Sorry to clickbait with that title… but it’s actually true. I can help you improve power use by 140x—for power off power consumption, at least.
By default, the Raspberry Pi 5 (like the Pi 4 before it) leaves the SoC powered up (just in a shutdown state) when you shut down the Pi.
Because of this, a Pi 5 will still sit there consuming 1.2-1.6W when completely shut down, even without anything plugged in except power.
Source: Reducing Raspberry Pi 5’s power consumption by 140x | Jeff Geerling
I’ve been getting annoyed with Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) for years now. It’s a fork of Debian, but manages to omit some of the most useful things. So I’ve decided to migrate all of my Pis to run pure Debian.
Source: Live Migrating from Raspberry Pi OS bullseye to Debian bookworm | The Changelog
This post details how to create a stratum-1 NTP Server using a Raspberry Pi utilizing GPS and PPS, and get time within 100 nanoseconds of real time, directly from the atomic clocks located in the GPS satellites above your head. The best part about this guide is that this will work with no internet. After initial setup, you could disconnect it from the internet and they would work. All of the other guides out there that I have found do not include the configuration necessary for this.
Source: GPS Raspberry Pi NTP Server (NetworkProfile.org)
A collection of open and indie Mac, iOS, and web apps that help promote the open web.
Source: Mac Open Web, by Brian Warren
This tutorial will explain how to manage packages using the APT command line tool on Ubuntu. The commands have been tested on Ubuntu versions 22.04 to 16.04
Source: How to Manage Packages with APT on Ubuntu (Howtoforge)
Whishper Open-source, local-first audio transcription and subtitling suite with a simple web UI.
Features
Open Source – Whishper is 100% Open Source software.
Self-Hosted – Thanks to open-source technologies, Whishper can run 100% offline. Your data never leaves your computer.
Transcribe – Transcribe any media to text. Thanks to faster-whisper, transcriptions are lightning fast.
Translate – Whishper allows you to translate your transcriptions to and from more than 60 languages thanks to Argos Translate and LibreTranslate.
Subtitles – Download the transcriptions in many formats (json, txt, vtt, srt).
Subtitle editor – Easily edit your subtitles right in the Web-UI.
Whishper is a web application that runs inside a Docker container. This means that you can install it on any machine that supports Docker.
Source: Whishper
Linux and Windows users can also do some of this – see the opening paragraphs of the linked article for details.
Source: OCR PDFs with Free Open Source Tools on a Mac with a Shell Script – Podfeet Podcasts
From CPU and RAM to disk size, VirtualBox allows you to tweak several configurations in a virtual machine even after creating it.
Source: Change Configuration of Existing VirtualBox Virtual Machines (It’s FOSS)
Become more efficient in the Linux terminal by mastering these super useful keyboard shortcuts.
Source: 21 Useful Linux Terminal Shortcuts Pro Users Love (It’s FOSS)
Get a clearer picture of the display your script is working with.
Source: How to Discover the Screen Resolution in Linux Scripts (How-To Geek)
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