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• camply - the campsite finder ⛺️ — a tool to find campsites at sold out campgrounds
• Pick: OpenTogetherTube — Enjoy YouTube together.
• opentogethertube on GitHub
• Pick: TypeType — Privacy-respecting video platform to watch Youtube.
• TypeType on GitHub
• Pick: metube — Self-hosted web UI for yt-dlp

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The kernel taketh away, so we bringeth back. We build an AppleTalk LAN, ditch TCP/IP, and give a legendary retro network protocol the send-off it deserves.

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• Tech companies hike prices due to 'chipflation' - YouTube
• RAM prices expected to rise another 40-50% in Q3 2026, and then 30% more in Q4 as AI demand outpaces supply
• Major RAM manufacturers sued for manipulating prices and demand
• Today, Micron announced a $250 million investment to increase long-term savings opportunities for children and families through Trump Accounts
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Eight details most people missed hint at the bigger Linux play behind Valve’s new Steam Machine.

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• Valve Steam Machine Review - GamersNexus
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• Steam Machines will only come with one 16GB stick of RAM - Tom's Hardware
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• 2015 Steam Machine - Wikipedia
• meshcore-ha — Home Assistant integration for monitoring and controlling MeshCore radio networks.
• sone — Native TIDAL desktop client for Linux. Modern UI, custom themes, and bit-perfect lossless audio up to 24-bit/192kHz via exclusive ALSA.
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• high-tide: Libadwaita TIDAL client for Linux
• coppwr — coppwr displays and provides control over many aspects of PipeWire as directly as possible in an organized and visual way. It can help with debugging and diagnosing a PipeWire setup or with developing software that interacts with PipeWire.
• XDG Desktop Portal
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• dn-tool · GitHub — dn-tool is a control-plane CLI that enrolls and unenrolls Linux hosts in a defined.net Managed Nebula network. It calls the defined.net REST API to create and delete host records and obtain single-use enrollment codes, then orchestrates the proprietary dnclient daemon — which it downloads and verifies at runtime. It is strictly control plane: it never reimplements Nebula and never replaces dnclient.

Free and open AI models get cast as the villain, Valve’s Steam Machine gets mugged by RAM prices, and we check who’s selling the panic popcorn.

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• Valve prices the Steam Machine at $1,049 | The Verge
• Valve Steam Machine Review: GPU & CPU Benchmarks, SteamOS Test, Thermals, Noise, and Price - YouTube
• Steam Machine Review: Valve's New Console/PC Hybrid - YouTube
• Even Valve is Disappointed - Steam Machine Review - YouTube
• The PS6 Cannot Come Out in This Era of $1,000+ Consoles | Push Square
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Your favorite open source projects have been busy. We round up the new releases worth knowing about, plus the big kernel changes headed your way soon.

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• KDE Plasma 6.7 Released With Per-Screen Virtual Desktops, Wayland Improvements - Phoronix
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• systemd 261 Released With New systemd-sysinstall OS Installer
• Introducing Myna: Speech to Text for Ubuntu Desktop
• myna: Myna is a lightweight speech-to-text application for Ubuntu Desktop.
• Linux 7.1 Annouced by Linus on Sunday June 14th — Anyway, possible slight hiccups in the merge window aside, the newstoday is 7.1.
• Linux Kernel 7.1 Officially Released, Here's What’s New - 9to5Linux
• Linux 7.1 Features: New NTFS Driver, New Intel + AMD Hardware, Performance Optimizations & Modernization - Phoronix
• Linux Kernel 7.1 Officially Released with New NTFS Driver, Intel FRED, and Major Code Cleanup | Linux Journal
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• Linux 7.2 Adds Ability To Limit Programs To Only Open Regular Files, Avoid Being Tricked Or Doing Silly Things - Phoronix
• Btrfs Now Enables Large Folios By Default, Lands Huge Folios With Linux 7.2 - Phoronix
• XFS Zone Allocator No Longer Experimental With Linux 7.2 - Phoronix
• EXT4 Reworks Fast Commit Handling & Faster Directory Hash Computation - Phoronix
• Linux 7.2 Improves Anonymous/Unnamed Pipe Performance For Shell Pipelines & More - Phoronix
• AF_ALG Deprecation Approved For Linux 7.2, Useless & Insecure Crypto Driver Code Removed - Phoronix
• Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol Support - Phoronix
• soltros/Cabinet — Cabinet is a lean, high-performance "File Locker" designed for self-hosting. It prioritizes a fast web experience, mobile-first design, and simple file management without the bloat of complex syncing engines.
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• Pick: audible-cli — A command line interface for audible package. With the cli you can download your Audible books, cover, chapter files.
• Pick: Import-To-AudioBookShelf — A utility to take books which you legally purchased from Audible and move them into Audio BookShelf
• Pick: quipclipper — Find and cut lossless clips from movies & TV by searching the subtitle dialogue.

SpaceX went public, raised more money than any IPO in history, and then traded like there were barely any shares to buy. Today we sort out the hype, the float, the Cursor deal, and what this actually says about the future of space and AI.

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We found the best way for a Linux user to manage Windows: keep it remote, keep it contained, and touch the desktop as little as possible.

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• Mouzi - Organize Downloads Folder Automatically

Angela and Chris catch up on the hobbies that survive real life, then sweep up the WWDC 2026 details that slipped under the AI hype.

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