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    frugality is nothing to be a shame of, it is generally working to one's advantage

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  2. Rain at Last! [original]
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  3. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS and sharing
  4. GNU/Linux Leftovers
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  5. Open Hardware/Modding: Home Assistant, Raspberry Pi, and More
    hardware leftovers
  6. Canonical/Ubuntu Leftovers
    good, bad, and shallow
  7. Ubuntu 26.04 File Manager, This Week in GNOME, GUADEC, and More
    GNOME and GTK
  8. The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory, Fedora Turns to Slop, Red Hat Selling Microsoft and Slop
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  9. OpenSUSE Planet News Roundup and Tumbleweed's Review of the Week
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  10. Games: New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds, Nouveau Revisited, and Diablo IV
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  11. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical picks
  12. Applications: OpenShot, proctmux, and Midscroll
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  13. Linux Plumbers Conference 2026 registration open and graphics news
    Linux and graphics
  14. Recent Audiocasts/Shows/Videos About GNU/Linux and Software Freedom
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  15. Security Leftovers
    Security related picks
  16. Programming Leftovers
    Development stories
  17. Openwashing: OpenUK Wants GAFAM Front Groups, Microsoft OSI Speaks Out, and Slop (Plagiarism by LLMs) Promoted Under the False Banner of "Open Source"
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  18. Wine 11.14
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  19. Games: Project Zomboid, Weather the Swarm, Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM, and More
    games leftovers
  20. We Really Need Rain [original]
    it's bad for flora and fauna
  21. Android Leftovers
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  22. Proprietary Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub) Versus FreeBSD
    bad news
  23. MagicX Mini Dream: new OLED handheld with Android and Linux variants coming soon
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  24. 3 Linux distros that run on 2.8GB of RAM when even the 'lightweight' ones choke
    I've usually trusted the word "lightweight" on a Linux distro's homepage
  25. As Ubuntu embraces AI, Debian discusses banning all AI-generated code
    The rapid development of LLM coding tools has forced the open-source community to ask itself the question...
  26. Your first Linux distro shouldn't be a beginner distro—here's what to pick instead
    Any time you look into switching to Linux
  27. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  28. This Week in Plasma: Auto-Lock and Unlock for Remote Desktop Sessions
    This week saw a bunch of work on some core infrastructure components, like the RDP server, login greeter, and screen configuration tooling
  29. Murena Workspace - Excellent idea, some rough edges
    Now that I have /e/OS installed on the Fairphone, and now that I'm using this de-Googled Android
  30. Stable kernels: Linux 7.1.5, Linux 6.18.40, Linux 6.12.97, Linux 6.6.145, Linux 6.1.178, Linux 5.15.212, and Linux 5.10.261
    I'm announcing the release of the 7.1.5 kernel
  31. Guatemala: New Highs for GNU/Linux, 5% in Summer of 2026 [original]
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  32. Today in Techrights
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    Span from 2026-07-19 to 2026-07-25
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