Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱 @popey@mastodon.social

"Fun" with the development release of Ubuntu!
https://popey.com/blog/2021/03/unbreaking-unbootable-ubuntu/

Announcing Ubuntu Voltage!
At FOSS Talk Live 2021!
https://popey.com/blog/2021/03/ubuntu-voltage/

Really enjoying using Spot, the open source Rust/GTK Spotify client. Just pushed the 0.1.9 release for amd64/arm64 to the stable channel.
https://snapcraft.io/spot

"There is a new set of Grub2 vulnerabilities that are going public today. The wiki page above explains them in detail."... Read on..
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/grub2-secureboot-bypass-2021-and-one-grub/21200?u=popey

Well. This arrived today, ahead of estimate. It's rather rapid! Didn't take long to install the basics (Chrome, Zoom, Spotify) and get up and running. Daughter opened a GDoc and was amazed how fast it was to load. Silent operation, nice kb & touchpad. She's very happy with it.🥳

Matrix themselves respond, promptly (thank you matrix social media person). "agreed that the UX is bad: there should be a button to explicitly request that you verify yourself using an existing login rather than doing it implicitly, and a button for “i don’t have any logins” rather than “skip”."

Pretty much every time I login to Matrix/Riot/Element/Whatever, I get some kind of dialog like this that has no button other than "Skip". This is one reason why I almost never use it. The impenetrable UX of Matrix is personally infuriating.

Mix and Match Rocketbooks!
https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/mix-and-match-rocketbooks/

Snapcraft Clinic returns!
https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/snapcraft-clinic/

A Tale of Two Updates.
#ubuntu #linux
https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/a-tale-of-two-updates/

This multi-monitor design blog post with clarifications & video mock-ups is good to read. As a multi-monitor user, I was concerned the experience might suck in GNOME 40. This clears a few things up for me! 🎉
https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2021/02/23/gnome-shell-40-and-multi-monitor/

Book review: Split Second.
https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/book-review-split-second/

Jamming with SonoBus

https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/jamming-with-sonobus/

People who use static site generators for their blogs. What comment system (if any) do you use. Disqus is 100% off the table.

"Fun" with my HP scanner today!
https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/scanning-frustration/

Season Fourteen of @ubuntupodcast

https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/season-fourteen/