468: The Read Only Scenario

A fundamental change is coming to desktop Linux, and Silverblue might be our hint at where things are going.

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Fedora Silverblue User Guide — Unlike other operating systems, Silverblue is immutable. This means that every installation is identical to every other installation of the same version. The operating system that is on disk is exactly the same from one machine to the next, and it never changes as it is used.
Fedora 34 Silverblue on Raspberry Pi 4 / 400de
RPi4: Raspberry Pi 4 UEFI Firmware Images — This repository contains installable builds of the official EDK2 Raspberry Pi 4 UEFI firmware.
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Podcasting 2.0 Apps
BoostCLI — Command line tool to send and review Podcasting 2.0 Value.
Podcasting 2.0 Podcast — The Podcast Index presents Podcasting 2.0 - Upgrading Podcasting.
Podcasting 2.0: “Bells Out” — Adam & Dave discuss the week's developments on podcastindex.org with Chris Fisher from Jupiter Broadcasting.
Impervious API — Impervious API is a programmatic layer that sits on top of the Bitcoin Lightning Network
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Audio Sharing on Flathub
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