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How to rename USB Audio interface? - Steve

pacmd update-sink-proplist alsa_output.usb-c-Media_electronics_inc._USB-Audio_Device-00.analog-stereo.2 device.description=What-We-Call-It-Now

Self Hosted Music - Sloth56

• Ampache
• Funkwhale

Self host or managed services - Mike

• Good Email providers
  • ProtonMail
  • Tutuanotoa
  • Fastmail

18:15 RHCSA Training - Adam

• Getting to ask questions is good
• Classes can create community
• In person training is best
• Udemy Course Link
• VTC is almost as good as official RedHat training
• RHCSA Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Training and Exam Preparation Guide Second Edition

23:15 Linux Accessibility - Brendan

• Trackball + Onboard on screen keyboard

27:50 Affiliate link for register4less? - Jerremy

• 14.99/yr
• Privacy included
• Free email aliases
• Free 10MB of web hosting (no SSL)
• Sub Accounts for managing
• Customer service is beyond amazing

29:45 Pick of the Week

Open IAS

• Game Clock (count down/up)
• Adjust on the fly
• Keyboard Bindings
• Set Team Logo
• Multiple Scoreboard Tabs
• Control multiple Scoreboard scoreboards through one control window.
• Packaged as an AppImage
• Cross Platform
• FOSS

34:20 Gadget of the Week

BitBarista

BitBarista: fully autonomous coffee machine built using Raspberry Pi and Bitcoin

• Pi Controlling the BitBarista uses Raspbian
• Uses Electrum for the BitCoin payments.
• Code is on GitHub
• Pays people to restock it
• Can even call a technician to get repairs

36:40 Multi-Monitor on Gnome 40

Gnome Blog Post

• Workspaces changes on primary monitor by default
• Supports changing workspaces on all displays
• Introduction of the workspaces navigator on secondary display
• Transitioning to Horizontal workspaces

• New additional shortcuts

  • switch workspaces will be Super+Alt+←/→.
  • Moving windows between workspaces will be Super+Alt+Shift+←/→.
  • Super+Alt+↑ will also open the overview and then app grid
  • Super+Alt+↓ will close them

• These directional keyboard shortcuts have matching touch-pad gestures:

  • Three-finger swipes left and right will switch workspaces
  • Three-finger swipes up and down will open the overview and app grid

• Gnome is doing and explaining changes in the open

44:00 Kodi 19.0 (Matrix)

Kodi Article

• Nearly 50 developers contributed code
• About 5,000 commits
• Over 1,500 pull requests since the first release of 18.x "Leia"
• Over 5,500 changed files
• 600,000 lines of code added, changed or removed
• significant improvements to meta-data handling
• New Matrix-inspired visualization
• Database and meta-data improvements
• Many more improvements
• Kodi 19 replaces the old XML meta-data scrapers with Python
• Most new features here revolve around usability

49:50 Nextcloud Hub

Nextcloud Blog Post

• High performance back end for Nextcloud files
• Wide range of performance improvements
• Nextcloud talk improvements
  • Debuts message status indicators
  • Raise hand feature
  • Group conversation description
  • And more!
• Wide Range of Groupware improvements
  • drag’n’drop
  • Nicer threading in Mail
  • Syncing social media avatars in Contacts

53:00 Firefox 86 Released

Mozilla Blog Post

• New Features

  • Total Cookie Protection (each site gets it's own ("cookie jar")
  • Multiple videos Picture-in-Picture

• Fixed Issues

  • Reader mode now works with local HTML pages
  • Orca and other screen reader fixes
  • Reader View links have more color contrast
  • various security fixes

55:00 New Platform for the Show

• https://parachutelive.tv/

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02:00 Jon caller

• Emailed about Noah's soft spot for Red Hat

• Latest thoughts on System76 PopOS!

• Home Lab/Docker Questions

12:40 Vircadia VR Responds to Episode - Vadim

FOSDEM Talk

13:50 Building an Online Presence - Joel

• Don't buy lifetime services/domain names - Not sustainable business model

• register4less.com

• Don't buy a domain in your real name

• A records - mail.mydomain.com nextcloud.mydomain.com etc.mydomain.comment

• Redirects mydomain.com/server1 mydomain.com/server2

• Start with a web server, lessons learned apply everywhere

21:00 User responds for MS SQL - Richard

• rdiff-backup - like rsync with history

• Other backup utilities

  • backuppc
  • veaam (closed source)
  • redic (with rclone)
  • restic

• Send in your backup solutions!

23:00 Pick of the Week - Zombie Tracker GPS

• Lightweight Linux+KDE equivalent to Garmin's "Basecamp"

• Manages collections of GPS tracks

• Local Data

• Charting, Graphing, Advanced sorting and querying

• Live GPS via GPSD

26:10 Gadget of the Week

• Blackmagic Decklink Duo

• SDI is the professional version of HDMI

• HDMI without copy protection

• Make your own cables with RG-6+quad shielded+BNC ends, use them as SDI cables.

