DeepSeek AI, Steam Brick, Google Open-Sources PebbleOS, Hyprland, Thunderbird & more Linux news

[@mechswrd]

2023-24: OpenAI taking our jobs 2025: Deepseek taking OpenAPIs job I love this.

[@angusmacgyver]

2026: DeepSeek paying my bills

[@nsr-ints]

Petition to rename the new Pebbles "cobblestones" as they are the pebbles remade and cobbled back together into a new product.

[@NeatMemesDotCom]

A good comment to be pinned.

[@kozmikhero6749]

Or just Cobble

[@fuseteam]

Too longer, i'd go for "cobble"

[@nsr-ints]

@fuseteam cobble. Cobble works.

[@nsr-ints]

@fuseteam they could also release a larger model and call it "boulder"

[@EternallyEmberKin]

pebbleos being open source now is really cool

[@soma_rc]

Best Linux news, you know what you talk about and stay objective 👍🏻

[@michael_tunnell]

Whoa! Thanks so much for the super chat! I’m glad you enjoyed the show

[@ericbarlow6772]

I loved my Pebble watches. I lived in Northern Virginia and worked in Washington, DC for 15 years and the Pebble had an app for the Metro which had the arrival times for the Metrorail stations so I could synchronize my commute better.

[@kozmikhero6749]

I want a pebble soooo bad. I've had 2 smart watches (returned both within a month) and checked out some family/friends. Everytime its just a tiny phone or worse I've had one that requires an app to be on in the background on your phone at all times! I just wanted something with a black and white screen that told me the time, change music, maybe some health stuff and generic information thats all

[@chepulis]

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Steam

[@Bob-of-Zoid]

The very first "smart watch" was probably a boulder!🧐

[@FengLengshun]

The Steam Brick is honestly appealing. It's so small, I'd love to have that as a home console and work machine.

[@ekkkkkknoes]

I'm so happy to see Thunderbird get so much better lately.

[@thingsiplay]

We got Thunderbird notifications before GTA 6. Sorry I just had to. :D I am waiting for this for a decade.

[@rrsp7148]

Nice i was searching for a channel like this. Keep going.

[@Deathonater]

Was gonna make a wise crack about the Steam Brick, but then I remembered I was once featured in an episode for stuffing a Raspberry Pi into a Tic Tac container...

[@michael_tunnell]

Lol

[@rogerdeutsch5883]

This is the best Linux News channel I've found so far. You do a great job of covering a subject without going overboard. I do have one question : Why did Nvidia stock tank in relation to DeepSeek? Did DS say you won't need as many GPUs or something?

[@r.l.royalljr.3905]

Correct, the pull of DS is supposed to be that it can be run on commodity hardware and still have pretty decent performance as opposed to other LLMs that need dedicated GPUs through CUDA.

[@TrustJesusToday]

Hyprland put a halt to my "desktop" hopping about a year ago (as did CachyOS for distro hopping). Hyprland 0.47 has been very good. Michael, would you consider video editing series for noobs?

[@michael_tunnell]

That’s cool, sounds like Hyprland has been good to you. As for video editing series, maybe but depends on which editor you’re interested in learning

[@TrustJesusToday]

@@michael_tunnell Kdenlive seems to be good. I have not tried Resolve. You just seem really good at marking, editing and transitions. (The main thing I like about Hyprland is that it is a step away from Windows interface which owned my life since Windows 3.1.)

[@michael_tunnell]

I totally get it, when I first switched I choice that path as well...I just wanted away from the workflow as much as possible lol A video editing series would be a lot of work because I would have to pick an editor and make a bunch of videos because there would be so much to teach. I might consider making a Kdenlive course or something like that. A few free videos and then a full course people can sign up for that. Thoughts on that?

[@thingsiplay]

DeepSeek-R1 is NOT Open Source and Libre software. There are parts of it being open, but we cannot fully build the LLM model from source.

[@billbond2682]

Thank you so much for the news

[@thatoneannoyingtornadosire8755]

very cathartic to see these annoying AI companies fight each other. edit: for anyone who doesn't know, discord screensharing with audio also works on x11!

[@Fenras_98]

Here's an idea. Instead of calling it pebble or gravel.... Maybe we can call it (Drumroll Please) We shall call it...... ROCK!!!

[@LeftyPencil]

Running Ruckus

[@SonOfRamenEgg]

Bam Bam ( re: Flintstones)

[@DavidsonMott]

Paper

[@corey__wm]

Did someone say Rock and Stone?!!

