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Thunderbird teases “Supernova” Massive Update In its latest announcement, the Thunderbird team has teased a “Supernova” update for 2023. This will come with a complete redesign, but big features too. The most interesting one is Firefox Sync, which will allow you to cloud sync email accounts, calendars, the address book, your RSS feed, and so on. This will become particularly useful with the upcoming release of Thunderbird for Android - also coming in 2023 - based on K9 mail. ...

Lots of interesting things over the last two weeks. We have some major releases, applications going open source, some more Xbox news and more. This is our 3rd edition and talk you all so much for being apart of this. We are almost at 200 subscribers so make sure you share this with your friends! Ubuntu 22.10 is here! Everybody’s favorite Linux distro, Ubuntu, just came out with it’s new 22.10 release. The biggest feature from this release was GNOME 43, which adds things like a redesign of the control center (and looks a lot like macOS). GNOME 43 also finally adds audio input and output to the quick settings. Canonical also updated the Ubuntu system settings to the latest version based on Libadwaita instead of the settomgs app from GNOME 40, and Ubuntu now contains the Gtk4 version of Nautilus which is smoother, and contains much better grid and list views. Finally, Pipewire is now the default audio engine in Ubuntu which is great. ...

Machines running an Intel GPU could face damages due to a Linux kernel bug, Valve accidentally shows something they shouldn’t have, new Xbox Streaming device, and more in this edition of the Weekly! Linux kernel bug could be breaking displays Some Linux users have reported seeing white flashes on their Intel laptop displays after upgrading to Linux kernel version 5.19.12, leading to warnings that the bug may damage displays. Syrjä, Intel Linux kernel engineer, recommended immediate reversion of the Linux Kernel to an older version to avoid causing hardware damage, “no one using laptops with Intel GPUs run 5.19.2”. When you boot your system you should see a few kernel options on grub. If you don’t see the option on Grub, press and hold the “Shift” button on your keyboard while booting. There has been a release since giving users a newer version to jump to. ...

Welcome to the first newsletter! This is a roundup of the big stories that we’ve seen this week. This newsletter will grow and develop to serve the tech community as a whole. We are always open to suggestions. With that let’s get into some things that happened this week. Fedora Dropping GPU Support for Popular Video Codecs Something that had the Linux community in a buzz this last week was the decision from Fedora that they’re going to be dropping support for H.264. The initial reaction was met with correction as this will only affect Video Acceleration API support for H.264, H.265, and VC-1 codecs. This is due to legal worry as there could be push back from patent holders. This will primarily affect AMD GPU users and any user who uses open-source graphics drivers, preventing them from using GPU acceleration to play video content that requires these codecs. ...