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RK3566 Credit Card-Sized SBC with M.2 Expansion and 4K Video Support

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Adafruit Metro RP2350 is Available for $24.95 with Arduino Form Factor Compatibility

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ADLINK and LIPS Introduce 3D Perception DevKit for Autonomous Mobile Robots

ADLINK Technology and LIPS have introduced a perception solution for autonomous mobile robots. The LIPSAMR Perception DevKit integrates ADLINK’s DLAP-411-Orin platform with LIPSedge AE Active Stereo 3D cameras, providing enhanced 3D vision with a wider field of view and higher resolution than LiDAR. Built on NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor, it is designed for smart manufacturing and warehouse logistics applications.

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Mozilla Thunderbird 136 Released with New “Appearance” Panel in Settings

The biggest new feature of the Mozilla Thunderbird 136 release is a new “Appearance” panel in settings that lets you globally control message threading and sorting order. You’ll be able to define the default sorting and threading options for newly created folders from Unthreaded, Threaded (default), and Grouped by Sort.

Firefox 137 Enters Public Beta Testing with HEVC Playback Support on Linux

Firefox 137 looks like a small update that only introduces a couple of new features, namely support for HEVC playback on Linux systems and the ability to identify all links in PDF documents and turn them into hyperlinks.

KeePassXC 2.7.10 Open-Source Password Manager Brings Proton Pass Support

Highlights of KeePassXC 2.7.10 include the ability to import passwords from Proton Pass, but the feature only supports unencrypted JSON files and no Passkeys, support for KeePass2 TOTP configuration settings, and support for generating passphrases using a mix of uppercase and lowercase words, called “MIXED case”.

Rebooting After 248 Days

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 02, 2023

No, not Android. KDE.

Android System

THE day has come. Since January I've had my main laptop running non-stop (the second laptop since February) following the replacement of a faulty drive. Today X crashed fatally, for reasons unknown to me as I was away from keyboard (having breakfast). So I did another full system update (in tty2) and rebooted my computer for the first time since it was installed at the start of the year. This was literally the first reboot.

Following the update, which included the kernel update, KDE Plasma came back OK and some terminals aged nearly 250 days had to be brought back up. I actually saw the boot screen, for a change, and nearly forgot some passwords. The crash of X did not result in any data loss and Kate was able to restore the session (saving program state). A lot of memory leaks were belatedly overcome and I now have a snappier session. Far fewer redundant windows.

GNU/Linux is a very stable system. At one point I ran my main laptop for an entire year (until disk issues).

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