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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 24, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Birthday Breaks [original]

   2 things to celebrate this weekend

2. Linux Has a Birthday This Weekend. Meanwhile in the Homeland of Linus Torvalds... [original]

   Microsoft has apparently occupied the country

   New

3. Android Leftovers

   Android Auto keeps asking ‘who do you want to call’ with no fix for voice commands yet

4. Set Your Gravatar as User Account Pic in GNOME Shell

   Do you like the idea of using the same profile picture for your Ubuntu user account as your Gravatar

5. An Average of Half a Million Per Day [original]

   A lot has changed on the Web since 2004

6. 5 lightweight operating systems I run on my old laptops

   Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our laptops. It’s inevitable, as time and technology marches forward, a laptop or two goes by the wayside

7. today's leftovers

   only 4 more links

8. Programming/Development Leftovers

   Some Web aspects too

9. Security and FUD Leftovers

   Some exaggerations

10. Proton VPN Now Supports WireGuard on Linux

    late, but...

11. Microsoft Malware and Windows TCO

    bad behaviour from Microsoft

12. Openwashing, Slop and Privacy Lies

    Slop being framed as "open"

13. Free Software Leftovers

    half a dozen FOSS picks

14. Boards and Open Hardware: DIY, DeskPi, FairPhone

    a handful of new picks

15. Audiocasts/Shows: mintCast and BSD Now

    some new episodes

16. today's howtos

    half a dozen howtos

17. Proton VPN Finally Adds WireGuard Support for Linux Users

    Proton VPN gets better for Linux users

18. Advanced memelogy - Convert video to HD GIF

    Several weeks ago, I told you about the "can't send video" problem in WhatsApp

19. Metrics in KDE – Are they useful?

    Since Plasma 5.18, nearly five years ago, Plasma has shipped with a "telemetry" system

20. Raspberry Pi 5 PCIe HAT+ board features gigabit Ethernet, 4G LTE (mini PCIe), two USB 3.2 ports

    As the device is plug-and-play the company mentions that the board supports Raspberry Pi OS, Ubuntu, OpenWrt, and other operating systems with reliable network speeds

21. Programming Leftovers

    Programming related stuff

22. Open Hardware: Mobile, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and RISC-V

    Hardware on the freedom side

23. Openwashing by OSI and Mozilla, Also Sponsored by Microsoft (to Mislead the Public)

    really bad trend of PR

24. Red Hat and IBM Leftovers

    IBM related links

25. Security and Windows TCO

    Some news relating to security

26. Android Leftovers

    Pixel 6 line could get extra system support time; will the series receive Android 16

27. today's howtos

    morning batch of howtos

28. Ubuntu Hits Pause on SRU Kernel Releases for September

    Canonical has announced it will not ship stable release kernel updates during September

29. How to install a tiling window manager on Linux (and why you'd want to)

    Looking to make Linux even more efficient? A tiling window manager could be exactly what you need

30. Games: Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Tokyo Xtreme Racer, and More

    Latest 8 from GamingOnLinux

31. Today in Techrights

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