Brodie Robertson

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Certified Wayland shill/hater depending on which angry person is commenting

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrodieOnLinux

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2026-01-03 00:21:44 UTC

Today we have @npub1p8u…6yqz from @npub1mg7…e9qy to talk about his journey trying to being more audio plugins natively to Linux
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIC-gsZr-D4
Audio: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/tech-over-tea/episodes/Making-Audio-Production-On-Linux-Good--Amadeus-Paulussen-e3d1vvu

2025-12-13 00:22:44 UTC

Today we have Xaver Hugl on the show to talk about @npub1ncy…3x0q future on Wayland, why they're dropping the X11 session and much more #Linux #KDE #OpenSource
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZgaUtqz2nU
Audio: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/tech-over-tea/episodes/The-Future-Of-KDE-Plasma-Is-Wayland--Xaver-Hugl-e3c8jon

2025-11-29 00:02:26 UTC

Today we have Andy Betts from the @npub1ncy…3x0q Visual Design group on the show to talk about why KDE is the way it is and how things are changing in the future #Linux #KDE
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4TXrwWsMY8
Audio: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/tech-over-tea/episodes/KDE-Makes-Traditional-Desktop-Design-Modern--Andy-Betts-e3bjeea

2025-11-21 23:40:51 UTC

Today we have the legendary @npub1w6w…nvdc (Till Kamppeter) on the show, the man keeping printers working on Linux to talk about his decades of experience in this space #Linux #Podcast
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8NoAXgGIP8
Audio: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/tech-over-tea/episodes/The-Man-Making-Printers-Work-On-Linux--Till-Kamppeter-e3b94jb

2025-10-31 23:52:13 UTC

Be sure to check your kids candy this year, I just caught someone trying to turn my son into a hacker
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2025-10-29 01:15:25 UTC

Just a few days left of October, can #KDE hit 50k by then and smash the initial fundraiser goal. #OpenSource #Linux https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/
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2025-10-29 00:08:18 UTC

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Some topics recently have just needed some more time to cover, I would like to do some more <10 minute stuff

2025-10-22 02:20:34 UTC

Here's an interesting philosophical question for developers:
Is it more important for a solution to be correct but it feels broken to the user
or
Technically not a correct solution but the user feels like it works.

2025-10-03 02:37:40 UTC

For better or worse, the AI video generation we're now seeing is the worst it is ever going to be.
Just sit on that for a while

2025-09-29 01:04:14 UTC

Hot Take: Developers Should Understand Code #Linux #YouTube https://youtu.be/4d8jLfa5Mx8

2025-09-23 03:56:44 UTC

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1939 - 1945 Germany might be an exception

2025-09-16 06:47:28 UTC

Until the end of time PR 1337 on the Linux Kernel github will be about Labubu https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/1337

2025-09-12 23:53:41 UTC

It was a plan a few years back and now has finally happened, @npub1dml…x796 has visited Tech Over Tea #Linux #Podcast
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n51dw6Bb5XE
Audio: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/tech-over-tea/episodes/Finally-This-Podcast-Happened--Veronica-Explains-e384hcu

2025-09-08 02:07:12 UTC

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Also since I haven't seen anyone else mention it yet, the original text was restored https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/lukas-here-hello-to-all/66658/4
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2025-09-08 02:04:36 UTC

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I mean that most of the engineers aren't involved in moderating the forum, they have engineering things to do and probably had no idea this was happening until the post was made.

2025-09-08 01:10:26 UTC

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With any big corporate fuck up, in most cases 99% of the people had absolutely nothing to do with it, I don't blame Mozilla engineers for corporate mismanagement and I don't blame Canonical engineers for forum moderation

2025-09-03 06:42:06 UTC

Ok this has to be a bit at this point, I'm not fucking Irish, I'm not British, I'm not Amish, I don't come from the Middle East, I am Australian, my great grandparents come from Wales but I have never left Australia
Edit: Oh yeah, got to add South African to the list as well
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2025-08-30 00:46:31 UTC

I heard you guys like #Linux, so today we have a developer from the Plasma Mobile project who was involved in reviving Plasma Bigscreen. #KDE #Podcast
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW7HbFDiybQ
Audio: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/tech-over-tea/episodes/From-Plasma-Mobile-To-Plasma-Bigscreen--Devin-Lin-e37fpo0

2025-08-29 13:15:55 UTC

Oh yeah, that'd explain why my power went out, I'm safe where I'm at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyS5IWp4sEw

2025-08-21 07:34:43 UTC

Turns out all 15 chapters of the Ubuntu manga have an English translation, I know what I've got planned

