B-stock sales are so disappointing. Yea that laptop wasn't cheap when it was new. But it's a possibly pre-owned laptop with a 12 year (!!!) old CPU. And you want 282,99€ for it? Are stores *that* desperate to not sell any hardware for actually cheap no matter how old it is?

Loud enough to wake and keep me up since 5 AM. *sigh* Pretty sure it's the AC.

On this train there's a young child getting her brain cooked by youtube kids the entire way from Frankfurt to Bruxelles. Older people have always complained about the habits of the young but I can't help but feel that this is different and that brainrot content is genuinely hazardous to our brains.

Can @deutschebahn.com maintenance maybe make sure that the ICE train onboard electronics don't produce obnoxiously loud noise for hours on end? It seems to be quite common in the door areas, less in the seating area, but trains are quite often full enough that people are there too.

@unity.com finally time to get OpenXR Linux support working?

I think not enough people realize that just having a genuine interest and a couple of months time to sink into certain niches can make you uniquely qualified. If you are in university or just graduated, then is the perfect time to just start hacking on something that nobody else has touched yet.

#WebXR is indeed starting to work in #WebKit on Linux. Not many websites yet, but it's a good start. Thanks @igalia.com!

I don't see a talk recording but I found the slides www.slideshare.net/slideshow/we...

WebXR in Android & Linux with OpenXR .. At the #webkit contributors meeting 😃 cool 😎

Wanted to look up my @deutschebahn.com Bahncard number and... wtf? No way around this such as email confirmation code or such? So if I wanted to buy a ticket online now I guess I... just wouldn't? I get neglecting physical infrastructure, but even digitally turning people away for no reason?

Tried starting Warcraft 3 in Lutris, stuck on the pre-menu screen. Made a new prefix and installed via battle.net and Warcraft III Reforged scripts from lutris. No change. I might actually be done with the last non-native game I still played out of nostalgia. That's why I only buy native games now.

5 new VR games for Linux on @itch.io since the Godot XR jam - all just apk files again. Is it really not possible to hardcode in the store that a .apk file is only for android?

What could the google ai studio website possibly be doing to use 170% CPU and 6GB ram, being idle in the background? CPU usage stops once the tab is focused.

Big kudos to Baldur's Gate 3 for being one of the first big games in a long time to make a native linux version (for the steam deck). I'm definitely enjoying it on desktop linux (I use arch btw) but tbh it feels somewhat unfinished. Spoilers for the first few hours ahead:

I'm beginning to consider just waiting for the next GPU generation that (hopefully) has a regular 32gb+ GPU instead of overpaying for the R9700 after.. how many months until it actually will be sold?

I finally found codeberg.org/atufi/reinkpy and successfully unbricked (see fighttorepair.substack.com/p/citing-dan...) the Epson ET-2720 printer my dad left with me. And I found that you *can* order original replacement parts and did so for the ink tank (with this payment bsky.app/profile/haag...)

#IBC2025: Frédéric Plourde speaking at the Future of Media Townhall, detailing Electric-Maple, the #OpenSource remote rendering & streaming solution for XR, built on #Monado & #GStreamer. Drop by booth 14.A63 to see it in action! #OpenXR #Connected #Media #Experiences

Just had the revelation that I actually need to close the paypal account I've been using for 15+ years now and so I did. The "Close your account" button on the account settings does not work, even after manually cancelling all Automatic Payments.

Both my simple OpenXR C sample code and playground projects gitlab.freedesktop.org/monado/demos... gitlab.freedesktop.org/monado/demos... finally have both a decent enough windows build system. Still no proper release but at least I can put windows binaries here: haagch.frickel.club/files/openxr...

as usual, if you would like to support me, please donate what you can to my Ko-fi or GitHub Sponsors! 🐾 everything i do for Open Source VR is out of passion, and any donations help cover the cost of hardware and tools to do work! ko-fi.com/beyley github.com/sponsors/Bey...

So, when will AMD *actually* start selling the Radeon AI PRO R9700?

Anyone have a higher score? (Ordered september 27 2024, estimated delivery august 14-september 22 2025)

I don't see any other reports of firefox permanently spinning on challenges.cloudflare.com. When I click the profiler thingy I see mentions of bitwarden and dark reader. So am I the only one who permanently got their fan running noisily and their room heated up even more in the summer?

Thanks google, very helpful.

This is what you see every time you go to maps.google.com with Ubuntu Touch. Hey google, what is an "intent"? Not only is it obnoxious to immediately try to redirect anyone from the website to some app, it's also completely useless here. At least you *can* cancel this.

