Summary of the week of February 22, 2021

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AMD's 500 series has USB issues

Some owners of these motherboards have been complaining for a while that the USB doesn't work well. These failures consist of random disconnections of external storage drives and problems with ethernet adapters among others. Recently, AMD has acknowledged the problem.

Kodi 19.0 available

With the codename "Matrix", the nineteenth version of the popular player comes with improvements in the metadata shown during music playback, improvements in hardware decoding, new subtitle configurations and much more.

M1 Macs are frying their SSDs

These laptops come with 8GB of RAM, so excessive use of the swap partition is destroying the SSDs of these machines. The integrated ones come soldered on the board.

StarFive will use Imagination GPUs

The RISV-V board manufacturer is going to use the graphics processors of the developer who brought us the infamous GMA500 (Poulsbo). Unlike what happened in the past, it seems that this time they will invest resources in creating an open driver for Linux.

Firefox 86 improves Picture-in-Picture

In addition, a security mechanism called Total Cookie Protection has been launched, which consists of giving each cookie an isolated space from the rest of the cookies.

Using Youtube from the console

ytfzf is a script that allows you to search, download and view Youtube videos from the console.

The semiconductor shortage will last another year

Between the logistical problems caused by the pandemic and a Bitcoin at historic prices, the chip shortage is affecting all areas of the industry. According to this analysis, the scarcity will continue for another year.

Fedora has almost gotten rid of Python 2

The transition from Python 2 to 3 has been a headache given the differences between both versions of the interpreter. Fedora has managed to get rid of practically all dependencies related to the old version of Python.