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Emoji Selector is the Kubuntu default emoji selector application. Its purpose is to view a wide range of UTF characters to insert them into a document or a chat in the form of symbols, including country flags, foods, clothes, buildings, vehicles, etc. Just like what we explained in the previous episode, Elisa Music Player, we will also explain Emoji Selector in detail with screenshots and further references. We hope this helps every Kubuntu user. Now let's start reading!
Orange Pi closes the year by unveiling new details about the Orange Pi AI Station, a compact board-level edge computing platform built around the Ascend 310 series processor. The system targets high-density inference workloads with large memory options, NVMe storage support, and extensive I/O in a small footprint.
Orange Pi has unveiled the Orange Pi 4 Pro, a compact single-board computer designed for high-performance edge applications. It integrates an octa-core Allwinner A733 processor, a 3 TOPS NPU, and supports up to 16 GB of LPDDR5 memory, combining AI acceleration with a wide range of expansion interfaces.
The SL1680 OPTIMA SoM integrates a quad-core Arm Cortex-A73 processor running at up to 2.1 GHz, paired with a Neural Processing Unit delivering 7.9+ TOPS for on-device inference.
The December 14, 2025 release of DietPi v9.20 introduces a new remote desktop server option, continued improvements for popular Arm-based single-board computers, and a broad set of fixes across DietPi tools and software packages. The update focuses on usability, stability, and hardware compatibility, particularly around USB, storage, and backup handling.
Processor options include Core Ultra 5 and Core Ultra 7 SKUs from both Meteor Lake-U and Arrow Lake-U families, with hybrid P-core and E-core configurations and integrated Intel graphics. Memory support consists of two DDR5 SO-DIMM slots operating at up to 5600 MHz or 6400 MHz depending on the processor, with a maximum capacity of 96 GB.
Highlights of the Archinstall 3.0.15 release include support for rEFInd boot manager, CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) installation support, stable support for the COSMIC desktop environment, a timer to post install screen, and support for power-profiles-daemon/tuned as a power management daemon.
Coming two months after Shotcut 25.10, the Shotcut 25.12 release introduces support for the NVIDIA NVENC encoder to the screen recording feature on Linux/X11 systems, new Chrome and Neon Flux HTML presets, and support for mov_text and SSA in the subtitle extraction (Properties > Extract Subtitles) feature.
Highlights of the GNU Wget 2.2.1 release include a new --show-progress argument to improve backwards compatibility to wget, the ability to prevent file truncation with the --no-clobber argument, and support for using the local system timestamp when requested via the --no-use-server-timestamps argument.
In September 2025, the Internet Society organized its first-ever Africa Cybersecurity (Encryption) Advocacy Workshop in Windhoek, Namibia, held alongside the Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica), a leading regional convening on digital rights and governance that brings policymakers, advocates, technologists, and journalists together to shape an open, secure Internet.
End-of-year credit to analognowhere for some really neat comic strips, including the latest one on the left
We sometimes use cartoons or comics from analognowhere. The site takes an alternative (mostly negative) approach to the status quo of technology. It cleverly mixes/blends that in with dark humour, entertainment, and cryptic references.
We'd like to thank its maker/s. █