California law to require operating systems to check your age gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/caliโฆ
#PCGaming #Linux #SteamOS #Windows #California
California law to require operating systems to check your age
The time of age assurance is upon us, and not just for social media - for operating systems too and that includes Linux as well of course.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
SteamInputDB is a new site to help you find Steam Input configurations for your gamepads gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/steaโฆ
#SteamInputDB #Steam #PCGaming #SteamInput
SteamInputDB is a new site to help you find Steam Input configurations for your gamepads
SteamInputDB recently launched as a new third-party community site to help you find Steam Input configurations for various gamepads with Steam games.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Steam Deck OLED gets a price increase across Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/steaโฆ
#SteamDeckOLED #SteamDeck #SteamOS
Steam Deck OLED gets a price increase across Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan
KOMODO announced over the weekend that the Steam Deck OLED is getting a price increase across Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
DREAMM emulator for LucasArts, Lucasfilm, and Lucas Learning games v4.0 out now gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/dreaโฆ
#PCGaming #Retro #RetroGaming #Emulation #Gaming
DREAMM emulator for LucasArts, Lucasfilm, and Lucas Learning games v4.0 out now
DREAMM is a special emulator for playing lots of classic LucasArts, Lucasfilm, and Lucas Learning games with a major new 4.0 release available.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Cities: Skylines celebrates 11 years with lots of new content on the way gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/citiโฆ
#CitiesSkylines #CityBuilder #PCGaming #Gaming
Cities: Skylines celebrates 11 years with lots of new content on the way
Paradox are celebrating 11 years of the Cities: Skylines series with new content coming for both games, so here's what you need to know.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Steam Survey for February 2026 shows a big swing to Simplified Chinese gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/steaโฆ
#Steam #Valve #Gaming #PCGaming #Linux #SteamOS
Steam Survey for February 2026 shows a big swing to Simplified Chinese
The Steam Hardware & Software Survey for February 2026 is live and it's looking a bit odd, with a huge swing towards Simplified Chinese.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Linux_eng_only % went up.
Is there any explanation for these Chinese spikes?
Is it an indicator that random distribution of surveys actually works?
Condensing the "Notifications" area
As the user number of Friendica grows, some behaviors do not scale well. One of them is the "Notifications" area.
The problem is that notifications are shown one-by-one - causing me to wake up to 37 notifications from a single post I interacted with. Not only is it kind of annoying - it also risks that other notifications drown in this tsunami of items.
I suggest to group notifications by "Post" - much like it is done on Facebook.
I have created a feature request for this at github.com/friendica/friendicaโฆ
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Grouping of notifications
Is the feature request related to a problem? Please describe. There a quite a few areas of Friendica that do not scale well. They have been working fine with a relatively low number of users, but a...jrossstocholm (GitHub)
Friendica Support reshared this.
When configuring the "Notifications" setting, the result is
"<name> commented on your thread <post title>
I would have preferred it to be
"<name> and 9999 others commented on your thread <post title>
But it is not a big deal ๐
Ever wanted to build a data center? Well, this game lets you do that.
I'm Low-key Hyped for This Data Center Sim (Though It Has No Official Linux Support)
There's a free demo up on Steam right now, and I took it for a spin.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
Sumatran tiger refuge loses over half its forest, study finds
Across Sumatra, satellite images and field surveys traced two decades of clearing from park edges toward its core, tied to expanding oil palm plantations.Raquel Brandao (Earth.com)
Some LTS Linux kernels have received extended support.
itsfoss.com/news/linux-lts-kerโฆ
Your Linux LTS Kernel Will Be Supported Longer Than You Thought
More breathing room for distros and enterprise Linux users as LTS kernels get extended EOL dates.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
It's a cold blustery cloudy day in much of Aotearoa-NZ (it's hailing outside as I type this) so to brighten up your day here's a snowberry yellow moth.
I just uploaded my photo from 2023 to #iNaturalist as I work through my backlog. It's now the 29th observation on iNat of the species and will be the 33rd on GBIF once my ID is confirmed.
As the name suggests, the caterpillars of this pretty yellow moth eat NZ snowberries (Gaultheria species).
inaturalist.nz/observations/34โฆ
flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jonโฆ
#mothodon #moths #Lepidoptera #nz #yellow
Oat containers work pretty well for mushroom growing. Small enough to be manageable and good at keeping the moisture in.
