project ideas accepted jb@mintcast.org or tell me about what you have done with old phones to get some more use out of them
      • I also put the question out to the Telegram group and got a very interesting answer from listener Hob.  An application called Deskreen which can be used from an appimage and can turn any device with a web browser into another screen with some small caveats
        • If you want it to be an independent screen then you need a dummy display adapter hooked up to your system or you can display one of the screens that is already there
        • Control does not go through the device it goes through the computer which does make sense from an extra screen perspective but does mean it is not the best for remote controlling a computer.
        • The adapters are not expensive though, so that is good, and then you just set up like a normal screen and connect through the application.  This is awesome if you have a couple of older-yet-still-decent tablets sitting around.  A lot of older iPads have really good screens but a lot of difficulty adding new applications and would be perfect for something like this
    • Moss
      • I got the FuzZ400 back online with an old AMD Radeon HD 6770 video card on loan from Dale Miracle! Hope my mic sounds good. I still need to get the mic boom installed which will only take a drill bit of the correct size to accomplish. The bootup report that the rear fan was not working was solved when I found a piece of styrofoam wedged in the fan blades.
      • I’ve been having minor issues with the SSD in the FuzZ400 because it thinks it’s still in the Gigabyte Mini. I may have to reinstall Mint altogether to get everything really back together, but my current workarounds are good. Sabayon owned GRUB and I could not update it or add Grub Customizer to Sabayon (because Sabayon repos are permanently offline), and Mint did not want to take GRUB back for some reason, so I installed UbuntuDDE on sda5. No more Gentoo. Sad. The other distros were not affected.
      • I installed a new version of ExLight on the Kudu to replace Lubuntu. I’m having strange wifi issues, but this is the farthest I have gotten with a distro written by Arne Exton. 
      • My Manjaro Cinnamon installation finally glitched out (after maybe 8 months) so I replaced that with UbuntuDDE. There were three issues, and two of them were fixed through a chat in Telegram with the dev, and I filed a bug on the 3rd issue with the thanks of the dev. I now have UbuntuDDE Respin on all three of my machines (not counting the Raspberry Pis), and my wife wants it on her T430. Could this be my new Daily Driver?
      • Listener Dylan Burger submitted another excellent article to It’s MOSS, and I responded by making him an Admin on the site. So now we are two. Anyone else?
      • Not gonna talk about my teeth.
      • I’m told that my mother’s lawyers have finally sent documents out following her demise. I have not yet received them, but one cousin has.
      • We may finish White Night, volume 9 of Dresden Files, tonight.

    THE NEWS:

    SECURITY UPDATE: 

      • Sudo Vulnerability
        • The exploit is in the hands of… well… everyone now. Metasploit has the module.
        • A heap buffer overflow occurs when you stuff a software full of data that causes some kind of breakage. In this case, that breakage leads to root access.
      •  Chrome[ium] Zero Day
        • Monocultuuuuuuurrrrrreeeeee!!!!!
        • Google is being very close to the chest with the details, but we know it’s another heap buffer overflow.
        • The Mitre database does not have information on the CVE. Unlisted other places like NIST.
        • Maybe linked to their nation-state writeup.
        • Electron apps…
    • Update your Stuff

    ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

    Our next episode will be at 2 pm Central US time on February 21, 2021. 

    Get the show time converted to your time zone!

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 4913     mintCast 354 – sudo make me an update https://mintcast.org/mintcast-354-sudo-make-me-an-update/ Wed, 10 Feb 2021 05:46:23 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4909 Then, in the News, a Linux Mint update, Ubuntu loses the lead, Wayland changes, and some new releases
    In Security, time to patch… again.
    Download
    ]]>     Download

    1:54 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    58:30 News
    1:19:27 Security Update
    1:30:05 Announcements & Outro

    First up, in our Wanderings, I find a new box, Joe’s light as a feather, Moss explodes a DDE, and Bo hosts his own email

    Then, in the News, a Linux Mint update, Ubuntu loses the lead, Wayland changes, and some new releases

    In Security, time to patch… again.

    BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS: 

    • Leo
      • Picked up a Lenovo M715q Tiny. Ryzen 2400GE, 16GB RAM, 256GB NVMe
        • This will be my “studio” machine.
        • Haven’t gamed on it yet, but it’s supposed to be “not horrible”
        • It’ll free up my laptop to be a laptop again
    • Joe
      • So I got some more headphones done.  Replaced the MMCX cable on 2 of the LG HBS 770’s that I constantly use because the cable had gotten hard and cracked.  I am really impressed with how long they lasted, before I was repairing them every couple of months and I think these lasted about 8 months or so before I had to fix them.  I also really like the cables that I got to fix it.  They are a little thicker so they actually tin which makes the whole process a lot easier.  Also did another set of the Ankers with the cables I built myself and they came out well again.  Only one more to go for those. However the cost for making the cables is a bit more and may not be as economically conservative.
        • Since writing that one of the two Ankers has stopped charging.
        • The other is still working well
      • I got my weight down below 230 lbs again which is awesome.  I am not losing weight as quickly as I was when I first changed my diet again but I am not going as hard as I was before either.
      • Made my own protein bars and they are delicious.  I made one mistake though and did not spray the wax paper with a non stick so they are rather difficult to eat.  The ingredients are not cheap so I don’t know if I will be making them again.  But they are tasty.
      • Very interested in the Raspberry Pi Pico as a USB host controller but I want to give the development around it time to grow some but with the $1.99 price tag at MicroCenter I may pick up a few and put them into a drawer until more data is there.
      • Looking to upgrade my MSI GE72 gaming laptop, since the 950m is getting a bit old, but prices are once again going crazy in the used and new market because of the high cost of graphics cards right now and the fact that everyone is still working from home.  If I can wait until the vaccine is more widely distributed and people start going back to the office I imagine there will be a large volume of people off loading computers that will drive the prices back down.
      • I  have a couple of old phones that I am looking to do some projects with since they are just sitting around  but I am not sure what I should do.  Project ideas accepted jb@mintcast.org or tell me about what you have done with old phones to get some more use out of them
      • I also put the question out to the Telegram group and got a very interesting answer from listener Hob.  An application called Deskreen which can be used from an appimage and can turn any device with a web browser into another screen with some small caveats
        • If you want it to be an independent screen then you need a dummy display adapter hooked up to your system or you can display one of the screens that is already there
        • Control does not go through the device it goes through the computer which does make sense from an extra screen perspective but does mean it is not the best for remote controlling a computer.
        • The adapters are not expensive though, so that is good, and then you just set up like a normal screen and connect through the application.  This is awesome if you have a couple of older-yet-still-decent tablets sitting around.  A lot of older iPads have really good screens but a lot of difficulty adding new applications and would be perfect for something like this
    • Moss
      • I got the FuzZ400 back online with an old AMD Radeon HD 6770 video card on loan from Dale Miracle! Hope my mic sounds good. I still need to get the mic boom installed which will only take a drill bit of the correct size to accomplish. The bootup report that the rear fan was not working was solved when I found a piece of styrofoam wedged in the fan blades.
      • I’ve been having minor issues with the SSD in the FuzZ400 because it thinks it’s still in the Gigabyte Mini. I may have to reinstall Mint altogether to get everything really back together, but my current workarounds are good. Sabayon owned GRUB and I could not update it or add Grub Customizer to Sabayon (because Sabayon repos are permanently offline), and Mint did not want to take GRUB back for some reason, so I installed UbuntuDDE on sda5. No more Gentoo. Sad. The other distros were not affected.
      • I installed a new version of ExLight on the Kudu to replace Lubuntu. I’m having strange wifi issues, but this is the farthest I have gotten with a distro written by Arne Exton. 
      • My Manjaro Cinnamon installation finally glitched out (after maybe 8 months) so I replaced that with UbuntuDDE. There were three issues, and two of them were fixed through a chat in Telegram with the dev, and I filed a bug on the 3rd issue with the thanks of the dev. I now have UbuntuDDE Respin on all three of my machines (not counting the Raspberry Pis), and my wife wants it on her T430. Could this be my new Daily Driver?
      • Listener Dylan Burger submitted another excellent article to It’s MOSS, and I responded by making him an Admin on the site. So now we are two. Anyone else?
      • Not gonna talk about my teeth.
      • I’m told that my mother’s lawyers have finally sent documents out following her demise. I have not yet received them, but one cousin has.
      • We may finish White Night, volume 9 of Dresden Files, tonight.

    THE NEWS:

    SECURITY UPDATE: 

      • Sudo Vulnerability
        • The exploit is in the hands of… well… everyone now. Metasploit has the module.
        • A heap buffer overflow occurs when you stuff a software full of data that causes some kind of breakage. In this case, that breakage leads to root access.
      •  Chrome[ium] Zero Day
        • Monocultuuuuuuurrrrrreeeeee!!!!!
        • Google is being very close to the chest with the details, but we know it’s another heap buffer overflow.
        • The Mitre database does not have information on the CVE. Unlisted other places like NIST.
        • Maybe linked to their nation-state writeup.
        • Electron apps…
    • Update your Stuff

    ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

    Our next episode will be at 2 pm Central US time on February 21, 2021. 

    Get the show time converted to your time zone!

