Listen "463 – Tacos And TikTok"
Episode Synopsis
First up in the news: Linux hits 5%, Nintendo does what we feared, The orange baby eats a TACO, Steam prefers Proton to Native, Fedora might have killed Bazzite and a new Firefox release
We also welcome Charles as a new co-host!
In security and privacy: more password leakage by big tech
And finally, the Feedback and a couple of suggestions
Full Show Notes Here
The News:
Trump extends deadline for US TikTok sale to September
Steam Client Now Enables Proton by Default for Games without Native Linux Builds
Firefox 141 Promises to Use Less Memory on Linux Systems, Beta Out Now
Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA
F44 Change Proposal: Drop i686 support (system wide)
The whole truth about Fedora’s 32-bit proposal w/ Kyle from Bazzite
Nintendo is nuking Switch 2 accounts for using Mig Flash
Security And Privacy
16 billion passwords leaked in Google, Facebook, Apple massive data breach
Check This Out:
WHW03 Mesh Router openwrt
GL.iNet GL-SFT1200
Contact Info:
Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected], occasionally on HPR
Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon, also checkout the other two podcasts I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid) and 3 Fat Truckers
Majid – [email protected] @[email protected], theAtypicalDoctor on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC.
Eric – I can be reached by email at [email protected].
Charles –
Special Thanks To:
Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
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
The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
We also welcome Charles as a new co-host!
In security and privacy: more password leakage by big tech
And finally, the Feedback and a couple of suggestions
Full Show Notes Here
The News:
Trump extends deadline for US TikTok sale to September
Steam Client Now Enables Proton by Default for Games without Native Linux Builds
Firefox 141 Promises to Use Less Memory on Linux Systems, Beta Out Now
Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA
F44 Change Proposal: Drop i686 support (system wide)
The whole truth about Fedora’s 32-bit proposal w/ Kyle from Bazzite
Nintendo is nuking Switch 2 accounts for using Mig Flash
Security And Privacy
16 billion passwords leaked in Google, Facebook, Apple massive data breach
Check This Out:
WHW03 Mesh Router openwrt
GL.iNet GL-SFT1200
Contact Info:
Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected], occasionally on HPR
Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon, also checkout the other two podcasts I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid) and 3 Fat Truckers
Majid – [email protected] @[email protected], theAtypicalDoctor on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC.
Eric – I can be reached by email at [email protected].
Charles –
Special Thanks To:
Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
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
The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
More episodes of the podcast mintCast
474 – Goldilocks Zone
07/12/2025
473 – Parental Misguidance
29/11/2025
472 – New Distros, Old Issues
21/11/2025
471 – “Welcome To dockerCast”
26/10/2025
469 – Bill Loves Windows
28/09/2025
Roundtable 092025
21/09/2025
468 – Very Plexable
15/09/2025
Round Table 09-06-25
06/09/2025
467 – Line Of Sight
31/08/2025
ZARZA We are Zarza, the prestigious firm behind major projects in information technology.