Distro Monday #1 - What's new in Linux? Why should I upgrade if I'm happy with what I have?
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Tech Tips Tuesday - what do I need to know about KDE Plasma?
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Tech Wednesday - Linux Tips & News + Bonus KDE Tips
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Tech Tips Tuesday 2 - Why is Linux the best OS?
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Tech Freedom - Distro Monday Redo
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Tech Freedom - Tech Wednesday #3
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Distro Monday #3 - Manjaro? Ubuntu? Which is better for me?
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Tech Tuesday #3 - All about KDE Plasma
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Tech Wednesday #3 - What's Coreboot?
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Distro Monday #4
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Tech Tuesday #4
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Mobile Freedom Wednesday Roundup #1
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Tech Freedom Distro Monday #5
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Tech Tips Tuesday #5
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Tech Wednesday #5 - What's Linux Mobile? What are my options? Why would I want that?
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Distro Monday #6 - What's virtualization, anyway?
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Tech Tuesday #6
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Mobile Freedom Wednesday 2 - What is Degoogling anyway?
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Distro Monday #7 - What's the best desktop environment for new users?
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Tech Tuesday #7 - What's the "top" command, anyway?
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Tech Wednesday #7 - What's Borgmatic?
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Distro Monday #8 - Memorial Day Edition
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Tech Tuesday #8 - how to choose between KDE and GNOME
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Tech Wednesday #8 - How do I set up a RaspberryPi?
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Distro Monday 9 - Got a recent Mac? We can help you get free: enter Asahi Linux.
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Tech Tuesday 9 - is KDE or XFCE better for you?
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Tech Wednesday 9 - GNOME shell for mobile? This might actually work...
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Distro Monday 10 - more trouble with Ubuntu? Say it ain't so...
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Tech Tuesday 10: Linux Malware? What???? No big deal, tho, for most of us.
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Tech Wednesday 10: what are the best FOSS web server applications?
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Distro Monday: Newbie Corner - how to pick your distro
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Tech Tuesday 11: Firefox privacy improved? Does GIMP make you happy? Do you like to customize your Linux life?
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10 things about Tech Freedom
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Tech Wednesday 11: Latest gaming tools for Linux
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Tech Tips Tuesday - Linux Terminal Edition
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Tech Wednesday 12: WINE & Steamdeck news
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Tech Tuesday 13: Unity Desktop, memesplanation, terminal tips, FREEdom Consultation, and GNOME...
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Mobile Freedom Wednesday 3: what's new in Linux Mobile?
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Distro Monday: Thursday Edition... How to pick your distro: Rolling vs Point Release, Bad Google...
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Distro Monday 14: Mint vs Ubuntu, Memeaplanation, what's new in Mint, Porteus...
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TTT 14: scary terminal command, memesplanation, SystemD lead Dev to MS...
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FOSS Fun Wednesday: What's Lutris, Anyway?
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Distro Monday 15: Into Retro Gaming? These distros might be your ticket to nerd-heaven.
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TTT 15: Battle of the Desktops, memesplanation, Matrix
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Distro Monday 17: Ubuntu vs Manjaro... which is better?
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Tech Tips Tuesday 17: Terminal, Console, TTY, SSH, etc...
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FOSS Fun Wednesday 3: Linux Gaming How to
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Distro Monday 18 - Nobara Linux 36 and more
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Tech Tips Tuesday 18 - Linux Malware All Time High 2022, problem or not?
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Tech Wednesday 18 - Another side of Linux: Systemd-Free Distros...
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Distro Monday 19 - Minty Fresh Devuan
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Tech Tips Tuesday 19 - How to use rsync to back up files, and more...
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Foss Fun Wednesday 4 - Steam Deck Tips and more
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Distro Monday 20 - MakuluLinux & More
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FOSS Fun Wednesday 5 - Arch Takes the Steam Linux Gaming Crown & More
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Distro Monday 21 – Neptune Linux & More
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TTT 21: Moar RISC-V Linux Compatibility & More
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Foss Fun Wednesday 6: Moar Games on Proton with 7.0-4 & More
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Weekend Edition 1: Facebook Ready For Midterms?
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Tech Tips Tuesday 22: Cool Stuff You Can Do With Linux Desktop & More
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Foss Fun Wednesday. 7 - Steamdeck 2, Confirmed?!? And More
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Distro Monday 22 - RisiOS And More...
