Commented - kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

Three top nitrogen gas manufacturers in US bar products from use in executions (www.theguardian.com)

Move follows Alabama’s recent killing of death row inmate Kenneth Smith using previously untested method...

Plastic tea bags (lemmy.world)

I decided to have a green tea because it’s healthier than soda. It’s healthier, right?...

What Linux "Productivity" (ideally FOSS) tools do you use?

I’m in a bit of a productivity rut and whilst I suspect the issue is mainly between the keyboard and chair I’m also interested in what (FOSS) tools there are that people find effective....

The Google messaging update looks bad. It reminded me I purchased textra a while ago. (lemmy.world)

They really didn’t have to redesign a text box. Please stop reinventing the wheel. I don’t need another pop up in my life.

RTX 4070 Super launch day sales are rumored to be a ‘disaster’ – what’s going on with Nvidia’s new GPU? (www.techradar.com)

Do PC gamers feel 12GB of VRAM is simply not enough for the money in 2024?

Thailand moves to ban recreational cannabis use, 18 months after historic decriminalization (www.cnn.com)

Thailand’s new government is moving ahead to pass new legisalation banning cannabis for recreational use in a major reversal 18 months after the country became the first in Asia to decriminalize the plant....

U.S. government spent more on health care in 2022 than six countries with universal health care combined (www.statnews.com)

American taxpayers footed the bill for at least $1.8 trillion in federal and state health care expenditures in 2022 — about 41% of the nearly $4.5 trillion in both public and private health care spending the U.S. recorded last year, according to the annual report released last week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...

Light-Speed Spaceships Would Have Trouble Phoning Home (www.iflscience.com)

Biden administration uses emergency authority to sell tank shells to Israel (amp.theguardian.com)

Indian Food is praised worldwide and celebrated in countries like the UK and Germany. Americans, why do all your comedy shows rag on Indian food?

I just deleted my entire library and redownloaded it.

A lot of my files were shitty 480p versions of movies from the Napster days. Now they’re all 1080p, with a few 720p exceptions (mainly tv series episodes). All in all 500 something files in total. Now just watching uTorrent slowly download them all. Hopefully my VPN keeps the eyes off of me…

I've been wondering for some time (lemmy.world)

Monaspace - Microsoft presents a new font family for code (monaspace.githubnext.com)

The way they talk about it makes it sound like they invented the written word, but that notwithstanding the fonts actually look really nice in my opinion.

What movie do you see too young, that still scares you today?

Microsoft expected to finally buy Activision Blizzard next week (www.eurogamer.net)

31-year-old teacher quit her job. Now she works at Costco—and boosted her income by 50%: ‘I've never been happier' (these are not feel good stories, this is sad) (www.nbclosangeles.com)

How do you deal with a existential crisis?

How to you come to terms with the fact that you will eventually not exist?...

Hey, Canadians. How's your healthcare?

Hello, Canadians of Lemmy! Down in the USA there is a lot of conflicting information regarding the efficacy of y’alls healthcare systems. Without revealing my personal bias, I was hoping for some anecdotes or summaries from those whom actually live there.

A new house being built down the street from me (lemmy.world)

The Fairphone 5 released, is the sleekest repairable phone yet (www.androidpolice.com)

Two years after the Fairphone 4 and following the release of some audio products like the Fairbuds XL, the Dutch company is back with a new repairable phone: the Fairphone 5. It looks and feels a lot like the Fairphone 4, but it adds choice upgrades across the board, making it the most modular and also most modern-looking...

Wealth shown to scale (lemmy.ml)

mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

Russian Soldiers Say They Are Viewed With Disgust in Moscow. (www.kyivpost.com)

According to two Russian soldiers interviewed by a pro-invasion blogger, if you wear a Russian military uniform on the metro in Moscow people distance themselves and give you dirty looks.

If you could plant a single thought in the minds of everyone on Earth simultaneously, what thought would you choose to share?

So tired of Adobe. They're part of the problem. (images4.imagebam.com)

I held off on Windows 10 for as long as I could until Adobe, and therefore my job, required it. Now this nonsense. I hope this isn’t the start of them joining on the web DRM bandwagon.