Hey everyone!
I hope you're all doing OK, this one is a day late, because yesterday was a Holiday in France, so I took the day off :)
This time, I'm talking about:
- Google making their own CPUs for their Pixel line, and how we might have a problem if every manufacturer starts making their own ARM based CPUs for everything
- Facebook failing to pay the correct amount to creators, and delaying these payments, and how complicated it is to live...
2021-04-06 16:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Here is Episode 19 of your exclusive patroncast!
First, this month, there will be no vote on the topics, I'm really sorry about that, but there is a fixed schedule programmed with more hardware reviews, and a few videos I absolutely want to make, so I'll make an executive decision this month, and decide on my own the video topics I'll cover!
No worries, though, next month, you'll be able to vote just as usual :)
Now, about the topics...
2021-03-29 15:52:47 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! I hope you're all doing OK :)
Here is your weekly patroncast! This time, I'll talk about:
- Mobile app stores: Google Play, and the Apple AppStore have weird practices that kinda make me feel uncomfortable, and there are 2 recent examples I want to talk about to illustrate that
- WIkipedia launches a paid service for companies: it was about time Wikipedia made companies pay for using their enormous database, and reduce their dependency on individuals...
2021-03-22 17:41:29 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Here is your weekly patroncast, freshly recorded and edited!
This time, I'd like to talk about:
- The Framework Laptop, a project that aims to do for the laptop what the Fairphone tries to do for the smartphone, which is offer a completely modular laptop that you can upgrade over time, and service yourself.
https://frame.work/blog/introducing-the-framew...
2021-03-15 16:57:39 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
I hope you're all doing fine! Here is your exclusive weekly patroncast. In this one, I'll talk about:
- Ubuntu going with Flutter for their future applications, including and for now limited to, their new installer
- Brave buying the TailCat search engine to rebrand it as "Brave Search", and how I thought that would be a move that Mozilla would have made
- My terrible, horrible, no-good experience with ...
2021-03-09 08:27:13 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
The patroncast is back, after my small week of Holidays!
This time, we are discussing:
- Mint users not doing their updates, and how that's a wider issue for all operating systems
- The GNOME Software redesign, which has me very excited, and looks very nice
- The "Big Tech Detective" extension, which blocks all website that even try and access an IP address owned by one of the "Big Tech" companies. Fun to watch the web crumble...
2021-03-01 16:52:14 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Hope you're all doing well!
Here is time to vote on March's video topics:
You get to choose between:
- Linux doesn't need marketing, it needs hardware: a lot of people, including past me, have tried to prop up Linux using Marketing and communication. I now think hat Linux needs is visible hardware, and I'd like to explain why.
- There should only be ONE distro : it's an opinion piece poin...
2021-02-26 14:30:22 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! I'm on holidays this week, so no Patroncast, but I'll be back next Monday, and videos are still coming for this week ;)
I'm not going anywhere specific, I'll just be staying home, taking care of some various paperwork, and, obviously, working on making videos, as I've got one that will release in a few hours, and another one before the end of the week, with some AMD laptop goodness :D
In other news, my kitchen's drywall is finally done, so my flat is officiall...
2021-02-23 14:17:51 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Here is episode 14 of your exclusive Patroncast!
In this one, I talk about:
- Favicons. Weird, I know, but apparently, you can now use these to track users around the internet, even if they use a VPN, Private Mode, or tracker blockers.
- AMD hiring "Linux people", and what it means for day one AMD hardware support, and maybe software development from them on Linux
- My Future New Desktop, probably from Slimbook, and the reasons...
2021-02-15 16:51:33 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Here is Episode 13 of your exclusive Weekly Patroncast!
In this one, I talk about
- Ubuntu's new installer, and why it's important
- Google's Stadia closing their own dev studio, and how it doesn't necessarily mean the platform will shut down
- Cross play between Linux, Windows and Mac OS X
Hope you enjoy it!
2021-02-09 12:42:14 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Here is your new episode of the patroncast!
In this one, we have:
- Ubuntu 21.04 moving to Wayland: huge move, that could really help Wayland get off the ground
- Red Hat offers RHEL for free for up to 16 servers: they're probably trying to recoup their losses on killing CentOS, let's see why it's probably not going to work out all that well
- We need the "Apple" of the Linux world: not in the 'we need to restrict our user's ex...
2021-02-01 16:55:23 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys,
Here are the topics I'd like to cover in February:
- Common Misconceptions around Open Source: a lot of people seem to think open source software should always be free, or that every demand or bug report should be addressed ASAP. I'd like to debunk a few of these misconceptions.
OR
- Linux doesn't need marketing, it needs hardware: we often hear that Linux is not successful on the d...
2021-01-29 13:42:59 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
It's time for Episode 11 of your Weekly Patroncast :)
This time, we have the following topics:
- Ubuntu won't use GNOME 40 for its next release, and that's a shame
- Google is removing access to its APIs to Chromium, making it a lot less interesting as a base for third party browsers
- Google France agrees to pay for displaying news articles in Google News, which is a very dangerous first step for an open web
- Should apps that bill...
2021-01-26 08:33:29 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
It's Monday, which means... new Patroncast Episode. Sit down, relax, and enjoy this episode's topics:
- JingOS, the iPad OS clone running on Linux
- Crossover, and me being a bit disappointed in it
- Mozilla and its quest to find funding when what I really want is a better browser
- Why are so many people looking to DeGoogle their life these days? (seriously, I'm really asking)
- A few personal things, especially around meditation
2021-01-18 15:11:37 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
I hope you're all doing well and that 2021 is treating you right so far!
