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    685 /n/2024/12/17/Fedora_Asahi_Remix_41_Released_for_Apple_Silicon_Macs_with_KDE_.shtml
    605 /n/2024/12/16/Linux_6_13_rc3.shtml
    588 /n/2024/12/17/System76_Refreshes_Their_AMD_Powered_Pangolin_Linux_Laptop_with.shtml
    489 /n/2024/12/19/_Kdenlive_24_12_Added_Multiple_Subtitle_Tracks_Removed_Qt5_Supp.shtml
    480 /n/2024/12/20/Mozilla_Hey_Hi_AI_Nonsense_Thunderbird_Update_Plunder_by_the_Ex.shtml
    475 /n/2024/12/19/today_s_howtos.shtml
    475 /n/2024/12/10/The_Shepherd_1_0_0_released.shtml
    472 /n/2024/12/20/today_s_howtos.shtml
    469 /n/2024/12/17/Security_Leftovers.shtml
    468 /n/2024/12/15/Wine_10_0_rc2.shtml
    464 /n/2024/12/19/today_s_howtos.2.shtml
    454 /n/2024/12/17/today_s_howtos.shtml
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    445 /n/2024/12/16/today_s_howtos.shtml
    442 /n/2024/12/16/The_Raspberry_Pi_500_Would_be_a_Decent_Desktop.shtml
    439 /n/2024/12/20/today_s_leftovers.shtml
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