Have you ever had an eerie feeling that your smartphone is listening to you? You discuss a product with your friends and family and start seeing advertisements related to that soon after. Your worst fear might have come true as this leaked report says.
Sourav Rudra
By the way, I am adding a 'Maker's Corner' section to the newsletter to share Raspberry Pi, Self-hosting and Homelab stuff. Let's take geeking to the next level 🕺
💬 Let's see what else you get in this edition
- A new Rhino Linux release.
- Orange Pi venturing into RISC-V waters.
- Elasticsearch and Kibana returning to their open-source roots.
- And other Linux news, videos and, of course, memes!
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📰 Linux News
- Rhino Linux's second release of 2024 is here.
- The Mono project is now part of the Wine family.
- Orange Pi RV is a RISC-V SBC for various use cases.
- Microsoft has replaced CentOS in favor of Azure Linux to power LinkedIn.
- Elastic is now offering Elasticsearch and Kibana under an open-source license.
🧠 What We’re Thinking About
Surprised? I am not. That's classic Microsoft 🤷
Sourav Rudra
🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More
- Brush up on your man page knowledge before someone tells you to RTFM.
- After the abrupt demise of Neofetch, a really capable Rust-based alternative has taken its place.
- Core, Extra, Multilib? Unraveling the Arch Linux Repositories.
- New to Linux command line? Start with our series.
- A new extension has appeared that lets you stream Netflix in Full-HD on Firefox.
Check out some of the interesting terminals.
Ankush Das
👷 Maker's Corner
Here are some tips about resetting forgotten password on Raspberry Pi. And question
Ankush Das
📹 Videos we are watching
This tinkerer demonstrates getting Debian on Galaxy Book
✨ Project Highlights
Valv is a gallery app for Android that helps with the creation of encrypted backups/folders.
Ankush Das
🧩 New Quiz
Test out your command knowledge in this crossword puzzle.
Ankush Das
💡 Quick Handy Tip
On GNOME Tweaks, you can manage the appearance of the wallpaper using Appearance ➝ Adjustment ➝ Select Style.
If you are on a multi-monitor setup, with a sufficiently large wallpaper, use the “Spanned” option to spread the same wallpaper across the monitors.
If you don't have GNOME Tweaks, our guide can help.
🤣 Meme of the Week
The pain is real. ☠️
🗓️ Tech Trivia
September 2, 1993, marked the day when one of the world's earliest web search engine, W3 Catalog, started.
🧑🤝🧑 FOSSverse Corner
FOSSer Jurgen asks how others handle schools requiring pupils to run proprietary programs from Google and Microsoft.
Jurgen
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