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Escape Google Photos and create your own photo storage, backup and viewing server to better enjoy your photographs anywhere! Take back control of your photos as we explore all the open source options to secure your photos on a NextCloud server, backup with Raspberry Pi storage and using Lychee to organise them all.
PLUS: Speed up your Systemd boot, manage systems with Cockpit, model with Blender, emulate the Commodore PET, code Forth with the Jupiter Ace, code a run ‘n’ gun shooter, get into Gentoo, discover OpenStreetMaps and loads more!
Features
Escape Google Photos
Google’s free photo storage is a thing of the past. Thankfully, Jonni Bidwell has some free software to
get your albums in order. (Jonni Bidwell) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
OpenStreetMaps
Google Maps isn’t the only mapping tool on the block. One alternative, OpenStreetMaps, employs an open crowd-sourcing approach, as Mike Bedford reveals. (Mike Bedford) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Get into Gentoo
Famed as the fastest penguin on the planet, Mats Tage explains how you to can use it to run the fastest of Tux boxes. (Mats Tage Axelsson) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Answers
Your Linux problems fixed! Including solving systemd-resolved, ‘invisible’ hard drives, scheduled shutdowns, program updates and backing up a backup file. (Neil Bothwick) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Audacity, Clapper, Haguichi, Media Downloader, Panon, Radiotray-NG, Dragit, Balla, CommandLineHeroes, Pixelorama
and Trash-cli. (Alexander Tolstoy) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
You gotta fight. For your right. To repair! Plus Google trumps Oracle in the US courts, Ubuntu on Windows, COBOL for Linux is happening, Librem 5 smartphone update and Bluetooth gets a case of Rust!
(Matt Hanson) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
The Raspberry Pi 5 gets a Upton name-drop, a new Pico is in the works, a custom Adfruit Pico emerges and Seeed unveils useful Pico add-ons.
(Les Pounder) Available as a PDF to subscribers.