2025-08-18 06:26:33 UTC

I feel justified in using vimwiki now https://www.al3rez.com/todo-txt-journey

2025-08-07 10:13:07 UTC

Finally I fixed my buzzing speakers, why did I put up with this for so long

2025-07-18 07:06:16 UTC

JavaScript Is Not A Real Language #Linux #YouTube https://youtu.be/IRX5TuggMxg

2025-07-16 17:11:01 UTC

I feel like just touch, just a dab of imposter syndrome is probably good for you, if you don't have it you're either hyper overqualified, bored out of your mind, or have an ego the size of a planet.
A bit of imposter syndrome helps to bring you back down to earth a little.

2025-07-15 00:56:13 UTC

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I have 1 grey hair, so we're making progress

2025-07-15 00:44:42 UTC

Hyper Fixating On My Linux Desktop Most Important Setting #Linux #YouTube https://youtu.be/PIXH2pBt5qU

2025-07-13 07:42:34 UTC

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KDE and COSMIC have a workaround

2025-07-13 00:09:55 UTC

Best Wayland Compositors For Window Manager Users #Linux #YouTube https://youtu.be/59dxV-5-8s4

2025-07-09 00:48:15 UTC

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Make it happen @npub17mj…0mhx

2025-07-07 14:58:23 UTC

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I don't know how you can look at OBS, look at the fact that I record all my videos on Wayland and then come to the conclusion that screen capture in OBS doesn't work on Wayland

2025-07-07 14:56:27 UTC

Just so everyone is clear, I record all of my videos on Wayland, OBS on Wayland for the core functionality doesn't have any problems, whether that's capturing the screen or individual windows.
There are issues with docks but that's due to CEF at this point not OBS

2025-07-03 07:58:56 UTC

Google, how often does this issue come up that it needs to be the only correction option in Gmail
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2025-07-02 07:43:04 UTC

If you're in the EU or the UK I highly encourage you to look in and support the #StopKillingGames initiative, all relevant information can be found on the website
https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

2025-07-02 00:37:32 UTC

They actually exist, people who think DRM, means that DRM
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2025-06-30 10:00:08 UTC

Here's a fun one
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2025-06-30 07:35:09 UTC

I didn't know I couldn't stream on Wayland, this is news to me and all of the streams I've done on Wayland
TLDR; I'm a streamer, and I use Wayland but you can't stream on Wayland
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2025-06-28 08:01:07 UTC

Somehow I'm only just now playing FFVII for the first time
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2025-06-26 08:09:25 UTC

@npub1dug…kxeq Someone should probably take a look at this, you shouldn't be able to send $0 donations
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2025-06-26 07:24:46 UTC

I cannot for the life of me work out why Ori keeps crashing, I've done reninstalls, changed proton version, removed shader cache, cleared out files manually, checked game integrity, checked integrity of Steam Linux runtime the only thing that works in playing on another machine

2025-06-25 10:00:12 UTC

If you're a very seasoned developer, what do think are the best spices to use

2025-06-25 01:59:56 UTC

I don't know how long this has been here but I respect the Fedora discussion tag @npub1q0t…n0hx
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2025-06-24 06:48:01 UTC

Hot Take: Developers are people

2025-06-22 05:35:34 UTC

Please read https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CSAGa58aan2rly7uKx_GEg7DL4rWC1FV9biymeWztAA/

2025-06-20 07:05:35 UTC

They're on to me
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2025-06-17 08:54:12 UTC

Now that's a Steam sale I can get behind
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2025-06-17 07:45:20 UTC

I've gotten used to kids and teenagers calling me sir.
I've gotten used to ESL people where calling me sir when it's common to use the equivalent in there native language.
I got called sir by a girl around my age and my brain shortcircuited for a moment.

2025-06-17 03:39:40 UTC

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I feel the same way lol

2025-06-17 03:33:03 UTC

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When they're not overlapping

2025-06-17 03:32:23 UTC

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When windows aren't overlapping you just move your cursor over to the window, no need to click anything. When they are overlapping then you can click the window

2025-06-17 03:28:34 UTC

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Use a desktop that implements it properly like KDE, raise and focus should not be the same action

2025-06-17 03:15:53 UTC

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The way you make it work is how KDE does it where window raising and window focus are 2 separate actions, you gain window focus by moving the cursor onto the window and you can now type in it, but to raise the window you have to click it.
This eliminates the problem COSMIC has where windows jump up and down.

