446 – The Beauty of Cinnamon, and The Downfall of Redbox

MP3 – mintCast

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – August 2024, Software Freedom Day,

In security and privacy: Apple Suddenly Drops NSO Group Spyware Lawsuit;

Then in our Wanderings: Bill flirts with Ladybird, Joe gets jiggy with his ports, Moss does something or other, Eric gets COSMIC;

In our Innards section: we discuss DRM and digital media providers

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Full Show Notes Here

The News:

Mint Monthly News – August 2024

Software Freedom Day

Mozilla Firefox 130 Released with Labs, Overscroll & Web Codecs API

ArchBang Calls It Quits

Upgrades to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Paused [Update: Now Resolved]

Linux Mint Tease ‘Improved’ Default Cinnamon Theme

Linux Mint Tease ‘Improved’ Default Cinnamon Theme

Security And Privacy

Apple Suddenly Drops NSO Group Spyware Lawsuit

Contact Info:

• Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, [e-mail], Buy Joe a coffee
• Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, [e-mail], Mastodon @[e-mail], occasionally on HPR
• Bill – [e-mail], Bill_H on Discord, @[e-mail] on Mastodon, also – checkout my other two podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers
• Majid – [e-mail] @[e-mail], AtypicalDr on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast on Spotify and also Linux OTC.
• Eric – I can be reached by email at [e-mail].

Special Thanks To:

• Bill for our audio editing
• Archive.org for hosting our audio files
• Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
• Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
• Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
• The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about