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
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
Wine and Proton update



Honestly the weirdness is from it being federated, and I’m not sure there’s a way to make this more seamless without some serious downsides. Peertube also uses the ActivityPub protocol like Lemmy (although currently there’s no connectivity between the two like we have with Mastodon) and Lemmy can do some weird stuff too - assuming you’re not on an app, I can link to this post on my instance, and you won’t be able to interact with it.
(A “view this post on another instance” option might be a nice thing to have, I wonder if there’s enough interest for me to try to implement one?)