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Sep 2020
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27: Picture Perfect

JUPITER BROADCASTING
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Some big news for Jupiter Broadcasting and a picture perfect app-pick with Lychee. Chris politely suggests Alex reconsider his Syncthing doubts.

Plus some power monitoring updates, and more from the community.

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