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today's leftovers

with focus on GNU/Linux
GNU and FSF / Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty

Free software leftovers
Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and More

3 stories for today
Security Leftovers

Security news for today
This Week in GNOME and Goblint Notes

GNOME Desktop/GTK news
K Desktop Environment/KDE: Krita Monthly Report, Automatic Brightness in Plasma, and Qt No Contextless Connect

Qt/KDE stuff
Web Browsers: Incognito Mode Myths Debunked, Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine, Configuring Firefox

3 stories
Programming Leftovers

Development news
Kernel Space: Ceph, Slop Thrown Into Linux Without Audits, Useful Code Abandoned Based on Unverified Bot 'Audits'

Not a good trend
Fedora, Red Hat, and Flathub

IBM stuff mostly
Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications: GrapheneOS, GNU/Linux Terminal in Android, and Apple Gimmicks

3 stories for now
Fedora 44 New Release Date, Red Hat Pushing Slop, and Back Doors, and Microsoft (IBM Works for Microsoft)

really bad trajectory
today's howtos

Instructionals/Technical picks
Games: GNU/Linux on the Odin 2 Mini, MangoHud 0.8.3, and More

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Google Maps for Android Auto gets a subtle update that drivers will love
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If CachyOS is not your thing, there is no shortage of great alternatives
Ready to graduate from Linux Mint? These 3 distros are perfect for intermediate users

Linux Mint is a great place to start—but at some point, it stops being enough
Free and Open Source Software, and Review

This is free and open source software
Duff Linux – opinionated distro based on Void

Duff Linux is an opinionated desktop Linux distribution based on dani-77’s d77void project
This Week in Plasma: fanciness in Discover and more power efficiency

This week includes an interesting blend of improvements. Lots of visual stuff, so get ready for a ton of screenshots and screen recordings
Blacklist ntfs3 and use ntfs-3g for slower but stable experience

Linux handles that. For all practical purposes, you can even create and format partitions as NTFS using any one of the Linux partitioning tools
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