Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

00:36 Sponsor: TuxCare

01:45 Flatpak gets half a million in funding

03:57 Omarchy gets 8 million dollars

06:05 Nintendo nukes 400 repos linked to emulation

08:16 GrapheneOS will come to Motorola flagships

09:34 Kernel 7.3 brings a lot of performance improvements

11:10 BTRFS improves, ext4 and XFS still much faster

13:09 Chromium working on adding proper Flatpak support

14:35 Multikernel project has its first version

16:39 Asahi project now supports M3 macs

18:30 LibreOffice gets big improvements

20:42 Apple starts putting ads in their Maps app

23:26 Wine and Proton update

24:57 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

Links:

Flatpak gets half a million in funding

https://modal.cx/blog/announcing-flatpak-sta/

Omarchy gets 8 million dollars

https://linuxiac.com/arch-based-omarchy-linux-distro-lands-a-massive-8m-boost/

https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-launches-with-8-million/

Nintendo nukes 400 repos linked to emulation

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/nintendo/nintendo-takes-down-over-400-github-repositories-for-switch-emulators-in-one-go-relentless-dmca-strikes-tied-to-piracy-concerns-over-illegal-cryptographic-keys

GrapheneOS will come to Motorola flagships

https://linuxiac.com/grapheneos-support-is-coming-to-motorola-flagships-in-2027/

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117078064184215730

Kernel 7.3 brings a lot of performance improvements

https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-7-3-preview/

BTRFS improves, ext4 and XFS still much faster

https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-73-filesystems/4

Chromium working on adding proper Flatpak support

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-Chromium-Flatpak

Multikernel project has its first version

https://linuxiac.com/multikernel-linux-releases-first-public-kernel-tree-based-on-linux-7-0/

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ao34RJ7aZ2BLd67S@pop-os.localdomain/

Asahi project now supports M3 macs https://asahilinux.org/2026/08/progress-report-7-2/

LibreOffice gets big improvements

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/26/libreoffice-26-8/

Apple starts putting ads in their Maps app

https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/ill-just-use-google-maps-apple-maps-users-rebel-against-new-ads-that-you-cant-turn-off-even-with-an-icloud-subscription

Wine and Proton update

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-11.16

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/proton-11-0-2-is-out-with-lots-of-gaming-fixes-for-linux-steamos-steam-deck-steam-machine/

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    The Omacom Foundation (Omarchy) contributors listed are:

    Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, Dell Technologies Chairman and CEO Michael Dell, Block co-founder Jack Dorsey, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe, 37signals CEO Jason Fried, and Hansson himself.

    Matthew Prince has in the past removed nazis from Cloudflare, maybe it’s worth bringing his attention to DHH’s support for Tommy Robinson and anti-immigrant protests in the UK. The rest of them seem at least sympathetic to, if not part of, the far right.

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    BTRFs, which has advanced filesystems features like snapshots, data integrity checks, and scrubbing, is a less performant filesystem for databases than filesystems that don’t have these features, like EXT4, F2FS and XFS. No shit, Sherlock. At least compare it to ZFS or something.

    If you are storing files that you care about, use a filesystem with integrity checks. If you require high database performance, it’ll probably be happier using a whole partition, if not just a whole pile of disks, and be allowed to get on with it. If you are driving nails into a wall, do not compare the performance of different screwdrivers for the task. And so on.