Late Night Linux

We finally have pricing for the Steam Machine, but they are very hard to actually buy, and very expensive. SteamOS is now supported on your own hardware now though, and Joe gives it a go. Plus Ubuntu makes moves to tighten up the flavours situation and announces speech to text on the desktop, and a quick KDE Korner.



News

Valve opens Steam Machine pre-orders with queue lottery and hefty prices amid AI squeeze

Valve’s Steam Machine ships June 29 for $1,049, but you probably won’t be able to buy one yet

Gamers Nexus long review

Valve will finally let you build your own Steam Machine with SteamOS for desktop [archived]

$100 Steam Machine GPU Unlocked! PS5 APU (ASRock BC-250)

Ubuntu Flavors Now Mandated To Participate In Beta Releases For Official Status

Introducing Myna: Speech to Text for Ubuntu Desktop



KDE Korner

KDE e.V. COMMUNITY REPORT

Plasma 6.7

Get started with Union, Plasma’s new theming engine, in 2 minutes or less: a FAQ















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Our favourite little things about Linux and open source. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break.















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The new Steam hardware is getting close, Arch Linux’s AUR is compromised, and curl is having a month off from vulnerability reports. Plus updates on using the Kagi search engine, retro handhelds, and 3D printing.



Plugs

Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late

Graham’s talk

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News

Steam Machine and Steam Frame are shipping this summer

Valve just imported 13 tons of VR headsets in one day [archived] 2

Arch Linux’s AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware 4.5

Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages

Arch Linux AUR Hit By Another Wave Of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack

Arch Linux locks down AUR signups amid wave of malicious commits

curl summer of bliss



Retro gaming handhelds

R36S

Fakes

R36H























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A new Firefox release confuses Félim, Plex makes no sense in a world where Jellyfin exists, Will considers paying for the Kagi search engine, and another small Android tablet for your wall. Plus what we learned at the recent Ubuntu Summit.



News/discussion

Firefox 151.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes

New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing

Kagi

Shelly Wall Display



Ubuntu Summit

Ubuntu Summit 26.04 Timetable

Ubuntu Summit videos

















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Steam Deck price rises point toward high prices for the new Valve hardware, Lenovo puts its name to a cheap retro handheld and regrets it, Wikipedia management seems to be acting like a typical big tech company and the workers are organising, Bambu pisses off its 3D printer customers and Joe got given a free unrelated 3D printer, and we don’t believe that the Raspberry Pi 6 will arrive as late as 2028.



News

Steam Deck back in stock, with updated pricing

The golden age of handheld gaming is already over [archived]

Lenovo pulls its controversial G02 retro handheld from sale – starting a chain reaction that could decimate the retro gaming market

Sellers circumvent Lenovo’s retro handheld ban with cheap wholesale storefronts

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

We’re Wiki Workers United, a global solidarity union for the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation

Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs

Comprehensive Response to Bambu’s AGPLv3 Violations – Software Freedom Conservancy

‘Fuck you, Bambu’: How one private message could change the face of 3D printing [archived]

No Raspberry Pi 6 before 2028

Don’t expect a Raspberry Pi 5 in 2023, says Eben Upton [21st Dec 2022]

Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5! [28th Sep 2023]























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