LWDW 212: Superman.wtf

Let’s Encrypt issues their billionth cert! UKUI 3.0 goes full Windows, teaching old MIDI new tricks, and 8 things you might not know about your Raspberry Pi.

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Timestamps:
05:09 Bogus Intel NICs
07:35 1 billion Let’s Encrypt certs
11:05 Unsnapped
15:25 UKUI 3.0
19:30 MIDI Scripts
21:10 Mint Warpinator
23:20 Lab Gopher
25:45 Microsoft ATP for Linux
30:40 Shameless self promotion
31:50 Pi facts
36:05 Emails

Colour key – Venn Jordan Pedro

Network card PSA

Little PSA to get the show started since I almost fell for this one.
Plenty of i350-T4 cards floating around on Ebay and Amazon for $45 / $60.
In all my years of working with junk like this I had never seen one with DELTA printed on the transformers.
Times have changed so I figured it was something new but, it bugged me.
I asked the internet and yeah, turns out knockoff NICs are now a thing.
Had a knockoff in my cart before I did the search.
Moral of the story: Look for an embossed DELTA on the transformers when buying used.
If you want something with a warranty get 3GTeck.

1000000000 Lets Encrypt

81% of page loads globally and 91% in the US!
Those are very good numbers indeed, and isn’t surprising, as I have noticed more sites using HTTPS, especially in the last few years.
If you would like to help they would love contributions from the community and businesses, and are dependent on them so they can keep making the web even more secure.
Gone are the days of me cutting Comodo a cheque for a SSL cert.
Don’t miss doing that, nope, no sir.
And gone are the days of excuses for not having an ssl cert
There’s even a script you can chron to renew it.

Snap be gone

The calculator being a Snap never made any sense.
The Ubuntu software store will be a snap based version though.
Nice!! There will be Multi-monitor support in GDM, finally!
This means when you logout to GDM it will maintain your monitor configuration and placement from the desktop.
And then, when you want to login to a different desktop environment, say Fluxbox your monitor configuration won’t change!
This has been an annoying issue for a very long time, which I fix with an xorg.conf.
Can we also have gdebi back, at least for the minimal installs?

Ubuntu Kylin UI

All the chinese distros seem to have a really nice UI.
Deepin and UKUI are, aesthetically speaking, freakin’ awesome!
The Ubuntu Kylin team is in the process of revamping their user interface with lots of eye candy, the look of Windows 10, and in Qt!
The drag and drop virtual desktop panel is a nice touch.
Ubuntu Kylin is very popular in China, and is integrated with many of the most used Chinese web services.
And it is so refreshing to see the Chinese Linux distros so focused on the desktop UI and user experience.

MS ATP

Now that Microsoft is becoming a SaS company, this makes sense, especially since they run Linux for just about everything now, including Azure.
ATP is not an Anti-Virus, it’s an enterprise focused security management tool.

MIDI Tricks

Quick and simple, this allows you to turn a MIDI control surface into a keyboard.
With a DAW you are limited to MIDI CC mapping to pre-exposed controls.
This will allow Mackie like functionality, and then some.
It’s really the best of both worlds since it allows you to add some Mackie-like functions to your generic MIDI.

Minty Warpinator

Remember Giver?
It was something included in Mint (and other distros) back in the day.
Solid way to boop a file over the network.
The Mint critters missed it so much they made something a little better.
The idea is to recreate the core functionality offered by Giver.
Warpinator is a temporary name.
I suggest “totes a legit copy of Superman.wtf”.

Building a PC?

You could use this to build your next Linux server so it counts.
This is extremely handy!
And saves a lot of time for us hardware enthusiasts.
And makes sense, because it turns out that computer hardware is one of the most sold items on Ebay.
The UK LabGopher also includes the EU ebay listings.

Slice of Pi

Pi to the 8

Oh! Is this why they were holding the 8GB versions?
Don’t overclock your Pi, unless you buy one of those adorable little heatsinks.
They only planned to make 1K units and when you think about it, that’s still a big run.

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