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 4909     mintCast 353 – Brave New WWW (mp3) https://mintcast.org/mintcast-353-brave-new-www-mp3/ Wed, 27 Jan 2021 05:46:48 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4892 Then, our news we talk RPi Pico, Ubuntu’s Booting on an Apple M1, Flatpak is faster, Project Linux turns into Alma Linux, and more
    In security, the InterPlanetary File System
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    1:58 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    1:01:23 The News
    1:29:47 Security Update
    1:38:43 Announcements & Outro

    First up, in our Wanderings, I have second thoughts about Kubuntu, Moss has a new toy, Joe has been playing with watches, Tony has been editing audio, Josh hasn’t broken Arch, Bo survived the pandemic!

    Then, our news we talk RPi Pico, Ubuntu’s Booting on an Apple M1, Flatpak is faster, Project Linux turns into Alma Linux, and more

    In security, the InterPlanetary File System

    BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS: 

    • Leo
      • Having second thoughts about Kubuntu 20.10
      • Doubling down on Brave browser.
        • Found out it is the first to support IPFS
        • Looking at becoming a Brave Creator. This allows me to generate tips in the BAT currency from Brave users.
      • Took a leap of faith and installed the Flatpak PPA to get the latest flatpak so I could test out Chromium which requires 1.8.5 or above. Everything seems to be working. A little apprehensive because mumble is flatpak, and it’s what I use for the YouTube stream audio.
    • Joe
      • Ordered some new parts for the Samsung Galaxy S3 Watch so that I could fix the small issues with it because I saw a really good price for a set of parts that would do the job.
        • It works well and the rest of the parts make for almost a whole watch.  I may purchase another battery and put it all together to have another mostly working watch.
        • This new motherboard is actually a cellular version but because of the limitations of the eSIM that is included on the board I cannot get it to work with TMobile.  This is not a big deal for me because I would not use it as a phone anyway it was just something cool to contemplate
      • Also purchased some more neckband headphones to work on since I have not done so in a while. I know that I have 19 or so working headphones but I found some that have active noise cancelling that are not in the LG line that I would like to work on and see if I can do some of the same fixes to that I normally do with the LG’s. So it is the Anker Soundcores that I will be working on and adding the MMCX connections to.  They are also supposed to have a better battery life but it looks like they will be a lot more of a pain to take apart and put back together since I think that it is all glued.  So keeping the parts in usable physical condition may be difficult.  I may also have to look into replacement batteries as I do not know what is wrong with them.
        • The 5 headphones arrived and I have started working on them.  2 of the headsets have bad batteries.  So with the Anker phones that had the bad battery I started taking that apart first as I knew that there would be a learning curve in figuring out how to take the device apart
        • I did get it apart and figure out the best way to do it with minimal breakage but let’s just say that I don’t recommend it for modding purposes or repairability
      • Had some fun with the rename utility.  Bulk renaming of files was super easy and saved me a lot of time.  Wouldn’t mind doing a show on that and SED. 
        • rename ‘s/old-name/new-name/g’ files
        • But i have been told that it is way too nerdy
      • Picked up a fridge for free.  My wife found it on FB and it is a very nice fridge.  Granted it did cost me some money to rent the truck to move it but it was still a lot less than a new fridge (which I was planning on buying my wife this year)  The people that had it were moving and needed it gone as soon as possible.  It is probably the nicest side by side that I have ever owned. I can’t complain, it works and it looks awesome.
        • The only thing is, I was the only person moving the thing and I am super lucky that I did not hurt myself.  The thing was heavy.
      • Because of changes in my insurance, the copay for prescriptions has gone up a lot.  To the point that I don’t know how much money I am going to be able to put towards projects this year.  All this means is that I will be forced to go through my backlog of old projects or almost-projects and get it all up to date.  Maybe do a little bit with software again.
      • My Eldest Child turned 18 this week.  That is weird.  
      • On my VM download server I was still having problems with transmission-rss so I attempted to downgrade the Ruby version so that it would work properly again.  This did not work well.  I made several attempts to downgrade and all failed miserably.
        • Then I realized that the reason I was using transmission-rss initially was because that was available in a docker
        • So I shut down the transmission setup and moved everything over to qbittorrent which allowed me to re-setup all my former automation so that the files automatically go where I want them.  I do like the UI for qbittorrent and it is working well.
        • The rules that you can set up for automatic downloads and for after download moves was perfect for how I had things set up before.
    • Moss
      • Joshua Hawk sent me a laptop, a Dell Inspiron 7353 2-in-1 with touchscreen. He had installed Fedora on it, which I soon destroyed, and I’ve run a carousel of distros on it, to Pop!_OS, Bodhi 5.1, back to Fedora, and back to Bodhi. There are interesting touchpad issues: in Fedora, the touchpad right-click sends a left-click (it works fine Bodhi), and in Bodhi it does not load the screen keyboard. This is a great addition to my collection, and as it only has a 128 Gb SSD and a lot of screws keeping me from being brave enough to replace the SSD, this will be my machine to test distros for Distrohoppers’ Digest for the foreseeable future.
      • Speaking of Distrohoppers’ Digest, Episode 19 is out. Episodes 15 through 18 are also in the top 5 of our download numbers. For Episode 19 we actually have Dale in the header and footer readings. We had a great time, I get the idea we could banter a bit more but we’re still getting our team-feet under.
      • My Sponsus account now has 3 monthly sponsors and has also taken in a nice donation. You can hear them named at the end of the current episode of Distrohoppers’ Digest.
      • My recording and work space is in flux right now. There really was a short on the sound card in the Mini, and contacting that is what blew the power supply a few months ago. It’s not catastrophic but not something I want to have on a system I’m doing sound recording on, and I’ll be moving that along to someone who needs it. Dale has sent me an AMD sound card, which will replace the FX 1800 Nvidia card in the FuzZ400, which will take over as my main machine. Right now I’m recording on my Kudu laptop, still the most powerful machine I have. 
      • School is in and out, depending on the week and the school. I worked 4 days in the last two weeks and got paid for a 5th when they forgot to cancel an assignment.
      • My other business is poised to take off, and we plan to sell a lot of common products and donate 80% of our profits to projects providing housing funds and services to homeless people in America.  I’ll post the link when we are actually doing business.
      • My teeth are not working yet, and I have an appointment for a refitting this week.
      • We are more than halfway through White Night, the 9th book in the Dresden Files series. 
      • I have also been reading Grail and Cosmos: Arthurian Explorations by Alby Stone. Portions of this book were previously published by my friend Bob Trubshaw of Heart of Albion Press. Everything Bob publishes is worth reading if you’re interested in the roots of folklore, and much of it is available as free downloads from his website.
      • My mother has passed, of covid pneumonia which she caught in the rehab facility. She was 91. I miss her. When I come home after having something happen at work I want to talk to her about, I reach for the phone… and remember I can’t call.
    • Tony H
      • So as Moss has said, this week we recorded the latest Distrohoppers Digest which I published on Saturday 23rd after doing the edit, including our new intro with Dale as part of the team. Great show if I do say so myself although we continue to strive to get better. 
      • Mint 20.1 is firmly established on my Laptop although I continue with 19.3 as my main driver on the i7 HP Tower which is my main production PC, at some stage I will get around to upgrading although at the moment as I have the IcyDock on this PC I can boot into a Mint 20 install whenever I want to.
      • I have bought some small storage racks with 32 boxes for putting in spares and components for the diecast models I restore, and I have been busy filling them up and labeling them. With the result my workshop is tidier, I can actually find things.
      • On the home front the Covid situation continues to get worse and by the time you hear this we will have passed 100K deaths for C19 here in the UK. It may mean we have even stricter restrictions before this is all over, The Netherlands have just introduced a curfew from 21.00 to 04.30 to try and stop some of the abuses of the current regulations restricting large gatherings indoors. 
    • Josh
      • Arch is still working. Now it’s not. I tried to install Linux Mint as a dual boot with arch and quickly found out that was a mistake. I first noticed a problem when I did not see arch as a boot option after hitting f12. When Mint’s grub booted arch was there as an option but when clicking it nothing happens just a black screen forever. I rebooted and then booted into mint and that worked fine. I checked my install of arch and everything looked to be in place; it just won’t boot. Anyways long story short I wiped mint and installed openSUSE tumbleweed cause I wanted to and I am just waiting for a good chunk of time again to try and fix or possibly reinstall my arch install.m
      • Been playing a lot of games while I can before school starts next week and I won’t have much time for them. I won’t go into detail but finally after 7 years I finally got around to beating Dragon Age Inquisition. It was a great story line and I can’t wait for the next chapter in that saga. I have also been playing Kingdom Come Deliverance as well and I have mentioned it before it’s one of my favorite RPG’s and I cannot recommend it enough.
      • Also getting ready for school which starts this week. I am taking a networking class. It’s technically the continuation of another networking class I took 3 semesters ago or so I am hoping it all comes back to me. 
      • I got a new mouse! I had my RedDragon M901 for over 5 years now and I loved that thing but the left mouse click was starting to get a little wonky. I tried to get another RedDragon mouse, the M913 but when I received it the left click was sticking to the point you couldn’t tell when you clicked. I returned that and decided to splurge a little and after a lot more research settled on the Corsair Scimitar Elite. All of the mice I have been talking about have had 12 side buttons but the Scimitar was the first I could set macros on and boy has it changed my gaming experience. Unfortunately there is no way to set the macros and all without windows but there are 3 profiles that save right to the mouse itself so once set you can change between them no matter what OS you’re running.

