We compare two very compelling boxes side by side & discover the advantages of Android as our HTPC. As two long time Linux users we were surprised & a little horrified. We share our strange journey to this place & why we are staying.

Plus we discuss the impact that free Windows 10 had on Linux, Microsoft’s lost opportunity & geek out over Noah’s cool new hardware.

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The Best Linux Set Top Box

NVIDIA SHIELD TV.

• NVIDIA Tegra X1 processor with a 256-core GPU and 3GB RAM
• Android Marshmallow
• 4K playback at 60 FPS (VP9, H265, H264)
• 7.1 and 5.1 surround sound passthrough over HDMI
• Gigabit Ethernet
• Built in 802.11n, 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz
• HDMI 2.0
• Two USB 3.0 (Type A)
• MicroSD slot
• IR receiver (compatible with Logitech Harmony)
• Nvidia’s Library of features games, like Borderlands 2.
• Game controller is included.
• All of the apps finally feel living room ready.
• Like… Netflix, Hulu, Sling TV, Plex, YouTube, and my favorite Kodi.

• Starts at $200

• SHIELD Android TV Box vs Apple TV vs Roku vs Fire TV | SHIELD

• Arch Linux for Shield TV | nVidia Shield Android TV

I present to you instructions on how to get Arch Linux working natively on your shield TV dual booted with your Android rom. This is all thanks to the amazing people in this thread for getting Ubuntu on the shield and would not be possible without them.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/shie…ld-tv-t3150352

Buy it:

• NVIDIA® SHIELD – 4K Streaming. Advanced Gaming. Android TV.-Newegg.com
• Amazon.com: NVIDIA SHIELD – 4K HDR Streaming Media Player. Android TV. Great Gaming.: Video Games

WD TV Live

Local Media
IR Remote
Doesn’t require a server component
No account / activation required
Runs it’s own media software

Matricom G-Box Q

Local Media
IR Remote
Doesn’t require a server component
No account / activation required
Runs Kodi (installed by default)

— PICKS —

Runs Linux

Tough Skylake box PC has four GbE and eight USB ports, and Runs Linux

Adlink’s Linux-ready MXE-5500 fanless industrial computer offers 6th Gen Core CPUs, 4K support, dual SATA bays, four GbE ports, mini-PCIe, USIM, and more.

Desktop App Pick

Gradio: A GTK3 app for finding and listening to internet radio stations

• Gradio 4.0 Adds Volume Control, Improves ‘Discover’ Section

Spotlight

NEW Natively Compatible Linux DJ Controller

Works out of the box with Linux
Presets built in for mix
Native controller AND audio interface
Separate audio interface for Headphones (native compatible with Linux)

— NEWS —

Slashdot Asks: Free Upgrade To Windows 10 Ends Today: What’s Your Thought On This?

While users have lauded Windows 10 for performance improvements, the Redmond-based company’s aggressive upgrade tactics have spoiled the experience for many. Whether it was installing Windows 10 on computers without users’ consent, or eating up tons of bandwidth for users who couldn’t afford it, or whether it was deceptive dialog boxes, Microsoft definitely deserves a lot of blame — and rightfully, a bunch of lawsuits. But many of these things, hopefully, will end today — July 29, 2016 (or to be exact, Saturday morning 5:59am EDT / 2:59am PDT) Today is officially the last day when eligible Windows 7 and Windows 8 computers could be upgraded to Windows 10 for free of charge. After this, an upgrade to Windows 10 will set you back by at least $119.

• Windows 10 pain: Reg man has 75 per cent upgrade failure rate

The laptops are Lenovo R61 and W510 systems, and the desktops are a garden variety box based on an Asus P7P55D Pro motherboard. The other desktop is my beloved Hydra 2.0 liquid cooled, dual-processor, monster system based on the EVGA Classified SR-2 motherboard. These details turn out to be important in our story.

• Microsoft sued over Windows 10 update campaign

Three Florida men sued Microsoft in U.S. District Court in Florida on Friday, saying Microsoft’s Windows 10 update prompts violated laws governing unsolicited electronic advertisements, as well as Federal Trade Commission prohibitions on deceptive and unfair practices.

Blackmagic Design Finally Introduces Fusion 8 For Linux

After acquiring Fusion back in 2014 from Canadian company eyeon software Inc, Blackmagic Design has put a lot of energy into developing one of the most advanced pieces of compositing software out there. After offering support for both, Windows and Mac platforms, the company just has announced Fusion 8 for Linux.

Editing = Cut a piece of footage and remove/add a bit in the middle.

Composting = Take an object that isn’t in the footage and put it there.

Motion graphics = take an inanimate object and animate it.

