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New Flow Battery Using Simple Sugar Has Year Long Charge Duration For Grid Storage: A Healthier Use For Sugar

Finally got Timeshift on Linux to do a system restore when I really needed it

Fairphone 3 gets seven years of updates, besting every other Android OEM: Proving the usual excuses for ending Android support aren’t valid

Your Fitbit Charge 5 Might Be Broken After Its Latest Update (and many Aria scales also have issues)

How to use open source Fan Control for Windows

Open KDE Konsole named Profiles, with own identification and a custom command, using a keyboard shortcut

How To Maintain and Care for Your Safety Razor

Distrobox lets you start any Linux distribution inside your terminal, and even run GUI apps for that distro on your host machine

China’s openKylin 1.0 arrives. Our verdict? Not a bad-looking, er, Ubuntu remix: It’s certainly not the country’s ‘first homegrown open source desktop operating system’

Best SSDs for Network Attached Storage (NAS) in 2023: Prices are Down and Capacities are Up

Technologies to tackle water-related risks have been chronically underfunded for decades. Could the ‘tide’ be turning?

Wesgro creates the Cape Karoo region in Roblox, partnering with BP & Shell to win the hearts of young road-trippers in South Africa

Small static page websites really can be hosted for free

Threads, Meta’s Twitter rival, is tracking you in all sorts of ways because Meta/Facebook owns it

Citizen Band (CB) radio has gone license free in South Africa: Great for local comms when power fails or just to chat to your community