    THE NEWS:

    SECURITY UPDATE: 

    • IPFS (Interplanetary File System)
      • Originally created back in 2015
      • The purpose is, like Bittorrent, to make file storage distributed to increase the resilience of the web by allowing people that opt into IPFS to store little bits of data they’ve seen to then share it to someone else geographically close to them to make it so that even if the main website goes down, the content can still be accessed.
      • To become one of the IPFS content sharers, enable the Local Node option
      • To simply make use of IPFS, just enable IPFS and ensure you’re using a third-party gateway.
      • The way I see it, Google’s AMP is the main competitor.
    • Brave is the first browser to support it
      • It’s as simple as turning a toggle on in Settings.
      • You can easily choose to be a node the first time you access IPFS content. It’s a simple yes or no.
        • Brave asks if you want to enable the IPFS local daemon.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 4892     mintCast 353 – Brave New WWW https://mintcast.org/mintcast-353-brave-new-www/ Wed, 27 Jan 2021 05:36:39 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4885 Then, our news we talk RPi Pico, Ubuntu’s Booting on an Apple M1, Flatpak is faster, Project Linux turns into Alma Linux, and more
    In security, the InterPlanetary File System
    Download
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    1:58 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
    1:01:23 The News
    1:29:47 Security Update
    1:38:43 Announcements & Outro

    First up, in our Wanderings, I have second thoughts about Kubuntu, Moss has a new toy, Joe has been playing with watches, Tony has been editing audio, Josh hasn’t broken Arch, Bo survived the pandemic!

    Then, our news we talk RPi Pico, Ubuntu’s Booting on an Apple M1, Flatpak is faster, Project Linux turns into Alma Linux, and more

    In security, the InterPlanetary File System

    BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS: 

    • Leo
      • Having second thoughts about Kubuntu 20.10
      • Doubling down on Brave browser.
        • Found out it is the first to support IPFS
        • Looking at becoming a Brave Creator. This allows me to generate tips in the BAT currency from Brave users.
      • Took a leap of faith and installed the Flatpak PPA to get the latest flatpak so I could test out Chromium which requires 1.8.5 or above. Everything seems to be working. A little apprehensive because mumble is flatpak, and it’s what I use for the YouTube stream audio.
    • Joe
      • Ordered some new parts for the Samsung Galaxy S3 Watch so that I could fix the small issues with it because I saw a really good price for a set of parts that would do the job.
        • It works well and the rest of the parts make for almost a whole watch.  I may purchase another battery and put it all together to have another mostly working watch.
        • This new motherboard is actually a cellular version but because of the limitations of the eSIM that is included on the board I cannot get it to work with TMobile.  This is not a big deal for me because I would not use it as a phone anyway it was just something cool to contemplate
      • Also purchased some more neckband headphones to work on since I have not done so in a while. I know that I have 19 or so working headphones but I found some that have active noise cancelling that are not in the LG line that I would like to work on and see if I can do some of the same fixes to that I normally do with the LG’s. So it is the Anker Soundcores that I will be working on and adding the MMCX connections to.  They are also supposed to have a better battery life but it looks like they will be a lot more of a pain to take apart and put back together since I think that it is all glued.  So keeping the parts in usable physical condition may be difficult.  I may also have to look into replacement batteries as I do not know what is wrong with them.
        • The 5 headphones arrived and I have started working on them.  2 of the headsets have bad batteries.  So with the Anker phones that had the bad battery I started taking that apart first as I knew that there would be a learning curve in figuring out how to take the device apart
        • I did get it apart and figure out the best way to do it with minimal breakage but let’s just say that I don’t recommend it for modding purposes or repairability
      • Had some fun with the rename utility.  Bulk renaming of files was super easy and saved me a lot of time.  Wouldn’t mind doing a show on that and SED. 
        • rename ‘s/old-name/new-name/g’ files
        • But i have been told that it is way too nerdy
      • Picked up a fridge for free.  My wife found it on FB and it is a very nice fridge.  Granted it did cost me some money to rent the truck to move it but it was still a lot less than a new fridge (which I was planning on buying my wife this year)  The people that had it were moving and needed it gone as soon as possible.  It is probably the nicest side by side that I have ever owned. I can’t complain, it works and it looks awesome.
        • The only thing is, I was the only person moving the thing and I am super lucky that I did not hurt myself.  The thing was heavy.
      • Because of changes in my insurance, the copay for prescriptions has gone up a lot.  To the point that I don’t know how much money I am going to be able to put towards projects this year.  All this means is that I will be forced to go through my backlog of old projects or almost-projects and get it all up to date.  Maybe do a little bit with software again.
      • My Eldest Child turned 18 this week.  That is weird.  
      • On my VM download server I was still having problems with transmission-rss so I attempted to downgrade the Ruby version so that it would work properly again.  This did not work well.  I made several attempts to downgrade and all failed miserably.
        • Then I realized that the reason I was using transmission-rss initially was because that was available in a docker
        • So I shut down the transmission setup and moved everything over to qbittorrent which allowed me to re-setup all my former automation so that the files automatically go where I want them.  I do like the UI for qbittorrent and it is working well.
        • The rules that you can set up for automatic downloads and for after download moves was perfect for how I had things set up before.
    • Moss
      • Joshua Hawk sent me a laptop, a Dell Inspiron 7353 2-in-1 with touchscreen. He had installed Fedora on it, which I soon destroyed, and I’ve run a carousel of distros on it, to Pop!_OS, Bodhi 5.1, back to Fedora, and back to Bodhi. There are interesting touchpad issues: in Fedora, the touchpad right-click sends a left-click (it works fine Bodhi), and in Bodhi it does not load the screen keyboard. This is a great addition to my collection, and as it only has a 128 Gb SSD and a lot of screws keeping me from being brave enough to replace the SSD, this will be my machine to test distros for Distrohoppers’ Digest for the foreseeable future.
      • Speaking of Distrohoppers’ Digest, Episode 19 is out. Episodes 15 through 18 are also in the top 5 of our download numbers. For Episode 19 we actually have Dale in the header and footer readings. We had a great time, I get the idea we could banter a bit more but we’re still getting our team-feet under.
      • My Sponsus account now has 3 monthly sponsors and has also taken in a nice donation. You can hear them named at the end of the current episode of Distrohoppers’ Digest.
      • My recording and work space is in flux right now. There really was a short on the sound card in the Mini, and contacting that is what blew the power supply a few months ago. It’s not catastrophic but not something I want to have on a system I’m doing sound recording on, and I’ll be moving that along to someone who needs it. Dale has sent me an AMD sound card, which will replace the FX 1800 Nvidia card in the FuzZ400, which will take over as my main machine. Right now I’m recording on my Kudu laptop, still the most powerful machine I have. 
      • School is in and out, depending on the week and the school. I worked 4 days in the last two weeks and got paid for a 5th when they forgot to cancel an assignment.
      • My other business is poised to take off, and we plan to sell a lot of common products and donate 80% of our profits to projects providing housing funds and services to homeless people in America.  I’ll post the link when we are actually doing business.
      • My teeth are not working yet, and I have an appointment for a refitting this week.
      • We are more than halfway through White Night, the 9th book in the Dresden Files series. 
      • I have also been reading Grail and Cosmos: Arthurian Explorations by Alby Stone. Portions of this book were previously published by my friend Bob Trubshaw of Heart of Albion Press. Everything Bob publishes is worth reading if you’re interested in the roots of folklore, and much of it is available as free downloads from his website.
      • My mother has passed, of covid pneumonia which she caught in the rehab facility. She was 91. I miss her. When I come home after having something happen at work I want to talk to her about, I reach for the phone… and remember I can’t call.
    • Tony H
      • So as Moss has said, this week we recorded the latest Distrohoppers Digest which I published on Saturday 23rd after doing the edit, including our new intro with Dale as part of the team. Great show if I do say so myself although we continue to strive to get better. 
      • Mint 20.1 is firmly established on my Laptop although I continue with 19.3 as my main driver on the i7 HP Tower which is my main production PC, at some stage I will get around to upgrading although at the moment as I have the IcyDock on this PC I can boot into a Mint 20 install whenever I want to.
      • I have bought some small storage racks with 32 boxes for putting in spares and components for the diecast models I restore, and I have been busy filling them up and labeling them. With the result my workshop is tidier, I can actually find things.
      • On the home front the Covid situation continues to get worse and by the time you hear this we will have passed 100K deaths for C19 here in the UK. It may mean we have even stricter restrictions before this is all over, The Netherlands have just introduced a curfew from 21.00 to 04.30 to try and stop some of the abuses of the current regulations restricting large gatherings indoors. 
    • Josh
      • Arch is still working. Now it’s not. I tried to install Linux Mint as a dual boot with arch and quickly found out that was a mistake. I first noticed a problem when I did not see arch as a boot option after hitting f12. When Mint’s grub booted arch was there as an option but when clicking it nothing happens just a black screen forever. I rebooted and then booted into mint and that worked fine. I checked my install of arch and everything looked to be in place; it just won’t boot. Anyways long story short I wiped mint and installed openSUSE tumbleweed cause I wanted to and I am just waiting for a good chunk of time again to try and fix or possibly reinstall my arch install.m
      • Been playing a lot of games while I can before school starts next week and I won’t have much time for them. I won’t go into detail but finally after 7 years I finally got around to beating Dragon Age Inquisition. It was a great story line and I can’t wait for the next chapter in that saga. I have also been playing Kingdom Come Deliverance as well and I have mentioned it before it’s one of my favorite RPG’s and I cannot recommend it enough.
      • Also getting ready for school which starts this week. I am taking a networking class. It’s technically the continuation of another networking class I took 3 semesters ago or so I am hoping it all comes back to me. 
      • I got a new mouse! I had my RedDragon M901 for over 5 years now and I loved that thing but the left mouse click was starting to get a little wonky. I tried to get another RedDragon mouse, the M913 but when I received it the left click was sticking to the point you couldn’t tell when you clicked. I returned that and decided to splurge a little and after a lot more research settled on the Corsair Scimitar Elite. All of the mice I have been talking about have had 12 side buttons but the Scimitar was the first I could set macros on and boy has it changed my gaming experience. Unfortunately there is no way to set the macros and all without windows but there are 3 profiles that save right to the mouse itself so once set you can change between them no matter what OS you’re running.

