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What would you like for everyone to know about the type of job you have?

Well since I’ve been mostly in customer service jobs I’d like for people to know that the reps don’t make the rules or decisions. When there is something about a store or service that’s undesirable such as prices then it’s something to bring up to upper management or just let them lose you as a customer. But you can be...

Didnt know where to put this, but I made a song! (open.spotify.com)

Next week's GOP convention to go on as planned in Milwaukee, with Trump in attendance (alaskabeacon.com)

Qualcomm is suing Transsion, the largest smartphone maker that doesn't use Snapdragon (9to5google.com)

Never give up (lemmy.world)

What the... (youtube.com)

5 people escape hot, acidic pond after SUV drove into inactive geyser in Yellowstone National Park (apnews.com)

Five people were able to escape a hot, acidic pond in Yellowstone National Park after the sport utility vehicle they were riding in went off the road and into an inactive geyser, park officials said Friday....

Extracting frames from a video with ffmpeg very slow if not using jpeg

I’m trying to extract the frames of a video as individual images but it’s really slow, except when I’m using jpeg. The obvious issue with jpegs is the data loss from the compression, I want the images to be lossless. Extracting them as jpegs manages about 50-70 fps but as pngs it’s only 4 fps and it seems to continue...

Review: The 2024 Motorola Razr+ will not give up its throne (9to5google.com)

One year after the revitalization of Motorola’s most iconic phone, the company has released the Razr+ – the 2024 edition. This flip-style foldable knocks it out of the park in almost every aspect while maintaining one of the best foldable price points in 2024.

Lawyers for ‘Rust’ armourer move to get case dismissed after Baldwin trial collapses (www.independent.co.uk)

Ghost is bad at hide and seek. (lemmy.world)

Kagame seeks fourth term as Rwandan president (www.bbc.com)

A 23-minute Signalis shitpost that somehow also eplains the complex plot of the game (Mirabeau) (www.youtube.com)

The mud rains of the 19th century (lemmy.world)

What will happen to all the USA TikTok creators once the ban on TikTok takes effect?

18-year-old charged with violating mask law: ‘I didn’t even know it was a law. Nobody knew it was a law’. (www.wdbj7.com)

DemoLinux 1.1 for Mandrake 6.1, 1999 (fedia.io)

What would you do if a scraggly homeless person knocked on your door, and all he asked was for a sandwich, a bottle of water, a bath, and perhaps a beard trim?

I’ve actually skipped work just to help a homeless guy get his beard trimmed. Bought him pizza too. Kinda hard to get anywhere in life when you look like shit....

After Trump Shooting, America Reverts to Blaming the Other Side (www.politico.com)

Even before the most basic details of the shooting at Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania rally yesterday had emerged, the ceaseless, grating background noise of American political life had cranked itself up once again....

Biden introduces Zelenskiy as ‘President Putin’ at Nato summit (www.theguardian.com)

Did he do it for the memes?

Advice on whether to get a contracted job or not

Basically, I currently work in a digital cinema company as a helpdesk for them and the job pays ok but is pretty stable as my colleagues have all been there for years. I have an interview soon for a FAANG company to be on their IT Helpdesk. It’s a job that will give me a lot of good experience, but it is a 6 month contract...