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Touchscreen Smart Box Based on ESP32-P4 with Wi-Fi 6 or Ethernet

The ESP32-P4 Smart 86 Box is a compact development board with a 4-inch capacitive touchscreen, designed for HMI, smart control panels, and edge processing. Its 86 mm form factor allows it to be easily installed in wall-mounted enclosures for use in embedded automation and smart terminal applications.

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BeagleBoard.org has released an updated revision of the PocketBeagle 2 featuring the Texas Instruments AM6254 processor. The new Rev A1 replaces the earlier AM6232-based Rev A0, offering a significant performance boost with no change in pricing. The upgraded AM6254 brings a quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU and an integrated GPU, targeting more demanding embedded applications.

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Olimex Showcases Open Source €20 Smart Home Server Project

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Still powered by the Linux 6.14 kernel series, the CachyOS ISO snapshot for May 2025 features the latest KDE Plasma 6.3.5 desktop environment, which is accompanied by the latest KDE Gear 25.04.1 and KDE Frameworks 6.14 software suites, all built against the Qt 6.9 open-source application framework.

Alpine Linux 3.22 Released with GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, and LXQt 2.2

Powered by Linux kernel 6.12 LTS and coming more than six months after Alpine Linux 3.21, the Alpine Linux 3.22 release introduces support for the latest GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, and LXQt 2.2 desktop environments, as well as the replacement of the gummiboot (formerly systemd-boot) boot manager with systemd-efistub.

GStreamer 1.26.2 Improves the D3D12 Video Decoder for NVIDIA GPUs, WAV Playback

Coming a little over a month after GStreamer 1.26.1, GStreamer 1.26.2 is here to add a new Skia-based video compositor element, workaround crashes with the D3D12 video decoder on NVIDIA GPUs, which occurred when changing the resolution, and further improve the performance of the dav1d AV1 decoder.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 13, 2024

Picture Taken In Canada of rows of trees perfectly lined up

Updated This Past Day

  1. EPO Staff Representatives Say It Has Gotten Very Hard to Get Promoted (Forget About Getting Rewarded for Hard Work)
    This has long been a problem
  2. Occupational Health, Safety and Ergonomics Committee (LOHSEC) at the European Patent Office (EPO)
    nobody in EPO management ever gets punished for crimes, no matter how severe
  3. Microsoft is Actually Quite Worthless, Its Valuation is Based on Lies and Consistently Defrauding Shareholders
    Microsoft's future is not what Wall Street "tells" us
  4. The Final Demise of Social Control Media May be Upon Us (It Ought to be Collectively Abandoned for Society's Sake)
    If it keeps going down, prospects of a turnaround or rebound are slim
  5. The Latest NDAA Amendment Can (or Should) Allow the United States to Remove Microsoft Even Faster From Its Infrastructure (Which Routinely Gets Cracked Completely by Russia and China, Thanks to Microsoft)
    It's time to move!

    New

  6. Links 12/07/2024: EU/China Tensions and Ukraine War Updates
    Links for the day
  7. EPO Staff Reps: "Until now, Mr Campinos is still leaving the appellants in the dark about the exact content of the opinion of the Appeals Committee on the EPO salary adjustment procedure."
    Campinos chooses to lawyer up rather than listen up
  8. [Meme] That Time EPO Workers Were Panicking Because the Elevators Kept Getting Stuck
    Many people forgot that
  9. [Video] Julian Assange's Brother Gabriel Shipton on How the Convoy to the Airport Was Arranged, Being at the Beach With Julian Assange After Release (He's Doing Well), and How Taylor Swift Has 'Helped' Julian
    At the airport he was greeted by many press crews, but they were not there for him. They were there because of Taylor Swift.
  10. [Meme] Financial Disinformation From Chatbots Controlled by the Manipulator (Rigger)
    ChatGPT, the media is starting to say you're all hype...
  11. Links 12/07/2024: Nations That Already Ban TikTok and Russia's 'Shadow War' Online
    Links for the day
  12. Gemini Links 12/07/2024: Changing and the WIPO Lunacy
    Links for the day
  13. Let's Encrypt Continues to Collapse in Geminispace and That's Good News for Free Speech (Among Other Things)
    due to the way modern Web browsers work, many sites have no option but to use Let's Encrypt or pay for some other CA to issue some worthless-but-glorified bytes
  14. Microsoft Falls Below 20% in Montenegro - Plunging to All-Time Low
    sharp drop
  15. [Meme] The Free Speech Absolutist From Apartheid South Africa
    What will it take for all sensible people to quit X/Twitter?
  16. Linux is Displacing Microsoft and Replacing Windows in Germany (Android Surge and New Highs for ChromeOS+GNU/Linux in Germany)
    Germany is upgrading to GNU/Linux, not to latest Windows
  17. Reorganising for Better Efficiency and More Publication (Original Material)
    XBox "journalism" these days is mostly slop (chatbot spew disguised as news), so studying this matter isn't easy
  18. Software Freedom is Still the FSF
    At the moment the best advocacy group for Software Freedom is the FSF
  19. Links 12/07/2024: XBox in Trouble, Crackdowns in UAE
    Links for the day
  20. Gemini Links 12/07/2024: Make Tea Not War, Considering Guix
    Links for the day
  21. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  22. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 11, 2024
    IRC logs for Thursday, July 11, 2024
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-07-06 to 2024-07-12
    1947 /n/2024/07/08/What_s_Growing_in_the_United_States_This_Year_is_GNU_Linux_Not_.shtml
    1936 /n/2024/07/09/ZDNet_Kills_the_Linux_RSS_Feed_Syndication_Redirected_to_Loads_.shtml
    1776 /n/2024/07/08/Debian_Needs_a_Significant_Change_of_Direction_and_Recognition_.shtml
    1656 /n/2024/07/06/Larissa_Brown_Shapiro_Mozilla_concerned_other_organizations_tak.shtml
    1540 /n/2024/07/10/Apple_s_Main_Competition_Isn_t_Microsoft_But_Low_Cost_Chromeboo.shtml
    1428 /n/2024/07/08/5_Days_Have_Passed_and_Microsoft_Still_Refuses_to_Say_How_Many_.shtml
    1079 /n/2024/07/04/Whistleblowers_from_Open_Labs_Hackerspace_Albania_in_GNOME_Wiki.shtml

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