Adblockers are dead, Valve talks Steam Deck 2, Nvidia wants better drivers


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Oct 19 2024 30 mins   124

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00:00 Intro


01:34 Chrome has now officially killed certain adblockers
https://www.techradar.com/pro/google-chrome-manifest-v2-support-has-officially-ended-adios-ublock-origin
https://www.xda-developers.com/google-automatically-disabling-ublock-origin-in-chrome/
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox#browser-launch


05:01 Valve talks Steam Deck 2
https://www.reviews.org/au/games/valve-steam-deck-australia-interview/


08:16 Nvidia wants better hybrid laptop support on Linux
https://indico.freedesktop.org/event/6/contributions/297/attachments/193/267/Mux_presentation_XDC_2024.pdf


11:43 Nvidia keeps patching multi GPU code on Linux
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-GPU-P2P-DMA-Device-Priv


13:39 Intel & AMD partner up to form an x86 board
https://www.amd.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2024-10-15-intel-and-amd-form-x86-ecosystem-advisory-group-to-accelerate.html


15:59 AMD GPUs will get a perf boost on Linux
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-More-Aggressive-Power


18:35 Winamp’s repo was deleted after too many problems crop up
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/16/opensourcing_of_winamp_goes_badly/


21:31 Microsoft won’t stop devs from accessing the kernel
https://www.securityweek.com/microsofts-take-on-kernel-access-and-safe-deployment-practices-following-crowdstrike-incident/


23:46 Weird drama on the Decky Loader and NonSteamLaunchers
https://steamdeckhq.com/news/nonsteamlaunchers-plugin-removed/


25:52 The Junk Store plugin is removed from Steam
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/that-didnt-last-long-the-junk-store-for-steam-deck-has-its-steam-page-removed/


28:18 Nexus mods app gets better on Linux
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/nexus-mods-new-cross-platform-app-adds-support-for-heroic-games-launcher-and-baldurs-gate-3/
https://trello.com/b/gPzMuIr3/nexus-mods-app-roadmap