First up in the news: Mint 22 Beta Released, Mint Monthly News – June, Firefox has a Weather tab, Seattle computer collection is being auctioned, Proton adds Docs to Proton Drive, Linux runs on Google Drive

In security and privacy: KDE Plasma Flaw Opens Door to Unauthorized System Access

Then in our Wanderings: Majid has overdosed on Schadenfreude, Bill screams at OnlyOffice, Joe has fun with his 3D printer, Moss makes a mess of things

• 00:00:00 – Intro


• 00:01:29 – News


• 00:35:35 – Security And Privacy


• 00:39:23 – Bi-Weekly Wanderings


• 01:17:55 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts


• 01:18:42 – Wrap Up


• 01:20:39 – Special Thanks


• 01:21:15 – Outro

The News:

Linux Mint 22 Betas Released

Mint Monthly News – June 2024

Firefox’s New Weather Tab

Seattle’s Living Computers Museum logs off for good as Paul Allen estate will auction vintage items

Proton launches its own version of Google Docs

Linux Distro Can Run on Google Drive: This Developer Made It Happen

Security and Privacy:

KDE Plasma Flaw Opens Door to Unauthorized System Access

Contact Info:

• Joe – Tllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee





• Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, bardmoss@pm.me, Mastodon @zaivala@hostux.social,





• Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, also – checkout my other two podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers





• Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypical_dr@mastodon.social, AtypicalDr on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast on Spotify and also Linux OTC.





• Eric – You can hear and see me on this and the Linux OTC & DHD podcasts as well as the Linux Saloon and LinuxLUGCast streams. If you’d like to get in touch with me I can be reached by email at eric@mintcast.org.

Special Thanks To:

• Bill for our audio editing





• Archive.org for hosting our audio files





• Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo





• Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions





• Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio





• The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>