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How does everyone feel about iPhones?

Surprise....

Will my battery drain faster if I connect an external display to my laptop?

[SOLVED] Need a Linux Audio player Application which will remember where I was in a playlist and where I was in a particular audio file

[EDIT]: Audacious does this, but Audacious doesn’t view the file as a playlist rather as one file, I wish this could be changed, I don’t know it might be. [\EDIT]...

Fairphone teaser about upcoming launch event on August 30, 2023

Just received this teaser from the Fairphone newsletter a few minutes ago. A few obvious hints:...

Is there any sand boxing (like Flatpak) when using Wine to install Windows Apps?

I want to run certain applications that are Windows only, and I wanted to know if there is any sand boxing as most of the programs that are Windows only tend to be invasive. I know VMs are another option but there is usually a performance toll with that and I am running a low to mid range laptop

Since nobody likes calling it X, why don't we call the platform "ex-twitter"? That way it's technically true, and everybody knows what you're talking about.

or maybe eX-twitter

Why can't Sam Bankman-Fried get swole off bread and water like ICE Cube did?

What would happen if a law was passed that said all content determined via algorithms had to be open source?

Any good tools for converting a YT playlist to mp3?

I’m super lazy and can’t be bothered manually converting each one, is there any good tools/sites I can use to convert the whole playlist? I used to use youtube-DLG but it seems to have stopped working.

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a great way to get started with isometric real time tactics games

Shadow Tactics was released in 2016 or so. It takes place in Japan in the 1800’s and your job is to control 5 characters, a loyal Samurai, a skilled ninja, a young thief, an elegant spy and an elderly sniper, through large levels to accomplish goals for the Shogun, who is trying to stop a bloody war....

It's actually wholesome that early internet most famous meme/ viral video is a song about "never giving someone up and never letting them down"

So I installed EndeavourOS ...

… and I absolutely love it....

Idea to mitigate effects of upvote bots and brigades

Make only each account’s 5 most recent upvotes effect post rank. In effect this would make vote sellers need to make many more accounts to be useful, they would need to churn upvotes....

I'm going to Rhode Island on Saturday. What is there to do?

It looks like a lot of campgrounds, Audubon nature reserves, state parks, and the only major city is Providence which is museums and food.

Best games to improve language fluency

I’m interested in improving my German through games, but I often struggle to commit to playing games in another language because I don’t want to miss out on things like story and dialogue. So I’d be interested in any suggestions for games which I can enjoy playing in another language....

Dual Boot vs Full Linux

Hey everyone!...

Connecting to Jellyfin on a computer thats using VPN

Hello people I have a Jellyfin server running on an Ubuntu laptop. But I am also using Mullvad VPN on that laptop for torrenting purposes. Is there a way that I can access the Jellyfin server from another computer in my home network and keep the VPN running at the same time?

I just realized how incredible it is that we don't have toes growing out of our ears.

AFAIK it all boils down to the fact that during embryonal development our cells, which at that point were just a blob of undifferentiated autonomous chemical machines, somehow managed to unanimously agree upon the cardinal directions (up-down, left-right, front-back) for future development - and thanks to this, we don’t have...

If 'carbon negative' and 'carbon positive' are terms used interchangeably to mean completely opposite things, what are alternative terms that clarify the difference without confusion?

For example, could alternative terms like “carbon reducing” and “carbon increasing” make it more clear and avoid misinterpreting which means which?

Has anyone else noticed a sudden lack of reading comprehension skills?

Just as the title asks I’ve noticed a very sharp increase in people just straight up not comprehending what they’re reading....

Easy and safe linux piracy with jc141

Piracy on Linux can be even easier than windows with the correct tools, and there is a consistent repacking scene in jc141 so most games are easy to find!...

Why almost every tracker have malware ads?

Dont get me wrong, i use adblock. But i entered one without it enabled to test, and it was filled with malware ads that i closed the site immediatly. Why do trackers owners use malware ads, and not regular/gambling website ads? it would get more people to the site (= more money) and people without adblock would be more likely to...