Ubuntu takes the PipeWire challenge! Linux Mint takes over development of Timeshift, installing Linux on an iPad 2, and the Orange Pi 800 looks a wee familiar.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
07:21 Linux on the iPad
10:56 Ubuntu defaults to PipeWire
13:26 Pulseaudio 16 Jack enhancements
16:31 Mint takes over Timeshift
21:06 Real-time deepfakes with your webcam
27:31 Orange Pi 800
Linux pad
- Have an old iPad 2 laying about?
- These guys are working on making it useful.
- Not just iPads but anything using the A7/8 chips.
- I have several old iPads that I got off eBay for my computer collection a long time ago.
- Soon I can make them useful.
Ubuntu 22.10 has Pipes
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/05/ubuntu-22-10-makes-pipewire-default
- God good good!
- More pipes =’s more test subjects.
- Ubuntu 22.10 makes PipeWire its default audio server.
- Ubuntu 22.10 will ship with Pipewire in place of Pulseaudio and will work out of the box with no workarounds required..
- The latest daily builds of the development release include this huge change.
- The Pipewire audio server will bring Ubuntu a whole host of improvements, from fewer bugs, better hardware compatibility, reduced CPU usage, and a more modern code base.
- It is nice to see Ubuntu make this transition, especially since one of my favorite Linux distros Fedora did it in 2021.
PulseAudio 16
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/16.0/
- Anyone remember Pulse?
- The only thing of mild interest (for me) is the increased flexibility for module-jackdbus-detect.
- You can now load the sink and source independently.
- And it can be loaded more than one allowing for different configs.
- This is a nice new feature:. If a bluetooth device supports battery level reporting, PulseAudio now is able to forward the information to other software.
Minty Shift
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/06/linux-mint-new-developers-of-timeshift
- The creator of the wonderful backup system snapshot software for Linux, Timeshift, sadly has to stop working on the project.
- But, the wonderful Linux distribution Linux Mint will take over development of the Timeshift backup Tool.
- Timeshift is central to Linux Mint’s backup and update strategy.
- And many people like me love that Linux Mint, not only includes it out of the box, but encourages new users to use it.
- Timeshift is becoming an official member of the XApp family of software.
- The XApp software is Linux Mint’s collection of home-grown software it designs and develops to be distro-agnostic for widest possible use.
AI webcams
https://github.com/sensity-ai/dot
- Real-time deepfakes for virtual cameras.
- If you get a video call from your boss telling you to send a money transfer, it’s 100% legit
- With the increase of usage of webRTC and web based video protocols, this can be a serious problem for security.
- Many people are using video avatars for their video streams already, and using this form of video calling technology is a criminal’s next step.
- The dot application can make us aware of how this technology can be abused and help us to come up with solutions to prevent it.
Slice of Pi
Orange Pi
http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontrollers/details/orange-pi-800.html
- The Orange Pi 800 looks distinctly like my Raspberry Pi 400, except for the Orange color and double the #.
- And it has an onboard speaker, a headphone jack and a full size HDMI port, unlike the Raspberry Pi 400.
- And, honestly, I think it was a great idea to include a VGA port to connect to older monitors which schools often have.
- Unlike the 400 the little guy sports a Rockchip RK3399.
- 6-cores with 4GB of LPDDR.
- It has been around for around 6 years.
- Supports 4K@60fps output.
- Runs Chromium or Orange Pi OS.
- Orange Pi hasn’t released pricing or availability yet, but its website shows a currently dead link for the keyboard being sold via Amazon.
