Displaying 7 items of Linux Out Loud with the tag "privacy".
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220: Data Has Weight, Laws Have Teeth, Linux Has Jokes | Linux Out Loud 122
March 7th, 2026 | 1 hr 1 min
age verification, bsd, california ab 1043, colorado age verification law, cups, deskflow, first lego league, framework laptops, lego spike prime, linux, linux distributions, open source, printer server, privacy, robotics, steamos, surveillance, wayland, zigbee
In this episode of Linux Out Loud, Wendy, Nate, and Bill start in the server room and end up staring down new “for the children” age‑verification laws aimed squarely at your operating system. They talk through wrangling tablets and printers with CUPS, why Framework laptops keep surviving industrial abuse, and how Deskflow brings Synergy/Barrier‑style magic to Wayland setups. From there, they dig into the new FIRST LEGO League robotics kits and what might be lost when classroom‑friendly AI kits replace hands‑on engineering. Finally, they unpack California and Colorado’s OS‑level age‑verification bills, what “OS providers” really means, and why small Linux and BSD projects are already threatening to block entire states rather than bolt surveillance rails onto their distros.
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219: New World Unlocked: GOG Charts a Linux Frontier | Linux Out Loud 121
February 21st, 2026 | 1 hr 1 min
age verification, backups, cold storage, community podcast, cubicle nate, data recovery, discord, drm‑free gaming, exfat, foss, gnu/linux, gog, gog galaxy, heroic launcher, home lab, linux, linux gaming, linux out loud, linux saloon, moderation, online communities, open source, polls, privacy, proton, self‑hosting, show notes, tech podcast, tuxdigital, wine, wordpress
In this level of Linux Out Loud, Nate takes player‑one controls with Wendy and Matt as co‑op buddies for a run‑and‑gun through data disasters, platform drama, and hopeful Linux gaming news. Matt kicks things off with a catastrophic cold‑storage failure that turns into a hard‑earned reminder about backups and the limits of data‑recovery tools on both Windows and Linux. Wendy then opens a side‑quest about Discord’s upcoming age‑verification changes, why that’s a problem for community privacy and moderation, and what it might mean for the future home of the Lobby of Loudness. Nate rounds out the host updates with Linux Saloon going fully independent, moving show notes and polls onto CubicleNate.com so he controls the platform and the ad dollars. For the main mission, the crew dives into GOG calling Linux its “next major frontier” for GOG GALAXY and hiring a senior C++ engineer to help make Linux a first‑class gaming citizen instead of an afterthought. Along the way they talk heroic launchers, Proton and Wine, and what a “good citizen” GOG client on Linux should actually look like for home‑labbed and multi‑PC setups.
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203: Retro Keyboards to Smart Home Wins | Linux Out Loud 105
January 11th, 2025 | 1 hr 10 mins
2025, 2025 predictions, 3d printing, appimages, community engagement, consumer computing, decluttering, editing challenge, fedora, flatpaks, gaming, home assistant, keyboard technology, led couch, nvidia, predictions, privacy, provisioning scripts, retail challenges, robotics, snaps, software installations, tech upgrades, technology trends, universal packages, voice assistants
In Linux Out Loud episode 105, the hosts look ahead to 2025 with big Linux hopes and smart tech ideas! Nate shows off his retro-inspired keyboard. Bill has an update on Home Assistant voice control, and the team debates universal packages like AppImages and Flatpaks. With off-topic laughs about Atari decanters and a tech purchase competition, it’s a lively blend of predictions, open-source fun, and a splash of RGB chaos!
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164: The Compromise of Easy | Linux Out Loud 67
June 21st, 2023 | 1 hr 1 min
alexa, amazon, big tree tech, creality, diy, ender, fluidd, framework, game sphere, google, kiauh, klipper, listener feedback, manta m8p, minisforum, moonraker, nuk, privacy, retro, self, south east linux fest, telly, wayland
This week, Linux Out Loud chats about rolling your own solutions for privacy.
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75: Battle of the Browsers, they all Lose | DLN Xtend
September 22nd, 2021 | 45 mins 10 secs
brave, case fan, case fans, chrome, chromium, edge, falcon, firefox, ghostery, privacy, vivaldi, web browser, web browsers
On this episode of DLN Xtend we discuss the battle of the web browsers.
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66: Linux Users and Privacy | DLN Xtend
July 20th, 2021 | 55 mins 50 secs
audacity, chrome, crome browser, dln chat, fire dragon, firefox, game privacy, leocad, linux in education, linux privacy, opencl, opensuse, opensuse education, pi hole, privacy, ps4, ps4 games, social media, steam, suse, tenacity, valve, vpn
On this episode of DLN Xtend we discuss, do Linux users really care about privacy?
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23: Moving Targets | DLN Xtend
July 13th, 2020 | 42 mins 26 secs
linux, linux applications, photography, privacy
On this episode of DLN Xtend we talk about the future of communication, and the constant moving target as it relates to switching to any type of new or different platform.