    THE NEWS:

    SECURITY UPDATE: 

    • IPFS (Interplanetary File System)
      • Originally created back in 2015
      • The purpose is, like Bittorrent, to make file storage distributed to increase the resilience of the web by allowing people that opt into IPFS to store little bits of data they’ve seen to then share it to someone else geographically close to them to make it so that even if the main website goes down, the content can still be accessed.
      • To become one of the IPFS content sharers, enable the Local Node option
      • To simply make use of IPFS, just enable IPFS and ensure you’re using a third-party gateway.
      • The way I see it, Google’s AMP is the main competitor.
    • Brave is the first browser to support it
      • It’s as simple as turning a toggle on in Settings.
      • You can easily choose to be a node the first time you access IPFS content. It’s a simple yes or no.
        • Brave asks if you want to enable the IPFS local daemon.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 4885     mintCast 350.5 – Change Your SSID (mp3) https://mintcast.org/mintcast-350-5-change-your-ssid-mp3/ Wed, 23 Dec 2020 05:18:28 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4832 And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
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    0:16 HPR Spot
    1:26 Show Start
    2:44 Linux Innards
    50:34 Vibrations from the Ether
    1:04:09 Check This Out
    1:07:14 Outro

    In our Innards section, we talk spooky scary security

    And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

    LINUX INNARDS:

    The Art of Invisibility by Kevin Mitnick

    •  Joe
      • I do like this book.  But it is not about security it is about anonymity and the different things that you have to go through in order to be truly anonymous and the reasoning behind it.  It does get to be what seems a bit extreme but they do discuss the reasoning that you need someone else to purchase the gift cards in order to get the vpn and the bitcoin wallet and the ways of putting more into the wallet anonymously.
      • One of the things that I want to mention is Kevin says in the start of the book “You may not have anything to hide but you do have everything to protect.”
      • Kevin goes into detail about how different people were attached to the identity that they created online and how they were caught also advises how to not make those same mistakes.
      • The most extreme of which is to get someone that is not associated with you to go in and buy a gift card so that you are not on camera buying the card.  Then you use that card to purchase a VPN from a company that does not log and does not require you to identify yourself.  Then you set up a burner machine and never log in from home and you use that burner machine and the VPN in order to set up a bitcoin wallet and then you can either use more gift cards to add to it or you use a cleaning service to get more coins into it so its untraceable where the bitcoins came from.  You can use that to pay any further fees to the VPN and opr purchase items online. You can also use this to do things like publish articles and remain unknown.  But you have to keep switching locations and continue to trust your VPN
      • Also spends some time talking about PGP keys and touts the use of https everywhere which is a good thing to have but most of your modern browsers do that built now anyway
      • Also discusses the various types of tracking that advert agencies and the government do and different ways to subvert that including using a VPN, HTTPS everywhere a non standard DNS and never log in to anything that is attached to your identity if you want to stay anonymous.  Also changing mac addresses every time you log in or every time you change locations so that your fake identity is not attached to a specific machine
    • Tony:
      • Due to my lack of concentration in the last few weeks I’ve not listened to apart from the first chapter, but this alone is enough to make you wary of security issues, and although I never use 12345678 or password, as a password. But I must admit I do need to pay more care in choosing passwords in the future. And I need to consider using a VPN at least when I am doing financial transactions or having a dedicated laptop that is only used for this task.  
    • Leo
      • Things to know
        • You are likely the weakest link.
        • If it’s not you, it’s because you never update
      • The argument “I’m not interesting, they won’t hack me.” misses the point
        • They don’t have to target you. The entire thing is an automated humanless process. If you have lax security practice, you’ll show up vulnerable in a scan, sometimes even on Shodan. Then it’s all downhill from there.
      • Just good, simple wifi recommendations
        • Change your SSID
        • Use WPA2 or 3 if it’s available
        • Change the admin password*
        • Change the admin username*
        • Use long passwords
        • MAC Allow/Deny list
        • Wardriving is rare, not non-existent.
      • Keep it separated
        • If you can, use a device dedicated to banking and health type services. The private ones.
      • HTTPS everywhere
        • Thanks to the EFF you can use this plugin. But with the latest Firefox, you don’t need it.
      • VPN in public
        • Public wifi is never secure. Not ever.
        • VPN to obfuscate your traffic from prying eyes in public. Use a Raspberry Pi to set up OpenVPN manually, or use PiVPN. If you’re adventurous, set up Wireguard.
        • VPN’s for getting special Netflix is something different.
      • Tor isn’t for you
        • But if it is, keep in mind that logging into any service attached to your real name or using your own finances pretty much defeats the purpose.
      • Don’t be the low hanging fruit
        • If it’s easier to hack your neighbor, they will.

    Tinfoil hats are for sale in the lobby as you leave the theater…

    VIBRATIONS FROM THE ETHER:

    • Hank Barta by email
    • From Larry Murphy by email
    • Nick (Followup from Last Time) email
    • Wayne (mintcast.org)
    • Aaron (email)

    CHECK THIS OUT! 

    • Leo
    • Moss
      • I found my history – BBS The Documentary. It’s 5 hours long, but you’ll never see this stuff elsewhere. I didn’t get into BBSing until 1988, but there are a lot of forgotten things here, including the age when free phone calls were only for your local calling area.
      • Yippy – Privacy-focused search engine, powered by Watson — one click to make it default in Firefox

    Announcements:

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 4832     mintCast 350.5 – Change Your SSID https://mintcast.org/mintcast-350-5-change-your-ssid/ Wed, 23 Dec 2020 04:56:27 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4827 And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
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    0:16 HPR Spot
    1:26 Show Start
    2:44 Linux Innards
    50:34 Vibrations from the Ether
    1:04:09 Check This Out
    1:07:14 Outro

    In our Innards section, we talk spooky scary security

    And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

    LINUX INNARDS:

    The Art of Invisibility by Kevin Mitnick

    •  Joe
      • I do like this book.  But it is not about security it is about anonymity and the different things that you have to go through in order to be truly anonymous and the reasoning behind it.  It does get to be what seems a bit extreme but they do discuss the reasoning that you need someone else to purchase the gift cards in order to get the vpn and the bitcoin wallet and the ways of putting more into the wallet anonymously.
      • One of the things that I want to mention is Kevin says in the start of the book “You may not have anything to hide but you do have everything to protect.”
      • Kevin goes into detail about how different people were attached to the identity that they created online and how they were caught also advises how to not make those same mistakes.
      • The most extreme of which is to get someone that is not associated with you to go in and buy a gift card so that you are not on camera buying the card.  Then you use that card to purchase a VPN from a company that does not log and does not require you to identify yourself.  Then you set up a burner machine and never log in from home and you use that burner machine and the VPN in order to set up a bitcoin wallet and then you can either use more gift cards to add to it or you use a cleaning service to get more coins into it so its untraceable where the bitcoins came from.  You can use that to pay any further fees to the VPN and opr purchase items online. You can also use this to do things like publish articles and remain unknown.  But you have to keep switching locations and continue to trust your VPN
      • Also spends some time talking about PGP keys and touts the use of https everywhere which is a good thing to have but most of your modern browsers do that built now anyway
      • Also discusses the various types of tracking that advert agencies and the government do and different ways to subvert that including using a VPN, HTTPS everywhere a non standard DNS and never log in to anything that is attached to your identity if you want to stay anonymous.  Also changing mac addresses every time you log in or every time you change locations so that your fake identity is not attached to a specific machine
    • Tony:
      • Due to my lack of concentration in the last few weeks I’ve not listened to apart from the first chapter, but this alone is enough to make you wary of security issues, and although I never use 12345678 or password, as a password. But I must admit I do need to pay more care in choosing passwords in the future. And I need to consider using a VPN at least when I am doing financial transactions or having a dedicated laptop that is only used for this task.  
    • Leo
      • Things to know
        • You are likely the weakest link.
        • If it’s not you, it’s because you never update
      • The argument “I’m not interesting, they won’t hack me.” misses the point
        • They don’t have to target you. The entire thing is an automated humanless process. If you have lax security practice, you’ll show up vulnerable in a scan, sometimes even on Shodan. Then it’s all downhill from there.
      • Just good, simple wifi recommendations
        • Change your SSID
        • Use WPA2 or 3 if it’s available
        • Change the admin password*
        • Change the admin username*
        • Use long passwords
        • MAC Allow/Deny list
        • Wardriving is rare, not non-existent.
      • Keep it separated
        • If you can, use a device dedicated to banking and health type services. The private ones.
      • HTTPS everywhere
        • Thanks to the EFF you can use this plugin. But with the latest Firefox, you don’t need it.
      • VPN in public
        • Public wifi is never secure. Not ever.
        • VPN to obfuscate your traffic from prying eyes in public. Use a Raspberry Pi to set up OpenVPN manually, or use PiVPN. If you’re adventurous, set up Wireguard.
        • VPN’s for getting special Netflix is something different.
      • Tor isn’t for you
        • But if it is, keep in mind that logging into any service attached to your real name or using your own finances pretty much defeats the purpose.
      • Don’t be the low hanging fruit
        • If it’s easier to hack your neighbor, they will.

