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What athletes have gone far despite having the 'wrong' body type for their sport?

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Meme Monday is now live!

Lets try our first Meme Monday and see how it goes!...

New Computer - pasting html export into word

I just bought a new laptop and installed all my usual programs on it including office 2013.Its a Windows 11 laptop....

Now that the industry has stabilized around 70$/€, how has your monthly spending on video games changed?

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What are some games you played years ago, which you've recently enjoyed playing again?

Some communities that might be relevant: !patientgamers (/c/patientgamers)...

"You have an adblocker installed" workaround

I went to thetvdb.com site yesterday and much to my surprise, they won’t let me in unless I subscribe or turn off my adblocker. Is there any workaround for this?

The word movie is probably only about 100 years old, yet incredibly ingrained into our culture.

Am I the only one who thinks Discord is awful as a social media platform?

It’s great for communicating among individuals and in group chats, but I think it ultimately fails as a platform between creators and fans even though it seems like every creator or product team has one these days....

Is anyone using the steam deck as their day to day computer?

I just plugged the steam deck in to a monitor and while I was transferring some roms and started to wonder if it would be feasible to use as a day to day computer while docked.

How to send 1 mln requests asyncronously - mechanism?

One needs to send 1 mln HTTP requests concurrently, in batches, and read the responses. No more than 100 requests at a time....

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[SOLVED] Is there an app which can read everything on the screen for you?

My phone screen broke but everything else works fine except for the fact that I can’t see what’s happening on my phone, I was able to install an app which mirrors my phone and thus control my phone indirectly, but I was wondering if there was a way I could do basic functions like reading texts without seeing the screen. I...

Are PrimeBuy and Insight.com trusted for server parts (and any ATX PSUs with the fan at the back)?

Hi everyone. Basically the question; has anyone bought server parts off of PrimeBuy and Insight.com? Are they trustworthy?...

Whats with the sudden indie output from South Korea?

Usually known for their internal online and mobile games. In 2023 we get Dave the Diver and Lies of P which are non mobile single player games....

Help creating standalone disconnected from internet preloaded music player

I would like to build a music player / device for an older person, not tech savvy user....

CLI Editors with Distrobox?

How do you all handle this? I’m going to start poking around with NixOS but anticipate Python dev to be impossible on the base OS, so curious what sorts of options y’all use when connecting your configured editor to a container- e.g. if I have Neovim configured in my host, is it better to re-set-up Neovim again with the same...

What's your experience with bluetooth audio?

Bluetooth audio is my least favorite part of using Linux and it seems like my coworkers agree. I hear a lot of praise for pipewire, but it doesn’t match what I experience. Does any system work well for anyone?...