Lilbits: postmarketOS and SteamOS updates, Commodore Callback price drop, and more

Over the past few years Valve has helped make Linux a viable platform thanks to the Proton compatibility layer that lets you play many Windows games on Linux, and the SteamOS operating system that powers the Steam Deck handheld gaming PC and the Steam Machine mini PC that’s launching this week.

But you don’t need to buy Valve’s hardware to use SteamOS. And soon it may be easier than ever to […]

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Lilbits: Android 17 released, Microsoft Surface with Snapdragon X2, and a phone-like LoRa dev kit

Google is now rolling out Android 17 to select Pixel phones, and the operating system will be available for additional devices soon.

Some of the more noticeable changes include a new system for multitasking that will let you run apps in floating windows called “bubbles,” new security and parental control features, and a Continue On feature that lets you pick up where you left off when working […]

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Lilbits: Half Life on ReactOS, a mouse with a horizontal scroll wheel, and MS PowerToys 0.100

These days you can play plenty of Windows games on Linux PCs thanks to Valve’s proton software. And a growing number of games that were originally made for Windows have also been ported to run natively on Linux.

All of which is to say that if you really want to run an older PC game like Half Life on an open source operating system, you have plenty of options for doing that. But it’s still […]

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Lilbits: 8TB SD cards are coming soon (likely for a small fortune)

It’s been more than two years since SanDisk announced plans to launch 4TB SD cards based on the SDUC standard. They haven’t actually arrived yet, so take this next part with a grain of salt, but during the Computex show in Taiwan earlier this month, SanDisk indicated that those 4TB SDUC cards really are coming soon… along with even larger 8TB cards.

Unfortunately they won’t be much use […]

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Lilbits: Surface Pro with Snapdragon X2 Elite, another Strix Halo mini PC, and more Linux-like tools for Windows

This week Microsoft unveiled the Surface RTX Dev Box mini PC with an NVIDIA RTX Spark processor and a Surface Laptop Ultra with the same chip. Both are expected to arrive later this year and both are aimed squarely at developers. And last month the company introduced business-class Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models powered by Intel Panther Lake processors.

So what’s next? According to […]

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Lilbits: Raspberry Pi 6 is coming… but not for a few years

Raspberry Pi’s single-board computers have always been small and cheap as part of the organization’s mission to make computing affordable… well, up until recently anyway. The skyrocketing prices of RAM have caused the company to raise prices several times in the last six months, with some models seeing price hikes of more than 100%.

So it’s not surprising to learn that the company isn’t in a […]

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Lilbits: The trouble with lifetime subscriptions, Google puts AI everywhere, and the Trump Phone is real?

Once upon a time, Plex was a free app that was a fork of XBMC (Kodi) that you could use as a full-screen media player on a computer, or to stream media over a local network. And you can still use it for those things. But these days Plex also offers ad-supported TV & movie streaming, and subscription services that let you stream your personal media collection over the internet (so you can watch […]

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Lilbits: A RISC-V router (crowdfunding), an E Ink color dev kit, and Windows 11 taskbar customization

As promised, Microsoft is bringing back the ability to reposition the Windows taskbar… although you can’t actually do it just yet unless your a member of the Windows 11 Insider Preview program running an experimental build of Windows 11. More options for customizing the Start Menu are also rolling out to Insiders.

In other recent tech news from around the web, a crowdfunding project is […]

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Lilbits: Another Raspberry Pi handheld PC, encrypted RCS messaging between iOS and Android, and a foldable Logitech mouse

If I had a nickel for every time I saw a new handheld computer powered by a Raspberry Pi, I’d have… at least a few nickels. It’s an interesting idea: take a credit card-sized computer and stuff it into a compact device with a battery, touchscreen, and maybe a keyboard and you’ve got a portable Linux PC.

It’s also… a device that’s not really designed for mobile use. While Raspberry Pi […]

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Lilbits: OpenAI phone, Steam Machine, and the death of Copilot for Xbox

The rising prices of memory and storage in recent months have impacted the pricing and availability of all sorts of computers and other devices. But major PC makers like Apple and Lenovo have a bit more leverage to negotiate prices than smaller players like Framework and Valve.

While Framework has been raising memory prices on an almost monthly basis, Valve has pushed back the launch of its […]

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