    Tinfoil hats are for sale in the lobby as you leave the theater…

    VIBRATIONS FROM THE ETHER:

    • Hank Barta by email
    • From Larry Murphy by email
    • Nick (Followup from Last Time) email
    • Wayne (mintcast.org)
    • Aaron (email)

    CHECK THIS OUT! 

    • Leo
    • Moss
      • I found my history – BBS The Documentary. It’s 5 hours long, but you’ll never see this stuff elsewhere. I didn’t get into BBSing until 1988, but there are a lot of forgotten things here, including the age when free phone calls were only for your local calling area.
      • Yippy – Privacy-focused search engine, powered by Watson — one click to make it default in Firefox

    Announcements:

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 4827     mintCast 350 – Rocky Road Ahead (mp3) https://mintcast.org/mintcast-350-rocky-road-ahead-mp3/ Thu, 17 Dec 2020 05:12:09 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4820 Then in the news, We have the latest Mint newsletter, Cinnamon 4.8 arrives, Elementary OS goes Pi, and much more  
    In security, we shed some light on Oblivious DNS over HTTPS
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    1:14 HPR Spot
    2:13 Show Start
    3:18 Wanderings
    54:52 News
    1:18:33 Security
    1:30:54 Outro

    First up, in our Wanderings, Joe preps for 3D work and does some Audio editing, Tony gets older and has a new toy to play with, Bo has been educating himself, Moss destroys his wife’s computer by accident, and Josh was a little late.

    Then in the news, We have the latest Mint newsletter, Cinnamon 4.8 arrives, Elementary OS goes Pi, and much more  

    In security, we shed some light on Oblivious DNS over HTTPS

    BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS:

    • Leo
      • Playing with Arco Linux and a Tiling Window Manager.
      • Owen sent me a Pi 3B. Thanks! 
      • Giving Gitea a try. More in the feedback!
    • Joe
      •  Have not been doing much of my own stuff in the past 2 weeks.
        • Lots of people on vacation at work so I have been putting in a lot of extra hours doing what would normally be their work and my work and trying to lighten the load for my boss.
      • Have sliced several designs to print but have not had a good time to get those printed and ready to go.  Plus I think I still need to tweak some of the settings.  Maybe try a much slower speed with petg or try a different brand.  The brand I am currently using seems like I get about half way through the roll and it becomes progressively harder to get a good print
      • Edited some audio from last year’s HPR new years show for my daughter so that she can remember it forever.  
      • Picked up a PSP Go for a good price that was listed as for parts only.
        • Have to say that I am both happy and disappointed with my purchase
        • Once again got a low cost device and it works perfectly
        • CFW and a selection of games installed but limited by the internal memory of 16gb
        • The device takes a very proprietary memory module (M2) and there is only one prebuilt adapter available for it that is in Japan but is not currently available due to covid.
        • It is possible to directly solder to this device and convert to memory stick duo but I don’t want to hard mod the device and bring the value down succeed or fail the hardware would no longer be original
        • I was hoping that the backlight was out or the screen needed to be replaced so I could work on a new fix.
        • But I have been using it to play Hydro Thunder 
        • Also sold another of the PSP 1001s so I have just about broken even for all the PSPs and the parts I have purchased
      • Was able to get the VPN Docker instance with Transmission to connect to a VPN from internally but I could not get it to work from startup.  Also getting to work from inside would then cause it to close down. So I am still using the VM to do the heavy lifting.
        • But I was able to find a VPN client Docker instance for which I was able to modify the ovpn file from my provider to get it working.  
        • This has allowed me to set up my Docker version of Chrome with the traffic pushed through the VPN container on all my machines
      • Have started biking in the evenings
        • Forgot how much I enjoy biking.  Have been getting a lot of time in and it seems to be helping a bit with the hip arthritis 
        • But I did get pulled over.  
    • Josh
      • Messing around with my new server HP dl380 g5 and laptop Dell XPS P54G.
      • Writing some python.
      • Back on Linux Mint on my main desktop and Dell XPS.
    • Tony Hughes
      • Recorded the latest episode of Distrohoppers Digest with Dale, who at the end we inaugurated as a permanent team member. By the time you listen to the edited show, the episode should be available for download.
      • A week and a half ago I had a camera down my throat to check out why I have been unwell recently and have a diagnosis of a Hiatus Hernia, now I know what the issue is, I can now hopefully mitigate some of the unpleasant symptoms with a few lifestyle changes.
      • And I have just recently celebrated my birthday, although I’m only the second oldest of the mintCast team lol. As a present from my wife I got a new toy to help me do my modeling a little safer, a small pedestal drill. It works great and will reduce the risk of me drilling my fingers as I will be able to use a small vice to hold things I’m drilling and it is far more accurate and so far the results I’m getting are fantastic.  
    • Moss
      • Last night, I thought I would do my wife a favor and remove Ubuntu Unity from her machine; she wasn’t using it and sometimes booted into it accidentally, causing some freaking out. I thought I did everything right, wrote a new boot on the Mint partition, used GPartEd to remove the partition, and expanded the Mint partition to fill the vacated space. About 90 minutes before showtime today, while talking to my mother about her Medicare running out on her rehab care and she would have to pay $300 a day to stay there while her hip continued to heal, my wife informed me she had a Grub Repair screen. I tried a lot of things I have learned over the years, but eventually had to get my Ventoy stick out and boot to Mint. When I still couldn’t get GRUB restored, and with time running out before the show, I took the easy way out and installed Mint again, and was pleased to see that it allowed me to install alongside the original boot so she still has her original installation to run. There is still a lot of work to do to get it back to a single installation which actually boots. That will happen after the show.
      • I just managed to complete another circuit of the Homestar, and am now 68 years old as measured in this backwards system. As celebrations went, this was not one of my finest, nor was the year itself, but I’m happy to have survived this far and thrilled to be on mintCast team.
      • We will have released Distrohoppers’ Digest Episode 018 by the time anyone hears this episode. To date, three episodes have reached or exceeded 600 downloads each, which warms my furry little heart, and Episode 017 is over 500 already.
      • I am set up this episode in my second bedroom, with a TV tray and my laptop. If I get any money over the holidays which is not necessary for my continued existence (bills, food), I will add a smallish desk and a mid-sized TV, say 24-26”, and use my mini-desktop; this also means I will have to get the Pi 4 working as my Kodi server for the living room.
      • Dresden-wise, we’re about 75% through Proven Guilty. Dresden and team have just marched into Mab’s broken-looking stronghold.
    • Bo

    THE NEWS: 

    SECURITY UPDATE:

    • ODOH (Oblivious DNS over HTTPS) * thanks to Londoner
      • FTA: Together, the added encryption and proxying provide the following guarantees:
    • The target sees only the query and the proxy’s IP address.
    • The proxy has no visibility into the DNS messages, with no ability to identify, read, or modify either the query being sent by the client or the answer being returned by the target.
    • Only the intended target can read the content of the query and produce a response.
    • Open Source Devs not concerned about security
    • Trickbot
      • A banking fraud trojan converted to a full malware-as-a-service solution.
      • While UEFI malware is rare because of the difficulty, Trickbot is changing that.
      • This could open the door to OS agnostic UEFI malware that can persist between OS installs and disk swaps.

    Announcements:

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 4820     mintCast 350 – Rocky Road Ahead https://mintcast.org/mintcast-350-rocky-road-ahead/ Thu, 17 Dec 2020 04:57:24 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4814 Then in the news, We have the latest Mint newsletter, Cinnamon 4.8 arrives, Elementary OS goes Pi, and much more  
    In security, we shed some light on Oblivious DNS over HTTPS
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    1:14 HPR Spot
    2:13 Show Start
    3:18 Wanderings
    54:52 News
    1:18:33 Security
    1:30:54 Outro

    First up, in our Wanderings, Joe preps for 3D work and does some Audio editing, Tony gets older and has a new toy to play with, Bo has been educating himself, Moss destroys his wife’s computer by accident, and Josh was a little late.

