⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - RFK Jr. announces restrictions for transgender procedures: "So-called 'gender affirming care' has inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage on vulnerable young people. This is not medicine, it is malpractice."

# Handbrake Video Encoder

Handbrake is the goto open-source program for ripping DVDs and re-encoding videos in Linux.

Some of the things you can do with Handbrake:

- Rip a DVD disc to a single movie file.

- Re-Encode videos to other formats

(such as encoding them into h264 format so they will be compatible with more platforms, or into h265/HVEC format for reduced file size)

- Resize video

- Crop video (get rid of black edges or watermarks)

### Great American Family

Non-Woke Christmas Movies

Hallmark started putting woke Marxist LGBT queer debauchery in their movies a few years back, ruining their Christmas movie tradition.

When Hallmark announced they were going to add filth to their movies, the "Queen of Hallmark Christmas," Candace Cameron Bure, announced her move to Hallmark's competition, Great American Family, which Hallmark sometimes gets their movies from.

Great American Family is now producing a lineup of Christmas movies every year, just like Hallmark, but without the homo debauchery. It is a great alternative.

The app for watching Great American movies is called "PureFlix". They offer a 7/day free trial of you want to try them out.

Karl Marx said "crude" communism is the abolishment of private property.

And what is one the definitions of private?

Private means the right to exclude. Privacy is the right to exclude.

This is why Marxists and the Democrat commies push inclusion so hard. They want to be included in the fruits of your labor. They want to share in the glory you earned for yourself, without actually earning any glory for themselves.

### Solaar - A Programmer for Logitech Receivers

Logitech does not offer any software for connecting or managing their devices in Linux.

While the Linux kernel now does a great job of recognizing and connecting to Logitech receivers, there is no native support in Linux distros for switching your mouse, or your keyboard, to a different Logitech receiver.

Solaar is an open source project that has been around for a long time. It let's you connect your Logitech mouse or keyboard to any receiver, which is handy if you have a device or receiver go bad.

Note: The latest version of Solaar appears to require root privileges.

Solaar is available in the distro repositories, so it should be easy to install.

On Debian based distros you type:

sudo apt install solaar

This is the Solaar GitHub page:

### Cosmic's 1st Alpha Release is Here

>The Cosmic desktop environment is a new DE brought to us by System76

System76's long awaited Cosmic desktop environment is finally here in it's first Alpha release.