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A millennial couple who make $250,000 say they can't find a home in their budget: 'We refuse to become house-poor' (www.businessinsider.com)

Paywall removed: archive.is/2f1VY

Why do we put up with this crap? (lemmy.world)

What is an event that altered you in some way?

For better or worse. Small scale or large. Personal or shared. What is an event you've experienced that changed the way you act, live, feel, etc. It could be short-term or long. Share what you feel comfortable with. Triumphs and tragedies alike.

Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users. (www.forbes.com)

Scarlett Johansson denied OpenAI the right to use her voice. They used it anyway. (boingboing.net)

I feel old (lemmy.world)

4000ac solar farm in Texas devastated by hailstorm (imgur.com)

Looks expensive. The grey ones are the broken ones.

Property owner stunned after $500,000 house built on wrong lot: ‘Are you kidding me?’ (www.fox19.com)

Peak technology (lemmy.world)

Double-swiping the rewards card led to free gas for months — and a felony theft charge (apnews.com)

A Nebraska woman allegedly found a lucrative quirk at a gas station pump — double-swipe the rewards card and get free gas!...

I've noticed my boomer parents using instagram and tiktok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook.

IRS successfully launches their own free Direct File - some of my fellow 'murcans are eligible (sh.itjust.works)

For your simple[r] tax needs: directfile.irs.gov...

Which terminal emulator do you use?

I’ve always just used konsole or gnome terminal. Never really looked into what else is available. Tried cool-retro-term the other day, but the novelty wore off pretty fast for me....

Visits to piracy websites have increased 12% in the past four years (www.fastcompany.com)

LOL....

What Are Your Favorite FOSS Android Apps? (lemmy.ml)

Here’s what I’m rocking:...

'100-200,000, not two million': Israel's finance minister envisions depopulated Gaza (www.haaretz.com)

Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January (9to5google.com)

Bill Gates thinks of himself as 'very nice' compared to Elon Musk and Steve Jobs (www.businessinsider.com)

Bill Gates name-checked Elon Musk and Steve Jobs during a fireside chat on Thursday. The Microsoft founder said he considers himself “very nice” compared to his fellow tech leaders. But Gates acknowledged that a certain level of intensity is required in innovative fields. Bill Gates said he considers himself a more relaxed...

What should I call my son (due at the end of April)

Im having difficulty finding names I like. I need two - three names that roll off the tongue and wouldn’t be out of place with a long hyphenated surname....

Over 60 percent of Gen Z have an anxiety disorder (thehill.com)

Those of you who share a name with a celebrity, how do you deal with it? (sh.itjust.works)

I share a name with a very famous professional athlete. I don’t even think about it usually but as soon as I have to give my name to someone I can pretty much count on some remark about the athlete by the same name....

What is the most duct-tape thing you've done to Linux?

tell me the most ass over backward shit you do to keep your system chugging?...

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....