Series 5 Episode 4 – This fortnight we open with some market gardening tips, Wayne chats about some FOSSDEM 19 talks that he is streaming, Mark speaks about LibreOffic 6.2 release, we touch on the necessity of open source and conscious computing, some great under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.
00:24 Wayne welcomes us to Season 5 Episode 4 from a slightly overcast but nice weather Bristol. Mark tells us Spring is in the air and goes on to demonstrate his complete lack of gardening know how, luckily this is almost a Linux podcast and not a garden know how podcast!
03:10 Mark tells us about the upcoming Global Diversity CFP day, something that Jon Spriggs of the AdminAdmin podcast brought to our attention. Mark also tells us about the Prime Numbers audio book from LibreVox. Unfortunately Mark won’t be able to make it to Global Diversity CFP Day in Dublin as he’s going to GamerFest in Limerick on the same weekend, where he’s hoping to meet John Romero.
07:43 Mark goes on to tell us about the release of MikeOS 4.6 that can be downloaded using this link. The guys discuss the direction of the podcast towards 8 (or maybe even 4) bit OSes.
09:31 The guys go on to discuss LibreOffice’s announcement of LibreOffice 6.2 and that it is already available as a snap.
15:20 Wayne tells us he’s been watching a lot of the Fosdem 2019 talks and recommends them to everyone.
16:34 Mark goes on to tell us about the Snapcraft Live sessions on Youtube.
17:37 Wayne tells us he’s been watching Decentralizing the Web Despite Itself, a disheartening talk by Karen Sandler and Bradley Kuhn about Full Software Freedom and this leads to a discussion about how we live in these modern times. Wayne has a couple of good tips for youtube replacements, being hooktube and NewPipe.
26:25 Wayne tells us the story of the problems he’s been having with his desktop machine, and the utility of transparent terminals. In Ubuntu MATE, you can achieve this as follows: In the mate-terminal, go to ‘Edit’ -> ‘Profiles’. Select Default and click ‘Edit’. Click on the ‘Background’ Tab and select ‘Transparent background’. Wayne’s transparency is set to approx 75%.
31:59 Wayne tells us about his record breaking tab addiction, some useful features in Firefox, and the guys discuss changing software options.
36:23 Wayne tells us about Matrix and how he’s using it to talk on the bugcast podcast’s IRC. He also mentions some further Fosdem viewing, namely Matrix in the French State and Breaking the 100 bps barrier with Matrix.
42:00 Under the Hood: Mark’s under the hood is dlocate.
44:08 Wayne discusses how he’s been investigating using thin clients and servers at work. He also talks about the <a href=https://linux.die.net/man/1/host”>host command.
49:04 Irish saying of the podcast – “Tá sé go hálainn!”, or it is beautiful!
We hope you enjoy it as much as we did making it!
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