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• Joshuto — Ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust
• tenere — 🤖 TUI interface for LLMs written in Rust
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• kpxhs — Interactive Keepass database TUI viewer
• keepass-mode — Emacs mode to open KeePass DB
• gocheat — A beautiful customizable TUI Cheatsheet for keybindings,hotkeys and more in the terminal
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• textual-web — Run TUIs and terminals in your browser
• todoist: Todoist CLI Client. — Todoist is a cool TODO list web application. This program will let you use the Todoist in CLI.
• gomuks/gomuks: A TUI Matrix client — A Matrix client written in Go using mautrix.
• orf/gping: Ping, but with a graph
• impala — 🛜 TUI for managing wifi on Linux
• cmus - C\* Music Player — cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
• systemctl-tui — A fast, simple TUI for interacting with systemd services and their logs.
• tdf — A tui-based PDF viewer
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• andcli — A 2FA TUI for your shell
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• russ — A TUI RSS reader with vim-like controls and a local-first, offline-first focus
• ytui-music — Youtube client in terminal for music (lightweight youtube client)
• wiki-tui — A simple and easy to use Wikipedia Text User Interface
• tuifeed — 📰 A terminal feed reader with a fancy ui
• yazi — 💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.
• vault-tasks — TUI Markdown Task Manager
• Don's TUI Challenge blog — #TUIChallenge
• Shyfox's TUI Challenge results
• Himalaya — CLI to manage emails, based on email-lib
• jellyfin-tui — Jellyfin music streaming client for the terminal.
• Alacritty — A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
• apple/containerization — Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS. Containerization is written in Swift and uses Virtualization.framework on Apple silicon.
• Pick: somo — A human-friendly alternative to netstat for socket and port monitoring on Linux.

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• GitHub - tramhao/termusic: Music Player TUI written in Rust
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• aerc - A pretty good email client — aerc is an email client that runs in your terminal. It's highly efficient and extensible, perfect for the discerning hacker.
• aerc - A pretty good email client that runs in your terminal - GitHub
• ulyssa/iamb: A Matrix client for Vim addicts — a Matrix client for the terminal that uses Vim keybindings
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• sxyazi/yazi: 💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O. — Yazi (means "duck") is a terminal file manager written in Rust, based on non-blocking async I/O. It aims to provide an efficient, user-friendly, and customizable file management experience.
• meli MUA — meli is a configurable and extensible e-mail client with sane defaults.
• The Mutt E-Mail Client — "All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less." -circa 1995
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• gomuks — A Matrix client written in Go
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• carbonyl — Chromium running inside your terminal
• After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine is No More
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• bhh32's tui_player: A video player for the terminal
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• tempy — A simple, visually pleasing weather report in your terminal.
• arabcoders/ytptube: A WebUI for yt-dlp with concurrent downloads support, presets and scheduled tasks and many more. — YTPTube is a web-based GUI for yt-dlp, designed to make downloading videos from YouTube and other video platforms easier and more user-friendly. It supports downloading playlists, channels, and live streams, and includes features like scheduling downloads, sending notifications, and a built-in video player.

The one where we don't talk about Ubuntu 22.04 at all.

Open a channel to our Lightning Node: 037d284d2d7e6cec7623adbe600450a73b42fb90800989f05a862464b05408df39

