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‘Just a complete mess’: Initial impressions of the Borderlands movie are mostly negative [VGC] (www.videogameschronicle.com)

Is there a community to find other communities?

I know !findacommunity exists, but I’ve blocked lemmy.ml…...

Japan vs. Manga Piracy: $800m Losses & 100 New Pirate Sites in One Month (torrentfreak.com)

Update: my neighbor is still trying to hack my wifi to steal my beer. Here is an updated diagram of the situation. (lemmynsfw.com)

The U.S. Has Dozens of Secret Bases Across the Middle East. They Keep Getting Attacked. (theintercept.com)

U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria have come under repeated attack in recent weeks, including a rocket attack on al-Asad Air Base in Iraq on Monday that reportedly injured five U.S. military personnel and contractors. The renewed strikes, which began in July, mark a resumption of a low-level war between America and Iran’s proxies...

How do I determine if a CPU is better than another one?

I’m looking at some old Intel and Pentium CPUs that are in a NUC. Are cores and max clock speed the only things that matter? Would a Pentium be good enough to run Immich? I have a i7-4790, and the NUCs I’m looking at range from a Pentium J5005 to a i3-1115G4. I do run Docker, does that affect anything?

Liz Truss leaves stage over ‘I crashed the economy’ lettuce banner (www.theguardian.com)

Former PM said ‘that’s not funny’ when remote-controlled banner was unfurled behind her at event in Suffolk...

Biden wants to free you from all those subscriptions you meant to cancel but didn’t (www.vox.com)

Police release bodycam from outside Uvalde classroom shooting (www.bbc.com)

NYT: Putin Has Victory in His Grasp (www.nytimes.com)

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Made by Google 2024 event mega thread

Keynote live stream...

Exclusive: Only Gaza ceasefire will delay retaliation, say Iranian officials (www.reuters.com)

Only a ceasefire deal in Gaza stemming from hoped-for talks this week would hold Iran back from direct retaliation against Israel for the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on its soil, three senior Iranian officials said....

#StopKillingGames Update: Sweden and Poland pass threshold as initiative reaches 25%

I’m not going to post an update every time a (small) milestone is reached, but i felt this time it was warranted....

Minetest 5.9.0 released! (blog.minetest.net)

U.S. Says Iran Attack On Israel Could Come 'This Week,' Warns Tehran To 'Stand Down'. (www.rferl.org)

Top Ukrainian commander says his forces now control 1,000 square kilometers of Russia’s Kursk region (apnews.com)

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s top military commander says his forces now control 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) of Russia’s neighboring Kursk region, the first time a Ukrainian military official has publicly commented on the gains of the lightning incursion that has embarrassed the Kremlin....

Are you a active MVP? (i.imgur.com)

Summoning a friend (i.imgur.com)

‘A different level than 2020’: Trump’s plan to steal election is taking shape (www.theguardian.com)

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They encouraged us to insulate our home. Now it’s unmortgageable (www.theguardian.com)

Householders are angered by the discovery they cannot remortgage or sell their homes after installing spray-foam insulation to cut energy use.

Ukrainian troops are digging trenches in Russia’s Kursk Oblast. It’s a sign they plan to stay. (www.forbes.com)

On the sixth day of Ukraine’s advance into Kursk Oblast in southern Russia, there’s growing evidence the Ukrainian invasion corps—some or all of up to five 2,000-person brigades plus at least one 400-person independent battalion—plans to stay....

Alternative to dockerized Transmission for arr stack

I have a lot of problems with stability using the linuxserver/transmission docker image in my *arr stack. I setup restarting on unhealthy status in docker compose (using the following test command curl --fail http://localhost:9091 || exit 1) but even then, sometimes I just find that my donwloads have stopped and find that the...