    Then in the news, We have the latest Mint newsletter, Cinnamon 4.8 arrives, Elementary OS goes Pi, and much more  

    In security, we shed some light on Oblivious DNS over HTTPS

    BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS:

    • Leo
      • Playing with Arco Linux and a Tiling Window Manager.
      • Owen sent me a Pi 3B. Thanks! 
      • Giving Gitea a try. More in the feedback!
    • Joe
      •  Have not been doing much of my own stuff in the past 2 weeks.
        • Lots of people on vacation at work so I have been putting in a lot of extra hours doing what would normally be their work and my work and trying to lighten the load for my boss.
      • Have sliced several designs to print but have not had a good time to get those printed and ready to go.  Plus I think I still need to tweak some of the settings.  Maybe try a much slower speed with petg or try a different brand.  The brand I am currently using seems like I get about half way through the roll and it becomes progressively harder to get a good print
      • Edited some audio from last year’s HPR new years show for my daughter so that she can remember it forever.  
      • Picked up a PSP Go for a good price that was listed as for parts only.
        • Have to say that I am both happy and disappointed with my purchase
        • Once again got a low cost device and it works perfectly
        • CFW and a selection of games installed but limited by the internal memory of 16gb
        • The device takes a very proprietary memory module (M2) and there is only one prebuilt adapter available for it that is in Japan but is not currently available due to covid.
        • It is possible to directly solder to this device and convert to memory stick duo but I don’t want to hard mod the device and bring the value down succeed or fail the hardware would no longer be original
        • I was hoping that the backlight was out or the screen needed to be replaced so I could work on a new fix.
        • But I have been using it to play Hydro Thunder 
        • Also sold another of the PSP 1001s so I have just about broken even for all the PSPs and the parts I have purchased
      • Was able to get the VPN Docker instance with Transmission to connect to a VPN from internally but I could not get it to work from startup.  Also getting to work from inside would then cause it to close down. So I am still using the VM to do the heavy lifting.
        • But I was able to find a VPN client Docker instance for which I was able to modify the ovpn file from my provider to get it working.  
        • This has allowed me to set up my Docker version of Chrome with the traffic pushed through the VPN container on all my machines
      • Have started biking in the evenings
        • Forgot how much I enjoy biking.  Have been getting a lot of time in and it seems to be helping a bit with the hip arthritis 
        • But I did get pulled over.  
    • Josh
      • Messing around with my new server HP dl380 g5 and laptop Dell XPS P54G.
      • Writing some python.
      • Back on Linux Mint on my main desktop and Dell XPS.
    • Tony Hughes
      • Recorded the latest episode of Distrohoppers Digest with Dale, who at the end we inaugurated as a permanent team member. By the time you listen to the edited show, the episode should be available for download.
      • A week and a half ago I had a camera down my throat to check out why I have been unwell recently and have a diagnosis of a Hiatus Hernia, now I know what the issue is, I can now hopefully mitigate some of the unpleasant symptoms with a few lifestyle changes.
      • And I have just recently celebrated my birthday, although I’m only the second oldest of the mintCast team lol. As a present from my wife I got a new toy to help me do my modeling a little safer, a small pedestal drill. It works great and will reduce the risk of me drilling my fingers as I will be able to use a small vice to hold things I’m drilling and it is far more accurate and so far the results I’m getting are fantastic.  
    • Moss
      • Last night, I thought I would do my wife a favor and remove Ubuntu Unity from her machine; she wasn’t using it and sometimes booted into it accidentally, causing some freaking out. I thought I did everything right, wrote a new boot on the Mint partition, used GPartEd to remove the partition, and expanded the Mint partition to fill the vacated space. About 90 minutes before showtime today, while talking to my mother about her Medicare running out on her rehab care and she would have to pay $300 a day to stay there while her hip continued to heal, my wife informed me she had a Grub Repair screen. I tried a lot of things I have learned over the years, but eventually had to get my Ventoy stick out and boot to Mint. When I still couldn’t get GRUB restored, and with time running out before the show, I took the easy way out and installed Mint again, and was pleased to see that it allowed me to install alongside the original boot so she still has her original installation to run. There is still a lot of work to do to get it back to a single installation which actually boots. That will happen after the show.
      • I just managed to complete another circuit of the Homestar, and am now 68 years old as measured in this backwards system. As celebrations went, this was not one of my finest, nor was the year itself, but I’m happy to have survived this far and thrilled to be on mintCast team.
      • We will have released Distrohoppers’ Digest Episode 018 by the time anyone hears this episode. To date, three episodes have reached or exceeded 600 downloads each, which warms my furry little heart, and Episode 017 is over 500 already.
      • I am set up this episode in my second bedroom, with a TV tray and my laptop. If I get any money over the holidays which is not necessary for my continued existence (bills, food), I will add a smallish desk and a mid-sized TV, say 24-26”, and use my mini-desktop; this also means I will have to get the Pi 4 working as my Kodi server for the living room.
      • Dresden-wise, we’re about 75% through Proven Guilty. Dresden and team have just marched into Mab’s broken-looking stronghold.
    • Bo

    THE NEWS: 

    SECURITY UPDATE:

    • ODOH (Oblivious DNS over HTTPS) * thanks to Londoner
      • FTA: Together, the added encryption and proxying provide the following guarantees:
    • The target sees only the query and the proxy’s IP address.
    • The proxy has no visibility into the DNS messages, with no ability to identify, read, or modify either the query being sent by the client or the answer being returned by the target.
    • Only the intended target can read the content of the query and produce a response.
    • Open Source Devs not concerned about security
    • Trickbot
      • A banking fraud trojan converted to a full malware-as-a-service solution.
      • While UEFI malware is rare because of the difficulty, Trickbot is changing that.
      • This could open the door to OS agnostic UEFI malware that can persist between OS installs and disk swaps.

    Announcements:

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, and Londoner for our time sync
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our backup Mumble room
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 4814     mintCast 348 – 400 Raspberry Pies (mp3) https://mintcast.org/mintcast-348-400-raspberry-pies-mp3/ Wed, 18 Nov 2020 04:39:51 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4771 Then, in our news, the Raspberry Pi launches a whole new dessert, GIMP is almost ready for GTK3, 
    In security, Ubuntu’s GDM3 has a root bug
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    1:56 Wanderings
    33:22 News
    50:26 Security
    56:54 Outro

    First up, in our Wanderings, Leo colorizes his terminal, Josh eyeballs an eggroll, Tony gives the Gorilla another go, and Joe fiddles with firmware

    Then, in our news, the Raspberry Pi launches a whole new dessert, GIMP is almost ready for GTK3, 

    In security, Ubuntu’s GDM3 has a root bug

    BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS:

    • Leo
      • Put out a video on my channel that was way overdue.
      • A/B testing Nextcloud on my raspberry Pi 4 with an external 1TB USB drive vs. a much more powerful laptop (i7-2630qm, 8GB RAM) running the same thing with 1TB internal USB.
      • Doing some surveillance!
      • Changing terminal colors. Fell in love with the Monokai [Dark] Soda theme. I’m testing out the Dracula theme too. They’re duking it out right now for supremacy. I blame bpytop for having such cool themes.
    • Josh
      •  I have been messing around with Linux gaming some more. Been testing it against Windows and the results are not good for the most part. I am not a Linux guru so maybe I am doing it all wrong but I am trying. I have not gotten to try the Glorious Egg Roll Proton yet but that’s my next step to see what happens. My Nvidia 1650 Super is actually not even running at it’s max speeds under linux or windows because my Ryzen 2600 is just not up to the task for certain games. Overclocking my cpu does help some stuttering issues but not a whole lot. The main game I am playing right now is Kingdom Come Deliverance and under Linux with low to medium graphics settings I get roughly between 50 and 60 fps in towns. You have to test in towns on that game because when out of towns it runs smooth no matter what settings you have. Unfortunately on Windows though I get between 70 and 80 fps with medium to high settings which is a lot more taxing but it’s still getting that much better on windows. I am chalking it down to the translation layer taking some of the CPU power cause that game is really CPU bound. 
    • Tony H
      • Recorded Episode 17 of DHD which is now available on your podcatchers, we have had nearly 300 downloads in a week. I Installed Ubuntu Studio 20.10 on the test machine with mixed results as again I could not get a Dual boot to install. On further investigation I may not have left a big enough partition for the original OS so I will have to have another go.  I did however do a successful inline upgrade to the 20.04 install on one of the drives in my tower, which now has the shiny Plasma DE instead of XFCE.  I suggest you only try this on a test PC or in a VM as unless like the Ubuntu Studio release you need any major changes made.  If you plan on upgrading a production PC in this manner, make sure to back up “ALL” your data, as there is a risk of data loss, and we all know it will happen when you have forgotten to back up.  I have also been playing with the new Beta of GIMP which will eventually be released sometime in 2021 as GIMP 3.0, I’ll talk more about that in the news. 
      • Other than that we successfully navigated our 4 days of shielding and my wife had her hospital procedure without any issues, although it will be another week or so before we get the results of the biopsies they have to test. 
    • Joe
      •   Talked last time about ordering a bunch of PSP’s 
        • Got 7 out of 8 of them working, 4 1001s and 3 3001s although one of them has a bad connector for the UMD drive so I will be doing a battery mod on that one to give a much greater battery life.
        • One of them had a bad motherboard and screen and was only good for the other parts
        •   of the 1001s I had spent a lot of time taking it apart and putting it back together because so many of the parts were messed up, the power board, the UMD drive the faceplate and I think it is slightly warped.  But it all is working except for the UMD drive
        • Also have put custom firmware on all of them in order to be able to play retro emulation and to play games without the UMDs which will save space and battery life
        • I have sold one of them as of last night and made back most of my money that I have invested and may hopefully sell another one later today.
      • My transmission docker setup quit working and I had to figure out why.  I went through a lot of iterations of testing thinking that I had messed something up.  Even tried using a different version of the transmission VPN which I use along with docker chrome to change my ip.  I was able to get a different version of transmission working but it was not showing a new ip address.
        • Did my research and it turns out that PIA my vpn provider had turned off a bunch of older servers.  
        • After finding that out it was just a matter of changing all the docker configs on all my machines that use transmission/chrome(which is all of them) and things were working again
        • I also checked the speeds that I was getting on the new servers and it is super fast I know previously I was limited to 30mbps and this was up around 160mbps
      •  Last Saturday I also did several items on my honey due list including rewiring a wall lamp into a hanging lamp with a switch.  Pretending to be an electrician again but I think I did a good job.  Anything to pull out the soldering iron
      •  I also serviced 2 bicycles for my kids to get them back on the road and I have taken the opportunity to go for a couple of rides with them which is fun.  I may need to get a bike of my own.  Because I obviously need another hobby to eat up my time
      • With the end of year stability at work I have been able to binge watch Big Bang Theory.  Man that show ran for a long time
      • Also have been playing the new DLC for Borderlands 3.  I am liking the new skill trees and have not tried the new mode yet.
      • Got a new kitten.  The wife finally convinced me

