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First Look at Audacity 4: A Beautiful and Modern Revamp of the Audio Editor

I just remembered that I’ve been using Audacity on and off for about 20 years now. It’s always been the go-to program whenever I needed to trim an audio file or glue two tracks into one, or just extract a sample from an audio track. For me, Audacity was highly effective and reliable for this specific use case.

Shelly 2.3.3 Package Manager for Arch Linux Improves Flatpak/AppImage Support

Shelly is a modern reimagination and alternative to Arch Linux’s default package manager, supporting third-party app stores like AUR and Flathub, as well as AppImages. Shelly comes with both a graphical UI and a CLI version. CachyOS recently adopted Shelly as the default GUI package manager.

First Look at Antergos NeXT: A Modern Revival of Antergos Linux with KDE Plasma

Antergos Linux was created by developers Alexandre Filgueira, Gustau Castells, and Dustin Falgout back in 2012 as an unofficial Cinnamon flavor of the popular and flexible Arch Linux distribution. It was initially called Cinnarch (Cinnamon on Arch), but the developers renamed it Antergos in 2013.

GStreamer 1.28.4 Adds Support for FLAC Decoding and New Codec Profile Mappings

The GStreamer 1.28.4 release adds various new codec mime/profile mappings for WMV, VC1, AC3/EAC3/AC4, AAC, and H.265, as well as support decoding for FLAC files on Android, and support for SRTP, authentication, HTTP tunnelling, keep alive, stream selection, TLS validation, and latency configuration to the RTSP client plugin.

Systemd-Free Peppermint OS Devuan Is Now Based on Devuan 6 Excalibur

Based on the latest Devuan 6 “Excalibur” series, which is based on the Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series, Peppermint OS Devuan ships with three init systems, including SysVinit, OpenRC, and runit, and features the lightweight Xfce 4.20 desktop environment by default.

KDE Frameworks 6.27 Is Out to Improve KRunner, Breeze Icons, and More

The KDE Frameworks 6.27 release is here to improve the display of disk sizes shown in various places across the Plasma desktop to fully respect your preference regarding storage units, and switching between light and dark Global Themes to prevent various Plasma UI elements from changing their colors halfway.

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M5Stack LLM-8850 Kit delivers 24 TOPS AI acceleration in M.2 form factor

The LLM-8850 Kit is an M.2-based AI accelerator designed for edge AI, embedded inference, video analytics, and multimodal large-model workloads. It combines the LLM-8850 Card, a compact M.2 M-Key 2242 module based on the Axera AX8850 SoC, with a PiHat adapter board for the Raspberry Pi 5.

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No Reboots Since 3 Years Ago

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 02, 2026

It turns out that systemd has a command to check when the machine was rebooted. I was curious to check how many times I rebooted this laptop since purchasing it in February 2022. The answer is about half a dozen times in 2022 (many are two consecutive reboots to apply patches), thrice in 2023, then not at all since then (no reboots in 2024 or in 2025):

                                                  
roy@bubi:~$ journalctl --list-boots
-10 08a40563485640aead713360a0c8b5d0 Tue 2022-04-26 06:56:12 BST—Wed 2022-05-11 01:30:00 BST
 -9 6d0eeb0e6cb640f59775bc9352baa186 Wed 2022-05-11 01:30:38 BST—Wed 2022-05-11 01:58:47 BST
 -8 959d34136a1e4b11933dd89cc22a16d1 Wed 2022-05-11 02:00:10 BST—Tue 2022-08-16 20:19:51 BST
 -7 22ef834bc2c24fe7921a90087539916e Tue 2022-08-16 20:20:38 BST—Mon 2022-08-22 19:40:26 BST
 -6 0d0ffcef10604d3baf2f7e41f6e297ab Mon 2022-08-22 19:41:07 BST—Wed 2022-10-12 18:54:15 BST
 -5 7eaf82560ef548cb8d64a0a0a239df49 Wed 2022-10-12 18:55:01 BST—Fri 2022-11-04 01:12:37 GMT
 -4 448ad558f5e347e6bfd4d96dbf41957c Fri 2022-11-04 01:13:20 GMT—Fri 2022-11-04 07:06:07 GMT
 -3 2046e45764124395a77cdc93be45461c Fri 2022-11-04 07:08:49 GMT—Tue 2023-01-17 01:35:28 GMT
 -2 d1b1fb40b9cd475b81d324ea93b8a336 Tue 2023-01-17 01:36:12 GMT—Sun 2023-03-05 04:58:14 GMT
 -1 3e519b004af94330afe175dea25881d8 Sun 2023-03-05 04:59:03 GMT—Thu 2023-12-14 07:43:01 GMT
  0 ff28d7b443ed4393ad0c5155e5b5a9a1 Thu 2023-12-14 07:48:27 GMT—Fri 2026-01-02 08:18:49 GMT

Will I make it to 2027 without rebooting? Maybe 2028? █

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