• Works with Linux, you do need to install the driver, but FLAWLESS as compared to USB devices

• Much higher quality / capacity

• You will need to convert HDMI to SDI

31:00 Gnome 40 - UX Changes The Research

• Gnome Blog Post

40:00 Vero 4K Update

• Very well packaged system

• Incredible UI - Couldn't believe it was Kodi underneath

• Both RF and IR functionality

• Includes wall mounting plate

• Doesn't stream Blu-rays over WiFi

• Plays DVD rips just fine

• Vero 4K

47:30 Plasma

• New app launcher

• Breeze Twilight - Hybrid Theme

• Plasma Firewall settings page (ufw and firewalld)

• More effort put into Wayland support in Kwin

49:50 Pine Updates

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00:45

Request for feedback

01:55

Email 1 - How to back up BTRFS to the cloud

• rsync
• BTRFS send/recive https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/btrfs-sendreceive-helps-you-move-your-data

04:55

Email 2 - Smart devices

• cloudfree.shop https://cloudfree.shop/
• homeassistant https://www.home-assistant.io/
• lutron radiora https://www.lutron.com/en-US/Products/Pages/WholeHomeSystems/RadioRA2/Overview.aspx

12:00

Are Vlans Good enough? (continued from email 2)

14:40

Email 3 - Bitcoin

• Don't invest, considered unstable
  Mining is fun not pratical

• https://www.coinbase.com/
  https://www.blockchain.com/explorer

• ALternative crypto currencys
  https://ethereum.org/en/
  https://www.getmonero.org/

23:48

Email 4 - Bluetooth headphones on Linux Mic Not Working

• A2DP audio out only (high quality)

• HSP audio out and in (low quality)

• Check what protocols are supported by your dongle

• Easiest way to work around this...

  sudo apt-get install blueman

• starting from Pulseaudio v. 11.0, it's possible to automatically switch the profile whenever microphone access is requested by the application, but it's disabled by default.

  Find load-module module-bluetooth-policy line in /etc/pulse/default.pa
  Change it to load-module module-bluetooth-policy auto_switch=2

• You need to reload pulseaudio module after this for the changes to take effect:

  pulseaudio -k
  pulseaudio -D

• Now pulseaudio will switch the device profile to HSP whenever microphone access is requested and change it back to A2DP after stream is closed.

27:29

Pick of the Week

Just Perfection!

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3843/just-perfection/

This extension allows you to disable:

• OSD
• Search
• Dash
• Workspace Switcher
• Top Panel
• App gesture

28:35

Gadget of the Week

Gaomon S620 $35

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07R77SNX9/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

• Karita https://krita.org/en/

31:02

Gnome 40 Major Design Revamp

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/12/gnome-40-major-design-revamp

GNOME 40 is due for release in March, 2021.

33:45

KdenLive

• https://kdenlive.org/en/2020/12/kdenlive-20-12-is-out/

• Kdenlive 20.12 serves as a new stable release and a new feature release

• New features

same track transitions

subtitling tool

• Effects

Another usability improvement is the ability to rename and add/edit the description of custom effects (by new contributor Vivek Yadav.)

New Pillar Echo effect for your vertical videos.

Crop by padding effect can now be keyframed.

New VR 360 and 3D effects for working with 360º and 3D stereoscopic footage.

New Video Equalizer for adjusting image brightness, contrast, saturation and gamma.

• usability

Ability to enable/disable normalization of audio thumbnails from track header

Ability to delete multiple tracks at once (by Pushkar Kukde)

When archiving a project an option was added to archive only clips in the timeline as well as the option choose the compression method between TAR and ZIP.

On the backend front the Online Resources tool was ported to qtwebengine (by Andreas Sturmlechner) and downloading wipes, render profiles, titles and wipes defaults to using https.

37:34

Solar Winds

https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/12/evasive-attacker-leverages-solarwinds-supply-chain-compromises-with-sunburst-backdoor.html

Managed Service Provider (MSP) management software

march 2020 hack
dec 2020 discoverd

47:05

Souk Flatpak App Store for Linux

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/12/souk-flatpak-app-store-for-linux

Souk is co-developed by Felix Häcker, the hands behind a slate of well-made, well-designed GTK apps available for Linux desktops including Shortwave and Fragments, and Christoper Davis, with design input from Tobias Bernard.

50:10

Matrix

DMA interoperability open apis
bridging (telgram discord slack)

Dendrite is up and running on matrix.org

Dendrite is second gen Matrix server

The server that will be used when they eventually roll a monolithic client server combo that you can just install and start talking

ILAGS - Improved landing as a guest

One of those things is threading

https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/15/dendrite-2020-progress-update

55:00

• cerlean

https://cerulean.matrix.org

https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/18/introducing-cerulean

It’s (currently) a very minimal javascript app - only 2,500 lines of code.

Proof of concept - not designed for production use.

Microblogging platform / decentralized twitter based on Matrix.

56:06

humble bundle

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/12/the-steam-winter-sale-2020-is-now-live-plus-a-new-codemasters-humble-bundle

Extra Links not covered

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/03/30/new-features-to-core/

https://www.reddit.com/gallery/kh33m8

https://twitter.com/FFmpeg/status/1340698413143224320

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2020/12/19/new-podcast/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/centos-linux-is-gone-but-its-refugees-have-alternatives/

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• Just Perfection - GNOME Shell Extensions — To control GNOME Shell extensions using this site you must install GNOME Shell integration that consists of two parts: browser extension and native host messaging application.
• LKML: Greg Kroah-Hartman: Linux 5.10.2
• The Steam Winter Sale 2020 is now live, plus a new Codemasters Humble Bundle | GamingOnLinux