Season 5 - Episode 5: DMing about Conan

2020-11-28

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Chitchat Mike: A cat got us 🐈 Obligatory Twitter photo 📷 🎥 Streaming video with Raspberry Pi and Motion Shane: I have been 🎨 Blendering more and I have discovered a great resource ( That's my referral link so if people don't feel like indulging my self-serving plug you can go to https://www.sheepit-renderfarm.com/ ) Conor: 6 hours 😴 sleep, not recommended 😄 Discussion In this episode we welcome back DM and talk about YouTube-DL, browsers, a new phone, Gimp and t...

Chitchat

Mike: A cat got us 🐈
- Obligatory Twitter photo 📷
- 🎥 Streaming video with Raspberry Pi and Motion
Shane: I have been 🎨 Blendering more and I have discovered a great resource ( That's my referral link so if people don't feel like indulging my self-serving plug you can go to https://www.sheepit-renderfarm.com/ )
Conor: 6 hours 😴 sleep, not recommended 😄

Discussion

In this episode we welcome back DM and talk about YouTube-DL, browsers, a new phone, Gimp and the suitability of FOSS for pro work. Also, a competition!

YouTube-DL repo is back up 👍
- The EFF 💌 letter to GitHub
- 🐇 Big Buck Bunny
⚙️ Servo goes to the Linux Foundation
- Rust 👩‍💻
- Firefox 83 is out 🚪 (via Phoronix)
- 🔐 Google plan on locking smaller browsers out of its assets
- 🤖 Reddit AmputatorBot transforms Amp links
📱 The Pro1 X Smartphone
- XDA Developers 🧑🏽‍💻
Gimp ✏️🖼️ is 25 (via Phoronix)
- Gimp 3 is on the horizon 🌅 (via omg! ubuntu!)
- Destructive v non-destructive editing 🎭
- Glimpse 🎂 is 1 year old
- Glimpse NX ⏭️

Competition:

DM 🎁 is giving away Conan Exiles + DLC!
For your chance to win, you'll need to have a Steam account and:
1. Follow @linuxlads on 🐦 Twitter if you don't already
2. @us with the #️⃣ hashtag #conanlads
We'll announce the winner in the next episode 🎲
If you don't want to be 🤐 named mention this to us in a direct message on Twitter

The next episode

... will be the 🎄Christmas Mashup with the ex-Binary Times hosts Mark and Wayne!

(It will also be the last Linux Lads episode of the season, please prepare a bucket 🪣 so that your tears don't make your floor wet).

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