"Fun" with the development release of Ubuntu!
https://popey.com/blog/2021/03/unbreaking-unbootable-ubuntu/
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.π₯³
The @inkscape About Screen contests never fail to impress me. So many great entries! I want this one on a t-shirt!
https://inkscape.org/~RayOliveira/%E2%98%85desenhe-livremente
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 βi donβt have any loginsβ rather than βskipβ."
[Question] Hey regular listeners!
What should we change about #ubuntu podcast when we come back for season 14?
What should we keep the same?
Inquiring presenters must know!
Geat video from The Linux Experiment, as usual! https://youtu.be/d1aNUDCSNI4
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! π
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/
Season Fourteen of @ubuntupodcast
Snap Advocate at Canonical working on Ubuntu, podcaster, father, husband, cat lover & a geek through and through