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Raspberry Pi 400 is a $70 personal Pi computer built into a keyboard

You Can Now Upgrade the Original PinePhone with More RAM, Storage - We need more Phones without Glue Inside even if they are a bit Thicker

Got Torque Pro ODB2 gauges to display on my Android Auto on dashboard but why does Google ban gauge apps on AA if a car has gauges already?

Europeans Bought More Electrified Vehicles Than Diesels In September — For The First Time In History

An Overview of the 7 different scan modes on the Kenwood D710 radio

Cleantech Creates Higher Paying Jobs — Millions Of Them in the USA alone and now we can see actual numbers which should motivate other countries

Top 10 simulation games to learn real world skills from off-road driving, farming, flying, cooking, computer building, repairing cars and more

Community rallies behind Youtube-DL after DMCA takedown but it is open source so of course it's everywhere and more popular than ever before

Zoom finally adds full end-to-end encryption for all, for free – though there are caveats due to the nature of full E2EE

Smartphone camera showdown: Pixel 5, Galaxy Note20 Ultra, Mate 40 Pro, OnePlus 8T, Galaxy S20 FE, iPhone 12 Pro compared

SpaceX's Starlink satellite broadband will cost $99USD (ZAR1,600) monthly, but in SA the Ka-Band is $80 (ZAR1,299) pm for 20Mbps uncapped

Delta Chat is a secure instant messenger app with no central account as it transparently uses encrypted mails via your existing mail account so everyone is potentially a user

A good video explaining some insights about using a de-Googled phone as a daily driver

For just over an hour on 11 October 100% of energy demand was met by solar panels alone for the entire South Australia (77% from rooftops remainder from solar farms)

Fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for Linux, macOS, and the rest of the family with lots of built-in features