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Weekend Edition 2 – Need a Burner Phone? & More
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Distro Monday 23: Nitrux, MX, and Crystal Linux All Release New Versions
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Tech Tips Tuesday 23: OBS Studio 28, 5 GNOME 43 Features, and More
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FOSS Fun Wednesday 8: More Steam Deck Tips & More
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A pair of basic reviews: NitruxOS and Crystal Linux
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Weekend Edition 3: Instagram Fined, Google Gears Up & More
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Distro Monday 24 – Salix 15, Arch 5.19, and more.
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Tech Tips Tuesday 24: Tips Galore for Terminal
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Foss Fun Wednesday 9: Graphics Galore
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Weekend Edition 4: Microsoft Screws up Security, Quantum Internet is Coming, and More…
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Distro Monday 25: FerenOS Makes the Switch From Windows Easy & More
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Tech Tips Tuesday 25: 10 More Terminal Tips & KDE News
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Foss Fun Wednesday 10: EA Wrecks Your Day and More
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Distro Monday 26: Redox OS Gets Huge Donation and More
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Tech Tips Tuesday 26: FOSS Not So Popular and More?
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Weekend Edition 5: Ungodly Surveillance, Musk & Twitter and More
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FOSS Fun Wedsneday 11: GE-Proton 7-35, New NVIDIA Driver Out, and More
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Weekend Edition 6: Meta Is Shrinking? Newsome Overreaches Again, and More
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Distro Monday 27: Fedora, why you no? And More
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FOSS Fun Wednesday 12: Valve Is Excited, New Dedicated Linux Hardware on the Horizon
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Weekend Edition 7: Will He, Won’t He? AI Bill of Rights? And More…
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Distro Monday 28: Release Date News for Updates & a Bonus
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Tech Tips Tuesday 28: Danger, Will Robinson and More
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Foss Fun Wednesday 13: NVK Is Now a Thing for Nvidia Users & Beta Updates for Steam Deck & More.
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Weekend Edition 8: Musk Investigated By SEC, Chip Ban Working the Way It was Supposed to? And More
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Distro Monday 29: Redcore, KaOS, and ProtonVPN, Oh My!
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Tech Tips Tuesday 29: npm Vulnerability, New Stuff from KDE, and Oracle VirtualBox 7.0 Released
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FOSS Fun Wednesday 14: NVIDIA, Steam, and Games, Oh My!
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Weekend Edition 9: Ebola’s Back? Here we go with the Midterm Health Scare… and More.
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Distro Monday 30 – What’s new in Ubuntu 22.10? Updates for Debian/ Ubuntu Kernel? And More
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Tech Tips Tuesday 30 – Tips Galore, how-to’s aplenty
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FOSS Fun Wednesday 15 – NVIDIA “unlaunching” Cards? New Proton Coming? And More
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Weekend Edition 10: Big Tech In Big $$$ Trouble
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Distro Monday 31: SparkyLinux, Zorin, and Rhino Linux Oh My!
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FOSS Fun Wednesday 16: Steam, Tuxedo, and a VKD3D-Proton update, Oh My!
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Weekend Edition 11: No More Big Data + TikTok Ban and More...
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Distro Monday 32: Arch Vs Manjaro, What is the Difference?
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Tech Tips Tuesday 32: OpenSSL, Vim, and the AUR, Oh My!
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Foss Fun Wednesday 17: Steam Day, All the Valve News You Could Want
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Weekend Edition 12 – Big Tech Go Down the Hole and More!
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Distro Monday 33: Neon, Peppermint & TrueNAS, Oh My!
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Tech Tips Tuesday 33: AppImages, KDE & LXQt
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FOSS Fun Wednesday 18: Proton Saves the Day
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Weekend Edition 13 – Big Tech, Crypto, FDA Issues, AI, and More
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Distro Monday 34: Fedora 37, CentOS 8.7, and Unity DE for Arch, Oh My!
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Tech Tips Tuesday 34 – KDE Updates, a new Cross-Platform Terminal editor, and Dxvk 2.0
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Foss Fun Wednesday 19: Tech Freedom channel 1 year anniversary
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Weekend Edition 14 – China Declares Victory, Meta Passes the Buck, and More
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Distro Monday 35: Asahi, Alpine, and TAILS Updates, Oh My!
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Tech Tips Tuesday 35 – Alternatives to htop, Wayland News, and Pi, to boot.
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FOSS Fun Wednesday 20: Steam-y Day Again – Proton, SteamOS, and DXVK Updates for Older Popular Games
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Weekend Edition 15: Elon Plays God, Zuck Whines About Apple, and More
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Distro Monday 36: Salix, Linux Mobile, and OrangePi, Yum!
