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It’s the wheel of misfortune! Roughly 50 (mostly) Linux-related things are on the wheel, we take turns spinning it, and we all have to say at least some positive things about the thing we land on. (It makes sense once we start).

Porkbun.com

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The US government is trying to break up Google which sounds like a great idea, but it is potentially catastrophic news for Mozilla and Firefox. Alex from Open Web Advocacy tells us all about it. But first we talk about blocking ads on the web with Pi-hole, uBlock Origin, and AdGuard public DNS.

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Entroware

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Wikipedia is attacked by Trump lackeys, Bluesky folds under pressure from the Turkish government, Linux YouTube is terrible as usual, Microsoft wants you to use the “proper” VS Code, Intel AI chips aren’t selling well, yet another open source project has to deal with crawlers, TrueNAS goes Linux-only, and more.

News

Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia

Bluesky restricts access to 72 accounts in Turkey amid government pressure

Windows isn’t an OS, it’s a bad habit bordering on addiction

Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks

Intel’s AI PC chips aren’t selling well — instead, old Raptor Lake chips boom

ardour.org has banned 1.2M distinct IP addresses for trying to slurp from our git repository

TrueNAS 25.04 drops FreeBSD: “Fangtooth” only with GNU/Linux base

Fangtooth Unifies the TrueNAS Community

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Cheap handheld retro gaming, F1 stats in the terminal, running binaries as if they were Python functions, websites that look like TUIs, basic graphics manipulation, strange old audio archives, and more.

Discoveries 

POWKIDDY X55

ROCKNIX

undercut-f1

WebTUI

Astro Docs

Pinta 3.0

python-sh

Attention K-Mart Shoppers

Techmoan

r/LiminalSpace

The Conet Project

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Linus Torvalds’ other big project is 20 years old, new Ubuntu and Fedora releases, the downsides of permissive licences, a quick KDE Korner, and more.

News

Git turns 20: A Q&A with Linus Torvalds

Fedora 42 Released As A Fantastic Update To This Leading-Edge Linux Distribution – Phoronix

The answer is 42! Fedora Linux 42, that is

Ubuntu 25.04 Release Now Available for Download

Canonical Releases Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin

What’s new in APT 3.0

Getting Forked by Microsoft

The Day AppGet Died

KDE Korner

This Week in Plasma: The beginnings of Wayland session restore

KWallet Now A Wrapper For Secret Service

Akademy Registration Now Open

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Two very different approaches to setting up security cameras, an IDE-like experience for text adventure games, a glimpse of convergence on Pixel phones, a new LTS of the flight sim FlightGear, and more.

Discoveries

Frigate

Coral TPUs

daylight

RPi Improved Pan Tilt Module

The Visible Zorker

Flightgear new LTS

Bagels – TUI Expense Tracker

Pixel 9 desktop mode

pinchflat

fixing locale

KIOT

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AI crawlers are causing serious problems for open source projects, an example of disclosure by vagueposting, Zorin does something good and something bad, LibreOffice downloads are doing well, Thunderbird is planning new services, a quick KDE Korner, and more.

News

Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

Wikimedia Foundation bemoans AI bot bandwidth burden

It might be a good time to temporarily uninstall atop

Panic averted: It was just a bug in Atop after all

Dash to Panel lives on, thanks to Zorin sponsorship

Zorin OS 17.3 takes Brave step of changing default browser

Stop using Brave Browser

Look Mum No Computer on Steam

LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs 

Firefox maker Mozilla prepares Gmail-like Thundermail

Thundermail and Thunderbird Pro Services

KDE Korner

Roadmap for a modern Plasma Login Manager

Akademy 2025

1Password Extended Access Management

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What if Google hadn’t come along in the late 90s? What would search, mobile devices, and the web in general look like? Plus a musical discovery, and why moving to a new distro just means moving to new little problems to fix.

Discovery

Wilsonic MTS-ESP

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Home Assistant gets even more credible and sustainable, open source users are entitled, changes in KDE land, Fedora says hello to Plasma and goodbye to X11, Ubuntu looks to drop GNU coreutils, GIMP 3 is out and still has a terrible name, and new Pebble devices will be shipping soon™.

News

Home Assistant officially Matters

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

Dash to Panel maintainer quits after failed donations drive 

Jonathan Riddell Stepping Down From KDE Plasma Release Management

Announcing Techpaladin Software

Fedora 42 Beta now available

Ubuntu 25.10 plans to swap GNU coreutils for Rust

Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu

GIMP 3.0 Released

The first new Pebble smartwatches are coming later this year

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Tracking WiFi devices with cheap ESP32 devices, using OSM and Google Maps together, deleting your Twitter data, “3D” images with any camera, forcing Ubuntu to give you all the available updates, efficiently importing photos, counting lines of code, and more.

Discoveries

espargos and demo video

OSM2GoogleMaps Bookmarklet

Cyd

twitter-defollower

Cross Views

About apt upgrade and phased updates

Feedback

Rapid Photo Downloader

Become a sponsor to Damon Lynch

scc

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