Android Leftovers

• How to play Steam games on Android

• Google Hid An Awesome Per-App Auto Rotate Feature in Android P

• Truecaller introduces call recording feature in the Android app

• Live Channels is the best thing on Android TV you're not using

• WhatsApp beta 2.18.216 brings mute feature on Android

• Xiaomi Mi A1 Android 8.1 Oreo update rolls out again with July security patches

• Essential Phone for just $250: High definition audio, Android P beta, superb built quality

today's leftovers

• Warehouse Clearance Sale! Librem laptops starting at $999

  We sometimes get asked whether we will sell previous Librem models at a discount. The fact is that we normally don’t have a lot of Librem laptops lying around–the current stock sells out quickly and we order new batches. However, we also sometimes offer more than one type of Librem 13 or 15 laptop so customers can pick which hardware appeals most to them. Most recently this happened when we offered you the choice of i5 vs. i7 CPU and the choice of adding on a TPM chip. The demand for the i7 CPU and TPM chips were overwhelming to the point that both the i7 and TPM chip are now standard on our entire product line.

• Training Conundrum: Open Source Moves Faster Than Curriculum

  Just as service providers must reinvent their networks by using open source technologies, network engineers must also reinvent themselves to ensure they are qualified to handle this new world of software-defined networking (SDN). Engineers that are well-versed in SDN and network functions virtualization (NFV) are in hot demand. According to a survey conducted in conjunction with SDxCentral’s 2018 NFV Report Series Part 1: NFV Infrastructure and VIM, 64 percent of respondents said that lack of training and in-house talent was hindering the adoption of NFV.

• Linux Foundation launches open source energy project to 'transform' the world's energy mix

• NVIDIA 390.77 Linux Driver Brings Updated Kernel Support, Fixes

  NVIDIA released today the 390.77 Linux driver, the latest in the 390 "long-lived" driver branch, for those not using the short-lived 396 bleeding-edge driver series. With the NVIDIA 390.77 Linux driver release it now works with up through the Linux 4.17 stable kernel series. Additionally, there are several pressing bug fixes.

• Igalia Aligns Latest Patches For Giving Intel's Mesa Driver OpenGL 4.6

  Igalia developers have been very involved with the Intel open-source developers on getting the long-awaited OpenGL 4.6 support into the "i965" Mesa driver. As has been the case for a while, out-of-tree patches can allow this to happen but with the Mesa 18.2 branching soon, it doesn't look like this will materialize ahead of this next release.

• KDE Applications 18.08 branches created

  Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the KDE Applications 18.08 release to them :) We're already past the dependency freeze. [...] August 16: KDE Applications 18.08 Release

• What Really Matters? – Red Hat, Inc. (RHT), Electronic Arts Inc. (EA)?

• Fundamentals and Technicals Suggest More Upside: Red Hat, Inc. (RHT)

• The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 536

  Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 536 for the week of July 8 – 14, 2018.

• Mi A2 Release Date: Xiaomi’s Android One Powered Device Coming On July 24

Games: Atari VCS Console, Humble Store and TUNG (The Ultimate Nerd Game)

• Atari VCS Console Runs a Custom Linux Distro Called “AtariOS”

  Following criticism of its mediocre internal makeup the Ataris VCS console will now ship with 8GB RAM by default, up from the 4GB proposed during the funding push. It’s a decent increase in memory that should help the system cope better with more intensive indie games (don’t expect AAA titles to play nicely on the machine with the middling AMD Bristol Ridge APU).

• Humble Store is doing a 'Pixel Perfect Platformers Sale' and it has some top Linux games for cheap

  For those of you who love your platformers, regardless of them being 2D, 3D, puzzle or action adventures there's bound to be something for the bored Linux gamer in the Humble Store Pixel Perfect Platformers Sale.

• TUNG (The Ultimate Nerd Game) made me realise how stupid I really am

  The Ultimate Nerd Game or TUNG for short, is a first-person sandbox game about building intricate machines and it made me feel so very dumb. If you loved Minecraft's Redstone circuits or anything remotely similar, this is probably a free game you're going to love. For me, it was an exercise in frying my brain like it's in a microwave.

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