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Excellent Repairability: Steam Machine Tear-Down and Accessing RAM and SSD [video]

youtube.com
4 points·by jrepinc·17 days ago·0 comments

SteamOS Linux 3.8 released as stable

store.steampowered.com
225 points·by jrepinc·23 days ago·73 comments

Mastodon 4.6 – Collections, profiles, and other improvements

blog.joinmastodon.org
23 points·by jrepinc·24 days ago·0 comments

KDE Plasma 6.7 Released

kde.org
105 points·by jrepinc·25 days ago·17 comments

EU Tech Sovereignty: A milestone for Public Code? Now implementation is key

fsfe.org
1 points·by jrepinc·last month·0 comments

Communication on European Tech Sovereignty, and an EU Open-Source Strategy

digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
99 points·by jrepinc·last month·64 comments

What if AI systems weren't chatbots?

arxiv.org
5 points·by jrepinc·2 months ago·0 comments

Exploring the "Banality" of Deception in Generative AI

arxiv.org
4 points·by jrepinc·2 months ago·0 comments

Big AI's Regulatory Capture: Industry Interference and Government Complicity

arxiv.org
5 points·by jrepinc·2 months ago·0 comments

OpenCL 3.1 is here

khronos.org
2 points·by jrepinc·2 months ago·0 comments

What's New in Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 44

fedoramagazine.org
7 points·by jrepinc·2 months ago·0 comments

Kubuntu Linux 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon)

kubuntu.org
15 points·by jrepinc·3 months ago·1 comments

KDE Plasma 6.6 Delivers an Impressive Edge over Gnome 50 on Ubuntu 26.04

phoronix.com
2 points·by jrepinc·4 months ago·1 comments

Krita 5.3.0 and 6.0.0 Released

krita.org
64 points·by jrepinc·4 months ago·8 comments

Qt 6.11 Released

qt.io
8 points·by jrepinc·4 months ago·0 comments

KDE Plasma 6.6

kde.org
11 points·by jrepinc·5 months ago·0 comments

Vulkan Introduces Roadmap 2026 and New Descriptor Heap Extension

khronos.org
3 points·by jrepinc·6 months ago·0 comments

VK_EXT_present_timing: the Journey to State-of-the-Art Frame Pacing in Vulkan

khronos.org
2 points·by jrepinc·7 months ago·0 comments

OASIS approves Open Document Format (ODF) v1.4 standard

oasis-open.org
6 points·by jrepinc·7 months ago·0 comments

Linux 6.18 Released

lore.kernel.org
11 points·by jrepinc·7 months ago·1 comments

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jrepinc
·8 days ago·discuss
Just nine. I can find so much more quickly. And they don't even mention the most creepy malware ones like all the sypware that is integrated into Windows and all the "AI" slop junk. At this point Linux, especially with the superb KDE Plasma desktop runs circles around Windows.
jrepinc
·17 days ago·discuss
An insightful video by Gamers Nexus:

Excellent Repairability: Steam Machine Tear-Down and Accessing RAM and SSD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glXA3ObwSwQ
jrepinc
·18 days ago·discuss
Yeah hat would be awesome. Some RISC-V processor or something like that. A man can dream :)
jrepinc
·18 days ago·discuss
Or already is in form of many freely available gaming Linux distributiuons like CacjyOS, Nobara, Bazzite... not 100% exactly the same but still 99% there already so no need to wait for SteamOS.
jrepinc
·18 days ago·discuss
Same. Gaming exclusively on Linux (openSUSE Tumbleweed) for the last 2 years or so and also loving the Steam Controller.
jrepinc
·18 days ago·discuss
Yeah I can feel you. I built mine just a few months before that terrible "AI" slop bubble scam hypte started. The only mistake I regret now is that I only went with 32 GiB of memory and said to myself I can upgrade later to 64 GiB if I need more. Well luckily most of the time I don't but yeah sometimes it could come in handy. Not for games but for other work. Ah well, still happy I was lucky to do it before the AIpocalypse
jrepinc
·18 days ago·discuss
No need to wait and buy anything. Try any gaming focused Linux distributions and you can already have this. Check out CachyOS, Nobara, Bazzite ...
jrepinc
·18 days ago·discuss
And since for AMD it is an open source driver Valve can also hack on it and squeze more performance out of it for their own specific hardware configuration.
jrepinc
·18 days ago·discuss
Yup it is Arch Linux, that basically boots into Steam client with Big Picture mode. And if you switch to desktop mode you get a standard Linux with KDE Plasma desktop environment.
jrepinc
·18 days ago·discuss
AKA kernel-level rootkit spyware, a big security malware that should never exist anywhere.
jrepinc
·18 days ago·discuss
Similar here. I have the PS4 here and rarely even use PlayStation these days. Mostly it is just PC (now runing Linux even for gaming) and Steam Deck. I was thinking about upgrading to PS5 a year or two ago bu then did some calculations and it is more expensive then it looks at first (PlayStation+ is in practive not optional and it is 72 €/year at minimum, games are quite more expensive themselves than on the PC, and well there is a lot less choice in games). So I have basically just started moving my game library to Steam and PC (GoG and similar other sources store), just makes more sense with PC and now Steam Machine makes inot the a console form factor while still having all the power and freedom of PC. So yeah an easy decision to go with Steam Machine. Sure price of the hardware itself is not exactly very attractive but yeah not so much different to what is normal these days in PC hardware (fsck all these terrible "AI" slop scam bubble corporations). Would love to see a cheaper bare-bones edition without RAM and SSD inside but even without this I think Steam machine will be quite a nice replacement for PS4.
jrepinc
·19 days ago·discuss
I would love to see Valve release a cheaper bare-bones edition without RAM and SSD.
jrepinc
·19 days ago·discuss
More accurately the terrible "AI" slop scam bubble. Damn I hate it so much.
jrepinc
·last month·discuss
How to move from Youtube to free, open and decentralised PeerTube
jrepinc
·2 months ago·discuss
No wonder the "AI" criticism is so heavily censored here :(
jrepinc
·4 months ago·discuss
Yup software patents are terribly bad, we need to abolish them https://endsoftwarepatents.org/
jrepinc
·5 months ago·discuss
That's why I am so glad to only be on Mastodon these days, the true social network, without any rich sociopath billionare or some vulture crapitalist behind it. That keeps Mastodon form becoming the attention/propaganda platforms that all these for profit platforms really are.
jrepinc
·5 months ago·discuss
And openSUSE Tumblweed has KDE Plasma 6.6 now, runing great so far:

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20260216 KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.23.0 Qt Version: 6.10.2 Kernel Version: 6.18.9-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland
jrepinc
·5 months ago·discuss
Oh yeah, OCR in screenshot app, love this, And it is completely local using Tesseract. Also love the new theme export. Can't wait until KDE Plasma 6.6. hits openSUSE Tumbleweed
jrepinc
·5 months ago·discuss
Not just them, all BigTech/GAFAM are