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  6. today's leftovers
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  7. Devices and Open Hardware: Jetson Nano, Arduino, ESP32, micro:bit, Raspberry Pi
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  8. Security and Windows TCO
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  9. Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers
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  10. Free Software: Video Conferencing, Music, Shellngn, and Drive Cloning
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  11. Android Leftovers
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  16. Best Free and Open Source Software
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  17. This week in KDE: Dolphin levels up
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  18. today's howtos
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  19. Games: Bazzite Linux, Spring Sale 2024, Black Mesa, and More
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  20. Haiku Activity & Contract Report, February 2024
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  21. today's leftovers
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  22. Linux Kernel: Automatic regression handling/reporting and btrfs
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  23. Programming Leftovers
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  24. Today in Techrights
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  25. today's howtos
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  26. CopyQ Clipboard Manager 8.0.0 Add ARM64 for Debian, Ras Pi, & MacOS
    CopyQ, the popular free open-source clipboard manager, announced new 8.0.0 release today
  27. Nintendo Switch: Yuzu emulator returns as Suyu for Linux and Windows gamers
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  28. Switching To Linux Full-Time: My Thoughts Two Months Later
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    937 /n/2024/03/14/DBOS_Introduced.shtml
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