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


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Sep 22 2024 106 mins   41


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









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





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  • 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 <Thanks, Clem … and co!>