Have you ever watched a video and wished you could slow it down or speed it up? Maybe the speaker is too fast, or you just want to skip through some parts. You can do that with VLC media player! In this article,
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Here’s positive news that should delight most Linux and open-source supporters. German state Schleswig-Holstein has decided to replace Microsoft Office with LibreOffice on over 30,000 employees’ PCs. Wow! German State Ditches Microsoft for Open-Source Software The end of dominance for Microsoft in
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If you are using any popular Linux distribution including Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, openSUSE, or Fedora, your system uses systemd as its init system. Sure, there are controversies surrounding systemd. But, it is the most used init system. In a systemd-equipped distro, there
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If you are a developer and want to install apps directly to Android for testing purposes, then using adb (Android Debug Bridge) and fastboot will get things done in the most efficient manner possible. Sure, it can also be useful when you
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Recently, I set up Jellyfin media server on my Raspberry Pi. My Pi is wirelessly connected to the router and one problem I faced with this setup is accessing the media server on the TV or other devices. Why? Because the Pi
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This is a special FOSS Weekly edition as it focuses on Homelab. Wondering what is a homelab? Basically, it’s a dedicated computer(s) set up which resides in your home and serves various open source software on your local network. So, you run
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You can make yourself more productive in the Linux terminal by creating aliases of the most frequently used command combinations. For example, to update my Ubuntu system, instead of using: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y I just use upd
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Are you tired of the challenge posed by a crowded local storage, making file retrieval feel like a scavenger hunt? Worry not! Today, we embark on the transformation of your Raspberry Pi into a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) solution. Say farewell to the
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Reading logs could be tiresome, specially if you are new to it. It all looks black and white and you have to look for the desired details in it. Not a pretty scene, right? While I cannot change the logs for you,
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The concept of homelab is getting popular among tinkerers and hobbyists. From personal cloud to media server to home automation, homelab gives you the freedom of owning your data by self-hosting open source software on your hardware. Some people use new hardware,
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