    THE NEWS:

    SECURITY UPDATE: 

    • Bug in Ubuntu’s GDM3 allows root access
      • Link .pam_environment to /dev/zero
      • Open Region & Language. It’ll freeze and peg the accounts-daemon process at 100%
      • Send the stop signal (-SIGSTOP)
      • Run (nohup bash -c “sleep 30s; kill -SIGSEGV 597; kill -SIGCONT 597”) where 597 is the process ID of accounts-daemon
      • Logout and wait for the new user creation window
      • Proof of Concept
    • Ransomware for Linux
      • RansomEXX

    Announcements:

    • Our next episode will be Sunday, November 29, 2020, at 2 pm Central Time, check for your local time! 

    https://everytimezone.com/s/170bc4e1

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our Mumble backup
    • Hobstar for our logo
    • Londoner for our time zone link
    • Owen Peery for our audio editing
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
    ]]>     full 4771     mintCast 348 – 400 Raspberry Pies https://mintcast.org/mintcast-348-400-raspberry-pies/ Wed, 18 Nov 2020 04:19:50 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4765 Then, in our news, the Raspberry Pi launches a whole new dessert, GIMP is almost ready for GTK3, 
    In security, Ubuntu’s GDM3 has a root bug
    Download
    ]]>     Download

    1:56 Wanderings
    33:22 News
    50:26 Security
    56:54 Outro

    First up, in our Wanderings, Leo colorizes his terminal, Josh eyeballs an eggroll, Tony gives the Gorilla another go, and Joe fiddles with firmware

    Then, in our news, the Raspberry Pi launches a whole new dessert, GIMP is almost ready for GTK3, 

    In security, Ubuntu’s GDM3 has a root bug

    BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS:

    • Leo
      • Put out a video on my channel that was way overdue.
      • A/B testing Nextcloud on my raspberry Pi 4 with an external 1TB USB drive vs. a much more powerful laptop (i7-2630qm, 8GB RAM) running the same thing with 1TB internal USB.
      • Doing some surveillance!
      • Changing terminal colors. Fell in love with the Monokai [Dark] Soda theme. I’m testing out the Dracula theme too. They’re duking it out right now for supremacy. I blame bpytop for having such cool themes.
    • Josh
      •  I have been messing around with Linux gaming some more. Been testing it against Windows and the results are not good for the most part. I am not a Linux guru so maybe I am doing it all wrong but I am trying. I have not gotten to try the Glorious Egg Roll Proton yet but that’s my next step to see what happens. My Nvidia 1650 Super is actually not even running at it’s max speeds under linux or windows because my Ryzen 2600 is just not up to the task for certain games. Overclocking my cpu does help some stuttering issues but not a whole lot. The main game I am playing right now is Kingdom Come Deliverance and under Linux with low to medium graphics settings I get roughly between 50 and 60 fps in towns. You have to test in towns on that game because when out of towns it runs smooth no matter what settings you have. Unfortunately on Windows though I get between 70 and 80 fps with medium to high settings which is a lot more taxing but it’s still getting that much better on windows. I am chalking it down to the translation layer taking some of the CPU power cause that game is really CPU bound. 
    • Tony H
      • Recorded Episode 17 of DHD which is now available on your podcatchers, we have had nearly 300 downloads in a week. I Installed Ubuntu Studio 20.10 on the test machine with mixed results as again I could not get a Dual boot to install. On further investigation I may not have left a big enough partition for the original OS so I will have to have another go.  I did however do a successful inline upgrade to the 20.04 install on one of the drives in my tower, which now has the shiny Plasma DE instead of XFCE.  I suggest you only try this on a test PC or in a VM as unless like the Ubuntu Studio release you need any major changes made.  If you plan on upgrading a production PC in this manner, make sure to back up “ALL” your data, as there is a risk of data loss, and we all know it will happen when you have forgotten to back up.  I have also been playing with the new Beta of GIMP which will eventually be released sometime in 2021 as GIMP 3.0, I’ll talk more about that in the news. 
      • Other than that we successfully navigated our 4 days of shielding and my wife had her hospital procedure without any issues, although it will be another week or so before we get the results of the biopsies they have to test. 
    • Joe
      •   Talked last time about ordering a bunch of PSP’s 
        • Got 7 out of 8 of them working, 4 1001s and 3 3001s although one of them has a bad connector for the UMD drive so I will be doing a battery mod on that one to give a much greater battery life.
        • One of them had a bad motherboard and screen and was only good for the other parts
        •   of the 1001s I had spent a lot of time taking it apart and putting it back together because so many of the parts were messed up, the power board, the UMD drive the faceplate and I think it is slightly warped.  But it all is working except for the UMD drive
        • Also have put custom firmware on all of them in order to be able to play retro emulation and to play games without the UMDs which will save space and battery life
        • I have sold one of them as of last night and made back most of my money that I have invested and may hopefully sell another one later today.
      • My transmission docker setup quit working and I had to figure out why.  I went through a lot of iterations of testing thinking that I had messed something up.  Even tried using a different version of the transmission VPN which I use along with docker chrome to change my ip.  I was able to get a different version of transmission working but it was not showing a new ip address.
        • Did my research and it turns out that PIA my vpn provider had turned off a bunch of older servers.  
        • After finding that out it was just a matter of changing all the docker configs on all my machines that use transmission/chrome(which is all of them) and things were working again
        • I also checked the speeds that I was getting on the new servers and it is super fast I know previously I was limited to 30mbps and this was up around 160mbps
      •  Last Saturday I also did several items on my honey due list including rewiring a wall lamp into a hanging lamp with a switch.  Pretending to be an electrician again but I think I did a good job.  Anything to pull out the soldering iron
      •  I also serviced 2 bicycles for my kids to get them back on the road and I have taken the opportunity to go for a couple of rides with them which is fun.  I may need to get a bike of my own.  Because I obviously need another hobby to eat up my time
      • With the end of year stability at work I have been able to binge watch Big Bang Theory.  Man that show ran for a long time
      • Also have been playing the new DLC for Borderlands 3.  I am liking the new skill trees and have not tried the new mode yet.
      • Got a new kitten.  The wife finally convinced me

    THE NEWS:

    SECURITY UPDATE: 

    • Bug in Ubuntu’s GDM3 allows root access
      • Link .pam_environment to /dev/zero
      • Open Region & Language. It’ll freeze and peg the accounts-daemon process at 100%
      • Send the stop signal (-SIGSTOP)
      • Run (nohup bash -c “sleep 30s; kill -SIGSEGV 597; kill -SIGCONT 597”) where 597 is the process ID of accounts-daemon
      • Logout and wait for the new user creation window
      • Proof of Concept
    • Ransomware for Linux
      • RansomEXX

    Announcements:

    • Our next episode will be Sunday, November 29, 2020, at 2 pm Central Time, check for your local time! 

    https://everytimezone.com/s/170bc4e1

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our Mumble backup
    • Hobstar for our logo
    • Londoner for our time zone link
    • Owen Peery for our audio editing
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
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    In security, Chromium blocks annoyances and fixes a font rendering flaw, and Wordpress fixes some bad ones
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    2:53 Wanderings
    1:13:18 The News
    1:43:29 Security
    1:47:39 Outro

    First up, in our Wanderings, I pop a kernel, Bo gets refreshed, Josh keeps his chameleon alive, Tony Hughes becomes a hermit, Moss bites into another distro, Joe gets it HANDled, and Tony Watts does the upgrade dance

    Then, in our news, Linux Mint gives us an update, Ubuntu and Fedora both get released, XDA has a phone now, and Microsoft Edges into the Linux browser market

    In security, Chromium blocks annoyances and fixes a font rendering flaw, and WordPress fixes some bad ones

    BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS:

