Who would rule the world if Joe Biden dropped dead tomorrow (of natural causes)?
Who would run the US empire until the new President is elected and sworn in?
Why does 11:19AM have to look so much like 5 till 4PM?
Justice Department says TikTok collected US user views on issues like abortion and gun control (apnews.com)
In a fresh broadside against one of the world’s most popular technology companies, the Justice Department late Friday accused TikTok of harnessing the capability to gather bulk information on users based on views on divisive social issues like gun control, abortion and religion....
If malls continue to shut down and decay over the next twenty years, someone should turn them into retirement communities for GenX and Millennials.
Imagine apartments built into what used to be department stores, (Oh, you’re JC Penny 203? I’m at Sears 106). Get those old arcades up and running. Set up meal stations at the food court. Once people actually live there, stores will start to move back in....
How to know if university has access to my computer and phone?
I use the uni account for office, but read online that they can access other files and your device. How does that actually work? How to verify?...
Dutch Olympian who raped a 12-year-old girl ‘is not a paedophile’, official says (www.theguardian.com)
A senior official with the Dutch Olympic committee has insisted that a convicted child rapist in its beach volleyball team is not a paedophile, in an email seen by the Guardian....
How big is YOUR collection?
Mine is 186GiB. I have about 100 movies and 3 TV series on a two hard disks (one for backup). I don’t know if that is small or large....
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Scientists Find Intriguing Mars Rock (www.nasa.gov)
“Cheyava Falls is the most puzzling, complex, and potentially important rock yet investigated by Perseverance,” said Ken Farley,Perseverance project scientist of Caltech in Pasadena. “On the one hand, we have our first compelling detection of organic material, distinctive colorful spots indicative of chemical reactions...
Growing National Debt Gets Silent Treatment From Candidates (www.bloomberg.com)
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What email provider do you use? Would you recommend it?
Bonus question: what email inbox client do you use?
Linux doesnt. oot
I was using Fedora 40 and all of a sudden it stopped working, it takes me to a selection screen where there is fedora 39(i originally installed that version the it was upgraded) i select it it says booting and then a black screen, i had also zorin in another hard drive and the same happens, i tried booting from bare metal with a...
‘Dancing Molecules’ Heal Cartilage Damage (news.northwestern.edu)
$1 million starter home? It's the norm in 237 cities, according to Zillow (abc7.com)
Five Energy Companies have Now Racked Up £240 BILLION in Profits Since 2020 (www.thecanary.co)
Top pilots’ union sounds alarm as regulators consider smaller crew sizes (www.theguardian.com)
Aerospace giants have been accused of putting profits ahead of safety as officials consider cutting the minimum number of pilots required on commercial flight decks from two to one....
An Israeli airstrike hits a school sheltering people in Gaza, killing at least 30 (apnews.com)
Israeli airstrikes hit a school being used by displaced Palestinians in central Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 30 people, as the country’s negotiators prepared to meet international mediators to discuss a proposed cease-fire....
When you write your academic papers in Word
Linux Mint 22 released: An attractive option for migrating away from Windows | Windows 11 system requirements block millions of PCs from upgrading, while Linux Mint continues to work on older hardware (www.ghacks.net)
The Linux Mint team has just released Linux Mint 22, a new major version of the free Linux distribution. With Windows 10’s end of support coming up quickly next year, at least some users may consider making the switch to Linux....
90s Classic
‘Blood minerals’: EU accused of fueling conflict with Rwanda deal (www.politico.eu)
Greece's former spy boss tells judges service did not use illegal malware in 2019-22 (www.reuters.com)
Arc A750 vs RX 6600 GPU faceoff: Intel Alchemist takes on AMD RDNA 2 in the budget sector ["For most people, that makes the RX 6600 the better choice..." (www.tomshardware.com)
Path of Exile blows up on Steam with the launch of its best update yet (www.pcgamesn.com)
ECC with N100 (e.g. Aoostar N1)?
Has anyone tried to run their Aoostar N1 or similar N100 systems with ECC memory? I haven’t found any indication on whether this would work, but don’t want to buy and regret it.