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Updated This Past Day

  1. today's leftovers
    Debian and more
  2. Web Browsers/Clients
    some leftovers
  3. Games: Steam and Lossless Scaling
    some gaming picks
  4. Gadgets, Open Source/Hardware, and More
    hardware picks
  5. Programming Leftovers
    Development picks
  6. Security Leftovers
    Security related links
  7. Instructionals/Technical Leftovers
    today's howtos
  8. LibreOffice Reminds People of How Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Illegally 'Raided' ISO for Fake 'Standard'
    OOXML commentary
  9. Android Leftovers
    Chrome OS Will Merge With Android and Sony Surprises With a New Camera
  10. Unplugged and Unstoppable: How Linux Transforms Laptop Power Management
    In an era when remote work, video conferencing, and travel-heavy lifestyles are the norm
  11. Zen Browser updates to latest Firefox version and fixes Linux performance bugs
    Zen Browser is a recent fork of Firefox that focusses on privacy
  12. today's leftovers
    only 2 for now
  13. Devuan, Ubuntu, and Linuxfx
    Debian-derived distros
  14. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Luckfox Lyra Pi, and More
    Hardware picks
  15. OpenBSD chflags vs. Log Tampering
    a pair of links
  16. today's howtos
    7 howtos for now
  17. Fedora and Red Hat Leftovers
    mostly from the official sites
  18. Linux Phone
    What has 8 ARM cores, 8 GB of RAM, fits in a pocket, and runs NixOS
  19. Backup tool Rescuezilla resurrects itself across six Ubuntus
    2.6.1 adds Plucky Puffin and Firefox actually works this time
  20. Ubuntu 25.10 Wallpaper Contest Opened for Submission
    Wallpaper Contest for next Ubuntu 25.10, Questing Quokka, is opened
  21. Best Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  22. Transitous Hack Weekend July 2025
    Last weekend I attended the Transitous Hack Weekend in Berlin
  23. This Week in Plasma: rounded bottom corners
    This week we continues the feature work for Plasma 6.5
  24. MX Linux 23.6 on a Nvidia-powered laptop, behold results!
    I've been using MX Linux for a long time now, mostly on elden hardware
  25. Games: Brickadia, Noobs Are Coming, and More
    latest 8 from GamingOnLinux
  26. Fde Rogue Devices: Protecting against rogue devices in openSUSE with Full Disk Encryption
    openSUSE have now multiple ways to configure a Full Disk Encryption (FDE) installation
  27. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    and programming
  28. GNU/Linux and Hardware Projects
    today's leftovers
  29. Today in Techrights
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