487 – Goodbye US Office, Hello Euro Office

First up the news We have a great little tool in the “Check This Section” Link To Full Show Notes The News: Linux is Getting a Free Pass on Age Verification in California and Colorado DuckDuckGo Installs Up 30% After Google Announced AI Search New social features further Plex’s evolution from media server business Euro-Office: General availability set for June 9 Acer Launching Streaming-Only Handheld Gaming PC Running Debian Microsoft cut its engineers off from AI because the bill got too big — why AI might not take your job after all EU plots long game against US digital supremacy Brave Software inc releases a stable version of the Brave Origin Browser Check This Out Handy is a free, private, local AI speech-to-text app. Contact Info: Joe – Tllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected], occasionally on HPR Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon, also checkout the other podcast I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric, Majid & Charlie). Majid – [email protected], AtypicalDoctor on Discord, and The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC and Distrohoppers Digest. Eric – I can be reached by email at [email protected]. Charles – [email protected], Mr PDX on Discord Jim – [email protected], GNU2Linux on Discord, The Linux Shortcut on YouTube Charlie – ImmutableCharlie on Discord, [email protected]. Also on the Linux OTC podcast. Special Thanks To: Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio Archive.org for hosting our audio files Hobstar for our logo, .initrd for the animated logo on Discord Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>