FOSS Weekly #24.40: Deprecated Commands, SSD Temp, Aria2App, Spotify Customization and More Linux Stuff
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Pratham Patel
💬 Let’s see what else you get in this edition
- FreeBSD making big strides.
- A new open-source AI model family.
- Two popular privacy FOSS projects merging.
- Arch Linux partnering with a well-known name.
- And other Linux news, videos and, of course, memes!
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📰 Linux News
- Brave browser has incorporated running local AI into the application.
- The Tails and Tor Project have teamed up in a bid to streamline resources.
- Linux Mint’s new default Cinnamon theme looks like a much-needed revamp.
- Arch Linux has entered into a collaboration with Valve for accomplishing some critical development tasks.
- Molmo is a new family of open-source AI models that has beaten many proprietary options in benchmarks.
- FreeBSD is going all in with a new initiative, set to focus on laptop users, both casual and corporate.
Sourav Rudra
🧠 What We’re Thinking About
Can you get a million dollars in funding for cloning open source projects? Apparently, yes.
Ankush Das
The brain behind Archcraft, Aditya Shakya, shared some interesting insights with us in a recent interview.
Ankush Das
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🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More
- Checking the temperature of an NVMe SSD is easy.
- Having icon size issues on Linux Mint? You can enable fractional scaling to fix that.
- Learn about some of the popular Linux commands that are being deprecated.
- If you dual boot Windows and Linux, it’s time to fix the time zone issue (pun intended)
Spice up your Spotify experience on Ubuntu with Spicetify. It lets you install themes and extensions to customize the Spotify app’s user experience.
Abhishek Prakash
👷 Maker’s Corner
Monitoring a network using a TP-Link WN722N is fun.
Abhishek Kumar
Deploying LLMs with llamafile is a breeze!
Abhishek Kumar
📹 Videos We are Creating for You
Let me share how I made my 4K monitor look better with Raspberry Pi 5.
✨ Apps of the Week
Audacious is a no-nonsense music player for Linux that you should check out.
Sourav Rudra
Downloading files on Android made better with Aria2App.
Sourav Rudra
🧩 Quiz Time
How much do you know about Linux automation? This quiz will jog your memory:
Ankush Das
💡 Quick Handy Tip
On the Nautilus file manager, you can undo an action like “Move to Trash”, “Copy”, etc. For doing this, simply click on the three-ribbon button and select “Undo Move”.
You can also use the keyboard shortcut “CTRL+Z” to do the same. To redo the undone action, use the shortcut “SHIFT + CTRL + Z”. Remember, you cannot undo if you deleted a file permanently.
🤣 Meme of the Week
That means you too! Hello friend. 🤗
🗓️ Tech Trivia
The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, or ENIAC for short, was taken offline after eleven years of calculating and processing programs.
🧑🤝🧑 FOSSverse Corner
An interesting thread on Linux by one of our regular FOSSers.
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