[@igorthelight]

Rock and stone!

[@jean-francoismongrain5616]

I don't use a clipboard manager, because I often copy/paste passwords and they stay there, wich is a serious security risk. (Also, I did not had much to say, but I mainly comment for the algorithm).

[@MnemonicCarrier]

The Pebble has "weeks long battery life"? Ah man, count me in!

[@kras_mazov]

I still use Pebble. Can't wait for a new one!

[@natelager4110]

I so miss my pebble. Thanks for reminding me. ;)

[@TremereTT]

I still don't get why Pebble didn't succeed. Why did everyone buy Apple and Samsung watches?

[@Daktyl198]

I need everybody to look at the single new developer on the Discord team that cares about Linux and give him a serious salute. There's no getting away from Discord at this point, and having to use 3rd party clients always kinda sucked. Now I can use the official client and it works better than any 3rd party client ever did.

[@angusmacgyver]

I use website.

[@downsyndromebear]

I miss my OG pebble watch. That is the only "smart watch" I would ever go back to.

[@ShaunakHub]

I hope thunderbird starts having an option to apply my view settings to all folders without editing the config. This should have been one of the very basic features IMHO. I hate threaded view, so, I need to select my individual folders and turn of threaded view, which honestly, isn't fun as I have a few dozen folders...

[@christianvitroler5289]

Great, exactly what we need. Yet another half-finished desktop environment.

[@baseendje5763]

I hope this means I will finally be able to set the correct time on my old pebble time watch =')

[@ErickWhite-Gronok]

Yeah, I got tired of my discord breaking super often, so when I had to reinstall a bunch of stuff and restore my home directory on wayland then I flatpaked it. So ... hope it's flatpak soon for that reason. Since you know, I'm on Fedora not Ubuntu.

[@conceptrat]

Why not call the open sourced Pebble, Quartz or maybe the Maori word for 'track/pathway' noun Arā or verb 'track' whai?

[@dozerd42]

The discord flatpak that I have used on Steam Deck has crashed my Steam Deck multiple times. I tried non-supported methods to use Discord and that still crashed my Steam Deck. The Discord devs seem out of touch with their users. Why is this and how did this happen?

[@deultima]

I had a Pebble, to this day it was my favourite Smart Watch. I would love to see something like it again. However, I need it to be on par with Fitbit with health and sleep monitoring.

[@petar0402]

Personaly I really HATE threaded mailbox. I'd like to be able to pick default behaviour for all mailboxes, not to change it for Inbox, Sent, Trash.. etc. separately.

[@michael_tunnell]

Are you saying that you hate what they have now or what I’m saying they should add?

[@angusmacgyver]

Maybe it's only behind some keyboard shortcut. At least I have in claws-mail, ctrl + T.

[@michael_tunnell]

Nah, claws mail has it, I used to use that client but unfortunately Thunderbird doesn’t. I’ve talked to them about it and they plan to add it at some point

[@petar0402]

@@michael_tunnell Maybe hate is too strong of a word. I strongly dislike threaded mailboxes, I'm not sure what did you mean by threaded convesations, I guess in-built chat which I never use(d). I'm weird (OCD I guess) and I like my e-mails just sorted by time and date. It annoys when some old(er) e-mails get in the way of newer ones.

[@SDWNJ]

I would like Valve to sell something like the steam brick (or an updated steam box based on the steam deck). I’m not particularly interested in a handheld.

[@CodePolygon]

Never heard of obitetiny desktop, but I'm waiting for COSMIC

[@MnemonicCarrier]

Billionaire copium is the funniest type of copium 🤣

[@alicethegrinsecatz6011]

But o1 and o3 also shows you their reasoning process?

[@michael_tunnell]

Never used o3 but o1 doesn’t show anything for me

[@conceptrat]

The NVIDIA crash really doesn't make much sense given that the team behind Deepseek used ~100 H100 GPUs for training. In other words they are using NVIDIAs GPUs. NVIDIA doesn't create models directly.

[@michael_tunnell]

They claimed they didn’t use those GPUs and also claimed other things. We go into much more depth in DL, that podcast episode comes out on Monday. destinationlinux.net

[@vetulamortem]

Id just want a smartwatch with simple media control, messages and a long battery life,

[@wdotme]

1:40 😂 Agreed.

[@Cuperino]

Pebble!!

