441 – Mint’s Back and Rocking

10/07/2024 1h 22min Episodio 441
441 – Mint’s Back and Rocking

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Episode Synopsis

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



00:00:00 – Intro
00:01:29 – News
00:35:35 – Security And Privacy
00:39:23 – Bi-Weekly Wanderings
01:17:55 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
01:18:42 – Wrap Up
01:20:39 – Special Thanks
01:21:15 – Outro


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:

Joe – Tllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected],
Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon, also – checkout my other two podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers
Majid – [email protected] @[email protected], AtypicalDr on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast on Spotify and also Linux OTC.
Eric – You can hear and see me on this and the Linux OTC & DHD podcasts as well as the Linux Saloon and LinuxLUGCast streams. If you’d like to get in touch with me I can be reached by email at [email protected].

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!>