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    [solved] backing up the entire home-folder of my notebook: methods & procedures on command line: rsync, tar... etx:

    good evening dear friends, 🤩 btw: tomorrow i am one year in this great awesome forum ... 🤩 🎊 doing a backup of the entire home-folder of my notebook - rsync, tar, - which methods, means are the best? note: i want to archive is to copy just everything from my home directory to an external...
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    #GSoC Google Summer of Code ´25 ends :: ++ 1000 open-source organizations participated: very important and extremely valuable event.

    Summer ends on November 17th – here's a brief summary of this Summer of Code 🏖️☀️🌟 the global mentorship program that introduces students and aspiring developers to open-source software development... In just a few days, on November 17th, it will come to an end – the twenty-first edition since...
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    LibreOffice and Google Summer of Code 2025 — seven projects successful: Results Overview

    dear Community, 🤩 i guess that this great project - the GSoC is unterrated - therefore i want to share this with you. ;) .🤩 Every year, the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) connects students and mentors from around the world to strengthen open-source communities. For LibreOffice, this means...
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    Question a new project in the field of Crowdfunding "Open Printer" :: for all of us who are done with the printer manufacturers

    a new project in the field of Crowdfunding "Open Printer" :: for all of us who are done with the printer manufacturers good day dear Community :) a new project in the field of Crowdfunding Open Printer - very cool. so cool that i must (!) Share this with you.. - my friends🤩 open-printer...
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    migrating data: FF from one NB to another...

    good day dear experts, hello everyone on Anantech, :cool: i have a very old install of Ubuntu that runs FF 142.0.1. FireFox :: Mozilla FireFox Snap for Ubuntu canonical -002-1.0 now i have exported the dataset - i.e. the passwd: url username password httpRealm formActionOrigin...
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    Graphics and the work with color stops in a Gradient Color-Sheme

    hello dear all good day dear experts of the AnandTech-forum, 🤩 i am currently workin on some test-images - i want to learn more about color gradients. How to create them - how to create such - with a certain color sheme!? i want to replace this color-sheme with another one - that is good...
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    the update of the navigation-device :: how to?

    good day dear experts, good day dear tech-community :) currently i am tryin to update a TomTom navigation device, i need to get new maps n data. the tomtom-navi-device is about 10 years old now: well - i have heard that for the older devices, we have to connect the navigation...
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    Libreoffice is working on a new release: LibreOffice 25.8 is coming soon packed with lots of new features

    dear Community 🤩 just want to share this good news with you. Libreoffice is working on a new release: LibreOffice 25.8 is coming soon. vgl https://www.heise.de/news/LibreOffice-25-8-Ein-letztes-Mal-fuer-macOS-10-15-10513335.html more infos: https://www.libreoffice.org/ Releasenotes...
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    did you ever install FlameShot the screenshot-tool - did you install it on Linux!?

    Hello and good day, 🤩 did you ever install FlameShot the screenshot-tool - did you install it on Linux!? look forward to hear from you site - Hopefully j can have a closer look at more alternatives thanks for all your idea sharing yourts thedighubs ;)
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    are there any open-source alternatives to digital drawing apps out there for the use on Tablet?

    good day dear friends, are there any open-source alternatives to digital drawing apps out there: well i am looking forward to any recommendation in that field: btw: There aren't many open-source digital drawing apps for tablets. and i think its pretty hard to find some open source APPS...
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    Suggestions needed for Linux + Z390 mobo

    I'm looking for a Z390 mobo whose features are well supported in Linux. Like hardware monitoring software and drivers. Which of the big mobo companies are the most open-sourcey?
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    Helios4 Personal Cloud - Open Source NAS

    Hey guys, What do you think about this following NAS Do-It-Yourself project Using the same Marvell Armada 388 SoC than Synology DS416j and WD EX4100, but with more memory, highest CPU clock, much cheaper and on top of that completely Open Source.