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Tech Tips Tuesday 36 – KDE Updates, New LibreOffice Release, and Midori Coming Back.
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Weekend Edition 16 – TSMC + Bidan in Arizona, Apple Privacy Woes, and More
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Distro Monday 37: 4M Linux, Mint 21.1 Beta, and Kali 2022.4
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Tech Tips Tuesday 37 – COSMIC News, GIMP for Apple Silicon, and Bitwarden Password Manager News.
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FOSS Fun Wednesday 22: Heroic Hotfix, Proton 7.0-5 Out, and OpenRA Dune 2000 Playtest
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Weekend Edition 17 – SBF Arrested, Bad Twitter Influencers, Congress Looks to Ban TikTok, and More.
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Distro Monday 39: Happy New Years!
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Tech Tips Tuesday 39 – Linux Phones, Unity 7.7, and PeaZip, Oh My!
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FOSS Fun Wednesday 24: New Intel Xe gfx driver in the works, Steam Deck news
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TTT 40 – Plasma 5.26.5, Open Alternative to Digital Assistants, and More
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Tech Tips Tuesday 38 – Video Editor Bonanza & KDE Frameworks 5.101
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FOSS Fun Wednesday 23: No More Unreal Online, WINE on Wayland Better, and More Hotfixes for Heroic
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Weekend Edition 18 – Wow, It’s Legal Now... Lol What Hath Been Wrought Over the Holidays?
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Distro Monday 40: Nitrux, Fedora Spins, and ARCH, now with Linux 6.1
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FFW 25: Linux Used More for Dev Work, Best Gaming Distros, and More
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TTT 41 – Ventoy Brings More Functionality, 3 Big Docker Commands, and More...
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FFW 26: Open Source NVK News, TFC, and FreeCol
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Weekend Edition 20: ChatGPT Goes to School, Trump Back on Social Media & More
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Distro Monday 42: The Answer to Life the Universe, and Everything... MXLinux, and Kernel Stuff
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Weekend Edition 19: Crypto, AI, FAA, and Social Media Roundup
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Distro Monday 41: EndlessOS 5 Beta, Open Mandriva Rolling Release, and More
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Distro Monday 43: Tails 5.9, Freespire 9.0, and helloSystem 0.8.0
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TTT 43 – KDE 5.27 beta, GCompris 3, and WINE 8 Released
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TTT 42 – KDE Frameworks 5.102, KODI 20 Released, and GNOME chatGPT extension
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FFW 27: New Pangolin Laptop from System 76, GE-Proton, and Steam Data Breach
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Weekend Edition 21: Barely Legal... lol like Google
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FFW 28: DXVK 2.1, Proton Experimental/ GE-Proton, and More EA Games Now Playable
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Weekend Edition 22 – Lots More Big Tech Financial News and More...
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DM 44: Blend OS, Elementary OS, and Escuelas Linux
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TTT 44 – ‘head’ command, Flatpak vs Snap, and OnlyOffice 7.3
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FFW 29: Unvanquished, Nintendo Classic for PC, and Ubisoft Borks Steam Deck and Linux Support
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Thursday Special on Desktop Environments
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Weekend Edition 23 – The AI Wars Are Beginning Now, and More...
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Distro Monday 45: “‘Peach 45!”
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TTT 45: Wonder Which Command to Use in the Terminal? This And More...
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FFW 30: Nostalgic for Classic LucasArts Games?
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Definitions Day Degoogling Special
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Free Your PC Friday – Malware on Linux? What? I thought...
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Weekend Edition 24 – From AI to Revivals, It’s been a Helluva Week
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Distro Monday 46: It Could Be Endless... OS
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TTT 46: Terminal Through the Browser?
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FFW 31: Steam for Linux is 10 years Old...
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Weekend Edition 25: Revival & AI This Week... #smh
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Distro Monday 47: A Very Sparky Linux 62 to You
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TTT 47: Ever Wondered How to Replace Apple Contacts?
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FFW 32: Ever Heard of CS:GO?
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Weekend Edition 26: Tiktok Ban Coming in US?
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Distro Monday 48: Minty Redcore with a Dash of IPFire
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TTT 48: Whats with Directories in Linux?
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FFW 33: WINE on Wayland Coming Along?
