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D7VK v1.1 is out with experimental Direct3D 6 support via Vulkan for Windows games on Linux  GamingOnLinux

D7VK v1.1 is out with experimental Direct3D 6 support via Vulkan for Windows games on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Voxel RPG Hytale Will Have Native Linux Support And It Works On The Steam Deck  Steam Deck HQ

Ghana has decided to deal with the viral spread of prophetic content on social media by setting up an official reporting mechanism for sensitive predictions, a move triggered by the August 2025 helicopter crash that killed the country's defence and environment ministers along with six others. After the accident, TikTok clips circulated showing pastors who claimed to have foreseen the disaster before it happened. Elvis Ankrah, the presidential envoy for inter-faith and ecumenical relations, now asks prophets to submit their predictions for review. Charismatic preacher-prophets have been a fixture of Ghanaian public life since Pentecostalism arrived in the 1980s, but social media has amplified their reach and made their claims increasingly outlandish. Police have threatened to arrest prophets who cannot prove their predictions eventually came true. Some two-thirds of Ghanaians favor giving divine intervention a role in politics. Ankrah recently declared that most prophecies submitted to him are "total bunk."

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7 alternatives that can replace default Linux CLI tools  How-To Geek

Native Linux support for Hytale will be launched as "experimental"  GamingOnLinux

Bazzite Linux gets a spring cleaning update to end 2025  GamingOnLinux

3 legitimately useful Linux apps to try this weekend (January 2 - 4)  How-To Geek

CBS News: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has printed its final newspaper, marking the end of a 157-year chapter in Georgia history and officially transitioning the longtime publication into a fully digital news outlet. The front-page story of the final print edition asks a fitting question: "What is the future of local media in Atlanta?" The historic last issue is also being sold for $8, a significant increase from the typical $2.00 price. Wednesday, Dec. 31, marks the last day The AJC will be delivered to driveways across metro Atlanta. Starting Jan. 1, 2026, the newspaper will exist exclusively online, a move its leadership says reflects how readers now consume news and ensures the organization's future. AJC President and Publisher Andrew Morse said the decision was not made lightly, especially given how deeply the paper is woven into daily life for generations of readers. The move makes Atlanta the only major U.S. city without a daily printed newspaper.

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Steam survey for December 2025 shows Linux holding to 3.19%  GamingOnLinux

Linux Kernel 6.19 Reverts Code to Fix MediaTek MT792x WiFi Issues  WebProNews

Mesa 25.3.3 released with more Linux graphics driver bug fixes  GamingOnLinux

Steam Hardware Survey highlights Windows 11 surge  Windows Central

How to show a live clock in your Linux terminal (3 easy methods)  How-To Geek

Nokia, the Finnish company whose iconic ringtone was played an estimated 1.8 billion times daily at the height of its mobile phone dominance and whose 3310 "brick" sold 126 million units, has reinvented itself again -- this time as a key piece of AI infrastructure. In October, Nvidia announced a $1 billion investment in Nokia and a strategic partnership to incorporate AI into telecommunications networks. The company that was once worth $335 billion and controlled more than a quarter of the global handset market seemed destined for irrelevance after the iPhone's 2007 arrival. A last-ditch bet on Microsoft's Windows phone system in 2011 failed, and Nokia sold its devices division to Microsoft for $6.34 billion in 2014. Revenues had fallen from $44.27 billion in 2007 to $12.56 billion. Nokia rebuilt around its $2 billion acquisition of Siemens' networks stake in 2013, then added French network provider Alcatel-Lucent for $18.32 billion in 2015. Current CEO Justin Hotard, who took over in April, has pushed the company further into cloud services, data centers and optical networks. Nokia acquired optical specialist Infinera for $2.3 billion in February. The company's optical technology enables information to pass between data centers, and it produces routers for cloud-based services.

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I made GNOME feel like the 2000s again with these 3D extensions  How-To Geek

Tech Enthusiasts Transformed Old Chromebooks into Linux Servers  Technobezz

These are the Linux Apps I Couldn't Live Without in 2025  It's FOSS

The Walt Disney Company should start a third-party software developer program. There are plenty of hobbyists and small developers that would like to have official access to some of the data available for the theme parks, Disney Plus, and other data available from the company.

If done with an approval process, and perhaps even incentives, it could be an effective way for Disney to improve guest experiences by effectively letting others innovate on the guests’ behalf. Instead of Disney having a development bottleneck of their own development teams, it would allow others to create tools that compete with each other for the best experiences.

There’s already some of this using unofficial data sources. By bringing it under an official Developer Program they could enforce things they’d like to have available but don’t have time to develop themselves.

API’s that I’d like to see and could see immediate use for:

• Theme Park Basics Get a list of Resorts, Parks, Attractions, operating hours, and ticket prices
• Ride Wait Times Current wait times that are posted in-app. This would make possible a new way of planning apps instead of using unofficial sources
• Dining Availability See when restaurants have availability and ideally be able to make a reservation on behalf of a user
• Disney Plus Media Be able to view what’s currently available for viewing on Disney+. Maybe even a users’s watch history, wishlist, etc
• Disney Photopass Photos Be able to retrieve a users photos

What other Disney API’s would you like to see offered?

The post Disney Should Have a Developer Program appeared first on Brandon Checketts.

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