Hands-On: Manjaro Linux on the Raspberry Pi 4

In my previous post, I walked through Installing Ubuntu Linux 20.10 on a Raspberry Pi 4. That went pretty well, with both the standard Gnome desktop and the MATE desktop. This time, because I am not much of an Ubuntu fan, I want to try a Linux distribution, which I prefer and have been using on my various laptop and desktop systems: Manjaro. Manjaro has had a Raspberry Pi distribution for quite a long time now – I first tried Manjaro-ARM on a Raspberry Pi 2 in early 2016. There was a bit of a scare when it looked like the Manjaro-ARM project would shut down in early 2017, but fortunately the project was saved by some dedicated community members.

Today in Techrights

• 'Social Dialogue' at the EPO Broke Down, Team Campinos is Totally Delusional
• The EPO's 2020 Impaired Vision/ViCo: Imposing Illegal Practices on EPO Stakeholders, Not Only on EPO Staff
• Censored EPO Publication: Evidence That the Censorship of EPO Staff Representation (Central Staff Committee) Started Months After António Campinos Started His Term
• Guest Post: Helping Roy Delete Debian at Work and Home
• IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 02, 2020
• Links 2/12/2020: Multi-Touch Gestures in elementaryOS, DXVK 1.7.3
• Links 2/12/2020: ZaReason RIP, Rancher Now SUSE-Owned, OSI Board Director Works for/on Azure
• [Meme] Espionage With Spyware: Slack's Data Sold to Company That Helps ICE Kidnap Children and Forcibly Sterilise Women
• IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 01, 2020
• The World is Ill
• Censored EPO Publication: Staff Representatives Cannot Comment on the Survey Conducted by the Office's Management
• Censorship at the EPO is Counterproductive, Rendering the Censored Publications More Seductive and Censored People More Disgruntled
• EPO Management Has No Plans Other Than Granting Loads of Invalid Patents (e.g. Software Patents) to Pocket Fees and Then Grift/Gamble With the Money
• Links 1/12/2020: KDE Plasma 5.20.4, GNU Octave 6.1, OpenZFS 2.0, and PinePhone KDE Community Edition

Android Leftovers

• 10 Best File Managers for Android

• Compact Jetson Xavier NX/ Nano open hardware baseboard supports Android

• Google promptly fixes Android app input bug in Chrome OS 87

• Google Maps is adding Android users' photos to Street View

• Android Messenger App Still Leaking Photos, Videos

• Download: Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro is getting its Android 11 update with MIUI 12

• Some Sony Xperia users will get Android 11 this month, but millions face a longer wait

• Verizon’s Galaxy S20 models are the first to get Android 11 and One UI 3.0

• Apktool v2.5.0 adds better support for decoding apps built for Android 11

• Android Enterprise Essentials announced by Google, launch January 2021

• Vivaldi Browser for Android adds an option to clear browsing data on exit

• How To Use Kodi with Android

• How to better separate your work and personal life on Android

64-bit RISC-V core claims 10x better CoreMarks/Watt compared to other 3-5GHz CPUs

Micro Magic unveiled an up to 64-bit RISC-V core showing a groundbreaking 110,000 CoreMarks/Watt, with a 3GHz chip consuming less than 70mW. The company claims 10 times better CoreMarks/Watt compared to other processors in the 3-5GHz range. Considering the spectacular promise and sudden demise of AI tech firm Magic AI, we should perhaps be wary of hyped up companies with Magic in their name. Yet, the astonishing claims about an incredibly efficient RISC-V core coming out of Sunnyvale, Calif. based EDA firm Micro Magic in recent weeks appear to be for real.