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Issue 288 (May 2022) - Essential Pi Projects

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Become a master maker with our essential Pi projects! We take you from the basics of installing the OS and getting started with lighting LEDS, to the heights of analogue controls and tracking aircraft with a custom receiver and web-based live maps.

PLUS: discover nnn the awesome terminal file manager, emulate the Acorn Archimedes, edit photos with the G’MIC plugin, process satellite images, build a web archive server, start coding with Rust and loads more!

 Features

Essentail Pi Projects

(Jonni Bidwell)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Finding equi-Libre-um

You might think LibreOffice is popular enough to not need assistance from the open source community. Time to think again, discovers Jonni Bidwell (Jonni Bidwell)
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Truly, deeply, randomly

(Mike Bedford)
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Answers

Backing up Thunderbird files, GRUB and hardware boot issues, capturing error logs, buying a new system, trying to get people to shutdown systems and how to use pipes. (Neil Bothwick)
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 Coverdisc

Hotpicks

Falkon, Zapzap, Scribus, Detox, Notepad Next, Whoogle Search, Qxkb5, Freeciv, Gbajs2, Rembg and Lector. (Alexander Tolstoy)
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 Tutorials

Terminal - nnn

(Shashank Sharma)
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G'MIC Gimp filter

(Nick Peers)
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Emulation - Acorn Archimedes

(Les Pounder)
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Home Automation

Matt Holder investigates Home Assistant’s Automations and Notifications to make our homes as “smart” as they can be. (Matt Holder)
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Satellite image processing

(Mike Bedford)
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LXF server - ArchiveBox

(David Rutland)
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Send sense data to Twitter

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Daily Pi 400 desktop use

(Michael Reed)
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 Reviews

Bluehost

(Mike Williams)
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Valve Steam Deck

(Linux Format)
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OpenMandriva Lx 4.3

(Mayank Sharma)
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Absolute Linux 15

(Mayank Sharma)
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Slax 11.2

(Mayank Sharma)
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MassOS 2022.03

(Mayank Sharma)
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Dead Cells

(Linux Format)
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MX Linux Pi beta

(Les Pounder)
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Social video websites

Facebook Watch, YouTube, Vimeo, Odysee, DTube (Michael Reed)
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 More

News: News

Google bigs up the Linux security dev work, a new boot system for Arm systems, ditching Russian CPUs, Dirty Pipe exploit, Ubuntu on Framework and Pipewire a year on. (Matt Hanson)
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News: Pi news

Introduced by Tom’s Hardware’s Les Pounder. The Raspberry Pi makes it into space, again. The Raspberry Pi goes underwater, again and happens to do some retro computing, again! (Les Pounder)
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News: Kernel news

(Jon Masters)
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