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Life trends that irritate you

Friends, what popular things around you irritate you? For example, a few years ago I was terribly annoyed by motivational speakers crawling out from under every bush

IDF uses Gazan civilians as human shields to inspect potentially booby-trapped tunnels (www.haaretz.com)

'Our lives are more important than their lives': Gazans not suspected of terrorism are detained and sent as human shields to search tunnels and houses before IDF soldiers enter, with the full knowledge of senior Israeli officers, several sources say; IDF claims this practice is forbidden

'Republicans for Harris' want conservatives to vote Democrat in 2024 to topple Trump (www.npr.org)

I'm at a loss on what server to buy

I’m pretty new to self-hosting, and the NAS I’m using right now has been a pain since the moment I bought it. The Synology DS220+ just doesn’t have enough CPU power for my needs, and I’ve recently used up all the disk space I installed, so I’m looking for a new server....

War is ‘coming home’ to Russia, says Zelenskyy as fighting rages in Kursk (tvpworld.com)

Song of the Day: Never Too Much by Luther Vandross (youtu.be)

Quantum Entanglement in Your Brain Is What Generates Consciousness, Radical Study Suggests (www.msn.com)

For the past 30 years, scientists have investigated whether the human brain might require quantum processes to achieve cognition.

Why does Frame Generation say I am getting 60fps but it doesn't look or feel like it?

Playing Ghost of Tsushima and just trying to get the best settings for my machine and was suggested to use high preset with resolution scaling off and frame Gen on....

Welcome new Lemmings.

Sober is a new way to play Roblox on Linux from the Vinegar team (www.gamingonlinux.com)

SteamOS could see a general distribution release, work with other handheld gaming PCs soon (www.techspot.com)

Flipboard Users Can Now Follow Anyone in the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)

Best gpu vendor for linux?

Hi so I was wondering what gpu vendor had the best support intel, amd or nvidia In the future I wanna upgrade my mid range pc and I dual boot cachyos (arch btw) and windows 11 (to play game that don’t work on linux)

US decides not to restrict military aid to Israeli unit accused of human rights violations (www.cnn.com)

Newly Approved Missouri Referendum Could Reverse State Abortion Ban (www.commondreams.org)

Joe Biden ends re-election campaign (www.bbc.com)

Death Valley's scorching heat kills second man this summer (apnews.com)

California’s Death Valley National Park has claimed another life in its second heat-related death of the summer, park officials said Monday....

"Fahrenheit 11/9" documentary opening sequence by Michael Moore (2018) (youtu.be)

Know your history. Never forget…

The government unveils its quantum counter-weapons (www.politico.com)

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has finally published the world’s first three official post-quantum cryptographic algorithms, tools designed to protect key systems against future quantum computers powerful enough to crack any code generated by a modern computer.

The Pixel 9 phones are big cameras and screens soldered onto Gemini AI ambitions (arstechnica.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/975663...

TikTok Stacking Algorithms in Chinese Government’s Favor with Pro-China Content Originating from State-Linked Entities, Study Claims (www.kqed.org)

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/1814468...

Netanyahu added new conditions to ceasefire proposal: Report (www.middleeasteye.net)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu added new conditions in late July to a ceasefire proposal delivered to American, Egyptian, and Qatari mediators, which has hardened Israel’s position and complicated negotiations, according to documents seen by The New York Times....

Examples of racism on Lemmy?

In 4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!) and its cross-posts, quite a few people said things like “maybe racism is a problem on Mastodon, but I don’t see it on Lemmy.” Of course, plenty of comments in the various threads were in fact examples of racism on Lemmy, so...