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Issue 276 (June 2021) - Escape Google Photos

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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)
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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)
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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)
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Answers

Your Linux problems fixed! Including solving systemd-resolved, ‘invisible’ hard drives, scheduled shutdowns, program updates and backing up a backup file. (Neil Bothwick)
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Web browsers

Brave 1.22, Falkon 3.1, Opera 75, Slimjet 14, Vivaldi 3.7 (Shashank Sharma)
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 Coverdisc

DVD pages

Manjaro 21, Tails 4.17 (Jonni Bidwell)
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Hotpicks

Audacity, Clapper, Haguichi, Media Downloader, Panon, Radiotray-NG, Dragit, Balla, CommandLineHeroes, Pixelorama and Trash-cli. (Alexander Tolstoy)
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 Tutorials

Terminal: system boot speeds

(Shashank Sharma)
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Cockpit: Server admin in a browser

(Nick Peers)
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Render: Model objects in Blender

(Michael Reed)
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Emulation: Commodore PET

(Les Pounder)
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Jupiter Ace: Program in Forth

(Mike Bedford)
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OnlyOffice: protecting documents

(Kseniya)
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 Coding Academy

Code a Gun'n'Run game

(Calvin Robinson)
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Graph metrics with Python

(Mihalis Tsoukalos)
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 Reviews

Samsung 980 1TB SSD

(Linux Format)
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Radeon RX 6700 XT

(Linux Format)
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Kodachi 8.3

(Mayank Sharma)
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Shells.com

(Mayank Sharma)
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AlmaLinux OS 8.3

(Mayank Sharma)
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Desperados 3

(Linux Format)
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Ink Impression

(Les Pounder)
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Web browsers

Brave 1.22, Falkon 3.1, Opera 75, Slimjet 14, Vivaldi 3.7 (Shashank Sharma)
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 More

News: News

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)
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News: Kernel Watch

(Jon Masters)
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News: Pi news

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)
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