2025-06-17 02:59:55 UTC

Click to focus was always a bad idea and only became a good idea when touch screen PCs came along, focus follows mouse is much more intuitive.

2025-06-16 08:21:27 UTC

Who needs to doom scroll social media when I can doom scroll my window manager

2025-06-16 01:22:29 UTC

There's a poorly worded comment from a few months back I want to clarify.
Hot Take: Nazis are bad
But I don't agree with the premise that all Pewdiepie subs are Nazis and I think with how people labelled with that are rightfully treated it's incredibly dangerous to go around calling people that with no evidence. If there's an individual you can prove is bad, that's fine but you can't blanket call 110m people who subbed to a channel over the past 19 years
Feel free to boost

2025-06-12 23:46:08 UTC

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Looking at the current numbers to grow more than Bluesky, Fediverse just has to be more than negative
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2025-06-12 00:29:00 UTC

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There is also this PR, the project is just getting off it's feet. https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/pull/67

2025-06-12 00:01:11 UTC

XLibre Is The X11 Future Xorg Never Became? #Linux #YouTube https://youtu.be/iCU4W5Ab33c

2025-06-11 07:52:48 UTC

Niri hands down has the best window overview screen I've ever seen, there's no competition

2025-06-09 02:37:36 UTC

Is there a wiki system that produces something more annoying to the user than Github wiki?

2025-06-03 01:13:07 UTC

Ubuntu Linux And The GNOME Wayland Problem #Linux #YouTube https://youtu.be/tw-Qyp5qfTg

2025-05-20 09:46:20 UTC

If you think slop bug reports are bad now, just wait until this moves from public preview into full release https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-19-creating-issues-with-copilot-on-github-com-is-in-public-preview/
Major projects are going to need to completely move their issue tracking off of Github or up there moderation as at least at this stage there doesn't appear to be a way to block the use of this feature https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159749

2025-05-15 08:38:59 UTC

Ah yes, sudo, my favorite part of the kernel made of C or C++ code
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2025-05-15 07:52:36 UTC

On the topic of MIT code not destroying the world, did everyone just forget about Xorg, it's so MIT licensed that X11 literally came from MIT

2025-05-12 00:09:55 UTC

Top 7 Worst Beginner Friendly Linux Distros #Linux #YouTube https://youtu.be/c7zkxbqlvtg

2025-05-08 07:50:30 UTC

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To be fair, rat sanic is a pretty solid profile picture

2025-05-08 07:45:12 UTC

❤️ you too
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2025-05-07 08:46:27 UTC

Comfortable is one letter off "cum for table"

2025-05-03 00:10:34 UTC

To any Arch users:
If you're seeing a "installing libxml2 (2.14.2-2) breaks dependency 'libxml2.so=2-64' required by" in Pacman, you're not the only one https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2239439
This version appears to be a legacy package that has since been completely dropped that you installed as a dependency long ago and just now it's breaking https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/libxml2/-/issues/4
As long as you're not manually building core system packages and this is a dependency you're safe to remove it

2025-04-28 12:21:10 UTC

I'm not a Fosstodon user, never have been but I do know a lot of people over there and man the Fediverse is just exhausting. The small vocal minority of people continue to do everything in there power to make this platform far more toxic than anything they claim to dislike.
Just so we're clear, this doesn't end here, the next thing is going to be stricter and then more so until these people turn there fangs against you. Context read @npub1080…cr2f post and the linked post inside https://kevquirk.com/blog/my-thoughts-on-the-fosstodon-drama

2025-04-27 02:20:56 UTC

It's a breath of fresh air to see a big creator talk about Linux and it not be full of bullshit, I have basically 0 criticisms for the Pewdiepie video, the only minor of minor nitpicks is that gaming isn't perfect due to a number of anti cheat titles. Everything else is great.

2025-04-25 12:24:52 UTC

Wait it's actually real, O'Reilly has a Vibe Coding book coming out https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/vibe-coding-the/9798341634749/
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2025-04-25 09:41:45 UTC

I can absolutely respect making jokes about how much you've missed the beta window by https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-7-never-been-beta

2025-04-12 00:09:04 UTC

Today Nate Graham is back on the podcast to chat about the newish consultancy firm Tech Paladin who took over the Valve KDE development contract
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UEkwBB_Fn8
Audio: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/tech-over-tea/episodes/We-Need-More-Paid-Developers-On-KDE--Nate-Graham-e31dbi4

2025-04-10 10:46:28 UTC

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When PopOS does have a proper new release that isn't just one of the COSMIC alpha releases, I'm of curious to see what place it has in the market, what sort of reception it's going to get. If it's going to go back to being a big recommendation or if it won't have the same hype

2025-04-10 10:46:23 UTC

I've been thinking lately about PopOS, the last proper release was 22.04, the distro has been waiting on COSMIC to be finished but the distro space has changed a lot since the last release, now we have Bazitte, PikaOS, Nobara all competing in a very similar market.

