It’s Episode Sixteen of Season Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

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We’re here again!

In this week’s show:

• We discuss having the motivation to adopt Ubuntu Devices whole-heartedly.

• We also discuss going on holiday, the on-going saga of fixing Mark’s laptop, and naming the new Entroware laptop.

• We share a Command Line Lurve – pv, which was sent in by The Hatterman. It monitors the progress of data through a pipe and great when used in conjunction with dd to provide a progress bar. For example:

  pv -pa ubuntu_16.04.iso  |  sudo  dd  of=/dev/sdb
  
  

  -p, --progress show progress bar
  -a, --average-rate show data transfer average rate counter

• And we go over all your amazing feedback – thanks for sending it – please keep sending it!

  • For the disappearing cursor fix, create the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-cursoron.conf, and put in it the following content:

  #--makes mouse cursor re-appear
  Section "Device"
  Identifier "Device0"
  Driver "intel"
  Option "AccelMethod" "uxa"
  Option "SWCursor" "on"
  EndSection
  #--
  

  Be careful using UXA acceleration on modern Intel IGPs. It has been superceeded by SNA for some years now and may signifcantly degrade graphics performance.

  • Why Ubuntu caused a furore by including ZFS while Debian did not
  • my first podcast on my bq
• This weeks cover image is taken from the http://ayay.co.uk/.

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our Google+ page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

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