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487 – Goodbye US Office, Hello Euro Office
Jun 9, 2026
59m 32s
486 – HTPC Like It’s 2003!
May 24, 2026
1h 26m 00s
485 – We’re All Ninjas Now
May 17, 2026
1h 03m 25s
484 – Chuck x 2
Apr 29, 2026
2h 35m 39s
483 – Chucking at Charlie
Apr 15, 2026
1h 47m 56s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/9/26 | 487 – Goodbye US Office, Hello Euro Office✨ | Linux newsAI developments+3 | — | Brave Origin BrowserAI+7 | CaliforniaColorado+1 | LinuxAI+8 | — | 59m 32s | |
| 5/24/26 | 486 – HTPC Like It’s 2003!✨ | HTPCtechnology+3 | — | Mint Monthly NewsLinux OTC+5 | — | HTPCLinux Mint+3 | — | 1h 26m 00s | |
| 5/17/26 | 485 – We’re All Ninjas Now✨ | securityprivacy+4 | — | Proton MailUbuntu+8 | — | Proton MailLinux Kernel+6 | — | 1h 03m 25s | |
| 4/29/26 | 484 – Chuck x 2✨ | Mint ISOsTailscale+4 | — | Mint ISOsLinux OTC+5 | — | Mint ISOsTailscale+5 | — | 2h 35m 39s | |
| 4/15/26 | 483 – Chucking at Charlie✨ | Linux newssecurity and privacy+3 | — | MintUbuntu+9 | — | Mint 23Ubuntu 26.04+3 | — | 1h 47m 56s | |
| 3/30/26 | 482 – Noteworthy Stuff✨ | enshittificationsecurity+4 | — | Norway’s Consumer CouncilChinese government+8 | — | enshittificationsecurity+5 | — | 2h 26m 58s | |
| 3/17/26 | 481 – Change For The Sake of Jim✨ | technology newsLinux updates+4 | — | MacBook NeoYTDown YouTube Downloader+8 | — | FirefoxLinux+8 | — | — | |
| 3/8/26 | 480 – All Except California✨ | California newsage verification law+3 | — | Linux OTCDistrohoppers Digest+2 | California | Californiaage verification+3 | — | 1h 32m 17s | |
| 2/20/26 | 479 – Bill’s Bash Scripts Bring All The Boys To The Yard✨ | Mint Monthly NewsSecurity and Privacy+4 | — | FirefoxLibreoffice 26.2+13 | — | Mint Monthly NewsSSH Stalker+7 | — | 1h 43m 01s | |
| 2/14/26 | 478 – The Anti-Windows Cast✨ | securityprivacy+4 | — | MicrosoftDow Chemical+5 | — | Linuxsecurity+5 | — | 1h 47m 36s | |
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| 1/18/26 | 477 – Driving AI Mad✨ | AILinux+4 | — | MintEndeavourOS+8 | — | Mint 22.3Linux+7 | — | 1h 21m 28s | |
| 1/11/26 | 476 – New Year of the Linux Desktop✨ | Linux DesktopLinux Mint+3 | — | CinnamonCinnVIIStarkMenu+2 | — | Linux MintCinnamon+3 | — | 2h 40m 54s | |
| 12/21/25 | 475 – From Tarmageddon to Tranquility✨ | Linux Mint newssecurity vulnerabilities+3 | CharlesDale | SyncthingReact2Shell+5 | — | Linux Mintsecurity+6 | — | 1h 19m 08s | |
| 12/7/25 | 474 – Goldilocks Zone✨ | technology newssecurity+4 | — | AI WindowPlasma 6.8+11 | Arrakis | Mint Monthly NewsMozilla+7 | — | 1h 14m 36s | |
| 11/29/25 | 473 – Parental Misguidance | First up in the news: Theres and initiative in protecting OTA TV from DRM Then in our Wanderings: Joe does a lot, Bill plays magical video cards, Majid is trying to resist Black Friday, Charles goes to a Linux conference, and Jim eschews the mouse. And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions Link To Full Show Notes The News: FCC Seeks Comment on ATSC 3.0 DRM – Protect OTA TV! Contact Info: Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, moss@bodhilinux.com, Mastodon @zaivala@hostux.social, occasionally on HPR Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, also checkout the other podcast I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid). Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypical_doctor@mastodon.social, AtypicalDr on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC. Eric – I can be reached by email at eric@mintcast.org. Charles – charles@mintcast.org, Mr PDX on Discord Jim– jim@mintcast.org, GNU2Linux on Discord, The Linux Shortcut on YouTube Special Thanks To: Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio 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 The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!> | — | ||||||
