Lenovo bets its Motorola smartphone brand will be the third-biggest globally in 3 years (www.cnbc.com)
‘Gas-Station Heroin’ Sold as Dietary Supplement Alarms Health Officials (www.nytimes.com)
Tianeptine, found at convenience stores, at smoke shops and online, can mimic an opioid. It is among a growing class of substances that are difficult to control....
Movie (feddit.de)
Programming: The Horror Game (programming.dev)
Why did Pootin threaten the whole world with nuclear weapons, but then stopped doing so?
GrapheneOS: Frequent Android auto-reboots block firmware exploits (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
'Return to the right track' - Taiwan tells China to 'face reality' and respect election results (www.france24.com)
Voters spurned Beijing’s repeated calls not to vote for Lai, delivering a comfortable victory for a man China’s ruling Communist Party sees as a dangerous separatist....
Is it okay to wash hands with body soap?
I finished pooping and realised my liquid hand soap had run out, so I used a body soap bar to wash them. I had to go outside and use the hand soap in another bathroom to make sure my hands were clean....
Mississippi quits child food program amid Republican ‘welfare state’ attack (www.theguardian.com)
Critics condemn ‘cruelty’ of state opting out of federal problem to feed children from low-income families during summer break...
If you work for a gig app in the US they make you go thru this charade when doing taxes where you're treated and taxed as an independent business owner. joke country
making me enter a special code and fill out forms and pay for the ‘deLuXe’ tax software because only that can handle the right forms...
Biden’s Strikes in Yemen Are Unconstitutional, Bipartisan Members of Congress Say (theintercept.com)
The U.S. and U.K. led a series of airstrikes in Yemen on Thursday evening, setting off alarms globally about how the attacks play into the smoldering regional risk of conflict — including a stream of questions from Congress about whether Biden was legally authorized to conduct the strikes at all.
At least 33 Canadian churches have burned to the ground since May 2021. Only 2 were accidents (www.cbc.ca)
CBC News has examined 33 Canadian churches that burned to the ground since May 2021. Just two were ruled accidental....
HP sued (again) for blocking third-party ink from printers, accused of monopoly (arstechnica.com)
HP sued (again) for blocking third-party ink from printers, accused of monopoly::Suit seeks injunction blocking HP from bricking printers using third-party ink.
US sees largest COVID wave since omicron (www.semafor.com)
Multiple state Republican parties are going broke (www.newsweek.com)
I keep salt and sugar in identical bottles. A mistake was bound to happen, and it just did.
This is the worst batch of french toast i’ve ever made.
The march towards an all-EV future hit a major roadblock. What went wrong? (www.businessinsider.com)
chop chop (lemmy.world)
Colorado Supreme Court justices getting threats since decision to disqualify Trump from ballot, report finds (www.9news.com)
NBC News reports a familiar pattern to the latest round of threats – when Trump has a legal setback, officials face threats.
Study shows Tesla owners have most car accidents, but Ram has the worst drivers (www.techspot.com)
Toilet without borders (i.imgflip.com)
First year fully gaming on Linux.
I saw there was a somewhat similar post to this, but I’m kind of celebrating the fact that this was the first year I was able to game exclusively on Linux! I’m very thankful for all of the effort from the people involved in all of the aspects of Wine/Proton, it’s great to not need to reboot to play games.
Just moved to Linux: a follow up
I recently made a post discussing my move to Linux on Fedora, and it’s been going great. But today I think I have now become truly part of this community. I ran a command that borked my bootloader and had to do a fresh install. Learned my lesson with modifying the bootloader without first doing thorough investigation lol....
Clarence Thomas’ Private Complaints About Money Sparked Fears He Would Resign (www.propublica.org)
After almost a decade on the court, Thomas had grown frustrated with his financial situation, according to friends. He had recently started raising his young grandnephew, and Thomas’ wife was soliciting advice on how to handle the new expenses. The month before, the justice had borrowed $267,000 from a friend to buy a high-end...