We reached the 30,000 followers mark on Mastodon. This is an unexpected feat. We have 140,000 people on our Twitter profile but that’s because Twitter/X is a bigger platform. I am pleasantly surprised to see so many people on an alternative, decentralized
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Keeping your laptop always plugged-in speeds up the deterioration of its battery life. But if you are using a docking station, you don’t have the option to unplug the power cord. Thankfully, you can employ a few tricks to limit battery charging
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Skype is being discontinued by Microsoft on 5th May. Once a hallmark of the old internet, Skype was already dying a slow death. It just could not keep up with the competition from WhatsApp, Zoom etc despite Microsoft’s backing. While there are
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If you are starting to use and learn Linux, remember this: Linux is not magic 🪄It’s sudo science 🔬 Okay…sorry… my dad jokes urges get the better of me at times 😁 💬 Let’s see what else you get in this edition
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Pay attention if you use Amazon Kindle. Starting 26th Feb, Amazon won’t allow ‘Download and transfer via USB’ feature anymore. That’s the feature people used to download the Kindle books they purchased and convert them to EPUB or PDF to read on
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You want to be good at Linux? Start using it. Linux doesn’t get easier. You get better at it. The more you use it as your daily driver, the more you explore it and the more you learn. You won’t even realize
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The brilliance and curiosity of some people amazes me. Take this person who managed to run Linux inside a PDF file 🫡 Wow! You Can Now Run Linux Inside a PDF Yes, you read that right. It’s FOSS NewsSourav Rudra 💬 Let’s
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In the previous newsletter, I shared the new tools directory page proposal and asked for your feedback. From the responses I got, an overwhelming majority of FOSSers liked this idea. So I’ll work on such pages. Since I want them to have
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I would appreciate your feedback on something ‘new’. I plan to add pages that let you discover applications based on certain criteria. It’s a work in progress, but feel free to have a look and share your opinion 🙏 Discover Interesting Linux
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