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ESP32-S3 Development Board with 2-Inch Display, Camera Interface, and 6-Axis IMU

The ESP32-S3-LCD-2 is a compact development board based on the ESP32-S3R8 processor. It integrates features such as wireless connectivity, a small LCD display, and various interface options, including a battery connector for portable applications.

Super Watchdog Raspberry Pi HAT with Battery Backup Gains Multi-Chemistry Support

The Super Watchdog HAT with UPS Battery Backup provides power management and reliability for mission-critical Raspberry Pi applications. It supports all Raspberry Pi models, ensuring uninterrupted operation, data protection during outages, and system monitoring.

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Connection for a Cause: One Woman’s Journey of Digital Empowerment

Growing up in a small village in Murang’a County, Kenya, Ruth Njeri had nearly no access to the digital world. Today, she is the lead engineer of the Tanda Community Network in Kibera—the largest slum in Africa—and is working to empower local women with technical knowledge, new skills, and increased opportunities.

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How To Install Clementine Music Player on Ubuntu 24.04

This tutorial will help you install Clementine Audio Player on your Ubuntu computer. Clementine is a modified version of the legendary player KDE Amarok, written in Qt technology and loaded with modern features. We use Ubuntu 24.04 as an example here and you can practice this with any other Ubuntu version. Now let's begin installing and playing some audio!

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GNOME 48 Alpha Is Now Available for Public Testing, Here’s What’s New

The alpha version of GNOME 48 is here with OSD notifications for headphone connections, support for screen time and health breaks, support for screen time limits, systemd-sysext support to toolbox tooling, convenience logging API for extensions, support for configuring monitors as for-lease, support for the system bell protocol, built-in renderdoc support, xdg-toplevel-drag-v1 protocol support, wp_viewport support for cursor surfaces, and support for the commit-timing-v1 and fifo-v1 protocols.

GNOME 47.3 Improves Frame Rate for Monitors Attached to Secondary GPUs

Coming about seven weeks after GNOME 47.2, the GNOME 47.3 release is here to improve input → output latency of cursor movements, implement wp_viewport support for cursor surfaces, enhance Xwayland support, and improve frame rate for monitors attached to secondary GPUs in copy mode.

GNOME 46.8 Release Speeds Up Thumbnail Loading in the Nautilus File Manager

Those of you still using the GNOME 46 desktop environment series will be happy to learn that the GNOME 46.8 release speeds up thumbnail loading in the Nautilus (Files) file manager, improves support for the Trisquel GNU/Linux distribution in the GNOME Boxes app, and adapts more components to the new GNOME Release Service.

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Machine Learning in Linux: EasyOCR – OCR that reads natural scene text and dense text in documents

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Feb 21, 2024

Our Machine Learning in Linux series focuses on apps that make it easy to experiment with machine learning.

EasyOCR is a Python module for extracting text from images. It is a general OCR that can read both natural scene text and dense text in documents. The software supports more than 80 languages. It’s free and open source software.

We tested EasyOCR with PCs running Ubuntu and Manjaro including a machine with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti dedicated graphics card, and an Intel NUC 13 Pro which only has onboard Intel Iris Xe. We’ll go through installing the GPU and CPU versions of PyTorch.

There are a variety of ways of installing EasyOCR without polluting our machines. We’ll install EasyOCR in a isolated Python environment.

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