| 11/21/25 | 472 – New Distros, Old Issues | First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – October 2025 Then, new distro news and updates, and more streaming stuff In security and privacy: don’t trust every PPA! Link To Full Show Notes The News: Mint Monthly News – October 2025 GNOME 50 Ends the X11 Era After Decades CachyOS Continues Delivering Leading Performance Over Ubuntu 25.10, Fedora Workstation 43 ElementaryOS Updates IncusOS: A New Immutable Linux System Built for Running Incus KDE Plasma 6.6 Introduces QR Code Wi-Fi Connections, Boosts Performance Ikey Doherty Missing from AerynOS for Six Months Debian’s APT Package Manager to Integrate Rust Code by May 2026 90% of Windows games now run on Linux; Linux gamers on Steam cross 3% mark The Internet is Dying. 50% of all traffic is now non-human The Internet Archive’s legal fight is over but loses 500,000 books from its Open Library in the process The Internet Archive’s legal fight is over but loses 500,000 books from its Open Library in the process YouTube TV’s Disney blackout reminds users that they don’t own what they stream Security And Privacy: Don’t blindly trust every PPA. FreeRDP installed via this PPA for Winboat may have malware Check This Out: Instagram- web site to view videos and photos without an account: https://imginn.com Firefox- tip to get shorter tab height: about:config change browser.uidensity from 01 to 1 https://leochavez.org/old/firefox-tabs.html AppImageLauncher v.3.00 beta (.deb file or AppImage, not the old PPA, which is no longer compatible with Noble Numbat and therefore Mint 22.0+) https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher/releases Load All Reddit Comments: Bookmarklet with keyboard shortcut triggered bykeyword using javascript on Bookmarks Toolbar (CTRL + Shift + B)bookmarklet IRCCloud allows a persistent connection with the free tier as long as your device stays connected, and allows two network connections, plus is able to connect to same network twice, so one can use two different nicknames on same network. How to get started with Tailscale in under 10 minutes Interview with Mark Shuttleworth on LNL Contact Info: Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, moss@bodhilinux.com, Mastodon @zaivala@hostux.social, occasionally on HPR Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, also checkout the other podcast I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid). Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org and The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC. Eric – I can be reached by email at eric@mintcast.org. Charles – charles@mintcast.org, Mr PDX on Discord Jim– jim@mintcast.org, GNU2Linux on Discord, The Linux Shortcut on YouTube Special Thanks To: Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio 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 The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!> | — | ||||||
| 10/26/25 | 471 – “Welcome To dockerCast” | First up in the news: LMDE 7 “Gigi” released Then in our Wanderings: Bill suffers an outage, Joe’s Jellyfin is “ok”, Majid is back to “full time”, and Jim has a lot of extensions And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions Link To Full Show Notes The News: LMDE 7 “Gigi” released Amazon appears to be suppressing Fire TV 4K Select reviews and calling negative reviewers NewPipe, alternate YouTube and PeerTube client for Android, turns 10 Check This Out: Zen Browser Contact Info: Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, moss@bodhilinux.com, Mastodon @zaivala@hostux.social, occasionally on HPR Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, also checkout the other two podcasts I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid). Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org AtypicalDoctor on Discord The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC. Eric – I can be reached by email at eric@mintcast.org. Charles – charles@mintcast.org, Mr PDX on Discord Jim– jim@mintcast.org, GNU2Linux on Discord, The Linux Shortcut on YouTube Special Thanks To: Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio 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 The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!> | — | ||||||
| 10/12/25 | 470 – Laptop Rescue Service AKA “Send us your stuff!” | First up in the news: LMDE 7 ‘Gigi” release imminent, Mint Monthly News, Ubuntu 25.10 is out and breaking stuff, Firefox shaking is loved by TIME, Windows 10 is officially dead and lots more! In security and privacy: Charles has some interesting news on AI and new laws in Spain And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions Link To Full Show Notes The News: LMDE 7 Release Imminent Mint Monthly News – September 2025 Ubuntu 25.10 released, and breaks flatpaks! Ubuntu Linux 26.04 LTS Officially Named Resolute Raccoon Cosmic Beta released Mozilla Firefox is about to add an important feature other browsers have had for years: Profile Management Mozilla Firefox Shake To Summarize feature gets special mention in TIME’s Best Inventions of 2025 Opera