The Gnome team is revamping multi-monitor support. Firefox 86 is released and features Total Cookie Protection to make cross site tracking more difficult increasing user privacy. Kodi 19 has landed with a lot of new features around metadata and a better music interface.
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How to rename USB Audio interface? - Steve
pacmd update-sink-proplist alsa_output.usb-c-Media_electronics_inc._USB-Audio_Device-00.analog-stereo.2 device.description=What-We-Call-It-Now
Self Hosted Music - Sloth56
Ampache (http://ampache.org/)
Funkwhale (https://funkwhale.audio/)
Self host or managed services - Mike
Good Email providers
ProtonMail (https://protonmail.com/)
Tutuanotoa (https://tutanota.com/)
Fastmail (https://www.fastmail.com/)
18:15 RHCSA Training - Adam
Getting to ask questions is good
Classes can create community
In person training is best
Udemy Course Link (https://www.udemy.com/course/red-hat-certified-system-administrator-rhcsa-8-boot-camp/)
VTC (https://vtc.com/) is almost as good as official RedHat training
RHCSA Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Training and Exam Preparation Guide Second Edition (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1775062147/)
23:15 Linux Accessibility - Brendan
Trackball + Onboard () on screen keyboard
27:50 Affiliate link for register4less? - Jerremy
14.99/yr
Privacy included
Free email aliases
Free 10MB of web hosting (no SSL)
Sub Accounts for managing
Customer service is beyond amazing
29:45 Pick of the Week
Open IAS (https://openias.garykim.dev/)
Game Clock (count down/up)
Adjust on the fly
Keyboard Bindings
Set Team Logo
Multiple Scoreboard Tabs
Control multiple Scoreboard scoreboards through one control window.
Packaged as an AppImage
Cross Platform
FOSS
34:20 Gadget of the Week
BitBarista (https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/articles/bitbarista)
BitBarista: fully autonomous coffee machine built using Raspberry Pi and Bitcoin
Pi Controlling the BitBarista uses Raspbian
Uses Electrum for the BitCoin payments.
Code is on GitHub (https://github.com/digitalWestie/BitBarista)
Pays people to restock it
Can even call a technician to get repairs
36:40 Multi-Monitor on Gnome 40
Gnome Blog Post (https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2021/02/23/gnome-shell-40-and-multi-monitor/)
Workspaces changes on primary monitor by default
Supports changing workspaces on all displays
Introduction of the workspaces navigator on secondary display
Transitioning to Horizontal workspaces
New additional shortcuts
switch workspaces will be Super+Alt+←/→.
Moving windows between workspaces will be Super+Alt+Shift+←/→.
Super+Alt+↑ will also open the overview and then app grid
Super+Alt+↓ will close them
These directional keyboard shortcuts have matching touch-pad gestures:
Three-finger swipes left and right will switch workspaces
Three-finger swipes up and down will open the overview and app grid
Gnome is doing and explaining changes in the open
44:00 Kodi 19.0 (Matrix)
Kodi Article (https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-190-matrix-release)
Nearly 50 developers contributed code
About 5,000 commits
Over 1,500 pull requests since the first release of 18.x "Leia"
Over 5,500 changed files
600,000 lines of code added, changed or removed
significant improvements to meta-data handling
New Matrix-inspired visualization
Database and meta-data improvements
Many more improvements
Kodi 19 replaces the old XML meta-data scrapers with Python
Most new features here revolve around usability
49:50 Nextcloud Hub
Nextcloud Blog Post (https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub-21-out-with-up-to-10x-better-performance-whiteboard-and-more-collaboration-features/)
High performance back end for Nextcloud files
Wide range of performance improvements
Nextcloud talk improvements
Debuts message status indicators
Raise hand feature
Group conversation description
And more!
Wide Range of Groupware improvements
drag’n’drop
Nicer threading in Mail
Syncing social media avatars in Contacts
53:00 Firefox 86 Released
Mozilla Blog Post (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/86.0/releasenotes/)
New Features
Total Cookie Protection (each site gets it's own ("cookie jar")
Multiple videos Picture-in-Picture
Fixed Issues
Reader mode now works with local HTML pages
Orca and other screen reader fixes
Reader View links have more color contrast
various security fixes
55:00 New Platform for the Show
https://parachutelive.tv/
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