First Kontact | LINUX Unplugged 689

A simple plan to add a couple of chickens takes an unexpected turn.

Canonical’s Jon Seager joins us to unpack Ubuntu’s bold desktop reset, and what could be the biggest reimagining of Ubuntu in its history.

Muse is winning Chris over by saving money and handling life’s busywork, but convincing Angela might be its toughest assignment yet.

Fedora 45 has serious upgrades under the hood; we dig in, and may have found our new favorite dashboard.

Flock blames bots for its surveillance backlash, while our own camera setups leave us with an uncomfortable double standard to explain.

A major PHP flaw puts servers everywhere at risk; so we hack ours. Meanwhile, open source helps debloat our smart TVs.

Amazon's new AI wearable promises to remember everything you say, but the real question is what Amazon plans to do with it.

A new documentary reveals KDE's 30-year underdog story. Plasma pioneer Aaron Seigo joins us to look back, and explore what's next with Plasma 6.8.

We catch up on our OpenCode workflows, then dive into listener uplinks to explore projects, answer questions, steal good ideas, and suggest a few unnecessarily complicated improvements.

Apple wants to take over your smart home, and we're breaking down what it gets right, what it gets wrong, and whether it's worth letting Apple move in.