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Take advantage of the Chromecast without Google, extend Kodi with awesome new backends & cast media around your network with free Linux tools. Our panel covers great tips to fully trick out your Linux media setup.

Plus our thoughts on the FCC forcing TP-Link to support open source firmwares, reverse tethering for Android, a quick look at Mint 18 XFCE edition & a lot more!

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Show Notes:

Pre-Show

• System Monitor – GNOME Shell Extensions
• Extension causes stutter lag in video players.

Follow Up / Catch Up

Bring Linux apps to the Mac Desktop with Docker

Here are a few reasons why you may want to use Docker to run Linux applications on macOS:

• To access to newer versions of software
• To test various versions of the same software simultaneously
• To use tools which may not be ported to macOS yet

• For sandboxing an application:

  • To tighten up on security
  • or to isolate and/or spy on network traffic

• Docker for Mac and Windows is Now Generally Available and Ready for Production | Docker Blog

• Docker Containers on the Desktop

Home Netgear GS116 stopped passing packets. Suspecting this (middle) slightly bulging 820uF cap. Plausible? pic.twitter.com/RVHTYWrVft

— Alan Pope (@popey) August 2, 2016

FCC forces TP-Link to support open source firmware on routers

TP-Link agreed to pay a $200,000 fine, comply with the rules going forward, and to let customers install open source firmware on routers.

SimpleRT: Simple Reverse Tethering for Android

Reverse Tethering utility for Android.

Allows you to share your computer’s internet connection with your Android device via a USB cable.

Development is still in progress, bugs and errors can occur.

No root, no adb required!

Linux & OSX are supported! Windows is not, and unlikely to be in the future (ok, maybe in some day).

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Win an Ubuntu Linux laptop in the System76 ‘Pop Quiz’ giveaway

System76 is giving away one of its most popular Linux-based laptops — the Lemur.

Linux Mint 18 “Sarah” Xfce released!

Linux Mint 18 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2021. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use.

• New features in Linux Mint 18 Xfce – Linux Mint

GNOME Maps Is Back On Track Thanks to Mapbox

“With this [3.20.4] release we switch from using the MapQuest open API for fetching tiles. And instead we start using Mapbox API. Using an community API key from Mapbox,” writes Maps dev Jonas Danielsson in the change-log to accompany the release.

DigitalOcean

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

Chromecast Without Google

• Google has sold 30 million Chromecasts, 5 million in the past 2 months

Pichai revealed that the company has shipped 30 million Chromecast units since the release of the device back in 2013.

Videostream for Google Chromecast – Chrome Web Store

Play your own local videos on your Chromecast or Android TV directly from your computer (PC, Mac, Linux) – Subtitles supported!

castnow: commandline chromecast player

castnow is a command-line utility that can be used to play back media files on
your Chromecast device. It supports playback of local video files, videos on the web and torrents.

You can also re-attach a running playback session (this sentence should belong somewhere else).

Stream Videos To Chromecast From The Command Line Using Stream2Chromecast ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog

Stream2Chromecast is a command line Chromecast media streamer for Linux. The tool can transcode unsupported formats in real time and play them on the Chromecast.

Stream2Chromecast features:

• cast audio and video to a Chromecast device;
• can transcode any formats not supported by the Chromecast in real time (using FFmpeg or Libav), so you don’t have to convert any video manually;
• provides basic control commands: pause / unpause / stop playback (currently this only works when not transcoding), set or mute volume;
• allows specifying a device when multiple Chromecasts are connected on the same network;
• supports passing custom custom transcoder parameters to ffmpeg or avconv (thanks to this, you can set the quality, add subtitles even though Stream2Chromecast doesn’t directly support it, etc.);

• supports specifying the port to use for streaming media.

• GitHub – Pat-Carter/stream2chromecast: Chromecast media streamer for Linux

dlnacast: Cast local media to your TV through UPnP/DLNA

Cast local media to your TV through UPnP/DLNA.
Based on thibauts node-upnp-mediarenderer-client.

Kast for Kodi

A bash script tool for casting media to the Kodi entertainment center using a Linux desktop/laptop.

