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00:00 Intro
01:18 VSCode drops Ubuntu 18.04 without notice
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/vscode-drops-ubuntu-18-04-support-leaves-devs-screwed
04:32 Edge grabs Chromeβs browsing data without consent
https://www.theverge.com/24054329/microsoft-edge-automatic-chrome-import-data-feature
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12:16 Fedora 40 KDE might reconsider dropping X11
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Approved-January-F40
15:47 Thunderbird plans to add native Exchange support
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/01/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-january-2024/
18:12 Wayland & Wine get big improvements
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Display-Emulation
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/wine-on-wayland-a-year-in-review-and-a-look-ahead.html
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-xdg-toplevel-drag
23:43 Red Hatβs licensing changes hurt their ecosystem
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CentOS-RHEL-Kernel-Headaches
26:41 Purism values itself at $75M
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Purism-75M
30:07 Plasma 6 RC2 is out
https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/rc2/
32:46 Gaming: HoloISO goes immutable, Mesa 24, Linux marketshare
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/the-original-steamos-like-linux-distro-holoiso-now-dead-replaced-with-immutable-version/
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.0-Released
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-January-2024
40:15 Outro
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Ubuntu 23.04 beta, Mobile Linux improvements, Italy blocks chatGPT
Giant Nextcloud update, Twitter goes Open Source, Wayland screen sharing fixed
Docker vs Open Source, Ubuntu wants less Python issues, Fedora 38 beta
Meta in the Fediverse, Duck Duck Go works on AI, Flathub Roadmap
HP gives up, Flathub & paid apps, companies are using FOSS wrong
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Windows is spyware, Fedora adds Flathub, AI tool violates FOSS
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Linux Foundation's metaverse, Stable Diffusion sued, KDE 5.27 Beta
Apple isn't private, Mastodon loses users, Mozilla joins the fediverse
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