today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 25, 2022

• Best Steam Deck Games Released in the Past Week - 2022-09-26 Edition - Boiling Steam

  Between 2022-09-19 and 2022-09-26 there were 204 new games validated for the Steam Deck. We have developed a series of filters to help you find the Best Steam Deck Games in those, based on the available Steam Ratings, their respective popularity, and a few other criteria. We hope it can help you find games that you would have otherwise never known, so that you won’t be running out of games to play on your Steam Deck anytime soon!

• ScummVM :: Get ready for a pink adventure

  Are you ready to be sent to Camp ChillyWawa and Dr. Periowinkle's mansion as an intelligence agent?

  Armed with a book of knowledge, or Pink Digital Assistant, your mission will be to save children from dangerous threats and undo a spell cast on a little girl who has been transformed into a wombat. To succeed you will need to visit several countries and even travel into the past. On your way you will encounter historical monuments and exhibits.

• My Debian Activities in August 2022

  This month I accepted 375 and rejected 25 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 386.

  I also had a closer look at the RM-bugs. All in all I addressed about 90 of them and either simply removed the package or added a moreinfo tag. In total I spent 13 hours for this task.

  Anyway, if you want to have your RM-bug processed in a timely manner, please have a look at the removal page and check whether the created dak command is really what you wanted. It would also help if you check the reverse dependencies and write a comment whether they are important or can be ignored or also file a new bug for them. Each removal must have one bug!

• Impressions on Web Browsers

  I’ve stayed away from Chrome because, soon after its release, Firefox became the underdog, and it was still the more customizable browser. But even to this Firefox fan it became clear that Chrome was superior — for example, when the Flash plugin or some tab or extension crashed, it wouldn’t crash the whole browser.

• liam_on_linux | On the strange joys of mainframe OSes and legacy tech that has survived into modern times

  I read this wonderful article on mainframe OSes.

  I've been meaning to do something like it for years, but I may use this as a jumping off point.

  I think, for me, what I find intriguing about mainframe OSes in the 21st century is this:

  On the one hand, there have been so many great OSes and languages and interfaces and ideas in tech history, and most are forgotten. Mainframes were and are expensive. Very, very expensive. Minicomputers were cheaper – that’s why they thrived, briefly, and are now totally extinct – and microcomputers were very cheap.

  All modern computers are microcomputers. Maybe evolved to look like minis and mainframes, like ostriches and emus and cassowaries evolved to look a bit like theropod dinosaurs, but they aren’t. They’re still birds. No teeth, no claws on their arms/wings, no live young. Still birds.

  One of the defining characteristics of micros is that’s they are cheap, built down to a price, and there’s very little R&D money.

  But mainframes aren’t. They cost a lot, and rental and licensing costs a lot, and running them costs a lot… everything costs a lot. Meaning you don’t use them if you care about costs that much. You have other reasons. What those are doesn’t matter so much.

• The Feeling of Fast | LINUX Unplugged 477

  We finally give Brent his new laptop and get his reaction. Plus our best pick for replacing stock Android with something private.

• E52: Learnings from Chef & the Future of Open Source

  Adam Jacob is the Cofounder & CTO of Chef, the infrastructure automation platform, and CEO of System Initiative.

• Google Infra For Everyone Else in 2022

  Kubernetes is complex but arguably a good way to do things – even if you aren't using it directly, many popular services were enabled or inspired by its API and workflow. It should be noted that Kubernetes is inspired by, but not Borg, the internal workload (not Docker) scheduler used by Google. Very few services at Google run on Kubernetes. So in a way, it wasn't really "the Google way of doing things."

• Linux Around The World: USA - Wyoming - LinuxLinks

  We cover events and user groups that are running in the US state of Wyoming. This article forms part of our Linux Around The World series.