LWDW – Dead Pixels – Linux Game Cast

Google kills the Pixel, Maru goes open source, and OpenShot 2.1 is finally here!

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Linux became the major operating system on everything except the desktop a few years ago.
- XP Embedded 4 life!
Microsoft is giving a huge opportunity here for Linux to become a major player on desktop computers but Linux developers aren’t grabbing that chance.
- I don’t see anyone paying OEM’s and ODM’s any type of benefits for pre-installing Linux and, as far as I know, Microsoft still pays them to load Windows on their laptops, desktops and X86 tablets.
Canonical once was in the right direction and was doing the right thing but they lost focus with their whole convergence thing, which is nifty but no one really needs.
Now we have Gnome and KDE that are trying to deliver high quality desktops but a good desktop is not good enough, the overall quality of applications must get better as well.
The world of desktop dominance is not a meritocracy. Case in point, Microsoft’s still leading it after ME, Vista, 8 and 10.
Until someone with a lot of money decides to back Linux and pay OEM’s a cut for them to preload Linux on laptops and what not, like Google does with Chrome, Windows will always lead the consumer desktop market.
Also, someone needs to spellcheck their articles.

Fun fact: if you want to get the full power from this Piton CPU, you’d better not use Python
Ah yes, parallel computing. Ask AMD how well parallel computing worked for them over the past 10-ish years.
- If it’s OpenSPARC it should have CoolThreads (CMT) built in.
Still at 32nm and only 1GHz.
Princeton Piton Processor quick specifications:
- 25 modified OpenSPARC T1 cores
- Directory-based shared memory
- 3 On-chip networks
- Multi-chip shared memory support
- 1GHz clock frequency
- IBM 32nm SOI process (6mm*6mm)
- 460 million transistors
“researchers aim is to design a chip that could be used specifically for massive computing systems in large data centers that handle cloud services, email services, search and social networking requests.”
- Good luck beating Acorn RISC Machines.
- Hell Fujitsu dropped SPARC for the 64-bit ARM-v8A in the upcoming Post-K supercomputer.
What’s the TDP on this critter?
I love this kind of stuff but this is a lab prototype that may never see implementation.

People still use the Opera?
- Not anymore
Password storage is something that has always worried me with browser sync features. Those password although not stored in plain text can be decrypted, this is a bit more serious than websites where they shouldn’t be able to recover the original password.
That doesn’t keep me from using those services, I just hope Mozilla and Google won’t mess up like Opera did.

Dead pixel
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/08/google-discontinues-the-chromebook-pixel-2-without-replacing-it/

Anyone surprised by this?
Google isn’t exactly known for sticking with things.
There is a replacement, it’s called Pixel C and it’s priced accordingly for a ChromeOS/Android device.
- An Android ARM device can hardly replace an x86 ChromeOS laptop.
  - It does not but outside of Steam and Wine, why else would you want an x86?
Glad they realized that ChromeOS and high end laptops have nothing to do together.
I remember 2 years ago when Google said they’d be killing off the Nexus devices.
That still hasn’t happened.
Something something Nexus 10.

Android 5 + Debian still has better chances of succeeding than a slow version of Ubuntu that can only run webapps.
Just to play devil’s advocate for a bit, Ubuntu Phone still has the advantage of being a native OS which can do both touch and desktop modes.
Having both android and debian running parallel to one another is a big drain on system resources when we’re talking about a Nexus 5.
This is NOT turning a mobile into a full PC, nay!
This is continuing on with something THE ENTIRE industry has decided was a bad idea and going “yeah, I’ll have me some of that”

Shot 2.1
http://www.openshotvideo.com/2016/08/openshot-21-released.html

System 76 got a new community manager, and I can already hear you saying “why should I care?”
The name Ryan Sipes sounded familiar so I looked in my wallet and found his business card, as the former CTO of Mycroft, the open source voice assistant
Ryan says in his blog post that System 76 has some game changing stuff down the road
- Then again, System76 said the Bonobo Extreme was a game changer.
- What elks is he going to say? “This place is proper fkd and I have a lot of work to do”
No additional details given but it would be cool if System76 and Mycroft did something together because 3D printed cases only get you so far.

So it’s nano with a more intuitive customization scheme?
Good, I always feel sorry when adults are having a good old fashioned editor war and some kid comes in screaming “nano!”, at least this looks like a proper editor.
- If said “adults” are warring between vi and emacs, I’d gladly take the “kid”’s suggestion and use nano.

Electron Story of the Week
Doesn’t give you a tray icon, nor does it work with the multimedia keys on keyboards.
- This is how you tell how long someone has been using the Linux.
Aaah, Spotify the G2A of Music.
So this is like Nuvola but only for Spotify and without the 15 other streaming services.
Less Polished version of Spotify Web Player for Linux?
Yeah, no #okayGoogle

I have read the README and I still haven’t got a clue what this plugin does.
- It allows you to display a web page in the OBS output without having to rely on the screen region option.
- You can put a bunch of blinky shite onscreen to attract kids.
It has some advantages, similarly to how OBS handles the image display.
If you set your web page with a transparent background, you can much more easily overlay it on what you’re streaming.
This actually allows you to do that eye-candy stuff Windows streamers use without having to rely on yet another 3rd party app.

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