Wants You To Pay $19.90 a Month for Its New AI Browser Android Security or Vendor Lock-In? Google’s New Sideloading Rules Smell Fishy Open Source Android Repository F-Droid Says Google’s New Rules Will Shut It Down Amazon Ditches Android — Launches ‘Linux-Based’ Vega OS for Fire TV TiVo Exiting Legacy DVR Business California Law Forces Netflix, Hulu To Turn Down Ad Volumes Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025 PC Sales Explode In Q3 As Windows 11 Deadlines Force Millions To Upgrade Microsoft Is Plugging More Holes That Let You Use Windows 11 Without an Online Account Security and Privacy: AI for America – “A Roadmap to Make AI Work for All Americans, Not Just Big Companies” Spain’s New age Verification Check This Out: Workaround for Flatpaks Contact Info: Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, moss@bodhilinux.com, Mastodon @zaivala@hostux.social, occasionally on HPR Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, also checkout the other two podcasts I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid) and 3 Fat Truckers Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypical_dr@mastodon.social, AtypicalDr on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC. Eric – I can be reached by email at eric@mintcast.org. Charles – charles@mintcast.org, Mr PDX on Discord Jim– jim@mintcast.org, GNU2Linux on Discord, The Linux Shortcut on YouTube Special Thanks To: Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio 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 The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!> | — | ||||||
| 9/28/25 | 469 – Bill Loves Windows | First up in the news: LMDE 7 ‘Gigi” BETA released In security and privacy: Mississippi enforces Age Assurance Law, NPM suffers a security breach. Then in our Wanderings, Joe works with Proxmox, and Openmediavault, Jim Troubleshoots hard disks, Majid goes back to work, and Bill works on his “Immich.” And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions Link To Full Show Notes The News: LMDE 7 ‘Gigi” BETA released Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human Security and Privacy Mississippi’s Age Assurance Law NPM Packages Security Breach Contact Info: Joe – Tllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, moss@bodhilinux.com, Mastodon @zaivala@hostux.social, occasionally on HPR Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, also checkout the other two podcasts I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid) and 3 Fat Truckers Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypical_dr@mastodon.social, AtypicalDr on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC. Eric – I can be reached by email at eric@mintcast.org. Charles – charles@mintcast.org, Mr PDX on Discord Jim– jim@mintcast.org, GNU2Linux on Discord, The Linux Shortcut on YouTube Special Thanks To: Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio 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 The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!> | — | ||||||
| 9/21/25 | Roundtable 092025 | A Saturday Livestream about everything and nothing. Discord – https://mintcast.org/discordTelegram – https://mintcast.org/tg https://youtube.com/live/S782hvbNWNc?feature=share | — | ||||||
| 9/15/25 | 468 – Very Plexable | First up in the news: Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” released, Mint Monthly News – August In security and privacy: Plex is a problem again And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions 00:00:00 – Intro 00:01:44 – News 01:16:45 – Security And Privacy 01:35:11 – Bodhi Corner 01:38:37 – Vibrations From The Ether 01:42:31 – Check This Out 01:51:48 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts 01:53:06 – Wrap Up 01:55:11 – Special Thanks 01:55:45 – Outro Link To Full Show Notes The News: Mint 22.2 ‘Zara’ released From the Mint blog by Clem What’s new in Mint 22.2 Zara Release Notes for Mint 22.2 Zara How to upgrade from Mint 22.1 LMDE 7 beta expected in Sep. 2025; Mint 22.3 in Dec. 2025 KDE launches its own distribution (again) Firefox To End 32-bit support in 2026 Run Windows apps in Linux using open source WinBoat Is Roku Driving the Final Nail in the Coffin of Traditional TV? Not completely linux related but Borderlands 4 released Sept 12 Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Linux Performance Improving But Short Of AMD Ryzen & Intel Core Ultra Security and Privacy Plex User Data