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Robotic dog-mounted rifles are now a thing thanks to US Army (interestingengineering.com)

Topics for a Linux intro course

Hello fellow Linux Lemmings!...

Hot take: Users without a profile pick are mildlyinfuriating (upload.wikimedia.org)

For real. I can never understand why some of ye don’t have a cool pfp. You could even get some cool background art on your profile as well. Really jazz it up, ya know. But I swear 90% instead opt for the default lemmy logo. How uncreative and boring. I can’t even tell most of you people apart.

iFixit tears down a McDonald’s ice cream machine, demands DMCA exemption for it (arstechnica.com)

McDonald’s soft-serve ice cream machines are regularly broken, and it’s not just your perception. When repair vendor and advocate iFixit was filming a video about the topic, it checked tracking map McBroken and found that 34 percent of the machines in the state of New York were reported inoperable. As I write this, the...

Gofundme freezes Grayzone fundraiser 'due to some external concerns' (thegrayzone.com)

The Grayzone raises over $90,000 for 3 independent journalists....

Climate change has ravaged India’s rice stock. Now its export ban could deepen a global food crisis (www.cnn.com)

Newly planted rice saplings have been underwater since July after torrential rain battered northern India, with landslides and flash floods sweeping through the region....

What's the best way to rip music off Spotify so that I can store it on my HDD?

As per title. New releases especially are quite hard to find on other clients or p2p resources; what’s the best way to get them from the source so that I can share them back?

Spanish Women’s Squad Refuses to Play Until Soccer Chief Resigns (www.nytimes.com)

Hours of work (programming.dev)

New video shows Philadelphia Police officer shot Eddie Irizarry within seconds of getting out of patrol car (www.inquirer.com)

The video shows that Officer Mark Dial shot and killed Irizarry within five seconds of getting out of his cruiser.

Why was a post about "What's the worst Lemmy community you've run across?" removed due to rule 2 when it seemed kinda weaksause compared to what is normally here?

Just wondering what the limit is on rule 2 as I see things like covid vaccine effect questions, what scams are still around and other spicy topics. Don’t want to make anyone upset but it seemed odd.

This may or may not influence my next car choice (lemmy.world)

Time to crack open the military-grade repellant (lemmy.world)

How AI is bringing film stars back from the dead (www.bbc.com)

[James] Dean has been cast as the star in a new, upcoming movie called Back to Eden.

Pioneering wind-powered cargo ship sets sail (www.bbc.com)

The Nvidia Shield TV still holds up four years later, but it’s due for a refresh (9to5google.com)

What are the best scenes in StarWars in your opinion?

I am looking for help with switching from Windows to Linux

I’ve been thinking about switching to Linux for a while, but there are some things that make me want to stay on Windows. For example, Gaming and installation of graphics card and software availability....

I know that recent drama has caused a bit of uneasiness in the community for this platforms future, but I am optimistic for lemmy. It might be helpful to look to mastodon to learn how to move forward.

cross-posted from: literature.cafe/post/641633...

Ok, how do I start self-hosting?

I’ve been following this community for some time in order to learn about self-hosting and, while I have learnt about a bunch of cool web services to host, I’m still lost on where/how to start. Does anyone have, like, a very beginner guide that is not just “install this distro and click these buttons”? I have an old...

Have you ever apologized to someone you wronged for a very long time, or received an unexpected apology in a similar way?

Such a long title....