Data collection is still ramping up with a Chinese company selling an emo robot to keeps tabs on you (think smart speak in a cute shell). Of course an open source project can now let you provide white noise so your personal spy spies on you less, but of well… This and more including an update to biometically unlocking your devices, Verizon charging educators for texts, and a few government shenanigans. Tune in for the stories.
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This quick look at the new Ubuntu starts to show Ubuntu returning to the glory it used to be be. Find out more here.
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In business news this week, a new startup wants to take up bike lanes with delivery robots, 737 Max airplanes are grounded for more time, and we can now rent out our back yards?!? Oh yeah, another Windows 10 foulup leaves Surface computers without updates!
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Today we will talk about switching to FOSS tech as big tech companies start rolling mass survellience onto our devices.
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Today we talk about the newly proposed SCREEN act and why it is not a good solution to protecting kids online.
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Today we will talk about the dangers of phone apps and services with a case study looking at the new "The Right Stuff" conservative dating app. This is a huge warning, and we need to be cautious ourselves.
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Nextcloud is a great application for replacing Google services, dropbox, and a host of other services. nextcloud is hosted on your server and you are in control. This video just looks at some of the things it can do and looks at a few new features.
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This week in Business News, Google will update Stadia controllers to prevent e-waste, Windows breaks itself with multiple updates, and the self-driving Tesla video was apparently staged. We also see the Linux Foundation creating an open source metaverse. We also visit sillyville.
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Managing music is easy on Linux. Many music players are available. Rhythmbox and Banshee are the most popular. There is also Clementine, DragonPlayer, VLC, Amarok, and more. There are also programs for automatically and manually adjusting ID tags. I cover some of this on this video. Using Ubuntu 16.10 because that is the computer I use for all of my media management.
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