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PinePhone running Manjaro KDE arrives in Cape Town

Mastodon Social Network has an instance specifically for ham radio operators

Turn your Galaxy Watch 4 into a Walkie Talkie with Samsung’s new app - Zello could have been the cross-platform killer app for this

Luminate aims to make hair loss from chemotherapy a thing of the past

Keep Fuel Dollars Local By Switching To EVs - Electricity Is Usually More Locally Produced Than Oil

Tabox - Save and Share Tab Groups for Chromium based browsers

Nebula is an open source cross-platform scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security

How game makers are catering to disabled players - Hardware and software solutions open gaming to a wider audience than ever

17 KDE Plasma Features That You May Not Know About

Arthur C. Clarke (Sci-Fi Writer) predicting ebooks, remote working, etc back in 1976

20 Most Useful Commands for Newbies Who Switched from Windows to Linux

Matrix - An Open Network for Secure, Decentralised Communication

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft GitHub

Add An Open Source News Ticker To Your Windows Or Linux Desktop With TICKR (Scrolling News Feed Widget)

How Big Tech (Oil and Pharma) Charms and Bullies European Politicians, Journalists and Academics under the guise of furthering research - Transparency is long overdue

Open Source OpenShot Video Editor for Windows, macOS and Linux Adds ‘Computer Vision and AI’ Effects

30 things you didn't know about the Linux kernel e.g. first OS with USB 3.0 drivers, it can be patched without rebooting

How Data Brokers Sell Access to the Backbone of the Internet - ISPs are quietly distributing 'netflow' data that can, among other things, trace traffic through VPNs

A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps - Sixteen years after the launch of Google Talk, Google messaging is still a mess

Happy 30th Birthday, Linux!

John Cleese is set to explore cancel culture and the ‘woke' generation in a new Channel 4 series after Fawlty Towers episode taken off air

Ulauncher is a fast application launcher with extension and shortcut support to help you quickly access application and files in Linux

Ample raises $160 million on the promise of EV battery swapping with an adapter plate fitting each OEM's vehicle holding swappable modules

Ethiopia to build local rival to Facebook and WhatsApp - Great idea, but re-purpose existing decentralised alternatives like Mastodon, Matrix, Friendica, etc

Open-Source Insulin: Biohackers Aiming For Distributed Production

Straight Razor Shaving: You can flatten a honing stone with just 400 grit sandpaper

Is It Time to Rethink Food Colouring? Nothing beats Natural Food, Though!

GAC Aion V 6C Promises 8-Minute Charge Times, 1000-Kilometre Range in their SUV, possible using their new graphene battery

Open Source Linux Phones: Here are Your Options

A Beginner's Guide To Free and Open Source GIMP For Windows, macOS and Linux - Watching A Few Videos Really Gets You Going More Easily

What Your 'Heart Rate Variability' (HRV) Says About Your Health - It Helps Gauge Overall Stress Levels

Science Explains: Reading 6 Minutes A Day Helps Reduce Stress And Increase Happiness

Free and Open Source LibreOffice 7.2 Office Suite for Linux, Windows and macOS Is Now Available for Download

You Can See Way Better Fitness Stats on Your Apple Watch - You Can Configure What Displays, or Not, During an Exercise

ProtonVPN on Linux Review: An Open-Source VPN Service for Privacy Minded Users also on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android

Theory Versus Reality: The Dirty Hydrogen Story - Researchers at Cornell and Stanford say the promise of “blue” hydrogen is a very costly lie

Google Tasks now organizes your lists into tabs - As an iPhone user, I use Google Tasks because iCloud Reminders is crippled

It's time to decentralize the internet, again: What was distributed is now centralized by Google, Facebook, etc

Thunderbird version 91.0 is now available as a direct download but not yet as an upgrade from Thunderbird version 78 or earlier

Radioberry - a HF Transceiver Radio PiHat for the Raspberry Pi

25 Basic 'find' Command To Search Files In Linux With Examples

ExpressVPN Opted Not To Use WireGuard VPN Protocol, But Open Sources Its Lightway VPN Protocol And Offers Bug Bounties

Astra Linux is a Russian Linux-based computer operating system developed to meet the sovereignty needs of Russia (One of many BRICS countries to implement their own OS)