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Sony PlayStation reportedly moving away from PC ports
4 Mar 2026 at 3:53 pm UTC Likes: 7

fine, then I will move away from giving Playstation my money

Ubuntu and Fedora devs comment on California's new Digital Age Assurance Act
4 Mar 2026 at 1:16 pm UTC Likes: 9

what about Docker containers???? Do I need to enter my age for every single Docker container that gets created? In companies they get created and destroyed by the thousand each day. This is beyond ridiculous.

Bazzite gets a big update with KDE Plasma 6.6, Mesa 26.0.1 and more
3 Mar 2026 at 12:48 pm UTC

Quoting: fenglengshunHuh. Can't believe they'd actually restore Konsole and uses Kontainer. I've been using Kontainer myself and has been quite happy with it. Hopefully Discover could return - it's quite useful for keeping applets, themes, and other KNewStuff things updated.

Still, good to see that Bazzite getting good new updates even if there was a bit of an issue. It no longer fits my usecase and I don't think I could trust it, but it is good to see it improving.
the only reason they used Ptyxis in the first place was because of Konsole's seriously lacking container support, which are very important for the immutable distro workflow.
I personally dislike Discover as it feels slow and bloated due to the many different backends it supports and despite being called Discover, the discoverability of apps feels lacking in comparison to Bazaar. I even started using Bazaar on my Steam Deck.

Discord delay global rollout of age verification to improve transparency and add more options
26 Feb 2026 at 3:12 pm UTC

Quoting: ertuquequeHas anyone tried Stoat (https://stoat.chat/ [External Link]) or Movim (https://movim.eu/ [External Link]) as a replacement for Discord?... I know they are not "feature complete", but they seem to be the most phylosophically close to my ethics options so far.
I tried it, but Fluxer seems far better so far

KDE Plasma 6.6.1 rolls out with lots of fixes for KWin
25 Feb 2026 at 3:37 pm UTC Likes: 16

I'm looking forward to 6.6.6😆

Discord delay global rollout of age verification to improve transparency and add more options
24 Feb 2026 at 6:33 pm UTC Likes: 17

I dont believe a word they say any more. They've been proven to have ties to Palantir and also they work with Persona which does over 250 verification checks on faces, relating to stuff like terrorism and a property called 'SelfieSuspiciousEntityDetection' where it's totally not clear what makes a face 'suspicious'

Hopefully this is the last straw that gives some push to migrating over to alternatives like Fluxer, which seems like the best one so far, even if it's under heavy server load right now. Fluxer is open-source and self-hostable which makes it a great option for FOSS communities and I hope it will eventually gain critical mass.

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/security/security-researchers-claim-persona-the-provider-behind-discords-uk-age-verification-experiment-performs-269-individual-verification-checks-on-user-data-including-those-for-terrorism-and-espionage/ [External Link]
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/ [External Link]

KDE Plasma 6.6 released with improved accessibility, new on-screen keyboard and lots more
17 Feb 2026 at 2:38 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: LoftyFinally! We have an integrated onscreen keyboard under Wayland which has been a much needed accessibility feature for me. I have stayed on X11 because of this using the admittedly great application 'onboard' which has meant missing out on other gaming features & HDR. Now i will have to move from my older existing plasma install to a newer distro that supports 6.6

Not sure which one to choose , needs to be more upto date than mint/debian though but a 'YOLO Update' distro 🤔

Great work 👍
Fedora 44 will get KDE 6.6. Worth noting that there are also immutable variants of Fedora like Kionite or Bazzite/Aurora from Universalblue. The advantage is integrated rollback functionality and the assurance of always having a working system, while staying relatively up to date

Linux Mint may slow down releases to have more development time
13 Feb 2026 at 10:17 am UTC

Quoting: axredneck
Quoting: Stella...the currently most widely known screensaver program, XScreensaver, works only in x11
Afaik most recent version works on Wayland.
oh that's really cool! I gotta check it out again

Linux Mint may slow down releases to have more development time
12 Feb 2026 at 12:31 pm UTC Likes: 3

perhaps the screensaver would work in other distros? That would be, afaik, the first Wayland compatible screensaver! the currently most widely known screensaver program, XScreensaver, works only in x11

Mesa 26.0 is out bringing ray tracing performance improvements for AMD RADV
11 Feb 2026 at 10:56 pm UTC Likes: 3

Finally I can play Indiana Jones without constant stuttering 🥰