    • Leo
      • Upgraded to Ubuntu 20.10’s 5.8 kernel in Linux Mint. My 5700XT’s performance has increased! Yay!
      • Playing with Kubuntu 20.10 which also has kernel 5.8.
      • Recording this on an AMD A10-7870K with 16GB RAM and all my other audio gear. If something goes wrong today, I’m gonna blame that…
      • Last episode I mentioned that World of Warcraft was crashing in Wine from Lutris. Fixed this by moving from the Wine 5.7 TkG version that Lutris provides to Wine Staging 5.19. That upgraded to 5.20 recently as well.
      • Chromium got upgrades! It’s now part of the Linux Mint repo.
    cd ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Baldurs/Gate/3/Launcher/

mv LariLauncher.exe LariLauncher.exe.old

ln -s ../bin/bg3.exe LariLauncher.exe

cp ./*.dll ../bin/
    • Josh
      • My openSUSE samba server is still alive and kicking!
      • After seeing the error of my ways with btrfs I decided to reinstall Mint on my desktop pc.
      • Linux Mint gaming is broken on my newly installed OS #DualMonitorWoes.
      • Testing out Edge on Linux after hearing a ton of good feedback about it.
    • Tony H
      • So the last few weeks have not been brilliant health wise, I missed the last recording as I was ill with acid reflux, which when it flares up really knocks me for 6. At the moment still not a 100% but getting a little better.
      • As we go on air I am currently in a 3 day of shielding with my wife who has to go into hospital for a small operation on Tuesday, luckily this is a day procedure or the lockdown would have been 2 weeks, so I can not leave the house until Tuesday at 6.40am when I take her into the hospital for the operation and even then I can not be there to support her during the process. Blast Covid. On a positive note her covid test came back negative, so the opp can go ahead as planned.
      • One of the downsides of my health issues is it drains me of energy and I’ve not felt like doing much in the way of modeling or preparing my review of KaOS for Distrohoppers that we are hoping to record this coming week, but I will have something to say but not as comprehensive a review as I would like.
    • Moss
      • I had all my teeth removed and they are currently covered by temporary dentures, which is why I’m talking funny right now. This will be going on for some time, but the show must go on!
      • We’re getting ready to record Distrohoppers’ Digest Episode 017, presumably the day after this episode hits your podcatcher. This will be another adventure in diction. On another note, Tony has noticed that some of our download numbers have gone backwards, so we should all donate to Archive and ask for our downloads back.
      • I just installed PCLinuxOS on Friday. I was amazed at how easily it went this time, and I’m still reeling from being able to use APT to install RPM packages. The installer has a little catch: it will not tell you what distros are installed on which partitions. This is why I have not yet installed it on my desktop, I didn’t identify my available partitions prior to attempting the install and was not brave enough to take a guess and soldier on.
      • I also installed Feren OS again, and found that they have yet to update the base to 20.04. I looked it up and it is promised for November. I may not spend much time working with Feren until the upgrade.
      • My work has been sporadic, and no paychecks have been received for months. We’re down to our last $30. But Social Security comes tomorrow, and those missing paychecks should come some day. I have a new job on the side, selling a line of products to raise money to house and employ homeless women across the country. I’ve worked with this promoter before, and while it hasn’t always worked out well, it’s not from lack of trying.
      • We finally finished Dead Beat and are working on the next book, Proven Guilty, more slowly now that I can’t talk well.
    • Joe
      • Got a couple of dirt cheap broken handhelds.  I had a lot of fun with it.  So far I have gotten
        • 2 PSP 1001s that did not power on
        • One 3DS XL old that did not power on
        • One DS Lite
      • The NDS Lite needed the lower display replaced
        • This was not a hard fix but when I was putting it back together I noticed that the ribbon cable for the digitizer was a bit  frayed.  I put it back together as best I could any way
        • It seemed to work.  Both screens came on and displayed the need for touchscreen calibration.  It died as soon as I touched the screen and would not power back on.
        • I took it apart again and I saw that the leads were lifted off the ribbon cable
        • I hope that replacing the touchscreen will fix the problem but I know that the board might also be fried like bacon
        • Only one way to find out.
        • It was also acting like the battery was bad …
        • So I replaced the battery and it would still not turn on
        • I attempted to replace the touchpad but it was a little more delicate than I am and now the thing is good for parts but i am fairly sure that i had already messed up the motherboard anyway
      • The 3DS XL was supposedly broken and would not turn on.  But I replaced the battery and hooked it up to power and it turned right on with no issues. I did have to bypass the parental controls which was super easy and I did notice that the joystick felt a little stiff but that cleared up after some time.
        • I was also able to get a multicart off eBay for pretty cheap and it works like the R4 card is supposed to and allowed me to run all the games that were on the cart.
        • It also allowed me to replace the Micro SD card that was in the cart and after I copied over the control files I was able to double the memory of the SD card and add in some of the other roms that I have sitting around.  I was also able to install one of the Genesis emulators and one of the NES emulators to play some of those roms that I own.  As well as adding many of the DS games.  Although I could not play 3DS games from there.
        • I enjoyed the Genesis emulator from there but it would not allow me to switch to full screen or view the whole image at once.  It was not insurmountable but it did take away from the immersion of the game
        • So I went ahead and set up homebrew on the device (everything was done from Linux). This was a long and tedious process but in the end I was able to set up a second 32 gb micro SD card on it with a different Genesis emulator that did allow me to see the whole image and to stretch it to full screen.
        • This also allowed me to set up and remove 3DS games (all legally obtained) and to add custom theming to the device.  I really like how Shovel Knight looked and played on the device and I love playing old school Shadowrun on it.  The Sega version and I have been playing a lot of it
        • So now I can play 3DS games and Sega games from one card and I can play NES, SNES and DS games from the other card.  I suppose I could also set up some Atari emulation if I wanted and get some Centipede or Space Command or Star Raider going.
        • Plus with the DS card that goes into the top I can set up multiple micro SD cards for different setups and just swap them out as needed with as many games as I want.
      • Also ordered 2 PSP 1001’s for a decent price for parts not working
        • One of them had an issue with the battery not wanting to charge but I was able to get the battery working again with a bit of work
        • Also had an issue with the front buttons where the select key was stuck
        • The other one looked good but had a lot of issues and you could tell that it had been apart several times and had pieces removed. Not sure if the screen is good or not but it was not connected.  The power light does come on and batteries do charge when hooked up to it so some decent parts.
        • But other than the screen being completely disconnected the board on the right hand side was completely loose as the retention pins were broken off.  The UMD door was not seated all the way and the latch for it was missing the spring so had to be removed manually
        • But it did have a good set of buttons on the bottom which I was able to move over to the other device to get it working properly.  However this 8 dollar part does not make up for the cost of the device that I paid so I am a little disappointed and may try to troubleshoot it further anyway or simply test parts from it on other devices.
        • But yeah, one of them is working perfectly which makes me happy.  It is running older software so I am going to do the update today.
        • The device is very old so it will not do WPA2 and I am not going to set up an insecure network device so I have to do the updates and mods from the internal memory
          • Not that big of a deal but it is something that should be noted
        • Have done some gaming with the genesis emulator and while it does not feel as refined as the 3DS emulator it still worked well and looked good
        • I also looked up and found the methods that most people were using to transfer movies onto the psp and most of that was using applications that only ran in windows and were outdated.  But looking at those applications I could see that most of them were front ends for ffmpeg.  So I looked for and found a terminal command that worked.
        • ffmpeg -y -i INPUTFILE -flags +bitexact -vcodec libx264 -profile:v baseline -level 3.0 -s 480×272 -r 29.97 -b:v 384k -acodec aac -b:a 96k -ar 48000 -f psp -strict -2 OUTPUTFILE.MP4
        • I am still looking for an up to date way to play PSX games on the PSP.  The old methods were also program based and many of those programs are not available any more.  Because I have many more PS1 games on file than I do PSP because I actually own a couple of different PS1s
      • My main server/garage computer died.  Trouble shooting the issues for that was not what I would call fun.  I was able to narrow the problem down to one of the big 3 which is never good
        • I would go into detail on all the issues and the ways that I tested but it gets tedious
        • Lets just say when one of the big 3 starts going but doesnt brick hard it can lead to some interesting faults that are hard to track down
        • But since I don’t have any other computers that use that chipset or ddr4 RAM I have no other way to test than to purchase parts and swap.  So I have started with RAM.  At least with RAM if it is bad then I have fixed the issue and if it is good and something else is bad I can still use the RAM
        • After that I have to guess but when I am done I will be one or two parts short of having a second complete computer.
        • Financially this has come at a terrible time but I will get it fixed.  If I had known that it was going to break then I would not have started working on old handhelds
        • But it looks like replacing the RAM has worked for now.  Hopefully that is actually the problem and it is solved now
        • I still need to swing by Micro Center and see if they will replace the bad RAM sticks which would bring me up to 32 gig in my server
    • Tony W
      • Redoing the floor in my basement due to my poor choices in life
      • Did the upgrade to next LTS on my server and it was uneventful
      • Chromecast Audio on PA system = WIN
      • Upgrade to Nest Wifi + add’l network switch
      • Chromecast with Google TV, YouTube TV ($65/mo!!!)
      • Magnetic charging cables are awesome
      • LineageOS updating
      • Have been using my Dell 7130 more
      • Sometimes Linux is just better…
        • My old school audio setup works flawlessly in Linux and is NO FUN in Windows

    THE NEWS:

    SECURITY UPDATE:

    Announcements:

    Wrap-up:

    Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

    • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
    • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • HPR for our Mumble backup
    • Hobstar for our logo
    • Londoner for our time zone link
    • Owen Peery for our audio editing
    • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
    • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
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