Episode 220: Multi-Monitor in Gnome 40 - a podcast by Noah J. Chelliah

from 2021-02-23T19:00

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The Gnome team is revamping multi-monitor support. Firefox 86 is released and features Total Cookie Protection to make cross site tracking more difficult increasing user privacy. Kodi 19 has landed with a lot of new features around metadata and a better music interface.
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ProtonMail (https://protonmail.com/)Tutuanotoa (https://tutanota.com/)
Fastmail (https://www.fastmail.com/)18:15 RHCSA Training - Adam
Getting to ask questions is goodClasses can create community
In person training is bestUdemy Course Link (https://www.udemy.com/course/red-hat-certified-system-administrator-rhcsa-8-boot-camp/)
VTC (https://vtc.com/) is almost as good as official RedHat trainingRHCSA Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Training and Exam Preparation Guide Second Edition (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1775062147/)
23:15 Linux Accessibility - BrendanTrackball + Onboard () on screen keyboard
27:50 Affiliate link for register4less? - Jerremy14.99/yr
Privacy includedFree email aliases
Free 10MB of web hosting (no SSL)Sub Accounts for managing
Customer service is beyond amazing29:45 Pick of the Week
Open IAS (https://openias.garykim.dev/)Game Clock (count down/up)
Adjust on the flyKeyboard Bindings
Set Team LogoMultiple Scoreboard Tabs
Control multiple Scoreboard scoreboards through one control window.Packaged as an AppImage
Cross PlatformFOSS
34:20 Gadget of the WeekBitBarista (https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/articles/bitbarista)BitBarista: fully autonomous coffee machine built using Raspberry Pi and Bitcoin
Pi Controlling the BitBarista uses RaspbianUses Electrum for the BitCoin payments.
Code is on GitHub (https://github.com/digitalWestie/BitBarista)Pays people to restock it
Can even call a technician to get repairs36:40 Multi-Monitor on Gnome 40
Gnome Blog Post (https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2021/02/23/gnome-shell-40-and-multi-monitor/)Workspaces changes on primary monitor by default
Supports changing workspaces on all displaysIntroduction of the workspaces navigator on secondary display
Transitioning to Horizontal workspacesNew additional shortcuts
switch workspaces will be Super+Alt+←/→.Moving windows between workspaces will be Super+Alt+Shift+←/→.
Super+Alt+↑ will also open the overview and then app gridSuper+Alt+↓ will close them
These directional keyboard shortcuts have matching touch-pad gestures:Three-finger swipes left and right will switch workspaces
Three-finger swipes up and down will open the overview and app gridGnome is doing and explaining changes in the open
44:00 Kodi 19.0 (Matrix)Kodi Article (https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-190-matrix-release)
Nearly 50 developers contributed codeAbout 5,000 commits
Over 1,500 pull requests since the first release of 18.x "Leia"Over 5,500 changed files
600,000 lines of code added, changed or removedsignificant improvements to meta-data handling
New Matrix-inspired visualizationDatabase and meta-data improvements
Many more improvementsKodi 19 replaces the old XML meta-data scrapers with Python
Most new features here revolve around usability49:50 Nextcloud Hub
Nextcloud Blog Post (https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub-21-out-with-up-to-10x-better-performance-whiteboard-and-more-collaboration-features/)High performance back end for Nextcloud files
Wide range of performance improvementsNextcloud talk improvements
Debuts message status indicatorsRaise hand feature
Group conversation descriptionAnd more!
Wide Range of Groupware improvementsdrag’n’drop
Nicer threading in MailSyncing social media avatars in Contacts
53:00 Firefox 86 ReleasedMozilla Blog Post (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/86.0/releasenotes/)
New FeaturesTotal Cookie Protection (each site gets it's own ("cookie jar")
Multiple videos Picture-in-PictureFixed Issues
Reader mode now works with local HTML pagesOrca and other screen reader fixes
Reader View links have more color contrastvarious security fixes
55:00 New Platform for the Showhttps://parachutelive.tv/
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