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First up in the news: Mint monthly news, The AUR gets hit... again, And a new AI generated Desktop. In Security and Privacy, "The death of privacy online", and Automatic firmware updates becomes mandatory. We then get in

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First up in the news: Mint monthly news, The AUR gets hit... again, And a new AI generated Desktop. In Security and Privacy, "The death of privacy online", and Automatic firmware updates becomes mandatory. We then get in

· First up in the news: PlayStation and Microsoft goes fully digital, Amazon blames piracy, Brave goes “containerized”, and Immich has “Big Upgrades.” · Then in our Wanderings: Joe does more with the mini rack and plans

· First up in the news: PlayStation and Microsoft goes fully digital, Amazon blames piracy, Brave goes “containerized”, and Immich has “Big Upgrades.” · Then in our Wanderings: Joe does more with the mini rack and plans

In our Wanderings: Joe Takes a trip, Bill’s got nothing and Jim likes Indiana And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions Link To Full Show Notes Contact Info: Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, jb@mintcast.org

In our Wanderings: Joe Takes a trip, Bill’s got nothing and Jim likes Indiana And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

First up the news We have a great little tool in the “Check This Section” Link To Full Show Notes The News: Linux is Getting a Free Pass on Age Verification in California and Colorado DuckDuckGo Installs Up 30% After Goo

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – May Then in our Wanderings: Bill pays the bills, Joe solders the irons and Jim fins the jelly Link To Full Show Notes The News: Mint Monthly News Contact Info: Joe – Tllts.org, l

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – April, In security and privacy: Proton Mail now supports post-quantum encryption, Link To Full Show Notes The News: Mint Monthly News – April 2026 NHS to close-source hundreds of

First up in the news: Updated Mint ISOs Then in our Wanderings: Majid explore Tailscale, Joe does it all again. Jim, Charlie, and Charles got some stuff too. And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions Link To

First up in the news: Mint 23 is named, Ubuntu 26.04 coming up and its already causing controversy, Firefox gets more features, big tech making some changes, and the governments of the world are meddling, in good and bad

First up in the news: The fight against enshittification starts In security and privacy: Shock-horror, Chinese government spies Then in our Wanderings: Joe rambles, Bill drives himself crazy, Majid actually has fun! Char

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, March 2026; Major Redesign for Firefox: Chrome getting an upgrade; Debian 13.4; SUSE for sale – again; ASUS says MacBook Neo is “shock”; HBO, Paramount Merge; Xfwl4 coming to XFCE

First up in the news: California is doing its thing again Then in our Wanderings: Bill does it while sick, Joe does a lot, Jim plays with ghost And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions Link To Full Show Note

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – January 2026, In security and privacy: Theres an SSH Stalker And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions Link To Full Show Notes The News: Mint Monthly News – January 2

First up in security and privacy: Euro firms ditch American Clouds and systemd stuff Then in our Wanderings: Joe, Majid does yoga with his distros, Charles is our security guru, Jim explores the new Mint release And fina

First up in the news: Mint 22.3 “Zena” released. Then lots of drivers news, new distros, AI and Apple getting sued (again) And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions Link To Full Show Notes The News: Mint 22.3

First up in the news: A retraction Review of our predictions for last year, and what we predict for 2026 Then our much anticipated Wanderings Link To Full Show Notes Retraction from episode 475: The first is from the min

In this episode of mintCast, we kick things off with Mint Monthly News for December, covering what’s new and noteworthy in the Linux Mint world. In Security and Privacy, Charles breaks down two fresh vulnerabilities, Rea

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – November, and a variety of other items In security and privacy: Cloudfare goes down and Charles finds out that Shai-Hulud returns from Arrakis And finally, the feedback and a cou

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
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