Good looking hardware shipping with +elementary​ OS.

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Craig Wright claims he’s Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin & while the Internet doubts his claims, a few key Bitcoin personalities believe him. We’ll get you up to speed on this fascinating story.

Plus the long term negative impact of self driving cars, the Rock’s got a clock & Windows 95 like you’ve never seen it before!

Then our Kickstarter of the week & more!

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Show Notes:

• Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson just released a motivational alarm clock app
• Hulu is working on a live TV service for cord-cutters
• Warren Buffett says that self-driving cars will be bad for insurance companies | The Verge
• Someone got Windows 95 running on an Apple Watch
• Satoshi Nakamoto – Bitcoin Creator Revealed – YouTube
• Australian Craig Wright comes out as Bitcoin creator – YouTube
• Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto
• Shutthefuckup by theogoodman
• Andresen Denies Hacking as GitHub Access Limited – Bitcoin News
• Craig Wright Will Move Satoshi’s Bitcoins “Soon” – The Merkle

Kickstarter of the Weeeeeeeek

• OPLØFT – Make your desk height-adjustable by OPLØFT — Kickstarter

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We cover some great open source projects that help you live life off-line, as if you were online. We also discuss the upstream contributions from Munich & an awesome block level back up system.

Plus some great feedback, a road trip update & more!

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Pre-Show:

• How to Watch Netflix Natively on Linux – the Easy Way

Thankfully, all of that has become unnecessary and using Netflix natively on Linux is now really easy and basically all you need to do is use Google Chrome.

• How To Watch Hulu on Ubuntu 14.04 and Up – OMG! Ubuntu!

The problem? Ubuntu no longer includes HAL by default nor in the Ubuntu Archive. Sites that use Flash DRM don’t work on Ubuntu out of the box.

Feedback:

• Road show name

From: Dow
RE: Road Show

Finding Linux

Here is my name contribution! Love all the shows! Good luck with the endeavor!

• Name for road show

From: Terry
Subject: Name for road show

The Very Open Road Show (vors)

The Wide Open Road Show (off to the wors!)

The Linux Open Road Show

Linux On The Move

• If you pass by Colorado

From: Alex
Subject: If you pass by Colorado

For the road show I heard that you might pass by in Colorado. In case that is so, would be great if you like to come by for a beer at a microbrew.

Then the second thing, I was this week at a students meeting of linux users at the University, and it was great to see so many young people interested in linux.

They even helped installing Mint on whoever liked to try linux. Some of them where even running Arch! There were around 10-15 people, perhaps you like to meet them, they are the new generation of linux users.

Rover Log – Live Tracker

Live map of the adventures of Jupiter Broadcasting’s Rover Studio.

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TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Munich now a major contributor to open source

The city of Munich is a major contributor to free and open source projects, sending bugfixes to upstream developers, making available software solutions and sharing best practices and technical information. In August, Munich IT staff members shared the city’s accomplishments with the community of Debian developers, one of the main free software distributions.

DigitalOcean

• DigitalOcean: SSD Cloud Server, VPS Server, Simple Cloud Hosting

Off-Line Like your On-Line

what is wallabag? – wallabag

wallabag is a self hostable application for saving web pages. Unlike other services, wallabag is free (as in freedom) and open source.

With this application you will not miss content anymore. Click, save, read it when you want. It saves the content you select so that you can read it when you have time.

KeePassX

KeePassX saves many different information e.g. user names, passwords, urls, attachments and comments in one single database. For a better management user-defined titles and icons can be specified for each single entry. Furthermore the entries are sorted in groups, which are customizable as well. The integrated search function allows to search in a single group or the complete database.
KeePassX offers a little utility for secure password generation. The password generator is very customizable, fast and easy to use. Especially someone who generates passwords frequently will appreciate this feature.

Syncthing

Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and
you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is shared with some third party and how it’s transmitted over the Internet.

Archiving a website with Wget

I’ll share the command I use to archive a single website.

wget -mpck –user-agent=”” -e robots=off –wait 1 www.foo.com

• Zoom Telephonics
• Zoom Telephonics – Mobile Broadband Modem and Smartphone Compatibility Information

Linux Academy

• Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

datto

The Datto Block Driver (Dattobd) solves the above problems. Dattobd is an open source Linux kernel module for point-in-time live snapshotting. Dattobd can be loaded onto a running Linux machine (without a reboot) and used to create an image file representing any block device at the instant the snapshot is taken. After the first snapshot, Dattobd tracks incremental changes to the block device and can therefore efficiently update existing backups by copying only the blocks that have changed.

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• Traccar Client – Android Apps on Google Play

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