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

Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean starting Aug 24 (www.reuters.com)

TIL Soviet cosmonauts carried a shotgun on space missions (en.wikipedia.org)

It was purportedly (and probably in actuality) intended as a survival aid to be used after landings and before recovery in the Siberian wilderness, although allegedly was intended as a defensive weapon against in-space attacks by the US space program.

Just got my first entry level gaming pc! i have about 30 bucks to spend, what should i get for it?

I have all my hardware set up, including a new chair. MineCraft and baulders gate 3, terraria, and some freebies are my only games so far. I have a massive console and physical game collection that I love, so I’m really just looking for things that are definitively better on pc, only on pc, or software that I may not know...

A Golden Age of Assholes (Sam Harris monologue) [12:33] (www.youtube.com)

How Will We Know When AI is Conscious? (www.youtube.com)

American Airlines sues Skiplagged, claiming cheap tickets are ‘classic bait and switch’ (www.dallasnews.com)

“Skiplagging” — or booking a flight with a layover to skip the last leg of travel — is a common hack for travelers who don’t want to pay for a direct flight or who to save money on airfare to a connecting destination. Airlines contend the practice results in lost revenue for seats on planes.

Does anyone have experience with playing Baldurs Gate 3 from GOG?

I have read it runs fine on steam but would rather buy it on GOG due to the lack of DRM.

Spicy (lemmy.world)

Defederation is just another form of censorship

Wi-Fi sniffers strapped to drones—Mike Lindell’s odd plan to stop election fraud | Lindell wants to fly drones near polling places to monitor voting machines. (arstechnica.com)

Wi-Fi sniffers strapped to drones—Mike Lindell’s odd plan to stop election fraud | Lindell wants to fly drones near polling places to monitor voting machines.::Lindell wants to fly drones near polling places to monitor voting machines.

What is your opinion on tickling ?

In the sense of creating laugh.

Bleeding edge tech (lemmy.world)

Starfield install size revealed, available to preload now (www.eurogamer.net)

On PC, the game is 139.84 GB. On console, it’s 100.19 GB for Standard or 117.07 GB for the Premium Edition

Is Google going to make Android a nightmare? (arachnoid.com)

The discussion I stumbled upon, about this SSH app for Android, is really worrying. Will Google really manage to make it impossible to root your phone?...

Ain't no harm adding more parm (infosec.pub)

Not enough cooling (lemmy.world)

What is your favorite car ?

For me is the “Fusca”(Beetle/Vocho/…) love the curvy design, something that you dont see nowadays.

Overwatch 2 is now the #1 of the worst Steam games (media.kbin.social)

cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/PCGaming/t/333858...

When someone says "games", what's the first thing that comes to mind?

For me it’s PC games, for my gf it’s tabletop games, so I was interested, what do you folks imagine as the first thing when someone says “games”?

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Note: This post now archived and as such no longer works...

Found this article floating around on android authority, and IDK how to feel about it? (www.androidauthority.com)

TLDR: the article says , lemmy is confusing , too broken and kinda unusable coz servers run on whims....

You’re stuck in here with me (i.imgur.com)

What’s the average tip for a delivery driver in the US?

I’ve been tipping pizza type deliveries 20% since Covid, but it seems high to me. What’s everyone tip their delivery guys? I don’t want to short them, but I don’t want to go broke either.