what OS should I use instead of xubuntu?
I found out that xubuntu spams users including me, which to me is a no go....
Amazon execs may be personally liable for tricking users into Prime sign-ups (arstechnica.com)
The Indie Chat & Recommendation Thread (cdn.imgchest.com)
“Inspired” by the Square-Enix putting their foot in their mouth thread, I thought it’d be interesting to make a little thread about indie games. People always talk about wanting to try different, cheaper titles, but with how hard it is to get good gaming news and the state of advertisement/marketing, word of mouth tends to...
After call with Biden, Egyptian president agrees to restore aid flow to Gaza (www.jns.org)
(May 24, 2024 / JNS)...
Judge Orders Alec Baldwin to Face Trial for ‘Rust’ Shooting (www.thedailybeast.com)
What's the most embarrassing thing about you?
Hey does anyone know how to get microsoft suite apps on linux?
I want to get word, excel, powerpoint, onedrive and copilot on ubuntu, anyone know how?
Python is great, but stuff like this just drives me up the wall (lemmy.world)
Explanation: Python is a programming language. Numpy is a library for python that makes it possible to run large computations much faster than in native python. In order to make that possible, it needs to keep its own set of data types that are different from python’s native datatypes, which means you now have two different...
freedom! (lemmy.ml)
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A teen said a deputy threatened him as he filmed his mom's arrest. A jury awarded him $185,000. (apnews.com)
Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together?
It seems like every other week a game studio is massively laying off employees; sometimes after years of development. What I’m reading is that it’s a quick way to lower expenses and pad the investors’ pockets, flooding the market with developers and reducing their value, to then hire them back a few months later at lower...
In a high-stakes test, Boeing will launch NASA astronauts to space for the first time (www.nbcnews.com)
After years of delays and setbacks, Boeing plans to launch two veteran astronauts to the International Space Station on Monday night aboard its Starliner spacecraft....
Linux Mint looks to fork more GNOME Apps because of libAdwaita (blog.linuxmint.com)
'Shark Tank' star Kevin O'Leary says pro-Palestinian student protesters are 'screwed' because employers can identify them through AI (www.businessinsider.com)
Has anyone here ever tried Linux From Scratch?
For those of you who don’t know, Linux From Scratch is a project that teaches you how to compile your own custom distro, with everything compiled from source code....
What did you get into as it was dying or otherwise on its way out?
I feel like I do this a lot with podcasts. I started watching the Gus and Eddy podcast and finished it about a month before the last episode was released for example....
Medieval Doomsday Weapon (lemmy.world)
And I don’t care if you don’t get it. I get it.
Biden administration to require advanced safety tech on all new cars and trucks (www.nbcnews.com)
The Transportation Department projects the new rule could save 360 lives a year and prevent 24,000 injuries....
TIL White Castle was the pioneer of fast food, not McDonalds (99percentinvisible.org)
Excellent listen throughout, but you can skip to 17:30 for competition with McDonalds.
After 10,000+ hours grinding, MapleStory's first level 300 player slams the brakes at 299.99 to rant about the MMO and then quit, all on a dev-promoted stream (www.gamesradar.com)
The Average™ arch user (lemmy.zip)
U.S. Secretly Shipped New Long-Range Missiles to Ukraine (www.nytimes.com)
The United States last week secretly shipped a new long-range missile system to Ukraine, and Ukrainian forces immediately used the weapons to attack a Russian military airfield in Crimea last Wednesday and Russian troops in the country’s southeast overnight on Tuesday, according to a senior U.S. official....
N.C. report finds wilderness camp failed to ensure boy was breathing before he died (www.nbcnews.com)
A state inspection report offers new details on the hours leading up to a 12-year-old’s death at Trails Carolina, a camp for troubled adolescents....