Apple really sucks, Mint's EDGE ISO, Wayland protocol drama

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00:00 Intro

01:43 Apple opens up iOS in the worst way

https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/apple-finally-letting-people-run-third-party-browsers-unfettered-but-only-in-the-eu-and-not-because-it-wants-to

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24050200/apple-third-party-app-stores-allowed-iphone-ios-europe-digital-markets-act

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/26/24052067/mozilla-apple-ios-browser-rules-firefox

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-faces-strong-action-if-app-store-changes-fall-short-eus-breton-says-2024-01-26/

08:22 Mint’s Edge ISO is now available

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4635

11:34 Wayland & portals get better, and create drama

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Protocols-1.33

https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1175

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/269

17:03 Plasma 6 gains more features as the release nears

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6-Next-Month

https://blog.neon.kde.org/2024/01/25/kdes-6th-megarelease-with-kde-neon-testing-edition/

20:11 Huawei won’t support Android apps at all anymore

https://www.reuters.com/technology/huawei-makes-break-android-with-next-version-harmony-os-caixin-2024-01-19/

22:30 Meta now lets EU citizens unlink their accounts

https://www.neowin.net/news/meta-now-lets-eu-users-unlink-their-facebook-messenger-and-instagram-accounts/

24:30 Bazzite 2.2 is now out

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/steamos-alternative-bazzite-v22-out-now-with-lots-of-enhancements/

26:45 Nvidia beta drivers bring cool fixes

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/nvidia-550-40-07-beta-driver-released-with-fixes-for-vrr-and-wayland/

30:01 Gaming: Ayaneo drops HoloISO, performance boost, unified Wine

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/ayaneo-next-lite-no-longer-ships-with-steamos-like-holoiso-linux-windows-11-instead/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Windows-NT-Sync-RFC-Linux

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/unified-linux-wine-game-launcher-aims-to-improve-windows-games-on-linux-steam-deck/

37:17 Outro

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