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• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Dark Style Changes — Now in GNOME 42, it is officially supported, expanding on a concept from elementary OS 6 7. A toggle switch in the new Appearance panel in the core Settings app enables and disables the feature. A lot of work was done in GNOME apps to fix visual dark style bugs. A new transition effect was added (also inspired by elementary) to more elegantly crossfade when the style is switched.
• Dark Style Preference · Wiki · GNOME / Initiatives · GitLab
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Eyes More Industrial Usage By Offering Up Real-Time Kernel Beta — Currently in beta with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is the linux-realtime kernel
• unsnap: Quickly migrate from using snap packages to flatpaks
• deb-get — apt-get functionality for .debs published in 3rd party repositories or via direct download
• Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS Release Notes — Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS is the culmination of 2 years of continual improvement 😅 to Ubuntu and MATE Desktop. As is tradition, the LTS development cycle has a keen focus on eliminating paper 🧻 cuts 🔪
• Linux Downtime – Episode 45 — Joe and Adam are joined by Martin Wimpress to talk about what goes into running a distro like Ubuntu Mate.
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Disables 3D Acceleration For Guest VMs With GNOME Boxes / Virt-Manager — In addition to Ubuntu 22.04 switching back NVIDIA to using X11 by default rather than Wayland as a launch-day change, separately, there was another rather notable last minute change affecting 3D support for virtual machines...
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Changes Default For NVIDIA Driver Back To Using X.Org Rather Than Wayland - Phoronix
• docker snap unconditionally uses xtables — Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is defaulting to using the GNOME X.Org session rather than Wayland when running the proprietary NVIDIA driver.
• https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/
• GNU’s advanced distro and transactional package manager
• 10 years of stories behind Guix
• clj-nix: Nix helpers for Clojure projects
• poetry2nix: Convert poetry projects to nix automagically
• home-manager: Manage a user environment using Nix
• Home Manager - NixOS Wiki
• Tutorial: Getting started with Home Manager for Nix
• hercules-ci/arion: Run docker-compose with help from Nix/NixOS
• NixOS Wiki - Raspberry Pi 4
• NixOS aarm64 SD image
• nixery.dev
• NixOS Challenge - Jupiter Broadcasting GitHub
• Should we use NixOS as our Cloud and Local Server OS? | StrawPoll.com
• nixpkgs/make-snap.nix at master
• Picture of Welder
• GitHub - quickemu-project/quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines.
• Miniflux - Minimalist and Opinionated Feed Reader
• wallabag
• Breez wallet - Lightning Fast Bitcoin Payments
• breez/breezmobile: Lightning Network mobile client
• 037d284d2d7e6cec7623 - Amboss Space
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• Wimpy’s World

Plus our thoughts on the new KWin fork, if Bleachbit is safe, and a quick Fedora update.

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• Logging Into Linux With A 1930s Teletype
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• BleachBit 4.0.0
• Fedora 32 Final is NO-GO
• Brunch with Brent: Sri Ramkrishna
• Linux Spotlight EP44 - Drew DeVore of Jupiter Broadcasting
• Linux Spotlight EP43 - An Interview with Tyler Brown longtime JB fan
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• Ubuntu 20.04 Flavours Hit Beta, But What’s New?
• Gnome 3.34 vs Gnome 3.36 Visual Comparison
• The ‘GameMode’ performance tool from Feral Interactive makes it into Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 20.04 and WSL 1 - WSL2 - Ubuntu Community Hub
• Ubuntu Server 20.04 CPU Security Mitigation Performance Impact
• Kernel 5.4: VirtIO-FS
• Grub boot menu bug
• Folder under applications menu doesn’t show text below last line of icons.
• Daniel Kerkow on Twitter: Migrating to a later LTS should be easily possible, so I would maybe stick to 18.04 for now if in doubt."
• pacat: Play back or record raw or encoded audio streams on a PulseAudio sound server
• 3mux: Imagine tmux with a smaller learning curve, i3-like keybindings, and more sane defaults.

Plus the best way to share your terminal yet, and more.

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• srslol on Twitter: “@ChrisLAS --> Hey dude. Quick question. What is the device you’re using as external GPU for your laptop. Is it called a breakaway box? Can you add any GPU and PCIe you want through Type C USB?”
• Mantiz Venus MZ-02 External Graphic Enclosure eGPU
• Using the Razer Core eGPU with Fedora Linux — I set launch options to DRI_PRIME=1 %command% to run the game on the eGPU
• Supplying the Demand – Purism
• First Librem 5 Smartphones are Shipping – Purism
• Jay Little - Software Obsessionist - The Sad Saga of Purism and the Librem 5 : Part 1
• Purism’s Librem 5 phone starts shipping—a fully open GNU/Linux phone | Ars Technica
• Why Librem 5 will never succeed (in my opinion)
• Purism Librem 5 Linux phone delayed a bit due to CPU thermal problems - SlashGear
• An electrical engineers opinion on the Librem 5. : Purism
• Ubucon Europe - YouTube
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• Fedora 31 ARM options
• Fedora 31 vs Ubuntu 19.10 Stock
• How to check Linux I/O scheduler » Linux Ask! | Linux Ask!
• Bug 745032 – Mouse Tracking ‘Laggy’ on Wayland, and mouse movements cause frame drops in other OpenGL applications
• Multi-monitor rendering in Wayland sessions spends some random fixed percentage of its time (average 50%) blocked, sleeping and unable to render the screen or respond to the user54
• Boosting the Real Time Performance of Gnome Shell 3.34 in Ubuntu 19.10
• Toolbox :: Fedora Docs Site
• tmate • Instant terminal sharing
• New Linux Foundation Effort to Focus on Data Confidence Fabrics to Scale Digital Transformation Initiatives - The Linux Foundation