Episode 6:12: It's All About the Pentiums

Coming up in this episode The Ends of an Era A Leaky Firefox RAM is Affordable Now?! 0:00 Cold Open 1:36 Ends of an Era 32:30 A Leaky Firefox 48:47 A Slight RAM Reprieve? 1:04:51 Two Notes & Next Time 1:13:30 Stinger Today in User Space we dive into the wonderful world of nostalgia again as we find out that the 486 architecture will soon be dropped from the Linux kernel. Luckily the very first Pentium (with MMX!) is still in-tree, but for how much longer? We also find out that Ubuntu is raising their minimum RAM requirement to 6GB from 4. Honestly, it's about time. Then, some bittersweet news. Leo finally gets to play around with the Firefox built-in VPN, but Dan still hasn't seen it. What we found out, though, is that Firefox will happily leak your real IP address with WebRTC. Does this defeat the purpose?! Lastly, we try to guess what's going to happen next with RAM prices. They seem to have hit their peak, but will they really come tumbling down? At least for Raspberry Pi, that's not the case as price rises across the entire line are happening. The Pi 5 16GB is a jaw dropping $300! We also respond to a couple of comments. The Video Version 📣Announcements📣 This program was made possible by: 📺️ Youtube 📽️ TILvids And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patrons like you 😍 Ends of an Era Linux 7.1 Expected To Begin Removing i486 CPU Support Ars Technica coverage Ubuntu raises system requirements 📣More Announcements📣 Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, contact@linuxuserspace.show OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy Firefox VPN leaks your IP when using WebRTC WebRTC leaks explained Mullvad VPN Connection Check 🧹Housekeeping🧹 Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord. 🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy 📰 Linux User Space subreddit ⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server 📲 Linux User Space Telegram ✉️ Linux User Space Matrix 📽️ Linux User Space Twitch 🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon 📜 Linux User Space Twitter 📺️ Linux User Space TILVids 📱 Linux User Space Bluesky Raspberry Pi prices rise... again. Raspberry Pi Blog announcement Gaming On Linux article 🔭Next Time🔭 We plan to cover your feedback, and some interesting topics. Stay Tuned, we plan to check in on Kagi and our KDE Linux journey. Watch for our livestream announcements. Stay tuned📡 for announcements of our return and interact with us on Lemmy, Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show. We would like to acknowledge 🤩 our top patrons. Thank you 🙏 for your support! Producer Bruno Dave John Visaggio & Co Co-Producer --verbose MarshMan Rotted Mood CubicleNate Super User A.J. Advait Amanita Backshift6090 Eduardo S. Jeff3ix Jefferson Jill and Steve Larry LiNuXsys666 Matt M. Musical Coder Nicholas sleepyeyesvince

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This episode was published on Apr 13, 2026.

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