Episode 5:12: 10,000 Tabs and an Extended Warranty

Coming up in this episode

• Extended service warranty for your Linux
• 10,000 Tabs Made Easy!
• A Chrome Firesale

The Video Version
https://youtu.be/pTGaEsSA12I

0:00 Cold Open
1:40 Extended Warranty for Ubuntu
17:36 Tab Groups and Unwanted Cookies
41:39 A Google Chrome Firesale!
58:33 The Science of Next Time
1:11:14 Stinger

Upgrade or ESM? Why not both?

• This blog post reminded Leo he needed to make a decision.
• Ubuntu Pro could let him kick the can a little.
• Upgrades generally go well unless you have a bunch of 3rd party repos.
• Always have a backup before any major changes.

📣Announcements📣

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Browser Watch!

• Firefox brings tab groups to the browser
• How to get started with tab groups
• Brave browser adds Cookiecrumbler
• Brave adds native translation
• Chrome's Privacy Sandbox is dead

📣More Announcements📣

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Chrome breakup speculation

• OpenAI has expressed an interest in taking over
• Perplexity and Yahoo have too

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Quick look at our Snap and Flatpak journey

• Inital systems have been setup.
• Leo and Dan won't necessarily be installing the same software though some may overlap.
• We will be keeping tabs on the sizes of just the containerized applications.

🔭Next Time🔭

We plan to cover more topics, feedback and a look in our Snap/Flatpak research.

Come back in two weeks for more Linux User Space. Watch for our livestream announcements.

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