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Keep Seeding (lemmy.one)

A few months ago I grabbed this torrent from rarbg, and it took weeks to download. Often going days with no seeders....

Privacy with Google's Gboard (lemm.ee)

The only app I can’t live without. Except for gboard, all of my applications are Foss. There is no competition for gboard’s swipe typing, not to mention its many capabilities like as searching for gifs, stickers, being able to paste copied images, translating, and so on. I’d like to know how I can use gboard while...

Is there really no viable alternative for Photoshop on Linux?

I’m starting this off by saying that I’m looking for any type of reasonably advanced photo manipulation tool, that runs natively under Linux. It doesn’t have to be FOSS....

thank you Linux for giving a damn about Bluetooth headphones (feddit.de)

For context, LDAC is one of the few wireless audio codecs stamped Hi-Res by the Japan Audio Society and its encoder is open source since Android 8, so you can see just how long Windows is sleeping on this. I’m excited about the incoming next gen called LC3plus, my next pair is definitely gonna have that.

Flathub has passed 2 billion downloads

flathub.org/statistics

Photoshop Terms of Service grants Adobe access to user projects for ‘content moderation’ and other purposes (nichegamer.com)

Is it possible to use Linux without the command line?

We’ve all heard it before: People claiming Linux isn’t a viable alternative cause you can’t run it without using the command line....

favoring meme, please (feddit.it)

Here’s what we’re working on in Firefox | The Mozilla Blog (blog.mozilla.org)

When did you get hit by "the tetris effect" AKA playing a video game so much that you get the urge to do moves/actions from the video game in real life?

When I got hooked on Morrowind in middle school it occurred to me to quicksave before a test at school....

Bill to make marrying your first cousin illegal in Tennessee passes but not without a fight (www.wsmv.com)

E-waste is growing 5x faster than it's recycled, says UN (www.theregister.com)

Trump has been unable to get bond for $464 million judgment, his lawyers say (www.nbcnews.com)

Girls Basketball Team Kicked Out Of Boys League Championship After Defeating Boys Teams (www.comicsands.com)

A 6th grade girls team from Kentucky was set to go for the year-end championship tournament, but was told they were banned due to fears boys teams might ‘retaliate’ if they lost to the girls team.

Someone needs to be reminded that anticompetitive practices are illegal (feddit.de)

What is a discreet way of waking myself?

I need to get up without waking the wife and kids, I got a smartwatch to vibrate and it woke her. The alarm is always going to wake the house....

Kellogg’s CEO advice to cash-strapped shoppers: Let them eat Corn Flakes for dinner (www.cnn.com)

How cheap is the cheapest home for sale in your city/region?

In Utah County the cheapest “House” for sale is 600 square feet, 2 bed, 1 bath, at $300k....

The Fairphone 5 is less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years (www.theverge.com)

Fairphone’s latest repairable device is for people who hate saying goodbye to an old smartphone more than they like buying a new one.

Student loan borrowers skip payments: It's "an act of civil disobedience", 1 in 10 say they won't pay (www.newsweek.com)

Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too (www.theverge.com)

Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update. I don’t use Microsoft Edge regularly, and I have Google Chrome set as my default browser. Bleary-eyed at 9AM, it took me a moment to realize that Microsoft...