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    How to Connect Any Video Game Controller to Your Android phone
  2. statCounter: GNU/Linux on Almost 1 in 10 Finnish Laptops/Desktops [original]
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  3. Android Leftovers
    Android 14 QPR2 on Pixel redesigns App battery usage settings
  4. today's leftovers
    5 for now
  5. Web Browsers and Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
    FOSS of Web nature
  6. Programming and Standards Leftovers
    Programming mostly
  7. Audiocasts/Shows: Linux in the Ham Shack, FLOSS Weekly, and More
    3 new episodes
  8. Lobbying by Linux Foundation and FSF-EEE, Cyber Resilience Act Exemptions
    Some news from Europe mostly
  9. Askiing Whether Linux is Virus-Free and New Windows TCO Tales
    Mostly Windows TCO
  10. Open Hardware and Right to Repair News
    hacking made easier
  11. today's howtos
    many more howtos
  12. My new System76 Thelio is hands-down the best desktop PC I've ever tested
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  13. Maps and GNOME 46
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  14. IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 184 released
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  15. PipeWire 1.0.4 Is Here as a Massive Bugfix Release
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  16. LXD 5.21.0 LTS is now available
    The stable release of LXD, the system container and VM manager, is now available
  17. How to Move Columns in LibreOffice Calc [Tutorial]
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  18. Mozilla Introduces Unique Social Media Experiment: Didthis
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  19. digiKam 8.3 Automatically Tags Images Using Deep Learning Neural Network
    digiKam 8.3 open-source, free, and cross-platform advanced digital photo management application is now available for download as a major release that introduces new features and fixes numerous bugs and issues.
  20. today's howtos
    half a dozen howtos
  21. Red Hat Leftovers
    mostly puff pieces this time
  22. Games: Rust (Game) Server on GNU/Linux, RimWorld, and More
    8 stories for gamers
  23. Mekotronics D58 embedded computer features 6 HDMI outputs for video walls or mirrored displays
    The company shot a video demo in Android
  24. Sparky 7.3
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  25. Collections Of Best Free Linux Software
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  26. Move VirtualBox VM to Another Computer [Tutorial]
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  27. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
  28. Open Hardware With Arduino
    a couple of new stories
  29. Security Leftovers
    Security links aplenty

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  30. Adventures on the quest for long-term reproducible deployment
    Rebuilding software five years later, how hard can it be?
  31. Raspberry Pi Projects and News
    3 new ones
  32. Microsoft Bricking Windows-Running PCs, Fixing Critical Holes Too Late, Putting All the Money (and Cards) on Hyped Startup That Loses Lots of Money
    3 new sttories
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    1065 /n/2024/03/13/Fear_Uncertainty_Doubt_Shifting_Focus_to_Linux_1_2_Days_After_M.shtml
    992 /n/2024/03/12/Web_Browsers_Speedometer_and_Firefox.shtml
    972 /n/2024/03/13/Security_Leftovers.shtml
    928 /n/2024/03/12/KDE_Plasma_6_0_2_Improves_Night_Color_Discover_Plasma_Wayland_a.shtml
    903 /n/2024/03/12/Kdenlive_24_02_0_released.shtml
    899 /n/2024/03/13/That_s_It_Africa_is_All_Android_Now.shtml
    878 /n/2024/03/13/statCounter_Sees_More_GNU_Linux_Than_Windows_in_Albania.shtml
    876 /n/2024/03/13/OBS_Studio_30_1_Released_with_AV1_Support_for_VA_API_PipeWire_C.shtml

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