This week Noah and Steve take you down the journey of two open source guys using open source day in and day out for their lives. Is it perfect? No there are rough edges, but why do they make those choices? What's the appeal to freedom and stability?
-- During The Show --
01:10 Caller - Johnathan Arkansa
- Display video streams
- rpisurv
05:45 Beginner Distro? - Walking Penguin
- Everyone faces different paper cuts
- Arch Linux - high learning curve, Powerful
- Endless OS
- Immutable/hard to break
- Immutable OSes
- Search/Community base
- Ubuntu Mate
- Shaves off many rough edges
- Made for non-techies
- Fedora
- Flatpak first
- Red Hat standard desktop
- Fedora KDE
- Kubuntu
- Rust Desk
- AnyDesk (proprietary, cloud based)
19:55 Linux Bat Command
- Cat command with extras
- OS Technix
20:42 News Wire
- Debian's Turns 30 - Debian
- Devuan 5.0 - Devuan
- OpenMandriva LX 23.08 - 9 to 5 Linux
- LibreOffice 7.6 - Document Foundation
- Wine 8.14 - Wine HQ
- Budgie 10.8 - Buddies of Budgie
- OBS 30.0 Beta - OBS Project
- Gnome 45 Beta - Gnome
- FSF & Zoom - FSF
- SUSE Goes Private - Tech Crunch
- Code Generating AI Model - The Information
- ONNX Script - Visual Studio Magazine
21:50 Privacy First Mobile
- GrapheneOS
- Steve's approach to technology
- Flashing GrapheneOS
- Steve's GrapheneOS experience
- opening the app drawer
- grayscale apps
- getting apps
- notifications
- receiving phone calls
- Fdroid
- Push towards mobile
- Hardware options
- LineageOS
- Noah's solution
- GrapheneOS
- JMP.Chat
- Bitwarden
- Saw or Saw blade?
- disposable devices
- large app size
- artificial limitations
- cloud dependence
- pollution
44:26 Beeper
- Beeper
- Steve's expectations
- On boarding
- encryption set up
- Bridges
- Target audience
- Noah's use case
- Phone numbers & privacy
59:59 Tech Experiences
- Python in Excel
- ARS Article
- Open source behind a pay wall
- Noah's Son's ansible playbook
- Noah's Son teaches Noah's wife
1:05:00 PinePhone and PinePhone Pro? - TwoBit
- Thoughts on PinePhone and PinePhone Pro?
- Low end android device performance
- PineTab2
1:08:00 Backing Up Docker Containers - sharper0746
- Containers should be disposable
- Data should be separate from the container
Used Desktops
- You will need to cover shipping
- email huckleberry582@gmail.com
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