Episode 124: Politics After Eight

Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!

Conor mentions an ARM laptop from Schenker that Tuxedo Computers will sell, Shane talks about messing with tiling in Cinnamon, we chat about politics and polarisation in open source, and then Amolith mentions the book club he's starting with our editor Jake.

Events

• Dublin Maker 2024, 31 Aug - 1 Sep
• FOSSY 2024, 1-4 Aug
  • Amolith's talk, Mitigating MITMs in XMPP, was accepted \o/

Discussion

• Schenker shows off a Linux laptop prototype with Snapdragon X Elite at Computex 2024 (via Liliputing)
• gTile, a window tiling extension for GNOME turned into a Cinnamon Spice
• Linux Mint blog post announcing snap removal
• Linux Mint's lovely community
• Amolith and Jake's online, async book club

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