462 – Wistful Nostalgia

mintCast

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – May 2025, controversy around the Nintendo Switch 2, Fedora 43 Workstation (GNOME) to remove X11 session, end of Linux Format, and we have a new format and new co-host!

In our Innards section: Dale discusses mobile internet devices and networks

In Check This Out, we cover Packet, a new file transfer utility that integrates with Android’s Quick Share

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Full Show Notes Here

The News:

Mint Monthly News – May 2025

Nintendo Switch 2 Controversy

Fedora 43 Workstation (GNOME) to remove X11 session

After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine is No More

Check This Out:

• Packet – https://github.com/nozwock/packet (Eric)
  • A partial implementation of Google’s Quick Share protocol that lets you send and receive files wirelessly from Android devices using Quick Share, or another device with Packet.
  • Yes, there are a plethora of file transfer apps but this one is interesting for a few reasons.
    • It integrates with an inbuilt Android feature making transferring files more straightforward than installing yet another app.
    • The speed seems to be very good based on the testing I’ve done.
    • Perhaps not important to some, the UI is very well done and the app is easy to use.

Contact Info:

• Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
• Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected], occasionally on HPR
• Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon, also checkout the other two podcasts I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid) and 3 Fat Truckers
• Majid – [email protected] @[email protected], AtypicalDr on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC.
• Eric – I can be reached by email at [email protected].
• Dale – Dale_CDL on Telegram and Discord. [email protected], Distrohoppers’Digest

Special Thanks To:

• Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
• Archive.org for hosting our audio files
• Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
• Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
• The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about