First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – February 2024, Linux market share passes 4% for first time, SerpentOS makes progress, AMD is told hands off HDMI 2.1, Google blocks RCS on rooted devices, AMDGPU has limits, ProtonMail comes to all desktops, and NVidia bans translation layers;
In security and privacy: Avast is fined bigly for selling browser data;
Then in our Wanderings: Joe plays a lot of games, Majid does mirrors
In our Innards section: We discuss scams and trying to protect the people we care about
And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
00:00:00 – Intro
00:01:36 – News
00:45:07 – Security And Privacy
00:49:51 – Bi-Weekly Wanderings
01:33:05 – Innards
02:15:12 – Vibrations From The Ether
02:31:13 – Check This Out
02:32:35 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
02:33:18 – Wrap Up
02:36:10 – Outro
Full Show Notes Here
The News:
Mint Monthly News – February 2024
Linux market share passes 4% for first time
Serpent OS Makes Progress On Packaging The GNOME 45 Desktop
HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver
Google is blocking RCS on rooted Android devices
AMDGPU Linux Driver No Longer Lets You Have Unlimited Control To Lower Your Power Limit
Proton Mail is coming to all major desktop platforms
Nvidia bans using translation layers for CUDA software
Security and Privacy
Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data