8 Hidden Steam Machine Details | LINUX Unplugged 673

Eight details most people missed hint at the bigger Linux play behind Valve’s new Steam Machine.
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• github.com/meshcore-dev/meshcore-ha — Home Assistant integration for monitoring and controlling MeshCore radio networks.
• github.com/lullabyX/sone — Native TIDAL desktop client for Linux. Modern UI, custom themes, and bit-perfect lossless audio up to 24-bit/192kHz via exclusive ALSA.
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• dn-tool · GitHub (github.com/andreswebs/dn-tool) — dn-tool is a control-plane CLI that enrolls and unenrolls Linux hosts in a defined.net Managed Nebula network. It calls the defined.net REST API to create and delete host records and obtain single-use enrollment codes, then orchestrates the proprietary dnclient daemon — which it downloads and verifies at runtime. It is strictly control plane: it never reimplements Nebula and never replaces dnclient.