today's leftovers
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What I want to see in 2023 for Linux, Gaming, Steam Deck and more | GamingOnLinux
The end of a year is a good time to sit, think and reflect on what a year it has been and what we hope 2023 will bring so here's some of what I want and what I think could happen.
I actually wrote a wishlist for the Steam Deck back in October, and funnily enough pretty much every single point there is still valid right now. Some points have had minor work but most of it hasn't been touched. I hope Valve are reading, because all of those points are what I regularly see people moan and gripe about too.
What else though for the wider picture?
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Best Maps of 2022 Poll - DDraceNetwork News
Our entire DDNet team would like to wish you all a warm and safe journey throughout 2023. DDNet grew again massively this year and we welcomed many newcomers to the community. We hope that you will all continue enjoying your time on DDNet while we continue to serve the community and find new ways to enrich your experience in 2023.
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Mabox Colorizer in action (Dec 2022) - Invidious
Colorizer has evolved a lot – see what it can do now. Version 1.0 pre-release.
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Hachyderm's Kris Nova on running a Mastodon Server - Hanselminutes Podcast 872 - Invidious [Ed: This is a Microsofter; he is not the only Microsofter shilling Mastodon. Ed Bott does the same. Maybe they want Microsoft's "influencers" to expand there.]
Scott talks with Kris Nova who has been building and scaling Hachyderm, a Mastodon instance that began in her basement and is now moving into the cloud. Nova shares her extensive knowledge on the technical challenges and solutions involved in creating and maintaining Hachyderm, as well as her insights on the importance of building and maintaining a welcoming and inclusive online community. If you enjoy this kind of interview, you're in luck!
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Ace your Linux Admin Job Interview: Tips and tricks
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C.J. Adams-Collier: State of the racks, 20221231
I haven’t written in a while. I’ve been caught up in work. But between working, I’ve put together some new equipment in a couple of new racks. I bought an audio dampened 15U rack a couple of years ago or so, and into it I’ve placed the RAID array and an HP desktop form-factor ML110 server to drive the disks. The disk array controller is a two-port Broadcom / LSI SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3. I’ve been thinking about getting the four-port variant, since I like this one and I’ve got another 7 drive bays in the chassis that don’t have disks in them.
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Junichi Uekawa: Challenges in getting a Debian package.
Challenges in getting a Debian package. Debian Rust packaging team has a great collection of scripts for maintaining Debian Rust packages, but that depended on schroot and other tools that I haven't used usually. Getting that working first was a challenging. I had to get out of my podman container running sid inside user namespace, because schroot didn't work due to not being able to create devices files. That was okay, and I went back to my old chroot script which was doing something similar to schroot. Had to fix up /etc/passwd and /etc/group to match inside and outside. I broke gpg on the way, I had to fix the chroot script not to break PTTY by keeping /dev/pts. This I could probably have ignored if I had used schroot myself as well. Anyway, some maintenance of old scripts to get back up to speed...
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The incredibly boring, totally reasonable finances of the GNOME Foundation
I recently reported on the incredibly bizarre finances of Mozilla (the makers of Firefox). Payments to nonexistent companies, major payments to political extremists (that have no relation to their core business), a total reliance on a single customer… and that’s just for starters. The finances of Mozilla are absolutely wild.
Which brings up a question:
How does that compare to the financial operations of other “non-profit” organizations in the Tech and Open Source world?
Are the finances of other organizations similarly corrupt and strange? Or is Mozilla… unique?
In order to (begin to) answer that question, I dove into the available financial data of the GNOME Foundation — the Non-Profit Foundation behind the GNOME Desktop Environment (among many other software projects).
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Rubenerd: Feeling validation for Apple Pay anxiety [Ed: iDiots who think cash payments aren't good; this never happens with cash. Never. Apple typically solves "problems" that do not exist, but it spends billions on marketing, insinuating that there are new problems, like people not wearing a watch that broadcasts their pulse and phones "911" based on nonsense (false reports are a crime).]
By this point, most of the people in the queue had given up, and another checkout had opened next to us. There were so many people behind us, we decided to stay put. But this meant watching this person work in vain to get a virtual card working on their phone.
There are a couple of lessons here. Test and validate your new payment stuff before trying it at a packed supermarket! Keep carrying your cards, even if you have them in your bag. Added convenience is fine, but what’s your plan B when it fails?
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Apple has changed... and not in a good way.
Back in 2007, “Apple Computer, Inc.” dropped the word “Computer” from their name. Becoming, simply, “Apple”.
Since then Apple has transformed, radically, into a company that is almost unrecognizable. Their approach to both hardware and software has changed so fundamentally that, if it were not for the big “Apple” logo on their products, you would be forgiven for not recognizing them as being made by the same company.
Unfortunately, these changes have not resulted in Apple making better products. The reality is quite the opposite. Any bright spots in the Apple product line is in spite of — not because of — Apple’s abandoning of what made them great in the past.
Let’s look through a handful of examples that showcase this dramatic shift.