Are .ru sites safe?
I’m not tech savvy and have noticed that many streaming sites are .ru, and as someone located in Finland, I want to make sure if they are dangerous to use.
It's weird that we enjoy stimulating our fear response
What would aliens think if they leaned we evolved fear as a survival mechanism, but we intentionally seek out situations that trigger our fear response, for fun?...
What is your favorite season?
Double question time!
Headset recommendation
TL:DR; What wireless headset do you recommend (obviously works well with Linux)?...
what would a queen bee be called if queens never existed?
like what if the first person to coin the phrase, for the one bee that lays around just producing offspring, lived in a world that had no monarchies? or, were radically opposed to the concept....
How come no true use for recent AI developments has been found yet?
I saw people complaining the companies are yet to find the next big thing with AI, but I am already seeing countless offer good solutions for almost every field imaginable. What is this thing the tech industry is waiting for and what are all these current products if not what they had in mind?...
better grinder for pour over?
I know high end grinders are probably worth it for espresso, but for pour-over coffee does it make that much difference? I use a Capresso Infinity at either fine coarse or medium coarse and that’s about it. Visibly the grind size does look a bit variable to me. Since I’m already in conical bur territory here, are higher end...
Laptop Recommendation for Light Gaming
I currently have a low end Windows gaming laptop that I was planning to upgrade to Linux before Win10 goes end of life, but my HDMI port stopped working, so now I’m debating buying a new Linux laptop instead. Can anyone provide any recommendations?...
Amongst all this AI hype of the past few years, nobody talks about that it's finally feasible to create an MS Clippy that works.
Why VPN tunnels are safer than opening a port on my router?
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Nothing is stopping a single individual from controlling 100 accounts on Lemmy to upvote and downvote whatever they want
A new AMD vs Nvidia decision?
Hey all,...
At some point in the future there will be a movement to completely drop all computer technology for privacy reasons
Privacy services are sometimes hard to learn so people will just decide to go back to the old days. I imagine that it will be easier in a group.
Saying 'completely turned my life around' is normal, but saying 'turned my life around 360°' (rather than 180) is stupid.
I'm falling for a long-distance "bad boy trying to turn good" who has PTSD and traumatic family/past, afraid of it possibly being mistake but I'm not ready to let go: What should I do?? Please help!
Please read post for full context and be kind with me. Any help/input will be appreciated!...
Which GPU or GPU brand would you buy for gaming these days?
Would this flow work with Immich & Syncthing to copy images and auto upload and delete?
I would like new images to be uploaded to Immich from my phone and deleted after 30 days automatically, so I was thinking about this flow:...
Best Linux Distro For Playing On Steam?
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14762903...
About to try the Outer Worlds
I’ve been very busy with work the last few months so I haven’t really played any games, but things are finally starting to get back to normal a bit and I wanted to try this RPG. I played it a bit when it came out but decided to really dive into it this time. Just wondering if there’s anyone here who’s played it and has...
Is Neofetch abandoned?
Ive noticed its has been any activity in their github for a longtime. github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch...
Waydroid in a VM
I tried using Waydroid on Linux Mint (Edge) only to have it not work and realized that it requires Wayland, and Mint uses X11. So I used VirtualBox to install Fedora 40 Gnome which does use Wayland....
Looking for the Perfect USB Flash Drive
I’ve been using some cheap flash drives for things like installing OSs and the like, but now I’ve picked up a Dell Wyse 3040 system to play with which only has 8gb of storage. So I’m installing the OS onto a flash drive permanently (don’t worry, just for messing with, nothing of value will be lost if/when the drive craps...
Notification when new app versions are released
TL;DR: is there an app that can alert me when a new version of some other app is available?...
We should count in base four
We have basic words for the numbers zero to three, so why not use them to count?...