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Distro Monday 49: Ubuntu PSA, Nitrux & New to Fedora
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Weekend Edition 27: Everybody’s Struggling... Change is Coming & More
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TTT 50: Don't Get Shocked by Plasma, Be Set Free By LibreOffice
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FFW 34: Steamdeck News number....
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Weekend Edition 28: Everybody’s Struggling... Change is Coming & More
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Weekend Edition 29: All Sorts of AI News, Financial Follow-up & More
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Distro Monday 50: Endeavouring to Make a Vanilla Kali
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FFW 36:Are You A WINE-o? What’s New With the ’Deck?
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TTT 51: Save Your Desktop & More
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Distro Monday 51: Heads or TAILS?
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Wonder Wednesday 1 - KDE Updates and A Docker How-To
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Distro Monday 53: Fast Distros with a Hacking Interlude
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WE 31: Violence, Banks, and AI, Oh My!
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FFW 37: Counter-Strike 2: Confirmed and More
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TTT 52: Ubuntu PSA & Linux Mobile News
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Weekend Edition 30: AI News and Moore
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Distro Monday 52: Newbie Day Mint vs Ubuntu
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FOSS Fun Friday 2 – Games Galore
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Wonder Wednesday 2 – How Do I _____ In Linux?
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Distro Monday 54: Choices, Choices, Choices...
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Weekend Edition 32: Bob Lee, Twitter Drama & AI for the Week
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FOSS Fun Friday 1 – An Eclectic Batch of News
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Channel News
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FOSS News 1 – Big Show
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FOSS News – Big Show 2
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FOSS News 4 – Big Show
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A Little Story
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Weekend Edition 28: Everybody’s Struggling... Change is Coming & More
AI Shenanigans
Tech & Finance
TMO Buying Mint Mobile
South Korea Beefing Up Chip Production
Dying, Dirty Bird?
White House Changes Tune with TikTok
WE 28.1 – AI Shenanigans
A) GPT 4 Released
Now with even less human effort!!! Yes, I am being very sarcastic. This tool can now write up to 25,000 words, “hallucinate” less, and score in the top 10% on the Bar exams. Joy! ChatGPT could now be a lawyer... Just what we always needed, attorneys entirely devoid of human feeling. This is fine... *house burns down around me* this is fine... What does GPT stand for? Generative Pre-trained Transformer. I had always wondered, but now I know. What does it transform? Why patterns of text into something similar, based on its existence as a “large language model” (which is what most generative AI’s are now). Basically, it takes a prompt, scours the internet for information (or its databanks, as is the case with ChatGPT), then puts together an answer to the prompt you gave it, within reason. This tool could be revolutionary, but is it in the right way? How does this really help mankind? It does remind me of the lead up to the Butlerian Jihad in Dune. This war took place several hundred years prior to the events of the Dune series, but the results of it shaped the time of Dune. The bottom line was that mankind, in having gone to the stars, became utterly dependent on computers and so-called thinking machines. These machines began to run everything, that was, until an initially small group of semi-religious zealots started to destroy it all because they saw what the situation was doing to mankind. Man (and woman) no longer had to even think, much less work, and they were beginning to degrade into something like what we saw in WALL-E. This group knew that that would end mankind, so they rose up, rallied a greater following, then banned and destroyed all ‘thinking machines’. Do we need to go through that? Perhaps we have already delved to greedily and too deep, to refer to another of my favorite series. Is it too late to turn back? Do we need to go Amish, or is there a middle way? I’d love to chat about it with you guys...
B) GrammarlyGo to Arrive in April
This implementation of ChatGPT will help you to do many things, should you choose to try it out. It is designed to “improve communication” and save money lost by poor communication. In a survey by The Harris Poll, commissioned by Grammarly, it was found that US businesses lose up to $1.2 trillion annually, due to communication issues. Wow. That is quite the wad of cash. It will feature prompts to improve your email, social media message, or even newsletter. Their implementation also has a limited ability to grasp context and tone, to help you adjust your writing based on your personal style, the style of communications in your company or business, or any other number of factors. On one hand, cool. On the other, uhhh, yikes. I’d much rather just edit my own work when needed, versus trying to use a tool like this to write for me. Gives me the willies.
