Screensaver - Big Picture Mode

Added a new screensaver feature, accessible in Settings > Customization. There are two screensavers available:

• The default is a game art slideshow that can be configured to show artwork from recently played games and your recent in-game screenshots.
• A retro inspired bouncing logo screensaver
• Big Picture mode can also load custom screensavers. Similar to startup movies, they can be placed in the config\uioverrides\screensavers directory in your Steam install directory (e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam or ~/.steam/root). You can use the bouncing logo screensaver (in the steamui\screensavers directory) as an example to get started.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/710037059469839720

Also, it's not really ads when it shows you your own artwork/screenshots.

Maybe they changed it? I got a screenshot of a crash I made years ago and never deleted the screenshot after reporting. Gave me quite a shock to see an error message of a crash out of the blue.

This release of plasma (6.8 and 6.8.1) has been buggy for me.

dot-0 and dot-1 releases have always been on the more buggy side, simply because several bigger distributions tend to aim for dot-2 or dot-3 releases and rolling release users are the early adopters who do the bug reporting.

I’m having random freezing, issues with suspending the pc, memory issues and many others that for the first time in like 5 years

I suspect you're on a rolling release distribution and something broke in general. How would a DE cause memory issues?

The kernel has a ton of optional modules that they’d be stupid to include them all.

True but part of Valve's marketing for Frame is the expansion slot, so at least peripherals compatible with ARM hardware were probably meant to be enabled and this was an oversight.

They disabled context ads in Gmail years ago after backlash than e-mail senders never agreed to any data processing clauses.

The AI craze is now the perfect reason to enable that shit again.

They found that Hawaiians share the most Polynesian ancestry with people on Easter Island, followed by people on Mangareva, an island nearly 3,000 kilometers west of Easter Island.

I am not sure why the world didn’t switch to that

Not invented here syndrome by PHP Foundation and downstream users use whatever the default is.

Apparently that's not a satire website

This is full SteamOS

Found https://github.com/wallentx/DroidDeck/releases/tag/main-af320dd86c7de5738ff16cfeeefbcf42581c199e

Sure…

Shoutout to screenshot tools

Is there a specific interaction that made them angry?

Stenzek's feeling got hurt when DuckStation was still proper open source software and people used the software fully in accordance with its license, i.e. they distributed modifications and not all permitted modifications were the most polished ones, so he felt that they give his name a bad reputation. Again: Stenzek released DuckStation under a license that explicitly allows this.

So he rage quit open source and released new DuckStation versions under a very restrictive "source available to look but not touch" license that's so insanely restrictive, Linux distributions are not allowed to make their own packages. So they ship the old version that works just fine because PlayStation 1 emulation was figured out very long ago. Stenzek feels that they should not ship the old version (which they are fully entitled to) and instead make a special exception for his software alone to point their users to DuckStation's website where instead of acquiring the emulator from their package manager (or "app store" in case you're not familiar with that term), Linux users should take extra steps to manually download and install DuckStation.

And since users may not know about this rift, they may post bug reports and feature ideas to Stenzek, even though these bugs may have been long fixed by non-open source DuckStation.

Basically: Stenzek did not read the license he picked for his software and then got mad when people made use of provisions explicitly allowed by the license.

Some information in the documents appears to be in conflict with public statements by Google representatives

I would have never guessed that.

They turned off ads? Great. Can that be a standoff that lasts forever?

Wait, the mod removed the option to set a gender in the character editor? Why don't these people just make a male character and be done with it?

I am once again begging Framework to just give us a damn regular DPI display that works!

Bottom Skinner is right, though. It's 2024. HiDPI has to be supported by all toolkits, desktops, and applications at this point. There are no excuses. Even 1080p on a 14" laptop screen warrants 125% scaling, IMO.

[Update - 12/26/2025] - Taiwanese outlet, CNA, has received a statement from ASUS regarding the DRAM rumor and stated that it currently has no plans to invest in a memory wafer fab.

https://wccftech.com/asus-enter-dram-market-next-year-to-tackle-memory-shortages-rumor/

Lesson hopefully learned: Don't link to the regurgitation of a regurgitation of a regurgitation of a Persian language article. At the very least go back the first English version of the article chain.

Don't connect TVs to your network.

What Apple did for Macs when switching architectures, though, was to port their own software to the new architecture. Microsoft doesn't even port fucking Minesweeper to ARM.