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 Contact Info: Joe – Tllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, bardmoss@pm.me, Mastodon @zaivala@hostux.social, and my other contact information can be found at It’s Moss dot com Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldr870on twitter, AtypicalDr on instagram and The Atypical Doctor Podcast on Spotify Eric – You can hear and see me on this and the Linux OTC podcasts as well as the Linux Saloon and LinuxLUGCast streams. If you’d like to get in touch with me I can be reached by email at eric@mintcast.org, Discord (eric_adams), Telegram (https://t.me/ericadams), Matrix (@esa1975:matrix.org), and Mastodon (https://fosstodon.org/@ericadams). Links in the show notes. Special Thanks To: Bill Houser for our audio editing Archive.org for hosting our audio files Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>