Matt Hartley (The Linux Matt, person)

Screenshot of Spotify desktop showing a public playlist titled “80s New Wave Mix” with a green gradient header. The playlist contains 50 songs (about 3 hours 29 minutes). The track list includes “Hungry Like the Wolf” by Duran Duran, “We Built This City” by Starship, “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” by Simple Minds, “Call Me” by Blondie, “Blue Monday” by New Order, “Take On Me” by a-ha, and others. Playback controls appear at the bottom. On the right sidebar, the currently highlighted song is “It’s a Sin (2018 Remaster)” by Pet Shop Boys, with related videos and an artist info panel below.

Apparently my old "Waver" roots are popping out today.

FTR, I've done the whole New Wave, Punk, Skater and Metal Head thing in my youth.

But today, this is my old music self for concentrating on work.

YouTube video by Michael Tunnell 331: Manjaro 26, Nitrux 5.1, Linux Voice Control, CachyOS, NVIDIA GeForce Now & more Linux news

EasySpeak featured on TWIL with @michaeltunnell.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vUO...

Reminder, for the "why is it this way" or "which ____ will it support" or anything else, please start here. github.com/ctsdownloads...

I agree, it hits home as a great comfort movie.

Oh I have a dedicated Stan Bush playlist, I understand entirely.🙌

YouTube video by Matt Hartley Voice Control for Linux/GNOME Desktop

Linux desktop voice control has a gap. Talon costs money. Other tools are X11-only or cloud-dependent.

So I built EasySpeak.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl5m...

github.com/ctsdownloads...

- Free and open source (GPL-3.0)
- Fully local — no cloud, no accounts
- Wayland-native

Illustrated poster for The Transformers: The Movie (1986). Optimus Prime stands at the center in a heroic stance, raising his arm as multiple Autobots and Decepticons surround him in mid-battle. Bright red laser beams fire upward into a massive, circular alien spacecraft hovering overhead. Characters are shown flying and charging forward against a star-filled space backdrop, with vivid neon blues, reds, and yellows emphasizing action and scale. The title “The Transformers: The Movie” appears prominently at the bottom in bold, metallic lettering with the Autobot logo.

Raise your hand if you ever re-watched The Transformers: The Movie just to listen to Orson Wells voicing Unicron, Leonard Nemoy as Galvatron, Robert Stack as Ultra Magnus, Judd Nelson as Hot Rod / Rodimus Prime, Casey Kasem as Cliffjumper while rocking out to Stan Bush.

Mic drop.

EasySpeak tech stack:

Read about it here and more:

fosstodon.org/@matthartley...

No subscription. No cloud. GNOME 48/Wayland native.

Built for Fedora/Bluefin (cont)...

Browser: click hints by number, tabs, scroll, search
Mouse: 3x3 recursive grid, click/drag/scroll anywhere (WIP)
Apps: launch/close by name
Media: play/pause/skip via voice
System: volume, brightness, do not disturb
Dictation: voice typing with punctuation

(cont)...

EasySpeak - Voice Control for Linux/GNOME

"Hey Jarvis" wake word, runs 100% locally
(cont)...

Coming soon and yeah, it is working. Took a LOT of creative thinking to outsmart Wayland and GNOME needs, but I got it going. Cont..

This is a digital image depicting a character called "Captain Linux," an amalgamation of Captain America and the Linux mascot, Tux the penguin. Key Elements: Character: The character wears a costume similar to Captain America's, but with a high-tech, circuit-board aesthetic. The suit is primarily blue and red, with glowing cyan lines tracing circuitry across the armor. Shield: The character holds a vibranium-style circular shield. Instead of the typical white star on a blue background, the center of the shield features a stylized Tux the penguin (the Linux mascot) centered within the familiar red, white, and blue concentric rings. Helmet/Head: The character's head is replaced entirely by a floating, small Tux the penguin silhouette, positioned above the neck of the suit. Background: The scene is set in a modern, futuristic city at night, resembling a major metropolis (possibly New York City or a similar fictional city). Neon lights, tall skyscrapers, and faint green/cyan beams of light streak down from above, adding to the sci-fi atmosphere. The overall impression is a blend of superhero iconography and open-source computing culture, specifically celebrating Linux.

And this is why I am not worried about AI taking my job anytime soon. Wow...😂

Bluefin and the Bazaar of Destiny A new world, infinite possibilities. Infinite danger.

New projectbluefin.io on Tuesday, here's the soundtrack for this adventure. Lore is in the music.

music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Brewing on Linux - Workbrew Webinars Jorge Castro of Universal Blue joins us to discuss how cloud native Linux distros like Bluefin and Bazzite are making Homebrew the centerpiece of the developer stack - and what this evolution means fo...

In about an hour I'm talking about homebrew on linux and our journey over the past few years on integrating it into projectbluefin.io!

workbrew.com/webinars/bre...

Picture of a zipped folder with malware exe pretending to be an Xubuntu installer.

Heads up Xubuntu users, heads up.

www.reddit.com/r/xubuntu/s/...

All I will say is I'm sad, frustrated and tired. Just so damned tired. Wish I could say more.

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @jesseduquette.bsky.social )

YouTube video by Michael Tunnell Why I Went Missing & Exciting Plans for the Future of the Channel

Why I Went Missing & Exciting Plans for the Future of the Channel
youtu.be/wj4UWUgLXvc

I’ve been away from the channel for a few weeks. Life threw me a curveball but I’m coming back. Thanks for sticking with me through the downtime.

Agreed, this is horrible. Gross x 10

Expanding Cloudflare’s support for open source projects with Project Alexandria At Cloudflare, we believe in the power of open source. With Project Alexandria, our expanded open source program, we’re helping open source projects have a sustainable and scalable future, providing t...

If you're an OSS maintainer I strongly recommend Cloudflare's Open Source program:

blog.cloudflare.com/expanding-ou...

Flash Gordon?

Yepper. Pipewire and PulseAudio.

(still putting together the cosmetic final touches on the application (about, docs, etc)

Default vs "unmarked fallback, presets, device/app playback search, it has a little more mojo than the other apps. ;)

Iron Pipe app, output tab. Default device is in green.

ron Pipe app, input tab. Default device is in green.

Iron Pipe app, meeting preset set. Brave browser is playing audio.

Iron Pipe app, selecting presets I made.

Coming soon. Iron Pipe.

Like PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol), but with the ability to customize how you interact with your sound devices using presets.

Like a stereo. Volume, device, etc. USB, 3.5mm, Bluetooth, speakers.mic.

Bluefin LTS: Reinventing the Steel | Bluefin Achillobator giganticus

And so it begins... docs.projectbluefin.io/blog/bluefin...

YouTube video by James Lee (Animation) How I Broke up with Adobe

Just wow. I came across this guy. Adult language in spots, yes, but holy crap this is good.

Bonus at 4:13 in the video. Just wow!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm51...

Amazing what you can do with Reaper and Da Vinci Resolve!

A new #DestinationLinux has hit the road!
😂❤️🐧🐧🐧
tuxdigital.com/podcasts/des...

Vivaldi Takes A Stand on AI,
System76's COSMIC Desktop Update,
Element (Matrix) vs Discord,
Mojeek Search Engine

#Linux #SwitchtoLinux
Thank you @SandflySecurity!
destinationlinux.net/sandfly

YouTube video by Jorge Castro Bazaar's Queue Management and Categories!

Look at bazaar just shred through these installs:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=whuE...

Resharing because of its 80s goodness. Weekend project, you can try it by going to matthartley.com and in the terminal on the website (yeah, com,plete with faux commands), you can launch the game there.