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Always good to see Valve fix games on Steam Deck so quickly like The Witcher 3 next-gen!

youtu.be/m-msjdUyGl0






ICYMI: Valve hit a home run with the first year of Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/valvโ€ฆ #SteamDeck
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

I've completed more games on my Steam Deck in the few months I've had it than I have in the past two years on my gaming PC.

Has Valve released sales numbers for the deck?




What?! Today I learned that the Pointer Sisters sang Sesame Street's "Pinball Countdown" song. "One two three four five...six seven eight nine ten...eleven twelve." youtube.com/watch?v=mTr_HS_O4Eโ€ฆ
in reply to kottke.org

First Phillip Glass, now this: suspect I will be discovering new Sesame Street influences on my life until the day I die.



Nextcloud is perfect for remote work, as millions of our users already know.

Let us quickly explain why it is so awesome!

#Nextcloud #remotework #collaboration #opensource
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Hey! I will be playing some Linux games over at cast.samsai.eu/ in about 15 minutes. Tonight we'll have a look at Ultimate ADOM and then continue playing more Spiritfarer. See you in the chat!


The 2022 winners of the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest in which participants pen horrible opening lines to bad novels. "I knew she was trouble the second she walked into my 24-hour deli, laundromat, and detective agency..." kottke.org/22/12/the-2022-prizโ€ฆ
in reply to kottke.org

that actually sounds like a fantastic opening line to a good futuristic hard boiled detective novel.


It's that time of year: how to make your own Die Hard Christmas tree ornament of John McClane crawling through an air duct. unlikelywords.com/2016/12/23/hโ€ฆ


Twitter has suspended accounts of #journalists from the New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN, amongst others. #TwitterMigration #Twitter nytimes.com/2022/12/15/technolโ€ฆ
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Twitter has blocked posting links to #Mastodon, you can't tweet a link to a Mastodon instance anymore, or at least you can't to any of the big instances (regex for the word "mastodon" perhaps?). The official @Mastodon account has also just been suspended. #Twitter #TwitterMigration
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in reply to Alasdair Allan

@Mastodon apparently also excludes anyone who would dare compete with him.... Wow.... Just wow...


Mattel gave the keys to the Barbie movie to Greta Gerwig and oh boy. What a trailer! youtube.com/watch?v=8zIf0XvoL9โ€ฆ


"Elite projection is the belief, among relatively fortunate and influential people, that what those people find convenient or attractive is good for the society as a whole." kottke.org/22/12/the-dangers-oโ€ฆ


We don't really know what the key ingredient in the smallpox vaccine is or where it originated. It's not weakened smallpox, cowpox, or monkeypox. Best guess is it originated from horsepox. theatlantic.com/science/archivโ€ฆ


"Today, I present to you the first iteration of the Cite Black Women+ in Physics and Astronomy Bibliography v.1.0, which is publicly available as a Zotero library."

@chanda

chanda.substack.com/p/celebratโ€ฆ



"So the INTERNET is Federated now?"

"It always has been ..."



The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder. New book by David Grann? Instant preorder. bookshop.org/a/2966/9780385534โ€ฆ


I got cited by @codeberg_org@twitter.com, not like an off hand mention or just a link to one of my videos, first line of the article I'm mentioned by name blog.codeberg.org/codeberg-lauโ€ฆ
in reply to Brodie Robertson

Oh, I see. Not a fan of that tbh, but I understand why it's important for creators like you.

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@james well yeah thatโ€™s why I shared it
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Next he's gonna announce that he's gonna make his own version of QR codes, because the existing ones have gone woke.


Steam Deck and Desktop Steam Beta updates fix up Login UI, store updates on Deck gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/steaโ€ฆ #Steam #SteamDeck #Gaming
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

1.: I can see media in yours previous toot
2: Be gentle and keep in mind that mastodon.social (yours instance) might be under huge influx of new users *for no apparent reason* ๐Ÿ˜€
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

... on your instance, maybe. Yeah, I know, it takes some time to get used to the federated nature.


4mat is a legend in the world of #Amiga #chiptune modules, so who better to give a history of the genre?

