Audacity updates their privacy policy and issues an apology, running Android apps on your Linux phone, ARM powered gaming Chromebooks, virtual webcams in OBS, and Haiku Beta 3 adds support for Nvidia GPUs, kinda. 

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LWDW 285: Audacity Apologizes

Steam announces a Linux powered handheld that can double as a desktop, PipeWire brings back volume controls for ALSA, Nvidia makes Blender less blinky on Wayland, and a $26 smartwatch that you might actually want. 

LWDW 284: Steamy Steam Deck

Twitch adds a Linux tag! Edge overtakes Firefox, reverse engineering the PineCone, Pure-Rust Tor implementations, and streaming Raspberry Pi games to the Gameboy Advance with a link cable.

LWDW 283: Twitch Gets A Linux Tag

Audacity addresses the concerns around their new Privacy Policy, Google kills support for 32-bit Netflix, open-source self hosted discord-compatible chat, and big changes for Linux audio coming in Kernel 5.14. 

LWDW 282: Audacity Phone Home

Linux Kernel 5.13 is packed with cool features! Audacity Jacks up their latest release, Canonical launches Blender LTS support, and Microsoft forgets about Skype, again. 

LWDW 281: Expired Skype

Nvidia enables support for OpenGL and Vulkan rendering on Xwayland! Intel releases sluggish microcode, bringing the AUR to Ubuntu, and what happened to the Microsoft Linux repos?

LWDW 280: AUR For Ubuntu

Freenode seizes the largest community channel left! Vivaldi 4.0 avoids the bloat, JingPad launches an IndieGoGo for their Linux powered tablet, and Raspberry Pi’s keep astronauts awake at night.  

LWDW 279: Freenode Kills #Linux

Pop!_OS Linux 21.04 is ready for testing! Slimbook releases a simplified GUI for controlling mobile Ryzen TDP values, Blender 2.93 LTS nodes all the things, and a Raspberry Pi powered guitar effect pedal. 

LWDW 278: Rainbow Donuts

OpSec claims their Ubuntu DMCA notice was spoofed, Firefox 89 get special Proton powers, Haveibeenpwned goes open-source, and a flame spitting Raspberry Pi powered Roomba. 

LWDW 277: Intel Xee Wee

Audacity has a new CLA that nobody likes, Freenode begins hijacking channels, DMCA takedown notices for downloading Ubuntu, and controlling OBS with a Raspberry Pi powered StreamDeck.

LWDW 276: Nerd Jewelry

Everyone resigns from Freenode, System76 launches their open-source keyboard, Audacity drops telemetry, and 1Password gets a native client. Then we show you the best way to use a StreamDeck on Linux. 

LWDW 275: Free As A Node

Audacity explains their new telemetry, Microsoft Edge enters beta, Raspberry Pi powered KVM switches, and 5 totally useless Linux commands. All this plus your emails. 

LWDW 274: Oh The Audacity

MuseGroup acquires the much beloved audio editor Audacity, Ubuntu 21.04 upgrades have been blocked for some users, open-source firmware for your IP security cams, and turbo charging the Amiga with a Raspberry Pi. All this plus ...

LWDW 273: Musing Audacity

Ubuntu and Fedora have fresh distros for you to play with! Blender nukes OpenCL from orbit, Kernel 5.12 gets official support for DualSense, adding a virtual KVM with Barrier, and GUI app support launches for ...

LWDW 272: Windows Subsystem For Linux Gets GUI

The Minnesota Department of Computer Science & Engineering learns not to experiment on kernel developers, Slackware comes out of hibernation, KDE Neon adds an off switch for offline updates, and getting vertical with GNOME 40.

LWDW 271: University Of Minnesota Gets Plonked

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