This week Noah and Steve talk about a brand new virtualization front end of KDE. They dig into the new law that governs ISP bulk contracts, and dig into the cooling efficiency of data centers.
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00:52 Intro
Un-usual weather
Noah's air conditioner problems
Electricity cost and AI
Electricity cost and crypt mining
10:45 KDE Karton
Native Virtual Machine Manager
Libvirt
VirtManager
Cockpit
Open Shift & Kubernetes
linuxiac.com (https://linuxiac.com/kde-virtual-machine-manager-moves-forward/)
25:45 Jonathan Riddell Leaves KDE
Jonathan's Blog Post (https://jriddell.org/2025/09/14/adios-chicos-25-years-of-kde/)
Linux IAC Article (https://linuxiac.com/jonathan-riddell-leaves-kde-after-25-years/)
KDE on the Steam Deck
KDE and the start of Ubuntu
Nokia
Different priorities from current KDE maintainers
31:09 News Wire
Freetype 2.14 - freetype.org (https://freetype.org/index.html#news)
Curl 8.16 - curl.se (https://curl.se/ch)
Samba 4.23 - samba.org (https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.23.0.html)
Hyprland 0.51 - hypr.land (https://hypr.land/news/update51)
MKVToolNix - bunkus.org (https://www.bunkus.org/2025/09/2025-09-14-mkvtoolnix-v95-0-released)
Godot 4.5 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Godot-4.5-Released)
Q4OS 6.1 - q4os.org (https://www.q4os.org/blog.html)
PuppyLinux BookwormPup 10.0.12 - puppylinux.org (https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=8690)
SpecFive Strike - linuxgizmos.com (https://linuxgizmos.com/specfive-strike-handheld-linux-workstation-with-lora-mesh)
Yurei Ransomware - industrialcyber.co (https://industrialcyber.co/threats-attacks/yurei-ransomware-exploits-open-source-tools-raising-double-extortion-risks)
CHILLYHELL and ZynorRAT - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/09/chillyhell-macos-backdoor-and-zynorrat.html)
AI Driven Cyber Crime - webpronews.com (https://www.webpronews.com/open-source-ransomware-tools-on-github-fuel-ai-driven-cybercrime-surge)
OS AI Director Departs - zdnet.com (https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-open-source-initiatives-executive-director-departs-what-it-means-for-the-osaid-debate)
Qwen3-Next - nvidia.com (https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/new-open-source-qwen3-next-models-preview-hybrid-moe-architecture-delivering-improved-accuracy-and-accelerated-parallel-processing-across-nvidia-platform)
K2 Think - sqmagazine.co.uk (https://sqmagazine.co.uk/uae-k2-think-ai-open-source-launch)
RustGPT - webpronews.com (https://www.webpronews.com/rustgpt-open-source-pure-rust-llm-challenges-python-dominance)
Vaultgemma - research.google (https://research.google/blog/vaultgemma-the-worlds-most-capable-differentially-private-llm)
AI Stable Coin Protocol - cointelegraph.com (https://cointelegraph.com/news/google-ai-payment-protocol-stablecoin-integration)
32-bit Firefox Phased Out - mozilla.org (https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2025/09/05/firefox-32-bit-linux-support-to-end-in-2026)
33:38 QWhisper
GitHub (https://github.com/q5sys/qwhisper)
Dragon Natural Speaking
Whisper for transcription
Hardware requirements
38:28 CA Bill Snubs Cable Lobby
Forces rental companies to allow competition
ISP Agreements
Best of both worlds
Internet has become a human right
Common carrier infrastructure
ArsTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/california-snubs-cable-lobby-with-bill-to-boost-isp-competition-in-rental-housing/)
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