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

Southern Heritage (lemmy.world)

Someone needs help (lemmy.world)

US might send the mighty Dorito if won't behave (sh.itjust.works)

Metallica-Breakin-The-Law-Mp3.exe (i.postimg.cc)

The Steam Deck OLED feels like a radiant new dawn for portable play (www.gamedeveloper.com)

US agency takes first step toward requiring new vehicles to prevent drunk or impaired driving (apnews.com)

U.S. auto safety regulators say they have taken the first step toward requiring devices in vehicles that prevent drunk or impaired driving....

'Eyes Everywhere': Congress Is About to Vote to Expand Mass Surveillance of Americans, Experts Warn (www.vice.com)

‘Eyes Everywhere’: Congress Is About to Vote to Expand Mass Surveillance of Americans, Experts Warn::Privacy experts worry that a proposed reform bill would greatly widen how the government can surveil Americans’ digital communications.

recommendations for lightweight window managers for an old netbook

Hi, I’ve got an old netbook from Samsung that has an old Intel Atom CPU (Intel Atom N455 1.66 GHz). I installed Arch on it and am now thinking of a suitable window manager. I tried Hyprland (kinda expecting it to not work really) whick didn’t start at all. Before I had Debian with Gnome, which technically worked, but...

Trying to play my old CDROM games on Windows10 and about to lose my marbles. Could you help me?

Okay listen: I am less than tech-savvy, but I tried so many step-intensive things on my dinky PC, to no avail....

Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable cars (www.reuters.com)

automatically turning on new (creepy)feature with no single click to disable them (discuss.tchncs.de)

there’s just this vague recommendation to “turn it off in settings.” no link, no toggle, nothing....

should anything be copyrightable?

You’ve all had some very interesting answers for my last post so here is a question for you, how do you think about copyright in general and should it exist?

15 states seeing 'high' or 'very high' levels of respiratory illness: CDC (abcnews.go.com)

Respiratory illness activity is elevated or increasing across most areas of the United States, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....

Chinese garlic is a national security risk, says US senator (www.bbc.com)

Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android (techcrunch.com)

Woman Gets Stood Up On A Date, Finds Out The Restaurant Tricked Her Into Eating Dinner Alone (www.boredpanda.com)

Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah killed by Israeli tank, investigation finds (www.reuters.com)

An Israeli army tank killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and injured six other journalists in Lebanon while they were filming cross-border shelling on Oct. 13, a Reuters investigation has found....

I own a P90 for homeworld defense because that's what Colonel O'Neill intended (files.catbox.moe)

Hunter Biden lawyer accuses prosecutors of ‘bowing to Republican pressure’ (www.theguardian.com)

Wind and solar pose climate threat too, oil giant Saudi Arabia argues (www.politico.com)

Venice gondola capsizes after tourists refuse to sit down and stop taking selfies (www.theguardian.com)

Video of passengers and gondolier ending up in canal water widely shared online

How long do you think until AI writes and debugs code better than the average programmer? (preview.redd.it)

Times were different (startrek.website)

Most "simulation" games aren't simulators

I was just browsing the Google Play Store and I am getting frustrated seeing games being tagged with the genre, but aren’t actually simulating anything. E.g. Idle Miner/Mining Tycoon (can’t remember name). Nothing in the game is accurate or even tries to represent real life. It even has cartoon graphics. Now I’m not...