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• LUP 500 Micro Brewery Meetup — Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 4:00 PM
• Linux 6.2 Released With Intel Arc Graphics Promoted — Linux 6.2 overall has been in good shape from my continued testing and especially for Skylake/Skylake-derived cores is looking better if opting for Call Depth Tracking and it's great to have stable Arc Graphics A380/A750/A770 working out-of-the-box in the labs.
• Performance is looking better with later Arcs
• mesa 23.0.0 Released
• intel-extension-for-pytorch at xpu-master
• Install intel-extension-for-pytorch
• Intel® Extension for PyTorch — PyTorch Tutorials
• rahulunair/stable_diffusion_arc — Stable Diffusion inference on Intel Arc dGPUs
• bes-dev/stable_diffusion.openvino — Implementation of Text-To-Image generation using Stable Diffusion on Intel CPU or GPU.
• ShuffleBox: Quick Benchmark for Whisper by OpenAI
• Flatpak will no longer be available “out-of-the-box” in any of Ubuntu’s official flavors. — Do keep in mind that “not installed by default” is not the same as “not available to install at all”.
• Wimpy on Fosstodon — "@bluesabre Did we agree? I think we complied with the requested change. You and I both played our part in ensuring this was clearly and openly communicated."
• Ubuntu Flavor Packaging Defaults - Community - Ubuntu Community Hub — As part of our combined efforts, the Ubuntu flavors have made a joint decision to adjust some of the default packages on Ubuntu: Going forward, the Flatpak package as well as the packages to integrate Flatpak into the respective software center will no longer be installed by default in the next release due in April 2023, Lunar Lobster.
• KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop — Promote diversity and sustainability in the Linux desktop community by adding payments, donations and subscriptions to the Flathub app store.
• ZFS send/receive over ssh on linux without allowing root login
• ZFS on Object Storage by George Wilson, Matt Ahrens, Paul Dagnelie, Manoj Joseph - YouTube
• JB Geocache Kit Request
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• GPU-Viewer — This project aims to capture all the important details of glxinfo, vulkaninfo and clinfo in a GUI.

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• The Steam Linux Beta Begins…
• Steam Linux Use Tips Up In October Thanks To The Steam Deck — The growth of Steam Deck adoption also now bumps AMD's CPU marketshare among Steam on Linux gamers to 56% against Intel, an increase in October alone of +4.37%.
• GitHub Issue: Geocatching details on site
• ODROID-H3+ – ODROID — Great compatibility, a brand new x86 64-bit single board computer with large memory capacity and advanced IO ports.
• ODROID-H3 Case Type 2 – ODROID
• ODROID-H3 Case Type 3 – ODROID
• plex - LinuxServer.io
• Jellyfin intro-skipper Plugin
• Tuxies Board Room
• Ubuntu Summit 2022 — An opportunity for the broader Ubuntu community to learn and speak about the amazing work and success stories happening in the ecosystem.
• How to Revert the Last Git Commit | Linode
• Snapcraft.io
• What happened to signal-desktop? - snapcraft.io — This is due to a DMCA takedown request coming from people representing Signal. Canonical is currently working with Signal to resolve this issue.
• “signal-desktop” not found · Issue #70 · snapcrafters/signal-desktop
• Install signal-desktop on Linux | Snap Store
• Godot Engine — Free and open source 2D and 3D game engine.
• Godot’s Graduation: Godot moves to a new Foundation — Software Freedom Conservancy and the Godot leadership are excited to share their decision that the Godot project has reached a level of success for which it makes sense for Godot to have its own independent foundation.
• Announcing Godot’s Graduation from SFC!
• I will try my best to explain why the upcoming @godotengine foundation can’t offer Console ports.
• Open source game development advances with Godot Engine 3.5 out now
• The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta
• Godot: Exporting for Linux
• Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined them
• With Twitter in chaos, Mastodon is on fire | CNN Business
• How to securely store secrets in BitWarden CLI and load them into your ZSH shell when needed | by Zack Proser | Oct, 2022 | Gruntwork
• Intel ME-Enabled System Needed For Updating Arc Graphics GSC Firmware — Update: Intel reached out to say firmware updating will work on AMD platforms, but awaiting to hear futher details.
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