C) Meta Refocuses on AI
If you needed any more reason to ditch Meta and its products, this should be do the trick. On top of the renewed zest which these psychopaths are putting into the dream of sentient AI, as well as its lesser kin, they are continuing to lay small cities’ worth of employees off from the company. Another 10,000 people will be let go in short order. Wow. On the other hand, the austerity and emphasis on hot-button tech buzz-words has had investors streaming back to the giant. They think that it can help to make coding more efficient, which as long as the tool their using doesn’t “hallucinate” , it very well could. It could help the company’s bottom line if enough people and organizations keep using and advertizing on its platforms.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/ai-gets-smarter-safer-more-visual-with-gpt-4-update-openai-says/
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/grammarlys-new-ai-tool-is-more-than-a-spell-checker/
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/15/tech/meta-ai-investment-priority
WE 28.2 – Big Finance on Thin Ice?
I’m sure that by now, you have all heard about the tandem of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank collapsing and needing the FDIC to more or less bail out their depositors after over-extending themselves with loans that were in keeping with the standard fractional reserve system, where banks are allowed, and even encouraged to lend out money that they don’t actually have in the assets column. I could say which group of people are responsible for this nonsense, but I won’t. What’s the big deal with these particular banks? Well Silicon Valley Bank, partially due to their own shady practices, are one of the default places for VCs and start-ups to do their banking, oh yes, some of the best known oens are on the list: Uber, Roblox, Roku, Buzzfeed, Sunlight Financial, Circle, BlockFi, Payoneer, SunRun, and others. On one hand, it is good that the FDIC was able to cure the deficiencies with SVB depositors, as it would damage many companies in both the US and Europe, including the review site, Trustpilot. Why was it that so many start-ups and publicly traded firms have money with SVB? Well, let me tell you: as a part of credit deals as well as general banking needs, many of these firms were required to sign some rather shady exclusivity deals with the bank. I don’t know how regular these sorts of things are, but it strikes me as borderline evil, to be honest. On one hand, it depends on what the lifespan of the agreement is... On the other, I don’t like the concept at all, even if it may be normal operating procedure. Well, only God knows exactly how this will shake out, but it surely doesn’t look good for the financial system when we have the 2nd and 3rd largest bank failures in US history happen within days of each other.
Signature Bank had customers in similar spaces to those of SVB, particularly ties with FTX, through the decision in 2018 to start accepting crypto deposits. They had many real estate sector clients, including elements of the Trump Organization. To put things into perspective, these banks held a combined ~1/3 trillion dollars in assets, which is nothing to sneeze at, but is chump change in comparison with giants like JPM Chase, who holds ~$3 Trillion in assets. Overall bank valuations went down, even JPM Chase, as the market tried to wrap its head around the events of the previous 3 days, on Monday. We are being told that the FDIC is not using taxpayer funds to backstop these depositors, and that no management or investors will be bailed out either. This feels like socialism lite, big surprise, right? The whole principle behind the FDIC is socialist, if you really look at it. How is a government entity which exists to stabilize the banks and to prevent 1929-esque bank runs from happening, thereby crippling the financial system in this country, and much of the rest of the world not inherently socialist? It requires payment into it by banks and credit unions, then exists to hand out money to customers of banks when they fail, but only to the tune of $250k per account holder, if I recall. Not Billions.
In related news, Credit Suisse is also troubled, and they move in BIG money circles. They were shown to be a less than optimal risk, and its largest shareholder is unwilling to pump more cash into it due to regulatory concerns. They lost over $147 billion in customer deposits during Q42022, due to customers leaving, along with the fallout from years of scandal and mismanagement which have seen the firm go through 3 CEOs in 2 years. Now we see the Swiss national bank coming to the rescue to calm investor and public fears over its shaky reality, so they are going to lend them $57 billion to help them to stabilize their situation. They are also working to restructure and transform themselves. Hmmm... US banks, Swiss banks all struggling at the same time? Could a collapse be coming? Don’t Panic, people. If you, not in a place of fear, feel led to withdraw whatever funds you may have, do so. If not, ride this roller coaster out, and we will all see how this lands.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/new-york-state-regulators-close-signature-bank-2023-03-12/
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/13/tech/tech-industry-relief-silicon-valley-bank
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/12/silicon-valley-bank-signed-exclusive-banking-deals-with-some-clients.html
https://www.nytimes.com/article/svb-silicon-valley-bank-explainer.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/15/swiss-national-bank-says-it-will-provide-credit-suisse-with-liquidity-if-necessary.html
WE 28.3 – T-Mobile to Acquire Ryan Reynolds’ Mint Mobile
Hmm, this one hits a little closer to home for me, as we currently work with Mint Mobile. I have no beef with them, their service is solid, and their marketing is genius. The magenta monster is seeking to pay $1.35 billion to acquire the smaller, prepaid carrier which uses T-Mobile’s infrastructure for many of its clients. I did not know that Mint was not on its own, it is a subsidiary of Ka’ena Corporation, which also holds Ultra Mobile, and wireless wholesaler, Plum. Reynolds is slated to stay on as spokesman for Mint, which, pending final approval by regulators, will operate as a separate business unit, maintaining the cheap plans and the overall structure of the company. This is interesting to me, and as more news comes out, I will report on it.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/15/tech/mint-mobile-tmobile-purchase-ryan-reynolds
WE 28.5 – Last Financial Story for the day... Samsung to Build massive Factory in South Korea After Incentives from Seoul
Samsung is investing $228 billion in a new chip fabrication facility in South Korea, and the y plan to have enough of it operational to develop competitive silicon to that which TSMC is making, by 2027. The large investment is set to take place over the next 20 years. These come as echoes of the CHIPS Act in the US, which saw TSMC, AMD, and Intel all snapping up subsidies to create new plants in the US. If you weren’t aware, Samsung (this division) is actually best known for RAM (memory) and Flash media chips (SSDs, EMMC drives, and flash drives). However, they also make consumer electronics and CPUs (processors, both desktop and mobile, as well as embedded) as well as GPUs (graphics processors which power device displays).
