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  • Looking for device for Home Assistant

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  • If running Home Assistant is all you are going to do, Pi is enough. There's also official hardware with Home Assistant preinstalled: Home Assistant Green

  • Video game PEGI age-ratings are changing in Europe from June. Four new categories added to tackle elements of addictive design, unmonitored online communication and loot boxes

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  • Why is checking age at os-level that bad?

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  • Just because one option is better than another, doesn't mean it's good.

    OS level age check applies to everyone, not just children. Some legislations require strong age checking, which means you need to send some identification to some service. You won't be able to know how the information is handled, for how long it's stored and for what purposes it's used beside age checking. And because this applies to everyone, and is required to be able to use your computer, everything you do with your computer and phone is tied to your user account, and as such to you as an individual and identifiable human being.

    Some of these legislations uses age ranges, and the OS is required to inform applications, and such, whether the user is, for example, below 13 years old, or 13 to 16 years old, etc. Consider this simple scenario: Some user uses some application, and the OS reports the user's age as below 13. The user uses the same app the next day, but now the OS reports the user's age as 13 to 16 years old. Can you figure out the user's exact birthday and age? If that application is part of some kind of larger network of advertisers and whatnots, they will now forever know the user's exact age without the OS reporting anything else.

    These can also be used to make some software illegal, especially free and open source software. If you can replace Windows with Linux, Photoshop with Gimp, etc. it hurts the bottom line of those companies. Those companies can't prevent you from using the open source alternative, but it would be in their interest if those pieces of software becomes illegal to use and distribute. If age checking functionality is added to some open source software, the age checking can simply be removed by the user. You only need to correctly form the age checking law and that entire software is now illegal, and must be removed from the internet.

    While the intention of these laws might to be to protect children, they cause too much harm for little good. The age checking can be circumvented in some situations, meaning the children aren't protected. And the entire thing is a huge privacy mess (data leaks, etc.) for every single computer user.

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  • I've only ever set up few printers to work on linux, and they've been bigger office printers. And they've all worked with minimal effort. Absolutely no idea about home printers.

    Most (all?) printers and scanners released in past decade and some supports driverless printing and scanning. As long as you have printing related systems installed on your computer, most printers should be just plug and play. Especially those that are connected over network.

  • LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2

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  • I don't know the technicalities, but Markdown supports links, and it's possible to craft a link that downloads a file and then executes it. You can look up the Notepad.exe RCE vulnerability from this year.

  • LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2

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  • Hopefully it doesn't have any Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities, like Microslop's implementation had.

  • NVIDIA Beta driver 595.45.04 released for Linux - looks to be an exciting one

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  • I agree on that, but Nvidia GPU are by far the most common GPUs among gamers. Some of them might be excited to hear that their HDR woes are getting fixed at some point, possibly in near-ish future. Some people in that forum thread are saying that the HDR extensions are actually already included in the driver, even though the Nvidia guy said otherwise.

  • Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you

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  • Good. No-one else can use it now.

  • Hegseth declares, 'I only speak American' to room full of foreign leaders

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  • Covfefe?

  • Hegseth declares, 'I only speak American' to room full of foreign leaders

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  • Next executive order: English is henceforth called American.

  • NVIDIA Beta driver 595.45.04 released for Linux - looks to be an exciting one

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  • Vulkan developers said last year that this is the single biggest bottleneck on Nvidia cards that they are aware of. Of course, the final performance improvement can only be known once it is properly implemented, but their guestimation is that it should bring the performance much closer to Windows performance.

  • NVIDIA Beta driver 595.45.04 released for Linux - looks to be an exciting one

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  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    NVIDIA Beta driver 595.45.04 released for Linux - looks to be an exciting one

    www.gamingonlinux.com /2026/03/nvidia-beta-driver-595-45-04-released-for-linux-looks-to-be-an-exciting-one/

  • Downdetector and Speedtest have been sold for over $1 billion

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  • Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS

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  • Not only do you get to pay for the hardware to be able to use the software, and then pay for the software to be allowed to use it. When you use the software it siphons various user data off of you to train their AI with, so that you, the valued customer, can also pay for that AI service.

  • Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS

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  • The calculator app might have remote code execution vulnerability, so you are better off uninstalling it and asking Copilot instead.

  • Steam hardware survey for February 2026. What happened? Why did it lose such a big percentage?

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  • GamingOnLinux updated their Steam Tracker with February's data: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/

    Linux, English Only went from January's 7.59% to 8.27%. There's a huge influx of Chinese users in this month's data.

  • Steam hardware survey for February 2026. What happened? Why did it lose such a big percentage?

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  • GamingOnLinux updated their Steam Tracker with February's data: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/

    Linux, English Only went from January's 7.59% to 8.27%. There's a huge influx of Chinese users in this month's data.

  • Qobuz cracks down on AI-generated tracks, advocating for human music creation and curation

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  • Qobuz with Strawberry is… not very good. I think qbz was released this year, so you probably didn’t try that. There’s a .deb file in GitHub for it, and it also comes in other forms, like Flatpak and AppImage.

  • Qobuz cracks down on AI-generated tracks, advocating for human music creation and curation

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  • DRM free high resolution lossless music, to be more specific. Their prices are quite high, though. Some normal album might cost 20€, while you can get the same album in same resolution and DRM free for 10€ in Bandcamp (a US company, unfortunately).

    As a side note, next week’s Friday (March 6th) is Bandcamp Friday, which means 100% of money you spend there goes to the bands and publishers. Bandcamp won’t take anything for themselves. https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-fridays

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    MOUSE: P.I. For Hire - A Deep Dive Documentary

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    FBC: Firebreak Free Weekend + Double XP and Remedy discount on Steam

    store.steampowered.com /app/2272540/FBC_Firebreak
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Ghostship, a Super Mario 64 PC port, released for Linux

    github.com /HarbourMasters/Ghostship
  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show

    store.steampowered.com /news/app/377160/view/199980407888807014
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    U.S. will ‘soon’ annex Greenland, wife of top Trump aide implies

    www.arctictoday.com /u-s-will-soon-annex-greenland-wife-of-top-trump-aide-implies/
  • Movies @lemmy.world
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    Science Fiction Revolution - A documentary series about 80s sci-fi movies

    www.arte.tv /en/videos/RC-027434/science-fiction-revolution/
  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Science Fiction Revolution - Watch the full documentary | ARTE in English

    www.arte.tv /en/videos/129426-001-A/science-fiction-revolution/
  • Just Post @lemmy.world
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    Pluralistic: A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance (18 Dec 2025)

    pluralistic.net /2025/12/18/self-licking-ice-cream-cone/
  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    A Christmas Carol - A Ballet based on Charles Dickens' Novella

    www.arte.tv /en/videos/117187-000-A/a-christmas-carol/
  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    It's the Christmas light video again - 2025 edition

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Valve says they want SteamOS to be installable on any PC

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Jackify - An easy-to-use Linux tool for installing modlists

    github.com /Omni-guides/Jackify
  • AntiTrumpAlliance @lemmy.world
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    Edelweiss for Today: Epstein Files; A Sound of Music Challenge for Trump

  • Buy European @feddit.uk
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    FBC: Firebreak - Coming June 17

  • Buy European @feddit.uk
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    JustWatch has a genre for "Made in Europe" movies and TV shows

  • Ereader @lemmy.ml
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    Amazon significantly improved the web browser in Kindles