This is an older video so many of you #Commodore, #chipmusic, and #tracker nerds may have seen it already, but it's definitely a great watch for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of chip module music!

youtu.be/3uzNQa2Q-KE



Oxygen Not Included 'Hot Shots' update out with a new animated short gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/oxygโ€ฆ


RazerGenie, a Qt app for configuring your Razer devices version 1.0 out now gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/razeโ€ฆ #Gaming #Razer #Linux




@PINE64 #Pinephonepro is working incredibly well with the #pinetime, in a couple days I should be able to throw #pinebuds into the mix too, pretty excited to see how the full pine stack works out.


If you're trying to find journalists on Mastodon, I've created a verified database of several hundred here: presscheck.org. Since the backlog has become enormous, the unverified waiting list is now public also: presscheck.org/pending

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Threw up a Linktree account with just a Mastodon link, wonder how long before that workaround is blocked on Twitter linktr.ee/gamingonlinux
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Did the same but only have it linked on my Twitter. I don't have to worry about @kev and @mike getting cranky about me linking other social media on my Mastodon account ๐Ÿ˜ Will have to do the same for @BuddiesOfBudgie after work.

It's ridiculous that we have to do these sorts of workarounds.



Whelp. Twitter banning Mastodon links now too. Couldnโ€™t even share our dedicated follow.GamingOnLinux.com link.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

It's getting a bit silly now. I wonder if you made the link point to a page with a link on it rather than a re-direct, or perhaps even a timed re-direct of some sort, if the system would still find issue with it?
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Does it give a warning? Or is it specifically looking for the word mastodon I wonder. My old ones for tech.lgbt are still up... for now. I'm half curious to try and post a fresh link on twitter and see if it suspends me for it lol


Twitter blocks links to Mastodon, making a really good case for Mastodon techcrunch.com/2022/12/15/elonโ€ฆ


Computers revolutionized office productivity.

Networks made it easy to share files with each other, optimizing the flow of documents ๐Ÿ“ฒ

โœจ Today, Nextcloud unlocks the real productivity of teams, bringing context to content and real-time collaboration to work together!




CW: Racism, fake picture of a person StyleGAN (AI), eye contact

Some people on here are really going around pretending to be Black people with avatars generated with thispersondoesnotexist.com to question lived experiences of racism from Black people & avoid having their white supremacy thrown back at them.

This is vile & not subtle and should be pointed out every single time it is noticed.

Releavant: my thread on how to recognize AI-generated faces rage.love/@Siph/10735571857306โ€ฆ



So much work went into this segment for a tv show: large space biplane, sophisticated costumes, and fairly precise choreography. We don't see dance routines like this on television, or even on movies, much these days.
youtu.be/o5_4jI306Eg
in reply to Muse

Note that although the song was released in 1977, this video is a performance from 1984.


Inaugural kittycat picture. This is Mister Aramis Fluffypants Beans, the cat who keeps me company at work. =P


What Bernie Sanders is up to.
youtu.be/h_DFRp7bJTo
in reply to Muse

Go Bernie! He is one of the few in congress that cares about the people.

in reply to Muse

~1300 W/m2 with that square oriented perfectly in the direction of the sun, and with the thinest possible amount of atmosphere above.

I.e. high-noon at the equator on a perfectly clear dry day.

So, 100W/m2 at 50ยบ flat to a level surface on the ground/water, and maybe 130W/m2 average on a tilted surface facing the sun.

The Shockleyโ€“Queisser limit, says that at most 31% of the energy in sunlight can be converted to electricity. We probably will never achieve better than about 25-27% on production panels with ideal orientation at high noon. With moving mirrors to concentrate light on a collector we can still never achieve more than 41% efficiency.

I.e. We will NEVER have the means to harvest enough energy from solar to get to net-zero with solar alone. It's just Not. Physically. Possible.



Directing Santa down the chimney.

Orange Tabby: More to the left, Santa. Little more! That's it. Now wriggle a bit. That's got it. Now, leave the milk and biscuits to me or you won't get back out!

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