• https://github.com/MichaelTunnell/Kast

Linux Academy

• Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Home Netgear GS116 stopped passing packets. Suspecting this (middle) slightly bulging 820uF cap. Plausible? pic.twitter.com/RVHTYWrVft

— Alan Pope (@popey) August 2, 2016

Making Kodi Great Again

Naming video files/TV shows

Kodi requires each TV show to be in its own folder, and for each file to contain a pattern from which Kodi can determine the season and episode number (e.g. “S01E01”).

• tinyMediaManager

tinyMediaManager is a full featured media manager to organize and clean up your media library.

• Screenshot gallery

Flirc: Use any remote with your media center

Backend Options

PlexKodiConnect: let Kodi talk to your Plex — Plex Forums

PKC synchronizes your media from your Plex server to the native Kodi database. Because PKC uses the native Kodi database, the above limitations are gone!

• You can browse your media full speed, images are cached
• All other Kodi addons will be able to “see” your media, thinking it’s normal Kodi stuff

• Use any Kodi skin you want!

• PlexKodiConnect: Plex add-on for Kodi

PKC combines the best of Kodi – ultra smooth navigation, beautiful and highly customizable user interfaces and playback of any file under the sun, and the Plex Media Server to manage all your media without lifting a finger.

Have a look at some screenshots to see what’s possible.

What is currently supported?

PKC currently provides the following features:

• All Plex library types
  • Movies and Home Videos
  • TV Shows
  • Music
  • Pictures and Photos
• Different PKC interface languages:
  • English
  • German
  • More coming up
• Plex Watch Later / Plex It!
• Plex Companion: fling Plex media (or anything else) from other Plex devices to PlexKodiConnect
• Plex Transcoding
• Automatically download more artwork from Fanart.tv, just like the Kodi addon Artwork Downloader
  • Banners
  • Disc art
  • Clear logos
  • Landscapes
  • Clear art
  • Extra fanart backgrounds
• Automatically group movies into movie sets
• Direct play from network paths (e.g. “\\server\Plex\movie.mkv”) instead of streaming from slow HTTP (e.g. “192.168.1.1:32400”). You have to setup all your Plex libraries to point to such network paths. Do have a look at the wiki here

Add-on:Emby for Kodi – Official Kodi Wiki

Emby is a media management server that allows you to synchronize media libraries, watched status, and watch progress between compatible devices. Emby for Kodi allows Kodi to use an Emby as a media management backend. This add-on effectively replaces the Kodi built-in media database with Emby. Currently supported media includes Movies, TV Episodes, & Music.

A quick intro video from one of the dev’s: https://youtu.be/IaecDPcXI3I?t=119

Post-Show: What if Apple is intentionally slowing down the Mac platform, to spur iPad adoption?

• iPad Pro — What’s a Computer? – YouTube

You think you know what a computer is, but then you see this one. Meet iPad Pro.

• Apple’s new ad really wants you to believe the iPad Pro is a full computer | The Verge

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Angela and Chris explain a project where you are able to gift items locally and participate in a community based system of giving and getting to know each other.

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Buy Nothing Project

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Mail Sack:

Thomas writes:

I am after a little advice. I have an upgrade on my mobile phone contract. The choices are the Samsung galaxy s5 or the HTC one m8 both 16gb.

If it were you, which would you go for? The hardware looks very similar, apart from the cameras. Which the s5 looks to smash the HTC.

One thing that slightly concerns me with the samsung is KNOX. I didn’t know anything about this before my upgrade, and it seems to lock down the device, apparently voiding warranty if rooted with custom kernel/recovery.

Many thanks Chris, keep up the great work!
PS I tune into LAS every week without fail, my misses asked the other day whilst listening to you and Matt, “oh, they are still going then, is that where you got the cool computer shirt from?”

Happy new year to you and the family,

Thomas from UK.

Mike writes:

Chris, I think you’re my father. Remember that girl in High school?

Where do I get JB stickers?

Sakuramboo writes:

Sup Ang,

I figured you all could use my story in a ting ad.