We're at #XRExpo in Stuttgart today! 🎮 Come see Collabora at Booth A18 — we're showcasing open source XR with Monado-based Electric-Maple demos running on AMD & Nvidia graphics servers. Stop by and chat XR with us! #OpenXR #Monado #ElectricMaple #Collabora

We are thrilled to be at the XR Expo Conference today in Stuttgart, showcasing the power of #OpenSource XR. Come visit us at Booth A18 to experience Monado-based #ElectricMaple in action, running on both NVIDIA and AMD graphics servers! See you there! 🎮🔧 #OpenXR #Monado #XRTech #XR #VR #AR

XR Expo kicks off next week in Stuttgart, Germany, and we're excited to be participating. Frédéric Plourde will be giving OpenXR core specification updates and a talk on platform interoperability. Be sure to catch him on May 9th! Learn more: www.khronos.org/events/xr-ex... #XRExpo2025 #OpenXR

XR Expo kicks off next week in Stuttgart, Germany, and we're excited to be participating. Frédéric Plourde will be giving OpenXR core specification updates and a talk on platform interoperability. Be sure to catch him on May 9th starting at 4:05pm. Learn more: […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Join us in Stuttgart, Germany, for XR EXPO 2025! Experience two of our latest #XR demos at our booth, A18, and catch Frédéric Plourde's talk on the latest OpenXR updates. See you next week! col.la/xrexpo25 #opensource #AR #VR

The android/iOS duopoly situation just doesn't sit right with me but the linux phones that exist are not very modern. As a compromise I bought a Volla Quintus with Ubuntu Touch, because just supporting an option that ships out of the box with something that is not android is worth it.

So... you can't actually join a telegram group from a t.me link with the web client and *have* to go through a "tg://" url handler (or manually search for the group name in telegram)? Who makes this stuff?

Excited to speak at XR Expo 2025 in Stuttgart on behalf of Khronos Group! I’ll share the latest updates on OpenXR, its growing ecosystem, and what’s next for cross-platform XR. See you May 8–9! #XRExpo2025 #OpenXR #XR #Khronos #Collabora

Awesome, according to google, nobody has ever put the string "Maximum supported feature level: 0" on the internet before.

This weekend I tried a few of these new projects for 3D scene stuff github.com/ruili3/aweso... github.com/chicleee/End... but with a "special" setup - archlinux with python 3.13 and just virtualenv - latest pytorch with rocm support on RX 6900XT tj;dr: VGGT was the most painless with good results

The Godot 4.x OpenGL renderer does not work with OpenXR on radeonsi because radeonsi lacks GL_OVR_multiview. But zink now has it, and Godot works with it: MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=zink

Wow an actual FOVE HMD in the wild? www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeVN...

When it comes to operating system support, one of those is not like the others...

Because the #linux, #vr, and #openxr tags get spammed with Euro Truck Simulator 2 on Twitter, Bluesky *and* Mastodon, I checked it out again. Experimental Vulkan support works nicely on Linux. But OpenXR seems to be still only in the windows build.

In a moment of weakness I bought a CO2 + air quality measurement gadget in a supermarket without reading reviews. Straight up trash. A few days plugged in it shows fantasy values like 9.999mg/m3 TVOC, 4500ppm CO2. After a power cycle it's back to 0.005mg/m3, 400ppm www.mebus-group.de/en/produkt/1...

Finally got back to my Doogee T10s tablet and have an android 15 GSI running now. Nice hardware for really cheap. But I'm still baffled that they are selling a 6 gb ram device with 5 gb swap as "11 gb ram". That *has* to be illegal.

Imo the firewall applet in @endeavouros.com.web.brid.gy is hard to understand for non-experts and shouldn't be in the default installation.

This is my first time actually missing my connection in Frankfurt. Now I will have to have fun figuring out if I can take the Eurostar and arrive 1 hour later or the next ICE and arrive 2 hours later.

Trying to take a really early train to FOSDEM this year. No buses this early so had to walk/run to the SBahn that arrives 57 minutes before the train leaves. No wonder people like to take their cars.

There will also be a demo of Overte running on @monado.dev, showing off a fully open source stack XR including the XR runtime.

I like that AMD is making a 260W TDP GPU. Remember when the amd X1900 XTX was considered to be power hungry? 135W. The legendary nvidia 8800 GTX? 155W. And nowadays the RTX 5090? 575W. With ~600W it is in the same category as actual small space heaters!

The FS2Open engine for Freespace 2 supports #OpenXR and works out of the box with @monado.dev www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z889...

The state of tagging games with Linux support on @itch.io

Ten years later, Epic actually offers an official way to download assets from their asset store on Linux? Never thought it would happen. But apparently that's not true for plugins: forums.unrealengine.com/t/no-possibi...

You ever follow a link to a git repo and reading what it's about makes you ask yourself if you actually know anything? github.com/acgetchell/C...