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[POLL] Do you use/require a headphone jack on your phone? (strawpoll.com)

Alternatively, if your current phone doesn’t have a headphone jack, do you wish it did?

Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors (futurism.com)

Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap (www.businessinsider.com)

Tech’s broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap::Some tech is getting pricier and looking a lot like the older services it was supposed to beat. From video streaming to ride-hailing and cloud computing.

Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed?

TikTok says it’s not the algorithm, teens are just pro-Palestine — The company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion (www.vice.com)

TikTok says it’s not the algorithm, teens are just pro-Palestine — The company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion::In a blog post, the company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion.

Choose wisely! (i.imgur.com)

(shamelessly stolen from an imgur dump)

A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system (lemmy.world)

Americans of Lemmy, what is your approach to next year's election?

2020 was… truly unique. It was so hard to stay away from doom scrolling, and I (and many others) were pretty disillusioned by the sad fact that so much of our country legitimately supported the Orange Man. I didn’t get a wink of sleep the night of the election because I genuinely considered it to be a make or break decision...

Without using pronouns (me, he, she, it, etc) or articles (a, an, the), how did you come up with your user name?

Essentially, I want us to sound like cavemen....

Most of us hate Microsoft, and yet many of us use VSCode

I get that it’s open source provided you use codium not code but I still find that interesting

which linux distro do you NOT like, and why?

Why in 2024 do people still believe in religion? (serious)

Lemmy Just Reached 1 Million Posts (lemmy.world)

Lemmy just reached a new milestone: 1 million posts, across 1,323 servers....

'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology (www.bbc.com)

its even more outdated (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

2024 is going to be the beginning of the end of us all (lemmy.world)

No I’m not catastrophising....

It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription (slate.com)

The author canceled their Amazon Prime subscription on a whim and realized they didn’t really need it....

CHROME (google) is planing to implement DRM (kinda) into their browser (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

looks like rendering adblockers extensions obsolete with manifest-v3 was not enough so now they try to implement DRM into the browser giving the ability to any website to refuse traffic to you if you don’t run a complaint browser ( cough…firefox )...

Lemmy is the best social media

Elon Musk on X antisemitism controversy: “Don’t advertise. Go f*** yourself” (arstechnica.com)

Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense," one customer says (www.cbsnews.com)

Kevin Roberts remembers when he could get a bacon cheeseburger, fries and a drink from Five Guys for $10. But that was years ago. When the Virginia high school teacher recently visited the fast-food chain, the food alone without a beverage cost double that amount....