Co-op base-building survival game Necesse v1.0 due this year, The Forgotten Depths update out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/co-o…

#Necesse #IndieGame #Linux #SteamDeck

Co-op base-building survival game Necesse v1.0 due this year, The Forgotten Depths update out now

Necesse is a wonderful mixture of base / village building, exploration, adventure and survival with support for solo and co-op play. They've teased the 1.0 update is due out this year, along with The Forgotten Depths update out now.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Electronic music rhythm game Spin Rhythm XD recently added Linux / Steam Deck support gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/elec…

#SpinRhythmXD #Linux #SteamDeck

Electronic music rhythm game Spin Rhythm XD recently added Linux / Steam Deck support

Spin Rhythm XD is a homage to classic arcade rhythm games (Guitar Hero, DDR), with a modern aesthetic and soundtrack. Earlier in April they also put up an official Native Linux version with Steam Deck support.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

We tried SimpleX Chat, a private, decentralized communications app.

news.itsfoss.com/simplex-chat/

My Experience With SimpleX Chat: Is It The Ultimate Open Source Private Messaging App?

An impressive decentralized open source messaging app that does not require any user ID.

^{Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)}

The UK's University business model is now pretty stark.... fees from non-UK students, and drawing down reserves (and income from investments) are the only two things left to cross-subsidise the rest of universities' activities (research & the teaching UK students, both of which are 'loss-making').

This model cannot go on forever - international students are in a post-Brexit deciine reserves are by their character, limited!

The crisis in higher education is going to get deeper!

#universities

Arch

Shot on 35mm Kentmere 400, developed in Rodinal

#35mm #analoguephotography #filmphotography #35mmfilm #blackandwhite #grainisgood #believeinfilm #monochrome #harman #kentmere

Homelab enthusiasts, meet the ZimaCube! We explore whether this compact powerhouse is a good pick.

itsfoss.com/zimacube-review/

ZimaCube Review: Almost Perfect Out of Box Homelab Experience

ZimaCube takes on the difficult task of carving a niche among hobbyists by providing an out of the box, combined experience of local cloud and NAS.

^{Abhishek Prakash (It's FOSS)}

Happy April (no fools this year)!

Another community update is here. This month we report on the return of the PineTab-V, the release of our micro soldering tip set, the imminent release of the StarPro64 SBC and software improvements to the PineTab 2 and PineNote.

And Charlie the Pinecorn returns for April too 😉 .

#pine64

pine64.org/2025/04/13/april_20…

April Update: Risc It For A Biscuit

This month, the PineTab-V returns, PineNote, PineTab2 and PineTime software improvements and a new Pinecil micro soldering tip set. Does anyone even read these descriptions?

^PINE64

The history of Earth as the length of a human’s outstretched arm - representing 4.5 billion years of time.

At this scale, humans emerged so recently that we could be filed off from a microscopic slice at the very tip of a fingernail.

Infographic by Katie Scott. #science #history

"The one thing that can stop the rise of the far right is the one thing mainstream parties are currently not prepared to deliver: greater equality. The rich should be taxed more, and the revenue used to improve the lives of the poor. However frantically centrist parties avoid the issue, there is no other way."

#FightingOligarchy
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature

Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

^{George Monbiot (The Guardian)}

Open source, privacy-focused, you cannot miss these 7 Skype alternatives!

itsfoss.com/open-source-skype-…

Top 7 Best Open Source Skype Alternatives In 2025

With Skype going down, a switch to open source alternatives has never been more compelling.

^{Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)}

Spring in Dentdale.

#spring #nature #landscape

Couple goals. 🥰

#linux

“Under most circumstances, the preferences of the vast majority of Americans appear to have essentially no impact on which policies the government does or doesn’t adopt.”

That's an understatement.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature

Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

^{George Monbiot (The Guardian)}

Kodi is cool, but these add-ons make it epic.

itsfoss.com/best-kodi-add-ons/

Best Kodi Add-ons I Use to Enhance My Media Server Experience

Take your Kodi set up to the next level and add more features to it with these add-ons.

^{Abhishek Kumar (It's FOSS)}

What I’ve learned after 40 years as the Observer’s science editor

"Anti-science movements have always been with us, of course – from the rise of the flat Earthers to the early establishment of groups opposed to evolution. However, the present trajectory is now ­becoming extremely ­worrying, with the US providing the most ­worrying examples."

theguardian.com/science/2025/a…

#science

What I’ve learned after 40 years as the Observer’s science editor

Almost as amazing as the knowledge we have gained in the past four decades is the fact that some people continue to deny the damage we are doing to our world

^{Robin McKie (The Guardian)}

"One of Ireland’s very best genre-fluid experimentalists Meljoann walks us through Status – a bristling, truth-telling odyssey through queerness, class, digital resistance and emotional survival. Blending industrial pop, retro-futurist funk and slow jams, the album takes aim at Big Tech, cultural cringe and the exploitative mechanics of the music industry, all while staying defiantly heartfelt and fiercely DIY. Here, she breaks down each track’s origins – from leprechaun-coded short stories and algorithmic nightmares to jazz-nerd odysseys and FOSS-slow jams."

follow @meljoann

Track-by-Track: Meljoann – Status – The Thin Air
thethinair.net/2025/03/track-b…

Track-by-Track: Meljoann - Status

One of Ireland's very best genre-fluid experimentalists Meljoann walks us through Status - a bristling, truth-telling odyssey through queerness, class, digital resistance and emotional survival.

^{The Thin Air}

G̶o̶o̶g̶l̶e̶r̶… ex-Googler.

nerdy.dev/ex-googler

Born in 1914, Hedy Lamarr was a famous American actress who pioneered the technology that would lead to WiFi, GPS, cell phones & Bluetooth communication.

Lamarr was brilliant. Among many fascinating inventions, she developed a new communication system with composer George Antheil that used “frequency hopping” among radio waves.

Once called the “most beautiful woman in the world," Lamarr is now remembered as "the mother of Wi-Fi."

smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian… #science #history

"check engine"? how am i supposed to check the engine if i'm driving? what a stupid light

UPDATE: turned the engine off to go check it and the light went away. i guess it's fine

UPDATE: expolded