First up in the news: Mint 22.2 betas now in testing, Arch AUR Under Fire Once More as Malware Resurfaces, Debian 13 Trixie Release Date is Officially Confirmed, and Hyprland Hyprperks have been launched.

In Security and Privacy, Introducing Proton Authenticator – secure 2FA, your way and Microsoft Recall issues

In Check This Out, Ignition allows you to manage startup apps and scripts

And finally, Vibrations From the Ether

• 00:00:00 – Intro


• 00:00:50 – News


• 01:20:34 – Security And Privacy


• 01:34:40 – Check This Out


• 01:37:32 – Vibrations From The Ether


• 01:40:10 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts


• 01:41:00 – Wrap Up


• 01:43:12 – Special Thanks


• 01:43:51 – Outro

The News:

Mint 22.2 Beta ISOs now in testing

Arch AUR Under Fire Once More as Malware Resurfaces

Debian 13 Trixie Release Date is Officially Confirmed

Hyprperks have been launched!

Ubuntu Concept For Snapdragon X1 Laptops Moves To Linux 6.16, Enables More Devices

The big news out of the UK this week is all the blocking they’re doing due to the Online Safety Act

Security And Privacy:

Introducing Proton Authenticator – secure 2FA, your way

Microsoft Recall can still capture credit cards and passwords, a treasure trove for crook

Contact Info:

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





• Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, moss@bodhilinux.com, Mastodon @zaivala@hostux.social, occasionally on HPR





• Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, also checkout the other two podcasts I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid) and 3 Fat Truckers





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





• Eric – I can be reached by email at eric@mintcast.org.





• Charles – charles@mintcast.org, Mr PDX on Discord





• Jim– jim@mintcast.org, GNU2Linux on Discord, The Linux Shortcut on YouTube

Special Thanks To:

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





• 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





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