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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 12, 2024

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  11. today's howtos
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  13. Firefox: Fixing keyboard navigation in Inspector Rules view
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  15. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  16. Programming Leftovers
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  17. Trisquel on arm64: Ampere Altra
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  19. Web Browsers: PSL un Curl, Brave, and Firefox
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  20. Software: Introducing Spiel, Fast Image Resizer, and Office Suites
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  21. today's howtos
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  22. Games: Valve, Townseek, Usurper, and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
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  23. Windows TCO Leftovers
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  24. Android Leftovers
    This new thing happens with Gboard when you connect a physical keyboard to your Android tablet
  25. Gabriel-Cezarin Popovici helps the campaigns team to spread the message that we need to fight for our digital freedom
    My reason for using GNU/Linux up until 2018 was because it was just plain better than Windows
  26. Android Leftovers
    How to take a screenshot on Android? 7 best ways explored
  27. Min 1.31 Released as a New Bug Fix Update for Lightweight Browser
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  28. Kodi 20.3 "Nexus" released as a last bug-fix update
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  30. Security Leftovers
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