First up in the news: Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” released, Mint Monthly News – August
In security and privacy: Plex is a problem again
And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions


00:00:00 – Intro
00:01:44 – News
01:16:45 – Security And Privacy
01:35:11 – Bodhi Corner
01:38:37 – Vibrations From The Ether
01:42:31 – Check This Out
01:51:48 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
01:53:06 – Wrap Up
01:55:11 – Special Thanks
01:55:45 – Outro



Link To Full Show Notes


The News:
Mint 22.2 ‘Zara’ released
From the Mint blog by Clem
What’s new in Mint 22.2 Zara
Release Notes for Mint 22.2 Zara
How to upgrade from Mint 22.1
LMDE 7 beta expected in Sep. 2025; Mint 22.3 in Dec. 2025
KDE launches its own distribution (again)
Firefox To End 32-bit support in 2026
Run Windows apps in Linux using open source WinBoat
Is Roku Driving the Final Nail in the Coffin of Traditional TV?
Not completely linux related but Borderlands 4 released Sept 12
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Linux Performance Improving But Short Of AMD Ryzen & Intel Core Ultra

Security and Privacy
Plex User Data Exposed
An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too)

Check This Out
NerdyDayTrips
The Bullshit Machine

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] and AtypicalDoctor on Discord, The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC.
Eric – I can be reached by email at [email protected].
Charles – [email protected], Mr PDX on Discord
Jim– [email protected], GNU2Linux on Discord, The Linux Shortcut on YouTube


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!>

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