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The internet has become soulless and i hate it (tim.kicker.dev)

Japan’s population drops by nearly 800,000 with falls in every prefecture for the first time (www.theguardian.com)

Ship Lighting (startrek.website)

My biggest complaint with Live Action Trek vs the two Animation shows is that they seem obsessed with giving us a black ship on a black background. It’s nice to be given a reprieve, even if for only one episode.

1 in 10 flights taking off from UK are private jets (www.thetimes.co.uk)

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Meet the latest way the superrich prove they're really, totally worried about the environment: $10 million electric superyachts (www.businessinsider.com)

Meet the latest way the superrich prove they’re really, totally worried about the environment: $10 million electric superyachts::Electric cars? The superrich have already moved on to electric yachts.

What desktop environments are you using?

Not counting the Steam Deck, since KDE isn’t actually turned on while you’re running games....

We need a 4th emergency service for people in crisis to just evac them from bad situations, almost like the witness protection.

I don’t want to get too political in shower thoughts, but this would solve a lot of the hot button issues if more people just had safer and supportive environments to escape to and volunteers / paid professionals to help them on the other end.

Outcry over Quran burning in Sweden: A timeline (www.aljazeera.com)

Iraq has expelled Sweden’s ambassador shortly after protesters had stormed its embassy in Baghdad and set parts of the building on fire....

A.I. experts downplay ‘nightmare scenario of evil robot overlords’. Over 1,300 sign letter claiming it’s a ‘force for good, not a threat to humanity’ (fortune.com)

In an open letter published on Tuesday, more than 1,370 signatories—including business founders, CEOs and academics from various institutions including the University of Oxford—said they wanted to “counter ‘A.I. doom.’”...

Do you see a problem? (programming.dev)

If incandescent lightbulbs have a vacuum inside, why do they get so hot on the outside?

Shouldn’t the vacuum insulate the glass from the heat of the burning filament?

It's official: Smartphones will need to have replaceable batteries by 2027 (www.androidauthority.com)

Do you miss phones with replaceable batteries? By 2027, you won’t anymore because, by law, almost every smartphone will have them again.

Usage for Old Notbook (lemmy.world)

So my wife has a 10 year old low end notbook. 500Gb of storage (HDD), 2GB of GDR3 RAM, and an intel Celeron Processor N2806. It originally came with Win 8, then she “upgraded” to win 10 and after that it was pretty much unusable. I am talking CPU and Ram about 80-90% in idle, opening a browser got everything down to a crawl....

[Android][App] Obtainium. Get Android App Updates Directly From the Source. (lemm.ee)

Awesome app. It is somehow not listed on android-foss list so maybe someone didn’t know about it....

Reddit Gives Final Warning to Subreddits Using NSFW Protest Tactic (www.pcmag.com)

Tock tick (lemmy.world)

Don't you just hate terrible parking? (lemmy.world)

Australia's 'retirement age' just became 67. So why are the French so upset about working until 64? (theconversation.com)

Does anyone know how many people have left Reddit?

I’ve tried looking online but I’m not savvy enough to find a good answer. I haven’t been on Reddit since June 30, and am interested in seeing the number of people who have migrated. I know the Reddit user base is huge, so idk if it has been enough to hurt the site. Fuck spez.