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DietPi 10.6 Released with Support for Orange Pi 4 Pro and Orange Pi Zero 3W

Coming almost two months after DietPi 10.5, the DietPi 10.6 release introduces support for Orange Pi 4 Pro and Orange Pi Zero 3W single-board computers with Allwinner A733 SoCs, as well as support for ODROID-M1, ODROID-M1S, and ODROID-M2 single-board computers with Rockchip RK3568/RK3566/RK3588 SoCs.

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Advancing a Connected Future for Indigenous Communities

For Indigenous communities, meaningful connectivity can strengthen self-determination, expand access to education and economic opportunities, and help preserve languages, cultures, and knowledge. Yet many remain among the least connected communities in the world, often overlooked by traditional investment, infrastructure, and service models.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 15, 2026

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  1. EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part I - Getting the Word Out About What the 'Alicante Mafia' Did to Europe's Second-Largest Institution
    Can't everyone in the European media agree that letting cokeheads run Europe's second-largest institution is a terrible idea?

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  4. Maybe Obvious, But Merits Repeating: A Lot of "Demand" for Slop is Faked, Manufactured, Fabricated by Dark Patterns, Bundling, Media PR (Deception/Hype) Campaigns
    Over the past few years many products and services got rebranded as "AI"
  5. xAI and X (Twitter) Live on Borrowed Time, It'll Get a Lot Worse Fast
    Being associated with a child porn site formerly known as "Twitter" is odorous to say the least
  6. Microsoft is Lobbying Brussels via Opensource.org and OSI
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  7. Will Lockett's Newsletter: Microsoft became Microslop and Windows users are "flocking" to GNU/Linux "to escape the mess"
    "Users are fed up and jumping ship from Windows to Mac or Linux. In fact, it appears that Windows has lost 400 million users since 2022!"
  8. Photographic Collections
    There are going to be over 100,000 JPEG, PNG, and GIF files by the time we turn 20
  9. Norway Curbs Social Control Media as It Harms Norway's Society
    A decrease from 11% to just 1.87% is possible to reason about
  10. Accomplishments of Our Community
    Why I enjoy writing in Techrights
  11. Microsoft Invented a Slop CEO ("AI CEO") Because Real Interest in Slop is Waning, So It's Just Faking Its Prominence
    It's noise
  12. Google Promoting Slop, Not Journalism
    The truth of the matter is, Google is part of this problem and it doesn't seem to care
  13. Another IBM Company (Spawned by IBM) is Hiding the Scale of Layoffs, Just Like Red Hat and Kyndryl
    Why is the scale of the layoffs there shrouded in secrecy?
  14. Links 14/02/2026: Financial Woes in Hong Kong and "Hong Kong Journalists Face ‘Precarious’ Future After Jimmy Lai Jailed"
    Links for the day
  15. Gemini Links 14/02/2026: Fish Shell and Meta Slash-commands
    Links for the day
  16. Links 14/02/2026: "Bias and Toxicity in" Slop, Microsoft's Vista 11 System Update Breaks Systems Again
    Links for the day
  17. Links 14/02/2026: "Suppression of Free Speech" and "Climate Change Puts Winter Games on Thin Ice"
    Links for the day
  18. Richard Stallman in the United States - Part I - Huge Audience (Offline and Online), 'Cancel Culture' Attempted and Failed
    the comeback of Richard Stallman (RMS) in the United States
  19. GitHub Cannot Survive for Much Longer
    Microsoft is trying to just hide the debt
  20. Ed Zitron: Microsoft Is A Decaying Empire That Bet The Future On Making In Excess Of $500 Billion In New Revenue Within The Next 4 To 6 Years From AI — And It Hasn’t Made A Dime In Profit Yet
    Microsoft bets its future on a bunch of nothing
  21. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  22. IRC Proceedings: Friday, February 13, 2026
    IRC logs for Friday, February 13, 2026
  23. Gemini Links 14/02/2026: "Throwback VR Headset" and OFFLFIRSOCH 2026
    Links for the day
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