Here is episode 9 of your exclusive patroncast, in this episode, I talk about:
- KDE's plans for 2021
- GNOME 40 redesigning their activites view
- Open source, and how it's not there to implement every single feature users want, and also how asking for money for open source software is perfectly normal
- Heroic Launcher, an open source Epic Games Store client ...
2021-01-11 12:05:51 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Happy new year to you all, and welcome to your new episode of the patroncast! In this one, I take a look at how 2020 has treated me personally, in terms of work, youtube, mental health, and even my love life (no, don't worry, I'm not about to give any sensitive info, dating tips, or boast about certain things).
After this more personal episode, it's back to the regular Linux / open source focused program, don't worry :D
Best wis...
2021-01-04 16:18:58 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! I hope you had a great Christmas, if you guys celebrate that, and that you could find some time to see your loved ones despite the current circumstances!
Here is the last Patroncast for 2020, and in this one, I did a retrospective of the major things that happened in the Linux or Open Source world during the year. I probably forgot a bunch of major points, don't hesitate to remind them to me down there in the comments :)
Happy holidays, and I'll...
2020-12-28 15:04:38 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
I hope you had a merry Christmas, for those of you who celebrated that :)
It's time to vote for the topics we'll cover in January, so here is the list!
For January, I give you the choice between:
- Project of the Month: you get to choose between coverage of Crossover, the commercial Wine product that offers official support for a selection of apps, and GUI tools to manage their installatio...
2020-12-28 07:46:00 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
I hope you're all doing well, because here is Episode 6 of the weekly Patroncast :)
This time, we're talking about theming on Linux, and specifically on GTK and GNOME. This is still an unresolved issue, where app developers want to retain branding and create custom controls, and users and distros want the ability to theme their desktop and make it their own.
It's something we don't talk about a lot anymore, and that still has no...
2020-12-21 09:53:46 +0000 UTC
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Hey everybody!
Welcome to your weekly patroncast, this new episode will see us cover CentOS Stream and how that's probably a terrible move, the importance of having open source graphics drivers in regard of the release of CyberPunk 2077, and how elementary OS 6 is just awesome on my laptop, even though it's not ready for my production machine yet.
Give it a listen :)
2020-12-14 17:22:31 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Here is Episode 4 of your weekly Patroncast! This time, we have some tentatives to get Linux running on the M1 Macs, the console wars and how the behavior of people there is very comparable to ours in the Linux community, and me trying out elementary OS 6 on my laptop, and how it actually feels to use it.
Enjoy :)
2020-12-07 10:19:52 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Here is your weekly patroncast :) In this one, we'll talk about:
- App store commissions and how lowering them might not be such a good thing
- The Librem 5 finally shipping
- ProtonDrive being accessible in beta and how this might be the start of a new private ecosystem
- A few more personal matters, like my day job being boring these days, and pondering moving to youtube full time.
Oh, and also, Isaac created a great Di...
2020-11-30 15:24:21 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
It's time to vote for December's topics :)
This time, you have the choice between:
- Project of the month: Touchegg VS Ubuntu Web Remix. Touchegg is an amazing program that enables 1:1 gestures (as in the stuff on the screen moves with your fingers on the touchpad of your laptop). Ubuntu Web Remix is a variant of Ubuntu geared towards offering an alternative to Chrome OS.
- VLOG: What is Wayl...
2020-11-26 11:39:23 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Here is your second episode of the weekly Patroncast :)
This time, we're talking about a hypothetical elementary OS laptop, the dumpster fire of AMD graphics cards, and more !
2020-11-24 07:06:14 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys, I'm switching the patroncast to Weekly, just to see if you like it, and to get more interaction going, so here is the first episode of that new patroncast formula :)
It should appear in the Patreon audio feed as well, so if you've subscribed to the RSS feed, you should get it there as well ;)
This time, we're talking about Linux hardware, and Linux ecosystems, and a few personal projects!
Let me know how you like it, and don't hesitate to ask me anything, ...
2020-11-16 19:40:22 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys,
Here is your exclusive monthly patroncast!
This month, we have me reinstalling my computer and messing it up in some ways, upgrading the office to a new ultrawide display, and 32Gb of RAM, talking about the Juno Neptune 15? and answering a bunch of interesting questions ;)
2020-11-02 06:55:14 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys!
Time to ask me your questions for the next Patroncast!
For now, I have these 3:
Question 1:
You’ve used Elementary OS a lot, tough I believe I remember you saying you’ve switched to Manjaro. I’ve also heard you mention that Gnome tries to get out of the way and lets you focus on the task at hand. So from a productivity perspective, which DE/distro would you recommend? What do you use currently that helps you get things done (no pun inte...
2020-10-28 10:30:24 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys,
Time to vote on the video topics for November :)
Here are the options:
- Project of the Month: Touchegg, an application that lets you configure gestures on your touchpad easily, OR Pitivi, the GTK non linear video editor, which just had a pretty big release.
- Vlog: elementary OS is more than just a distro: a small video essay bout how elementary O...
2020-10-27 05:31:35 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys!
Here is your exclusive monthly patroncast for September :)
In this episode, we'll talk a bit more about the channel, and the possibility to go at it full-time, as well as Microsoft buying Bethesda and what that means for gaming on Linux, and we'll also address the gaming channel, and the windows XP source code leak.
Let me know what you think !
2020-10-01 12:30:47 +0000 UTC
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Hey ladies and gentlemen!
It's time to let me know what you want to see next month on the channel, and ask me anything you'd like answered in the Patroncast!
As every month, we'll get the 2 Linux News videos on the 1st and on the 16th of October.
I'll also record videos about Plasma 5.20, Ubuntu 20.10, and 2 other videos that I'm keeping under wraps for now ;)
The choices this month are the following:
- For the project of the month, you can choose between a lo...
2020-09-26 07:30:38 +0000 UTC
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