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hamsterkill

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  • Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again

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  • This is written by Cory Doctorow -- formerly of the EFF and coiner of the word "enshittification". You can disagree with him, but this is the same kind of advocacy he has written for decades.

  • Revised Steam Survey For December 2025 Puts Linux Gaming Marketshare At 3.58%

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  • BSD, perhaps. Or maybe Redox eventually.

  • 5 open-source Android apps that put Google's defaults to shame

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  • That's now Thunderbird.

  • Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame

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  • As far as I know, browsers will only do Widevine L3. Meaning you won't get resolutions past 720p or maybe 1080p (depending on service). That's probably fine a small screen like the deck. Less fine for a 4k TV.

  • Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame

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  • One question I have about the cube is will it be capable of doing full DRM streaming services like Netflix? Most living room systems have that, but doing it on an open linux system somehow would be novel.

  • What are some free & open source fonts designed for or comissioned by brands?

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  • Noto (Google) I thought was the most well-known.

  • Automattic CEO calls Tumblr his 'biggest failure' so far

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  • The ban happened because Verizon was trying to sell it.

  • MIT engineers solve the sticky-cell problem in bioreactors and other industries

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  • The article does mention this problem and they claim to have been able to pull it off somehow.

    “Mammalian cells are orders of magnitude more sensitive than algae cells, but even with those cells, we were able to detach them with no impact to the viability of the cell,” Vandereydt says.

  • GrapheneOS could break Pixel exclusivity in 2026 with major OEM deal

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  • Not certain Sony counts as worldwide anymore since they seem to have retreated from the US.

  • Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular?

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  • I'm sure what I'm about to say has already been echoed by others, but there are a few factors working against them. This is from a US/Canada perspective. Other countries may have more or fewer barriers.

    1. Mobile hardware - Mobile hardware has higher security. Some of this is by design for the user, since mobile devices are more likely to fall into wrong hands than e.g. a desktop. Some of it is corps preventing users from using their hardware in ways they don't want you to, though. The level of locked down mobile hardware has only increased over time.
    2. Carriers - This one is particular to North America, I think. Carriers here have a long history of meddling in phone hardware - from bloatware to SIM locks and everything in between. One of the things they do since LTE is require device makers to pay them to get certified to make calls on their network. Linux capable devices are too niche to be able to afford this. This is why Fairphone, for example, even with its Android-based OS, only works on one carrier here.

    Those are the main two barriers here. Things like apps can have workarounds for those that would be interested in early adoption of Linux phones. But there's no way around the combination of carrier certification costs and limited options of only very locked down hardware.

  • Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support?

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  • I think there's some sort of a west coast trend towards immutable distros. Bazzite has the same kind of buzz. Haven't really met anyone that uses these distros around me, though.

  • Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account

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  • Presumably if there isn't a user report for whatever distro I'm using

    Distro is unlikely to matter, as long as you don't pick a really obscure one. And even then, flatpaks will probably work fine.

    Protondb also looks to be focused on Steam, I'm guessing it's like MacOS where if it's a game not on Steam then you're shit out of luck if there isn't a Linux specific version?

    Steam is the easiest to work with and most well-supported. But there are other managers like Heroic Launcher and Lutris that can cover non-steam. Knowing whether a game can run on proton/wine outside of Steam does likely require a google search, though. Most things can be made to work as long as the game doesn't require kernel-level anticheat (e.g. Destiny and BF6).

  • New U.S. gov't rule says chipmakers have to make one chip in the US for each chip imported from another country to avoid 100% tariffs — Trump admin allegedly preps new 1:1 chip export rule

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  • I... really wonder who in the administration is coming up with all these ideas. It's gotta be someone who has a staff, and that staff must feel like the most useless people in policy since their boss must be coming up with these ideas while cracked out and not running them by anyone...

  • Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened

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  • Inside Games claims a 50% drop in views from July. PC users were 27% of their views then and is now down to 21%, but that alone can't account for the drastic drop in viewership overall. Video on it here:

    https://youtu.be/tWKTC0nVI10

  • Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened

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  • There was. Some channels even saw most of their decline from mobile/TV viewers.

    That doesn't necessarily mean that wasn't also related to the adblocker issue, though. How the algorithm reacted to the dramatic change in views could have made waves that saw channels de-recommended or caused it to ignore sections of a viewer's watch history and thus the recommendations shown to them as well.

    With the algorithm everything gets tied together so much that any disruption can have unpredictable effects.

  • The Impending CRT Display Revival Will Be Televised

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  • it would be cool to have some sort of optical displays based on interference (suppose, two lasers at the sides of the screen) or whatever, allowing similarly agile resolution change, and also more energy-efficient than LCDs, and also better for one's eyes. I think there even are some, just very expensive

    I think you're just describing laser projection TVs ( though the projection is from the front or back, generally). They're not that expensive — just huge. For their size, they're much cheaper than LCDs and OLEDs, but they only come in about 100+".

    https://www.walmart.com/ip/Hisense-L5H-4K-UHD-Ultra-Short-Throw-Laser-TV-Projector-with-100-Light-Rejecting-Screen-Dolby-Vision-Dolby-Atmos-Google-TV/5003861077?classType=REGULAR

    Scanning laser projection is also used in virtual retinal displays, but that's for stuff like HUDs or a head-mounted display since it projects on (or rather - into) a person's eye instead of a screen.

    Any kind of scanning display will probably have poor latency compared to LCD/OLED flat panels, I think, though.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 now has a native Linux build

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  • Heroic Launcher fulfils the basics for it.

  • Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed

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  • Of course they have. We even have the Librem 5 that's sold here. The big problem the linux phones face is the cost of getting certified by all three carriers here — and without carrier cert, they just don't work.

  • EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED

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  • Norway is not EU

  • Android @lemdro.id
    hamsterkill @lemmy.sdf.org

    Device makers hiding the SoC they are using is a terrible recent trend