A person with way too many hobbies, but I still continue to learn new things.
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A person with way too many hobbies, but I still continue to learn new things.
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Autocracy is ‘evil,’ Taiwan president says after China threatens death for separatism ( www.nbcnews.com )
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Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them ( www.xda-developers.com )
Microsoft removes guide on converting Microsoft accounts to Local, pushing for Microsoft sign-ins....
Walking three times a week ‘nearly halves’ recurrence of low back pain ( www.thelancet.com )
Walking three times a week to ease back pain almost halves the risk of its recurrence, according to the first study of its kind....
Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” ( arstechnica.com )
Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges ( futurism.com )
A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels ( www.npr.org )
Why Americans aren’t buying more EVs ( arstechnica.com )
How Many Holes Does the Universe Have? ( www.scientificamerican.com )
Season 1 (Series 14) Episode 5: "Dot and Bubble" ( lemmy.world )
Very cool social commentary, I think better than the Orville episode with the Up and Downvote society....
Questions about migrating a ZFS RAID
I've recently been looking at options to upgrade (completely replace) my current NAS, as it's currently more than a little bit jank and frankly kinda garbage. I have a few questions about that and about migrating my current TrueNAS scale installation or at least it's settings over....
The Verge shows how Google search is useless ( www.theverge.com )
The Verge published this spam article about the "best printers of 2024" to demonstrate how terrible Google's search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search "best printer" on Google....
Can a damaged hard drive slow down a computer?
My mother's laptop has been running as fast as a turtle on a snail going uphill for a long time now. Everything has been done to it, including formatting it and installing another, less cumbersome OS, but nothing improves. I have an HHD available, I have done some tests and it does work....
CAD Software Suggestion
I am currently on win10 but have been toying with mint and liking it. I intend on fully switching over soon. I have also been toying with the idea of some simple 3D modeling, like making custom parts for projects around my house. Maybe using a CAD software to generate stls for a 3D print or using it to spec out parts for a...
Has anyone here ever tried Linux From Scratch?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15150206...
George Carlin Estate Settles Lawsuit Over AI-Generated Comedy Special ( variety.com )
George Carlin‘s estate has settled a lawsuit over an AI-generated imitation of the late comedian, with the creators agreeing to remove it from their YouTube channel and podcast feed....
Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses ( www.techspot.com )
Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses::undefined
Are we living in a baby universe that looks like a black hole to outsiders? ( lemmy.sdf.org )
Our Universe appears to be expanding and cooling, having originated some 13.8 billion years ago in a hot Big Bang. However, it's plausible that what we see from inside our Universe is simply the result of being inside a black hole that formed from some parent Universe. If the black holes that form in our cosmos give birth to...
Ok, how do I start self-hosting?
I've been following this community for some time in order to learn about self-hosting and, while I have learnt about a bunch of cool web services to host, I'm still lost on where/how to start. Does anyone have, like, a very beginner guide that is not just "install this distro and click these buttons"? I have an old laptop that...