Linux Matters 31: Searching for a New Voice

We are joined by Florian Beijers who is a full time screen reader user to talk about how the accessibility experience differs on various operating systems and Linux desktop environments, and what open source software devs could be doing better.   Florian’s links: Mastodon YouTube channel Twitch IC_Null Twitch LinkedIn       Support us... Read More

It’s our episode 200 free consulting special. Jim and Allan answer your questions about hard drive availability, USB-C robustness, ZFS performance on a VPS, cold storage with a 2.5″ form factor, how we gained our level of knowledge, disk enclosure issues, and monitoring Windows servers.             Tailscale Tailscale is an... Read More

New RISC-V and Arm Linux laptops are starting to pave the way for an exciting future, Mozilla makes another divisive acquisition, a couple of big anniversaries make us feel old, some quick KDE updates, and more.   News World’s first RISC-V Laptop gets a massive upgrade and equips with Ubuntu Canonical Announce First RISC-V Laptop... Read More

If you want to be a good developer, how many different programming languages should you learn? Maybe becoming an expert in one specific language is the way to go. Maybe it’s more a case of learning different concepts and paradigms than languages.         1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every... Read More

Google Cloud teaches us about eggs and baskets by losing a big customer’s data, and Microsoft’s carbon emissions are up significantly – probably because of AI. Plus compliance and best practices for hardening instances, web apps, and storage.   News/discussion Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ “Unprecedented” Google Cloud event... Read More

How to prepare for your loved ones to have the access they need if the worst unexpectedly happens, Joe’s weird issues with wireless access points, and dealing with email accounts that shouldn’t exist.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News/discussion After you die, your... Read More

Whether self-driving cars are the future, and the skills we would download into our brains (Matrix-style). With Amolith from Linux Dev Time, Gary from Linux After Dark, Andy from Linux Dev Time, Jim from 2.5 Admins, and Martin from Linux Matters. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.        ... Read More

In this episode: Alan uses records his voice with Piper Recording Studio using the LJ format for use with Piper Train to create a new generation of the old Mycroft AI apope voice. Martin has eschewed Google Search to use Kagi instead. Mark has been judging a coding contest where students used Scratch to create... Read More

Your favourite obscure open source software in Voice of the masses. Plus whether AI is a load of old rubbish, and even if it is useful for some things we have to ask ourselves: at what cost?   Voice of the masses What’s the best open source app or utility that no one else has... Read More

Gary is organising OggCamp this year, so we wonder what makes the perfect Linux and open source event. Plus why we don’t use multiple partitions for home and swap etc. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to... Read More