2025-04-08 08:24:57 UTC

Despite the dresses, the anime figures and the programmer socks, I am in fact not a femboy

2025-04-07 02:48:06 UTC

I see the same kind of criticism aimed at Asahi Linux and Chrultrabook, "Why bother supporting Linux on this hardware, just stop buying bad laptops"
Not supporting Linux on Apple Silicon or Chromebooks, won't at all slow down the sales of these devices, but what it does do is give these devices the ability to have a second life once they've gone EOL saving at least some of them from going straight into e-waste

2025-04-03 05:19:57 UTC

It actually happened, I have no idea how we've come so far
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2025-04-02 14:09:00 UTC

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I'll probably buy a Switch 2 for that

2025-04-02 13:52:08 UTC

Event over, this is all we need to know
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2025-03-25 08:15:13 UTC

Have fun https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTCoding/comments/1jhkjou/5_principles_of_vibe_coding_stop_complicating_it/

2025-03-24 11:08:17 UTC

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Literal AI sweat shops

2025-03-24 11:00:14 UTC

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Here's an excerpt from one of the listings
"Now, 50% of our code is written by AI, so we are a small engineering team. Putting in 12 to 15-hour days, the engineering team has traveled to +10 cities in the past half-year for product launches."

2025-03-24 10:55:23 UTC

I've found pure fucking gold
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2025-03-24 04:56:39 UTC

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Isn't that just a play on things like r/UnixPorn or r/CloudPorn, people on Reddit use Porn to mean something that looks good. The post itself is someone who has come to terms with there life ending soon and wanted to let the world see something nice before they pass away, everyone is being super positive about this person

2025-03-21 22:46:08 UTC

THE GIMP 3 PODCAST IS HERE
Video: https://youtu.be/xAk6xUbCuJw
Audio: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/tech-over-tea/episodes/262-The-State-Of-Linux-Is-Something--Ritchie-e2vr11d

2025-03-18 03:55:22 UTC

To anyone who wants to reach out to me about some story the absolute worst way to not look like a troll is to say you have something and then not provide the tiniest piece of evidence of it. If you can only share it in a VC guaranteed don't have any receipts.
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2025-03-17 02:00:50 UTC

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I know they had already wanted to do so previously but discussions went south

2025-03-17 01:59:59 UTC

Now that kwin is split into kwin (wayland) and kwin-x11 in 2 completely separate repos, which distro will be the first to drop the X11 package entirely.

2025-03-17 00:45:56 UTC

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Here's a thought, if distros start widely adopting uutils or some other coreutils rewrite I wonder if we'll see the same contrarian complaints that pulseaudio and systemd dealt with and Wayland is dealing with now

2025-03-17 00:07:29 UTC

I wonder if we're actually moving into a world where GNU/Linux is just a flat out wrong statement, Ubuntu is adopting uutils, I wouldn't be surprised if others decide to experiment with it

2025-03-15 13:16:15 UTC

A totally normal Flathub trending page, nothing to see here
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2025-03-13 08:09:51 UTC

I really don't get the criticism around the Floorp name, you use Kitty, Krita, GIMP and git, is Floorp really that weird.

2025-03-12 22:35:02 UTC

Friendship ended with Firefox: Floorp is my friend now #Linux #YouTube https://youtu.be/6OUjWdAtGbs

2025-03-12 04:53:07 UTC

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I wish they exposed the option more readily, I had no idea this was a thing

2025-03-12 04:44:38 UTC

In my testing of Firefox based browsers I've learnt that regular old Firefox now has native support for vertical tabs

2025-03-11 14:52:59 UTC

Reddit with rare good takes https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1j8s72h/your_browser_choice_is_not_your_personality/
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2025-03-05 05:36:04 UTC

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This is why it's really common for people who file credit card disputes to get banned from a platform

2025-03-05 01:00:42 UTC

I think the biggest failing of Windows is making the update process so annoying and so disruptive that there is a dangerous amount of people that would rather never get security updates then have to deal with Windows Update

2025-03-04 09:00:04 UTC

Well that was to be expected, Nintendo just filed DMCA takedowns on a number of Ryujinx archives on Github https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2025/02/2025-02-26-nintendo.md