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(Updated) T-Deck Plus: An ESP32 Handheld Device with GPS and LoRa Support

At the core of the T-Deck Plus is the ESP32-S3FN16R8, a dual-core LX7 microprocessor that supports 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5 LE connectivity. The device is equipped with 16MB of flash memory and 8MB of PSRAM. Additionally, the T-Deck Plus includes a Micro SD card slot, allowing for further expandable storage.

AAEON Introduces the UP Xtreme i14 Edge, Its First Meteor Lake-Powered Mini PC

AAEON has unveiled the UP Xtreme i14 Edge, a compact fanless Mini PC powered by Intel Core Ultra processors, Intel Arc graphics, and up to 64GB of LPDDR5 memory. Designed for tasks such as computer vision and AI-driven security, it offers significant improvements in memory, graphics, and display capabilities compared to its predecessor.

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Global Encryption Day Panel Highlights Encryption’s Role in Children’s Online Safety

In recent years, various organizations and policymakers around the world have argued that encryption harms children by creating a barrier for law enforcement agencies that seek to identify the distribution of child abuse material.

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Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia” Beta Is Now Available for Download with Cinnamon 6.4

Linux Mint 22.1 is codenamed “Xia” and it’s planned for release near the Christmas 2024 holidays. The beta version is here to give us an early glimpse at the new features and improvements baked by the Linux Mint team into their popular Ubuntu-based distribution.

OpenMandriva Lx 24.12 Released with COSMIC Desktop Spin, Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS

Powered by Linux kernel 6.12 LTS (built with Clang), OpenMandriva Lx 24.12 is here four and a half months after OpenMandriva Lx 24.07 to switch to the latest KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment by default, namely KDE Plasma 6.2.4, which is accompanied by the KDE Gear 24.08.3 and KDE Frameworks 6.8 software suites.

QEMU 9.2 Brings AWS Nitro Enclave Emulation, Many RISC-V Improvements

Coming three months after QEMU 9.1, the QEMU 9.2 release is here to introduce a new “nitro-enclave” machine type for emulating an AWS Nitro Enclave environment and boot from an EIF (Enclave Image Format) file, and to implement a single entry floating-point exception queue for SPARC v7/v8 architectures.

GNOME 46.7 Improves Accessibility of Quick Settings’ Keyboard Backlight Toggle

GNOME 46.7 is here one and a half months after GNOME 46.6 to improve the accessibility of the keyboard backlight toggle in Quick Settings, default to GPUs with built-in panels connected as the primary GPU, and default to high thread instead of real-time priority for the Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) thread.

Raspberry Pi 500 Computer Launches with the Official Raspberry Pi Monitor

The Raspberry Pi 500 is the successor of the Raspberry Pi 400 model released four years ago, in November 2020 (yes, time does fly fast), which was based on the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B SBC with 4 GB RAM. The new model is based on the latest Raspberry Pi 5 SBC with 8GB RAM.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 29, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Deny the Shopping Holiday, Celebrate the Real Holiday
    Buy Nothing Day
  2. The Linux Foundation (Fronting for Microsoft and Bill Gates, Not Linux) Makes Cyberspace Less Secure
    Security is not the goal
  3. [Meme] The Most Important Things When Committing Crimes
    pronouns

    New

  4. CNX Software Selling Out to Microsoft For Deny Friday
    Hardly the first time they do this
  5. Links 28/11/2024: F.T.C. Launches Antitrust Investigation Into Microsoft, Bluesky Concerns
    Links for the day
  6. Gemini Links 28/11/2024: Fighting Evil and Games With “Content”
    Links for the day
  7. Microsoft Canonical: Proprietary Spyware in 'Community' Clothing
    Some years ago Canonical decided to restore the mere appearance of being run like a democracy or a community
  8. Stories About Microsoft and "Hey Hi" (LLMs Actually) 'Written' by Microsoft "Hey Hi" Chatbots With 'Linux' Thrown in for SEO Purposes
    self-promotional Microsoft nonsense
  9. Links 28/11/2024: Pakistan Turmoil, TuxCare Changes, and More 'Open'AI Problems
    Links for the day
  10. Links 28/11/2024: Privacy, DNS, and Python
    Links for the day
  11. [Meme] When Social Control Media is Over
    Any deathbed regrets?
  12. Death of Human Interaction
    How much are future generations being "damaged" by premature introduction of skinnerboxes and, perhaps more importantly, is there any "safe" age?
  13. Dr. Andy Farnell: "Electronic Voting" is a Solution to a Problem That Doesn't Exist
    The arguments are similar to ones that we've made for years
  14. The EPO's General Consultative Committee (GCC) Meeting Last Month Sought to Remove Genders (But It's Nearly Impossible in French and German)
    there are so many major problems at the EPO; this one seems like a minor distraction and perhaps one that suits corrupt management (misdirection of anger)
  15. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  16. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, November 27, 2024
    IRC logs for Wednesday, November 27, 2024
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-11-22 to 2024-11-28
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    1681 /n/2024/11/24/ESET_Finds_Rootkits_Does_Not_Explain_How_They_Get_Installed_Med.shtml
    1658 /n/2024/11/27/There_Are_More_Devuan_Based_Distros_of_GNU_Linux_Each_Year.shtml
    793 /n/2024/11/25/BetaNews_is_Run_and_Written_by_Bots_That_Make_Clickbait.shtml
    577 /n/2024/11/22/EPO_Education_Workers_Resort_to_Legal_Actions_Many_Cases_Agains.shtml
    572 /n/2024/11/22/Microsofters_Try_to_Defund_the_Free_Software_Foundation_by_Atta.shtml
    564 /n/2024/11/24/Google_Can_Kill_Mozilla_Any_Time_It_Wants.shtml
    553 /n/2024/11/24/Links_24_11_2024_More_IMF_Bailouts_and_Net_Client_Freedom.shtml
    542 /n/2024/11/24/apple_com_Traffic_Down_Over_7_Says_One_Spyware_Firm_Apple_s_Lia.shtml
    510 /n/2024/11/24/Techrights_Statement_on_Code_of_Censorship_CoC_and_Kent_Overstr.shtml

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