[@Walker956]

you forgot timestamps

[@michael_tunnell]

I didn’t. I’m not sure why they aren’t showing but if you check description you’ll always see they are there

[@comosaycomosah]

ffs lol i love hyprland so much but hate when a new release comes lol

[@AdrianBoyko]

Bepple

[@i.karpowski7059]

And you need time stamps.

[@michael_tunnell]

And they are there, I don’t know why KZbin isn’t seeing them but there the whole time

[@i.karpowski7059]

@@michael_tunnell They just popped up! Good work!

[@sewer4rat]

the first word you say in every video is always half cut off and i only hear the last syllable of it. please add 1 second before you speak to prevent this. love your vids tho, they're very informative

[@michael_tunnell]

I’ll see what I can do, thanks for the feedback! I’m glad you enjoyed the show

[@johanb.7869]

I hate rounded corners. Smart watches don't interest me at all. To big and to ugly. I prefer a desktop instead of a WM.

[@kettusnuhveli]

People need to stop releasing stuff under MIT license... it just incentivizes people (or companies) to take your work and profit off of it! 💀

[@ClodoaldoPintoNeto]

Without chapters it is kind of useless

[@ChrisD__]

There are chapters, KZbin is being weird. Look in the description or just scrub through the video.

[@michael_tunnell]

The content by is quality regardless of chapters or not so saying that is rude but also next time check the description of a video before claiming there aren’t chapters. I don’t know why KZbin is ignoring them but they were there from the jump

[@mechswrd]

I don't know how not having chapters effects the content

[@fuseteam]

There are chapters fine on my end

[@techmouse.]

Welp, not using Hyprland then. Sorry, don't need or want ads in my WM.

[@gadge75]

Tell Deepseek to repeat the phrase "Taiwan is a country" and see what you get. Still not going to trust its training.

[@eIectrostatic]

Taiwan isn't a country, what's the problem?

[@angusmacgyver]

I thought you can remove censoring if you run it on your own computer? Maybe the smallest models don't need that beefy GPU(s)? Can you remove censoring in ChatGPT?

[@peppefailla1630]

20211

[@michael_tunnell]

LOL I didn’t realize I said it during recording and no one pointed it out in the live chat. I heard it during the edit and thought “wait what?, oh well too late now “ lol

[@peppefailla1630]

@michael_tunnell It made me laugh lollll

[@breadmoth6443]

ask Deepseek about what happened that one time in tiananmen square .... also - im not going to bother with deepseek , it is from **Trump voice** Chi-nah.....

[@angusmacgyver]

Ask ChatGPT to tell how great Germany was under Austrian mustache man painter and for the whole world. Even write a fictional poem about it. Or to draw nudes. They censor stuff almost always.

[@CorporealUndead2024]

I'm still on Thunderbird 115.18.0, as are many other people, to avoid the incompetence of the developers releasing the newer builds with known data corrupting bugs. The devs are just garbage.

[@petar0402]

Say what? I used to use TB untill 128.0 ESR, never had any data loss.

[@ThatGuy-ru8ms]

Please never delete this comment. You’ve exhibited THE perfect example of irony, and will make explaining the concept to future generation immeasurably easier.

[@angusmacgyver]

Perhaps you need to fix some bugs or pay for the product.

[@DevJeremi]

New Linux DE - Yay! But it uses Qt - Never mind.

[@damnhatesyou]

100% QT is pretty terrible

[@petar0402]

What's wrong with Qt? KDE uses it and it's one of the best DE's. Wanna go lite? LXQt uses it too. It's in the name.

[@hnasheralneam]

I think there are enough GTK desktops out there, and it wouldn't make sense to make a new one, because GNOME makes it very difficult on the developers of other DEs

[@DevJeremi]

@@petar0402 I'm not sure but there is something in Qt itself that makes app design in it always look strange, unintuitively and ugly execept for few.

[@DevJeremi]

@ I didn't say anything about Gtk. But You are rigth, it seems thier is need for gnome alteratives to join forces and make Gtk fork.

[@EternallyEmberKin]

2 minutes 10 views no comments and im first bro fell off (pls dont pin of shame me)

[@i.karpowski7059]

Good video. Just your logo is awful.

[@michael_tunnell]

Be more specific, what’s wrong with it in your opinion?

[@i.karpowski7059]

@@michael_tunnell Thats fair. The silhouette next to your "This Week in" is not recognizable. Is it a cat?? I create logos for a living, if youd like a quote for a remake, contact me privately. Regards--- i.

[@michael_tunnell]

It’s a penguin

[@jonnyspeed8974]

Pebble failed... so let's relaunch it and hope it doesn't. Lol.