Was Unity lying yesterday or are they lying today? (lemmy.today)
Unity: We have to charge for every install because we only see totals. Also Unity: We can tell which install is which, so you won’t be overcharged.
Nextcloud alternatives
So far my experience with Nextcloud has been that it is a pain in the arse to install, and once it’s installed is slow as anything. Literally couldn’t run it on my pi 3b, now got it up and running pretty nicely on a NUC but it’s still not great. Have caching set up....
Starfield has made me obsessed with no man’s sky
So far, Starfield is an awesome game, but now I have an urge to pick up my character on no man sky, and I’m having trouble putting that game down right now....
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
Cancer cases in people below 50 up nearly 80 percent in last three decades (www.aljazeera.com)
About a million people aged below 50 die of cancer annually, a study says, projecting another 21 percent rise by 2030.
People from other cultures who revere cows must feel the same way about beef as we feel about eating dogs.
The real beef.
Japan's top court orders Okinawa to allow a divisive government plan to build US military runways (apnews.com)
I don't get it (lemmy.ml)
Title (sh.itjust.works)
TIL that Jim Carrey was paid $7 million for ''Dumb and Dumber'', while his co-star Jeff Daniels made just $50,000 (www.yahoo.com)
What’s the Matter with the smart home? (www.theverge.com)
The article discusses expectations for smart home announcements at the upcoming IFA tech show in Berlin. While companies may unveil new smart speakers, cameras and robot vacuums, the smart home remains fragmented as the Matter interoperability standard has yet to fully deliver on integrating devices. The author argues the...
Zoom CEO says Zoom meetings hinder innovation and debate, wants employees back in the office (www.zdnet.com)
Zoom, the videoconferencing platform that profited substantially from remote work during the pandemic, is now asking employees to return to the office. Its CEO, Eric Yuan, claims Zoom meetings don’t let people build trust or be innovative....
France to spend €200m destroying wine as demand falls (www.bbc.com)
The French government is allocating €200m (£171.6m) to destroy surplus wine and support producers....
Spanish football federation threatens to sue player Jenni Hermoso over kiss ‘lies’ (www.theguardian.com)
In a statement, the federation said that it would take the “necessary legal action” and told the female players that “playing for the national team is an obligation on any member of the federation called upon to do so”.
On this day in 1991, Linus Torvalds announced he was working on what would become Linux (www.xda-developers.com)
North Korean delegate at Iran defense industry exhibition (lemmy.world)
source: twitter.com/IranDefense/…/1694361407708443117
How do you consume Muesli?
Edit: I’ve found a method to improve this, I’ll edit the post below. Photo attached!...
Apart from water and salt, are there any inorganic foods?
An overwhelming majority of what we eat is made from plants and animals. This means that composition of our almost entire food is chemicals from the realm of organic chemistry (carbon-based large molecules). Water and salt are two prominent examples of non-organic foodstuffs - which come from the realm of inorganic chemistry....
Trying to get my partner to switch from Windows to Linux. Has anyone tried Scrivener with Wine?
My partner doesn’t do much on the computer except web browsing and writing. The Scrivener writing program had a Linux version at some point that was abandoned....
When Y2K happened were there people burning their passports and walking barefoot to Jerusalem or something along those lines?
How often do you get existential dread?
I’m pushing half a century in an industry that is not kind to old guys. I try to fend it off but every now and then it hits me. I’m pretty sure this is not unique to my life experience, or it wouldn’t have a term :-)
If bullshit jobs are *really* bullshit, how do businesses justify the expense?
Businesses are in it for the money, employees tend to be one of the larger expenses, so maintaining some bullshit positions that would cost them money doesn’t make fiscal sense, so what’s up?
How do you feel about pizza?
what's the deal with a bunch of lemmy.world subs being abandoned by its mods and founders?
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