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Updated This Past Day

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  3. GNU/Linux Leftovers
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  4. Security Leftovers
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  5. today's howtos
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  8. Games: Proprietary Titles and Flathub Changes
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  9. Open Hardware/Modding/Retro: Remington Standard, Macintosh LC III, Arduino, and "Name that Ware"
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  10. OBS Studio 31.0 Released with NVIDIA Blur Filter and Background Blur
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  11. Android Leftovers
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  12. OBS Studio 31 Debuts With New NVIDIA Blur Features
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  13. This Linux Theme Gave Me the Windows 95 Experience in 2024
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  14. Sparky 2024.12
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  15. Best Free and Open Source Software
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  16. Kumander Linux – Debian-based distribution
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  17. This Week in Plasma: Oodles of features!
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  18. My 4 favorite open-source apps for personal finance - that run on Linux, MacOS, and Windows
    These open-source options are some of the most popular - and for good reason
  19. Archcraft is a solid, super fast distro for anyone ready to move beyond beginner Linux
    I spent a week with the distribution and found it to be a lot of fun to use
  20. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Openwashing Leftovers
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  21. Mozilla Run by Marketing People and Buzzwords Agenda, Acts Accordingly
    goodbye, geeks
  22. Programming Leftovers
    Development related stuff
  23. Debian-based Apertis and Robotic Vision in Debian
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  24. Open Hardware/Modding: MIPS, AmpereOne, Raspberry Pi, and More
    devices related news
  25. Red Hat Swimming in Buzzwords and Other Nonsense (Not a Geeks-Run Company Anymore)
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  26. Operating Systems: FreeDOS, frood, and ZephyrOS
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  27. Latest From Peter Czanik and syslog-ng Insider
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  28. Today in Techrights
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  29. today's howtos
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  30. Game Streaming on Raspberry Pi 5, Godot 4.4 dev 6, Flight Simulator, SteamOS (ArchLinux)
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