Way back when, when Ting started advertising on JB, I did a lot of research on them and Sprint and was very impressed with them and their pay what you use plan. I started to become a spokesman for them even though I never switched. I introduced my sister to them and shortly after my sister and her husband switched their Sprint phones to Ting. Last time I asked her, she said that they are saving money, but not much because her husband uses a LOT of data. But, I don’t have the figures. Then, my dad was getting fed up with Verizon and decided that it was time to “try out these new smart phones everyone is talking about.” I showed him Ting and liked the pay what you use model as well. So, he bought a phone off ebay and when it came, I set everything up for him. My mom also wanted a phone and so we bought an old flip phone for her and added it to my dads plan for 6 bucks more. He now pays just a fraction of what he did before and actually has 2 phones on the plan, which blew him away.

All this in the span of about a year. And all this while I was still on Verizon but convincing everyone around me to switch to Ting. Then I bought a Moto X (Sprint) to switch and early terminate from Verizon, only to find that Sprint had a lock on the Moto X for a year and could not BYOD. Then, October 1st they opened to BYOD and I quickly ported my number and moved to the Moto X.

I was paying $95 a month for Verizon’s unlimited(?) plans. After my first month with Ting, I paid $34 dollars after tax. My only complaint is that the 4G service where I mostly am isn’t the best. But, that is a problem with Sprint. Ting got 5 new customers all because I saw their ads on JB and began pitching their ads to my family.

Thanks go out to Ting, you, Chris, Matt, and everyone else at JB for saving me almost a grand a year. That’s a raise right there.

One final note. I know Chris always gets down to the song that plays in the background of Kyra’s app of the week videos. That song was made from the samples that are included with Adobe Audition. I know this because I created the same exact song for use in a previous job many years ago.

Just in case if Chris wanted that song to play on repeat in the car to drive you crazy.

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Mike and Chris address a number of topics this week, from open source project’s properly communicating with the media, Google selling Motorola to Leveno, and a debate about Microsoft’s rumored CEO choice.

Plus your feedback, and more!

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Feedback

• We all love / hate college
• Jason’s email: Scala deployment with only free software
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• Egon’s Email: Egon is still around
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Dev Week Hoopla

• Google sells Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 billion | The Verge

Google will retain ownership of the vast majority of Motorola\’s patents, while 2,000 patents and a license on the remaining patents will go to Lenovo. At the deal\’s closing, Lenovo will pay Google $660 million in cash and $750 million in stock, while the remaining $1.5 billion will be paid out over three years.
+ Google Sells Motorola to Lenovo: Winners and Losers
So how does Google come out ahead? Backing up a bit, Google had already arranged to sell Motorola\’s set-top box business to Arris Group for about $2.3 billion (cash and stock) even before its takeover of Motorola was technically closed. Google also offloaded things like factories for about $100 million, closed offices, kicked 4,000 people to the curb, and pocketed Motorola\’s assets. So now, with the Lenovo sale, Google\’s on-paper out-of-pocket cost on acquiring Motorola is down to about $1.8 billion. That\’s not bad, considering Google valued Motorola\’s patents and technology at about $5.5 billion when it took over the company.
Of course, Motorola Mobility has lost almost $2 billion since Google took it over — and that\’s gotta burn.

• Google could swap Nexus line with Google Play by 2015 | Android Atlas – CNET Reviews

According to Murtazin\’s sources, Google will introduce two or three more Nexus-branded products this year, but will discontinue the sub-brand in 2015. This bligger indicates that Google will rebrand the Play Edition as the Nexus replacement.
+ Report: Satya Nadella to be named Microsoft CEO; Gates out, too | PCWorld

Microsoft\’s cloud chief, Satya Nadella, will lead the company as its next chief executive, according to a report from Bloomberg.
+ As Microsoft CEO rumors swirl, consider the Bill Gates factor | Microsoft – CNET News
According to three different reports from the past few days (Recode, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal), Gates may end up resigning as chairman to take on a more active product development role at the company.

• Microsoft\’s CEO Pick: a Safe Choice, With Edge – WSJ.com

If he is named CEO, Mr. Nadella would inherit many advantages. Microsoft generated $27 billion in operating profit in the year ended June 30, and the company holds $84 billion in cash. Microsoft\’s Windows still runs roughly nine out of every 10 desktop and laptop computers in the world, and its Office and Exchange programs are corporate mainstays.

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Building your own chat server can be easy. We’ll demo an easy to manage XMPP chat server on Linux. Plus picking the right XMPP client for reliable video chat.

Then we go hands on with Deeplin Linux 12.12, have some fun with new games for Linux…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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