Boiling Steam

@TeksEdge @novita_labs @OpenRouter You can't trust a third party. Like never.

📉 Bad News: MiniMax M2.7 is closed weights. No HuggingFace release = no local inferencing. 🛡️ Good News, you can still use it with 100% privacy. Use @novita_labs (US SF-based) via @OpenRouter. They operate under a Zero Retention agreement: 🚫 No logging inputs 🚫 No storing chat history 🚫 No training on your prompts 📜 “You acknowledge and agree that we shall not log, store, or retain any User Content, including but not limited to your Inputs, prompts, chat histories, or any Outputs generated by the Services, unless we have obtained your prior written consent for specific instances.” If we can't get open weights, zero retention is better than nothing. 🤝

@BrodieOnLinux my point is that we are a minority, ultimately nobody apart from tech users will care enough, and this is a losing battle - you may send a letter to your representative, but that same representative is lobbied with millions of dollars to do exactly the opposite of what you want

@BoilingSteam I'm not willing to just sit back and ignore the these laws

Today I've learned that telling people to protest the government about age verification laws instead of lashing out at the nearest target means that you: Are a supporter of the age verification laws and Are a government shill Man I love this website

@BrodieOnLinux @lethe_kawaii yeah, but at that point when it's illegal, it becomes a super small minority that has access to such services, and they will find out and jail you. The whole point is to increase friction and use repression on those who don't comply.

@BoilingSteam @lethe_kawaii They'll certainly try but even in cases where a country is physically cut off from the internet there are still ways to make it out

petrol price has skyrocketed housing is unaffordable can't even goon anymore australia are we ok

@BrodieOnLinux @lethe_kawaii You know they will forbid VPN at some point right? Or make them abide to stupid laws to operate.

@lethe_kawaii VPN

@TimSweeneyEpic Only Boomers believe that Microsoft is still relevant

Great moves by Microsoft!

@BrodieOnLinux @coinwitch yeah, but less and less. Systemd is now deeply integrated in many parts of the OS, it's not just a boot system anymore.

@coinwitch That exists, it's called Linux, you can just not use Systemd

fuuuuuuuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.someone please invent the bitcoin of operating systems so I never have to hear another word about fucking lawmakers fucking with my computer. tia

Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149: cyberinsider.com/mozilla-to-lau… #linux #update #firefox #foss #vpn #again

@BrodieOnLinux Zoomer comment :D

I've had too many popular takes recently, we need to change that. I hate the look of CRT filters, every time I see them I think the game looks worse.

@tilehopper still got plastic skin look

The fact that Kojima Productions can achieve this level of detail with Unreal’s Metahuman techstack, specialized scanning equipment, and understanding of the cinematic medium WITHOUT having to rely on 2 RTX 5090s only proves the AI-infected techbros has lost their capability.

Breaking into our strategic reserve of Crucial DDR5 to keep making memory available to you during the crunch… (actually some final supply of Crucial making its way through distributors)

@Gavin_x1 @BrodieOnLinux The fact that Windows is installed by default on PCs has nothing do with X or Wayland on the desktop

@BoilingSteam @BrodieOnLinux I think thats the point... Wayland is trying to become the dominate server so linux is always worse than Windows or macOS. The day Wayland becomes mandatory is the day I just give up on linux and go back to windows. As its a worse experience overall, and a annoying one.

If you want to go and remove Wayland support from an DE, it's your project, do what you want with it, but do keep in mind that by doing so you're never going to see widespread adoption on Linux. If you want to change the direction from Wayland, going back to X11 is not it.

Lost & Found Co, a Cozy hidden-object game - Reviewed on Linux and Steam Deck: boilingsteam.com/lost-and-found… #lostandfoundco #review #linux #linuxgaming #update #release #gaming #steam #steamdeck

CachyOS Becomes the Most Popular Desktop Linux Distro on ProtonDB (in video): youtube.com/watch?v=vVZ10l… #evolution #market #linux #linuxgaming #update #foss #distro #cachyos

@trickymindful Mint is the quiet boss. Does the job well, does not complain and always reliable.

Me a user of 3rd place Mint

@TheCesarCross was it broken on arm64 before?

@BoilingSteam Nice update. Any notable fixes for ARM64 builds in this release?

Gitea v1.25.5 Released: github.com/go-gitea/gitea… #linux #update #release #foss #git #gitea #selfhosted

CachyOS dethrones Arch as the top desktop distro for Linux gamers on ProtonDB bit.ly/4cOUpIW

PPSSPP v1.20.3 Released: github.com/hrydgard/ppssp… #ppsspp #emulator #psp #linux #linuxgaming #update #release #foss #gaming