This week Noah and Steve give you the latest on open source mobile operating systems. Windows is pushing people to Linux by way of charging them $244 per year for updates in the third year.
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01:20 Hardware
Protectli (https://protectli.com/)
$170 Chinesium Device (https://www.newegg.com/p/22Z-007C-009Y8?Item=9SIAK3UJNH8968)
Lenovo Thunderbolt Dock (https://www.amazon.com/ZoomSpeed-Universal-Thunder-40B00300US-DisplayPort/dp/B0B1T7PPGZ)
CalDigit Thunderbolt Dock (https://www.caldigit.com/thunderbolt-station-4/)
09:19 Graphene OS - Craig
GrapheneOS
Moving away from phones
JMP.Chat (https://jmp.chat/)
Conversations (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.siacs.conversations/)
Gajim (https://gajim.org/)
Linphone (https://linphone.org/)
JMP.Chat phone service
LineageOS (https://lineageos.org/)
PostmarketOS (https://postmarketos.org/)
SailfishOS (https://sailfishos.org/)
Titan M chip
Had pretty good luck on ebay
NitroKey/NitroPhone (https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop?&search=nitrophone)
25:55 NixOS Thoughts - Jeremy W
Where NixOS is useful
"Productised" NixOS
Set people up for success
32:58 Self Hosted Email - Jeremy H
Write in and tell me about your self hosted email experiences
34:54 News Wire
German State Moving to Linux - ARSTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/german-state-gov-ditching-windows-for-linux-30k-workers-migrating/)
Kodi 21.0 - Kodi (https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-21-0-omega-release/)
Nitrux - nxos.org (https://nxos.org/changelog/release-announcement-nitrux-3-4-0/)
Ubuntu 24.04 Delayed - Toms Hardware (https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/ubuntu-2404-beta-delayed-due-to-malicious-code-in-xz-utils-other-linux-distros-are-also-affected)
EndeavourOS ARM Discontinued - EndeavourOS (https://endeavouros.com/news/goodbye-endeavouros-arm/)
Linux 6.7 EOL - Server Host (https://serverhost.com/blog/end-of-life-for-linux-kernel-6-7-urgent-call-for-users-to-upgrade-to-6-8/)
QT Creator 13 - QT (https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-13-released)
FFmpeg 7.0 - FFmpeg (https://ffmpeg.org//index.html#pr7.0)
Dtrace 2.0 - Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/D-Trace-2.0.0-1.14)
AURORA-M - Mark Tech Post (https://www.marktechpost.com/2024/04/07/aurora-m-a-15b-parameter-multilingual-open-source-ai-model-trained-in-english-finnish-hindi-japanese-vietnamese-and-code/)
Gretel AI Text-to-SQL - Mark Tech Post (https://www.marktechpost.com/2024/04/04/gretel-ai-releases-largest-open-source-text-to-sql-dataset-to-accelerate-artificial-intelligence-ai-model-training/)
Viking Model Family - Mark Tech Post (https://www.marktechpost.com/2024/04/07/silo-ai-releases-new-viking-model-family-pre-release-an-open-source-llm-for-all-nordic-languages-english-and-programming-languages/)
Framework Hiring - Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-OSS-Firmware-Hiring)
36:26 Bell Canada is deleting DVR/PVR recordings
Steve hates Bell Canada
Marriage photographer story
HDCP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content_Protection)
HDCP Stripper (https://www.amazon.com/THWT-HDMI-EDID-Emulator-Model/dp/B0CRRWQ7XS)
OREI HDMI splitter (https://www.amazon.com/THWT-HDMI-EDID-Emulator-Model/dp/B0CRRWQ7XS)
43:03 Windows Upgrades/Updates
Windows 10 EOL October 2025
Extended Security Updates (ESUs)
Microsoft will charge for updates
ARS Technica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/post-2025-windows-10-updates-for-businesses-start-at-61-per-pc-go-up-from-there/)
46:06 Germany Switching to Linux
Linux solves "Windows high hardware requirements"
Schleswig-Holstein developing open source directory service
LiMux from Munich
Steve's take
Lxer.com (lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=339628)
ARS Technica (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/german-state-gov-ditching-windows-for-linux-30k-workers-migrating/)
51:10 American Privacy Rights Act
Fusion Centers (lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=339628)
IQT (https://www.iqt.org/)
Tax dollars funding data collection companies
The Register (https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/09/us_federal_privacy_law_apra/)
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