Description

Check out the second installment of our new segment "Steve Scale" as Steve digs into the Ovens family distro. What is BootC and why does he use it? LG is pushing ads to your monitor, and we introduce you to CachyOS.

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00:48 Tech Updates

• Oven's standard public build
• Upstream BootC breakage & recovery
• Static vs Rolling
• Best way forward
• A/B Scheme
• Method of recovery
• Container Registry
• Container layers
• Noah's new technology phases
• Would Steve move away from Arch?
• How work load changes workstation requirements
• Flameshot

29:30 BootC - Adam

• Not public yet
• Docs Site
• Let Steve know what you are looking for
• Balancing privacy and openness
• Securely sanitizing PII from docs
• Documentation pipeline
• The other side of documentation
• Tell us if you want to hear about documentation

41:20 News Wire

• Rhythmbox 3.5 - gitlab.gnome.org

• FFmpeg 9.0 - ffmpeg.org

• OpenLDAP 2.7 - openldap.org

• Mesa 26.2 - torproject.org

• GCC 16.2 - phoronix.com

• IceWM 4.1 - phoronix.com

• Gnome 50.4 - discourse.gnome.org

• Tails 7.10.1 - torproject.org

• DietPi 10.6 - dietpi.com

• Spark Model - cnbc.com

• Nemotron 3.5 Lightning - cnbc.com

• CloudFlare Vibe-Coding Platform - arstechnica.com

42:38 LG Monitor Ads

• MS Update installs LG bloatware ads
• Monitor prices dropped
• Known affected models
  • 34GX900A-B
  • 45GX950-B.AEU
  • 32GS95UE-B
  • 39GX950B
  • 27GP83B-B
  • 27GN800
  • 32GS95UE-B
  • 27GN850-B
• Linux was unaffected
• Possible on Linux with proprietary software
• ArsTechnica

47:50 CachyOS

• Gentoo meets Arch
• Targeted towards modern hardware
• LTO and BOLT
• Advantage of custom Linux Kernel
• Kernel scheduler
• Zen 4 optimization
• Hyperland
• My Linux for Work GitHub
• 9 to 5 Linux

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