S13E40 – Ravens

This week we have been fixing network and audio noise and playing Hotshot Racing. We look back and celebrate the good things that happened in 2020, bring you some GUI love and go over all your wonderful feedback.

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It’s Season 13 Episode 40 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

• We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:
  • Alan has been fixing network and audio noise.
  • Martin has been playing Hotshot Racing.
• We discuss a segment.
  • E01 – March 24th
    • The World Cup of Ubuntu Desktops has been won by Hardy Heron
  • E03 – April 7th
    • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)
    • Ubuntu Testing Week
  • E07 – May 5th
    • Mark Shuttleworth speaks
    • Ubuntu 20.10 will be “Groovy Gorilla”
  • E11 – June 2nd
    • Lenovo Makes Entire Workstation Range Available with Ubuntu
    • 8GB Raspeberry Pi 4 launched
  • E17 – July 15th
    • Flutter comes to desktop linux
  • E21 – August 11th
    • The National Museum of Computing launches virtual tour
  • E23 – August 25th
    • Jupiter Broadcasting is independent again
  • E25 – September 8th
    • HP Z series on Ubuntu
  • E29 – October 6th
    • The Failed OUYA Game Console Seeing Work For Mainline Linux Kernel Support
  • E31 – October 20th
    • The Windows Calculator on Linux with Uno Platform
    • Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 now available!
  • E33 – November 3rd
    • It’s a Raspberry Pi. It’s a keyboard.
  • E35 – November 17th
    • Ubuntu MATE 20.4.1 is available for the GPD WIN Max
• We share a GUI Lurve:
  • MangoHUD – A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more.
  • MangoHUD PPA

Normal use

mangohud /path/to/app

Steam launcher

Open Properties for a game in Steam and set this in “SET LAUNCH OPTIONS…”

mangohud %command%

• And we go over all your amazing feedback – thanks for sending it – please keep sending it!
  • http://cedar-chiropractic.com/YadPlayerDemo.mkv
  • http://cedar-chiropractic.com/YadPlayer.zip
• Image credit: Tyler Quiring
• We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.
• You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Toot us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

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