The Steam machine will use an older HDMI standard because of arbitrary rules, more details about running X86 Windows games on Arm Linux, and the Steam Controller lives on. Plus Calibre is adding “AI”, and we laugh at another LLM.

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Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama

Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow

Remember Google Stadia? Steam finally made its gamepad worth rescuing

Talk to your Fedora system with the linux-mcp-server!

Calibre adds AI “discussion” feature

Because the Calibre ebook library software just acquired AI garbage it has *already* been forked

AI and GNOME Shell Extensions

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Late Night Linux – Episode 364

Late Night Linux