Exposed An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too) Check This Out NerdyDayTrips The Bullshit Machine Contact Info: Joe – Tllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, moss@bodhilinux.com, Mastodon @zaivala@hostux.social, occasionally on HPR Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, also checkout the other two podcasts I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid) and 3 Fat Truckers Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org and AtypicalDoctor on Discord, The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC. Eric – I can be reached by email at eric@mintcast.org. Charles – charles@mintcast.org, Mr PDX on Discord Jim– jim@mintcast.org, GNU2Linux on Discord, The Linux Shortcut on YouTube Special Thanks To: Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio 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 The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!> | — | ||||||
| 9/6/25 | Round Table 09-06-25 | A Saturday Livestream about everything and nothing. | — | ||||||
| 8/31/25 | 467 – Line Of Sight | First up in the Mint news: Another birthday for Mint!, Mint 22.2 final ISOs now being tested In security and privacy: Arch is Ddossed and malware abounds Then in our Wanderings: Joe does a lot, Majid achieves very little, Charles, Bill falls off the ARC and Jim is a photographic genius And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions Link To Full Show Notes 00:00:00 – Intro 00:01:33 – News 00:04:58 – Security And Privacy 00:17:07 – Wanderings 02:01:52 – Vibrations From The Ether 02:09:18 – Check This Out 02:10:12 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts 02:11:08 – Wrap Up 02:12:57 – Special Thanks 02:13:25 – Outro The News: Another birthday for Mint! Mint 22.2 ‘Zara’ final ISOs being tested Security and Privacy: Ringreaper Linux Malware Arch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two Contact Info: Joe – Tllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, moss@bodhilinux.com, Mastodon @zaivala@hostux.social, occasionally on HPR Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, also checkout the other two podcasts I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid) and 3 Fat Truckers Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypical_dr@mastodon.social, AtypicalDr on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC. Eric – I can be reached by email at eric@mintcast.org. Charles – charles@mintcast.org, Mr PDX on Discord Jim– jim@mintcast.org, GNU2Linux on Discord, The Linux Shortcut on YouTube Special Thanks To: Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio 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 The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!> | — | ||||||
| 8/23/25 | Round Table 08-23-25 | A Saturday Livestream about everything and nothing. | — | ||||||
| 8/17/25 | 466 – Print All The Things | First up in The News: Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” BETA Release, The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) project is seeking increased sponsorship, and CachyOS Topped DistroWatch’s Rankings In our Innards section: Joe goes hard on some 3D printing In Check This Out, Charles gives us an overview of Pass Key And finally, in Vibrations from the Ether, feedback and a couple of suggestions Link To Full Show Notes The News: Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” – BETA Release CachyOS Topped DistroWatch’s Rankings The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) project is seeking increased sponsorship Contact Info: Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, moss@bodhilinux.com, Mastodon @zaivala@hostux.social, occasionally on HPR Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, also checkout the other two podcasts I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid) and 3 Fat Truckers Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypical_dr@mastodon.social, AtypicalDr on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC. Eric – I can be reached by email at eric@mintcast.org. Charles – charles@mintcast.org, Mr PDX on Discord Jim– jim@mintcast.org, GNU2Linux on Discord, The Linux Shortcut on YouTube Special Thanks To: Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio 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 The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!> | — | ||||||
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