#mushrooms #GrowYourOwn #fungi
Here's some of the most-played demos during Steam Next Fest - February 2026 edition gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/hereโฆ
#Steam #Demos #NextFest #PCGaming #Gaming
Here's some of the most-played demos during Steam Next Fest - February 2026 edition
With Steam Next Fest - February 2026 nearly over, Valve recently revealed some of the most popular choices amongst gamers.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Here's the most played Steam Deck games for February 2026 gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/hereโฆ
#SteamDeck #Steam #SteamOS #Valve #Linux
Here's the most played Steam Deck games for February 2026
Another month is done and finished and what a month it was huh? February 2026 had some fun games arriving, so here's what was most popular on Steam Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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Sloth Bear Melursus ursinus
The sloth bear (Melursus ursinus), with their distinctive โYโ or โVโ shaped chest patch and shaggy fur, are unique bears native to the Indian subcontinent. Once exploited asโฆPalm Oil Detectives
Proton Experimental gets improvements for Vermintide 2 and more controller support for launchers gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/protโฆ
#Proton #Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck #Gaming
Proton Experimental gets improvements for Vermintide 2 and more controller support for launchers
Valve released an update for Proton Experimental for February 27th, their testing ground for getting more Windows games running on Linux / SteamOS systems.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
ESP32 is small, powerful, and great for weekend builds.
itsfoss.com/esp32-microcontrolโฆ
11 Interesting ESP32 Microcontroller Projects Beginners Can Try
Try your hand at these creative projects!Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
It's (slightly too cold for) Hammock Time
Jasper is very happy regardless
#CatsOfMastodon #HappyCat #hammock
Around 25% of Africaโs Land is Damaged: This is How We Fix It!
Almost 25% of all land in Africa has been damaged driven by climate change and deforestation for mining palm oil and cocoa. Take action and protect forests!Palm Oil Detectives
Today I will be celebrating my 51th birthday anniversary with friends and family.
As usual #plushtodon is early to the party. ๐
PepsiCo
Despite decades of promises to end deforestation for palm oil PepsiCo (owner of crisp brands Frito-Lay, Cheetos and Doritos along with hundreds of other snack food brands) have continued sourcing pโฆPalm Oil Detectives
I love love love love (in a sarcastic, dark humour sort of way) the title of the article Dr. Laura Revell, Dr. @astrokiwi.bsky.social and I wrote last week theconversation.com/a-new-spacโฆ.
But one thing got cut in the final edit: simulations of the night sky with 1 million satellites. I just tried to pitch a separate article on that, I'll see if that gets picked up this coming week or not.
A new space race could turn our atmosphere into a โcrematorium for satellitesโ
Planned โmegaconstellationsโ of satellites could cause unforeseen harm to the ozone layer and climate systems. Global regulation is needed before itโs too late.The Conversation
The dots in each grey circle are sunlit satellites, and the colour tells you how bright they are. Anything pink, orange, or yellow is naked-eye visible.
Below each circle is "Nvis" which tells you the number of satellites bright enough to be visible with the naked eye, and "Ntot" which is the total number of sunlit satellites above the horizon.
There are only ~4,500 stars that are naked eye visible.
A million sats this big would be more visible satellites than stars.
Of course, there's no way in hell we'll ever get to 1 million satellites in orbit. We'll be in Kessler Syndrome long before that (many experts say we're already in Kessler Syndrome now, and the timescale between collisions will continue to get shorter).
I"ll also note we're making huge assumptions here on size and orbits, because SpaceX hasn't actually said what they're going to do. And that's fine with the FCC, they're going to approve it anyway. Fuckers.
like this
A lost Amazon world just reappeared in Bolivia
Researchers exploring Boliviaโs Great Tectonic Lakes discovered a landscape transformed over centuries by sophisticated engineering and diverse agricultural traditions.ScienceDaily
Tucuxi Sotalia fluviatilis
Tucuxi, small freshwater dolphins of Peru Ecuador Colombia and Brazil are Endangered due to fishing nets, deforestation, mercury poisoning from gold mining.Palm Oil Detectives
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐ง๐ฎ • • •more than happy for iOS to verify my age and share that verification in some basic form (i.e. some age "bucket" plus the verification method). Apple already has plenty of evidence of my age, I'm not giving them any extra information and it should mean I have to give less information to others.
It's a massive net gain over where we're currently headed, where I'll have to share an ID with giphy so I can browse & send a gif with blood in.
(Obvs I would not share an ID with giphy)
John Regan
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐ง๐ฎ • • •it's pretty obvious this law was written by people who only use single-user phones and tablets.
Also, and I cannot stress this enough - very few tech-savvy people get into politics. I've been asked some incredibly bananas tech questions by politicians before. They're very out of touch. This law being a prime example.
If you live in California you need to call your local reps and tell them why this is a bad idea.
Two-Track-Mind
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