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This week we talk about alternative ways to remote into your PC. Eric the IT guy joins us to talk about BootC, and we celebrate Linux' 35 birthday!

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00:48 Intro

Being a perfectionist

PLA 3D printing

06:00 Remoting in - David

Archiving 35mm photos and 8mm film

Mainframes

Sunshine and Moonlight over Tailscale

Cyclical trends

Convergence device

Interface to the "mainframe"

"Hack" steam streaming

15:41 BootC Interview

EricTheItGuy - Eric Hendricks

What is bootc

Why bootc?

Roll back and reproduce-ability

Updates

Troubleshooting

Initial experience

What you should know first

Mind shift

Local bootc

Advantages of bootc

Getting started

Installing the desktop

Eric's bootc pitch

41:30 Happy Birthday Linux

Linux turns 35 years old

Impact of Linux on Steve

Impact of Linux on Eric

Impact of Linux on Noah

The world runs Linux

9 to 5 Linux

49:24 Struggling with "Good Enough"

Building bridges

Loosing sight of the MVP

Steve's example

Eric's example

Being good stewards

Write in!

News Wire

KDE Gear 26.08 has been released

Filezilla 3.71 is now available

RPM 6.1 is out

Rust 1.98 has been released

COSMIC Desktop 1.6 is now available

Thunderbird 154 is out

Firefox 154 is also out

The GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu has been released

The tails team has announced the availability of Tails 7.11

Garuda Linux has pushed out its latest release

Slackware based Porteux 2.8 is now out

OpenAI Open Sources Codex Harness Framework

TrueFoundry's open source AI agent harness TrueForge boasts 30%-75% cheaper task completion than Claude Managed Agents

AT&T is Using Open Source Models to Curb Anthropic Bills

A New Nonprofit Aims to Build Open-Source Software for the ARM Industry

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