Tech Over Tea

Hell Byte Studios is an indie game development from Australia working on the upcoming title Bloodreaver, taking inspiration from older versions of Call Of Duty Zombies and mixing it with a Doom style of movement along with a more gothic art style, you get a game that's really fun. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.p...

A few weeks back Mozilla began shipping a system called Privacy Preserving Attribution and this lead to an uproar as they completely failed to properly explain the system. During this time Andrew wrote a blog post explaining how the system works so he's here today to chat about that system and some adjacent advertising problems. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://www.pa...

Today is the first episode of our post AVCon indie game showcases, today we have Bad Plan Studios the developers of the upcoming End Of Ember, a gory roguelite game inspired by the likes of Binding of Isaac but with some interesting inclusions from games like Doom and a focus on just adding things that look horrific and cool. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.c...

Most of you are probably aware of VR and maybe you've even used it but are you aware of the current support for the tech under Linux as it currently stands and what pieces are in place to make it work. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/3d5gykF ► Other Meth...

Have you ever wondered why a lot of games don't get ported to Linux, well part of that might be the challenges in dealing with the platform especially when certain projects want to bend the standards in weird and annoying ways. You may recall Raiguard from his blog post I covered a while back on the Factorio blog about the challenges of porting Factorio the Linux along with the struggles of su...

Recently a developer involved in GTK app development reached out to me wanting to discuss the state of the toolkit and why he is a lot more positive than I and many others with the direction that things are going. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/3d5gykF ► Ot...

A few weeks back I did a video on FUTO's open source definition, this was followed up by a response from FUTO and further videos from me, and today we have Michael from FUTO on the podcast to chat about FUTO's stance on open source, why they initially took this stance on open source, and where they want to take things in the future. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https:...

Last week I discussed a blog post about FUTO on the main channel, and here on the podcast we have the author of said blog post Dan Brown who also happens to be the developer of the Bookstack project. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/3d5gykF ► Other Methods: h...

Today we have Ritchie otherwise known as Acidiclight back on the show, last time it was to discuss the work he was doing at Trixel but now he's on his own working on his own game project Socially Distant. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/3d5gykF ► Other M...

Today we have the one and only René Rebe on the show, the developer of T2 SDE one of the very few standalone distros that is severely under represented in the media alongside running 2 youtube channels, Code Therapy and Bits inside ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon USA: https://am...

Today we have just a linux user, he's just a guy, he's Drew from JustAGuy Linux, he runs a mainly Debian focused Linux but has recently taken up a series on window manages that exist in the Debian repos. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/3d5gykF ► Othe...

Today we have Michael Horn on the podcast who you may know from his content over on his Youtube channel by the name MichaelHornNROH, he here today to chat about all things Linux and how he got into this position. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/3d5gykF ► Oth...

Ages back I did a Linux From Scratch series, since then it has fascinated me and today we're talking to someone who actually daily drives Linux From Scratch on there main computer and even games on it. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/3d5gykF ► Other Meth...

It's been a while since I last had Neal Gompa back on the show but he's once again to talk about Fedora Linux, what's going on with Fedora KDE, how Fedora change proposals function and much more. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/3d5gykF ► Other Me...

Today we have Nate Graham back on the show again, this time to talk about of course KDE Plasma 6, my experience with it and everything else surrounding the launch of the desktop. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/3d5gykF ► Other Methods: https://cointr.ee/brod...

The last time he was on Dark Xero was still developing his distro Xero Linux but since then he decided to drop it and instead shift over to being a post install config script for Arch which is probably much healthier for the project. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon USA: https://...

It's been a while in the making but today it's finally happening, today the one and only Jay LaCroix better known online as Learn Linux TV, who you may know for his countless tutorial videos or even his book Mastering Ubuntu Server. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon USA: h...

Today we have the one and only Tytan652 on the show, who you probably know from his famous AUR package or maybe packaging every even remotely useful OBS plugin on Arch. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/3d5gykF ► Other Methods: https://cointr.ee/brodierobertso...

After it being delayed for a very long time we now finally have the developer of Distrobox, Luca Di Maio on the show to chat about how the project came to be, it's use on various types of distros and all manner of other things. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon USA: https://am...

Recently Plasma 6 dropped so it was time to bring some KDE people back on but then there was also the Global Theme situation and who better to discuss that than the man who wrote the first response blog David Edmundson. =========Guest Links========== KDE Twitter: https://twitter.com/kdecommunity/ KDE Website: https://kde.org/ Blog: http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/ Github: https://github.com/david...

Today we have Rudra Saraswat on the show, the kid behind both BlendOS, Ubuntu Unity and a ton of other really cool distro projects, I don't know how he has the time for it all even at his age. =========Guest Links========== BlendOS: https://blendos.co/ Ubuntu Unity: https://ubuntuunity.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/RudraSaraswat1 ==========Support The Show========== ► Patreon: https://www....

Whilst it might be kind of a challenge to solve certain software problems the real challenge is dealing with people not only people like you within your project but people from different cultures, with different goals from all around the world. =========Guest Links========== Website: https://cassidyjames.com/ Blog: https://cassidyjames.com/blog/ Elementary OS: https://elementary.io/ Endless OS: ht...

The linux kernel is something we all use but have you ever thought about what goes into it, well today we've got David Vernet on the show who has spent quite a bit of time focusing on one aspect, that being the scheduler. =========Guest Links========== Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/Byte_Lab Kernel Recipes 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kAcnNVSAdI LSF 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch...

Today we have the developer of Xenia Linux on the show an immutable Gentoo based distro, yes gentoo of all things, this started as a complete joke but has since then evolved into an actual serious project. =========Guest Links========== Wiki: https://wiki.xenialinux.com/en/latest/ Website: https://xenialinux.com/ Blog: https://blog.xenialinux.com/ Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/xenia-group/xenia-linux...

Today we have a game developer on the show called Ritchie, he's legally blind so I was curious what that experience is like as a game dev, what sort of software he relies on and the difference between the various operating systems. =========Guest Links========== YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AcidicLight Twitter: https://www.youtube.com/c/AcidicLight Website: https://acidiclight.dev/ Patre...