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/15/samsung-to-spend-228-billion-on-the-worlds-largest-chip-facility.html
WE 28.5 – Twitter Troubles & TikTok Pivots
Now comes the traditional “let’s all gang up on social media companies” session. I bet you were waiting for it, weren’t you? When’s Matt gonna tee off on Twitter and TikTok? Well, wait no longer. Who should I flame first today? Well, Twitter is struggling enough, aren’t they? They keep glitching out, and it has people (myself included) wondering how much longer this pestilent platform can last as a viable social media outlet, between the safety concerns and the reliability issues we have seen in the last 4.5 months since the tumultuous takeover by Elon Musk, who is either the Devil incarnate or the Second coming of Jesus Christ, depending on which media outlet you prefer. I can’t see him as the latter, as he is far too close to the US intelligence and military industrial complex, between Tesla and SpaceX, not to mention the super shady nonsense over at Neuralink and The Boring Company. Come at me in the comments, whether you think he is the Devil because now Twitter seems to be burning to the ground more rapidly, or you think he is God’s gift to the world because he brought free speech back to Twitter, and regularly causes ‘liberal” heads to explode due to his unfiltered trolling. I, however, find his antics suspect in big ways. Only time will tell whether my suspicions are well-founded or not. At any rate, Twitter has been going through technical hell since Elon took over, and cut so many positions to try to trim the company down so that he could perhaps focus more on paying down the interest of the insane loan he had to take out in order to purchase the platform. Does Twitter have what it takes to pull through this rocky season? Again, only time will tell. I, personally, would love to see it burn to the ground, as I see it as a seedbed for division, easily manipulated through algorithms so that the craziest shit gets pushed to the top of everyone’s feeds, because those things get interaction, where normal (representative of most of the country) kinds of thoughts get no love. I also always felt that the 140 character limit was far too restrictive to actually get anything meaningful or remotely helpful said. That was why I never got into it, I am too long-winded, verbose, and otherwise wordy.
Ok, so what is new with the ongoing TikTok saga? The White House has told ByteDance that it must divest of its shares in TikTok, if they want the platform to still function in the US, moving forward. Bold move from pResident Depends, I must say (bolder than when he shat himself in the Vatican, I think). Trump tried to ban it, but the courts overruled him, let’s see if Depends can make it stick, or even has to. Will ByteDance back down and sell off their shares in the platform? The TikTok spokeswoman, Brooke Oberwetter, stated that the company does not believe that divestment would actually solve the problems that the Depends Administration is seeking to alleviate, those of dataflows going to China. As much as I hate to admit it, on one level, she’s right: simple divestment by Chinese nationals at ByteDance would not necessarily solve the problem of data being sent to China by citizens of the US who use the platform. The steps currently being taken by the company here in and in the EU are far more important (in the forms of Projects Texas and Clover). I don’t know how I feel about this anymore. The things that TikTok addiction can do to young people, as well as the ways in which they treat their content creators, as well as disrespecting intellectual property laws and regulations.. These things should motivate us to migrate away from the platform just as much as the potential privacy and national security concerns we are being told are so horrible. You make up your own mind.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/12/tech/twitter-breaking
https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-threatens-tiktok-ban-if-chinese-owners-dont-sell-stake-wsj-2023-03-15/
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