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Help me choose a distro, please!

I’m ditching Windows in favor of Linux on my personal desktop. And so I’m looking for advice on which distro I should start with....

YSK: When you want to learn the facts on a controversial topic, check Wikipedia

When there is a heated, with a lot of strong and exaggerated arguments on both sides, and I don’t know what to believe, or I’m overwhelmed with the raw information, I look at Wikipedia. Or even something that is not a current event, but the information I found on the internet doesn’t feel reliable....

Jerk chicken over cauliflower rice (lemmy.prograhamming.com)

So, Microsoft now owns Activision Blizzard. How will this affect the rest of the industry? (www.gamesindustry.biz)

Deepfake Porn Is Out of Control (www.wired.co.uk)

Deepfake Porn Is Out of Control::New research shows the number of deepfake videos is skyrocketing—and the world’s biggest search engines are funneling clicks to dozens of sites dedicated to the nonconsensual fakes.

Former Finnish president, Nobel Laureate Martti Ahtisaari dies at 86 (yle.fi)

Polish opposition leader Tusk declares win after exit poll shows ruling conservatives lose majority (apnews.com)

Gaza residents lose entire families, fear more destruction (www.reuters.com)

When your friends call every warship a battleship (lemmy.world)

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It puts the sweater in the basket (startrek.website)

2 women say they were threatened with murder and sexual assault following Israeli vigil in Vancouver (bc.ctvnews.ca)

Two Metro Vancouver women say they were threatened by two men who were seen carrying Palestinian flags on Monday night....

Dozens of Malaysians rescued in Peru after being trafficked to commit online fraud (www.theguardian.com)

Supreme Court declines to revisit landmark libel ruling, though Clarence Thomas wants to reconsider the decision (www.cnn.com)

The Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to revisit the landmark First Amendment decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, rebuffing a request to take another look at decades-old precedent that created a higher bar for public figures to claim libel in civil suits....

Are there any small phones with custom ROM support?

At this point I’m not even picky about which custom ROM I run....

'They looked me in the eyes': Festival organizer describes coming face-to-face with Hamas gunmen (www.nbcnews.com)

Noa Beer told NBC News that she encountered a horrific scene as she fled the festival: “I saw two terrorists waiting for me to drive so I just stepped on the gas.”...

Video Editing with Kdenlive — Creative Freedom Summit (youtu.be)

"We Took a 100+ Hour Greyhound From Boston to Seattle" (www.youtube.com)

NC lawmakers exempt themselves from public records laws while Democrats blast 'secret police' powers (www.wunc.org)

Five former Ubisoft executives arrested after sexual harassment investigation (www.gamesindustry.biz)

A dragonfly I met last year [OC] (pixelfed.crimedad.work)

cross-posted from: lemmy.crimedad.work/post/21507...

if you standardise one thing, what is it and why

Phones to receive an emergency alert test this week (youtu.be)

The video is a very short news item about FEMA testing the emergency alert system this week, but that’s not what I thought people would enjoy. It’s the comments - people are going batshit insane with every conspiracy theory you can think of (and more that you never would).