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I switched from Nixos to void Linux. Here's my experience so far.

I hopped from arch (2010-2019) to Nixos (2019-2023). I had my issues with it but being a functional programmer, I really liked the declarative style of configuring your OS. That was until last week. I decided to try out void Linux (musl). I’m happy with it so far....

South Korea has given up on talking to the North (www.economist.com)

EU passes law to blanket highways with fast EV chargers by 2025 (www.theverge.com)

EU passes law to blanket highways with fast EV chargers by 2025::The chargers must be placed every 60km (37mi) and allow ad-hoc payment by card or contactless device without subscriptions.

if you tweet on Twitter, what do you do on X ?

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Amazon saved children's voices recorded by Alexa even after parents asked for it to be deleted. Now it's paying a $25 million fine. (www.businessinsider.com)

Amazon saved children’s voices recorded by Alexa even after parents asked for it to be deleted. Now it’s paying a $25 million fine.::“For too long, Amazon has treated children’s sensitive data as its own property,” Josh Golin, executive director of Fairplay, said in a statement.

Fuck nvidia. (mujico.org)

Thats why i never buy their shit after having one laptop with one of their graphics....

South Africa: Putin to miss BRICS summit by ‘mutual agreement’ (www.aljazeera.com)

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the summit of the BRICS group of nations in South Africa in August “by mutual agreement”, South Africa’s presidency said on Wednesday....

TIL Alice Walton (Walmart heir) killed a pedestrian in a driving accident and was never charged. She has also been arrested for DUI twice but never charged. (en.wikipedia.org)

The sketchy part is not her not getting convicted. It’s that no charges were even filed. I also enjoyed this bit of info from one of the sources regarding the other DUI incident. Prosecutors in Texas have dropped a 2011 drunken driving citation against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. heiress Alice Walton.

Creating a password in 2023 be like (programming.dev)

Why the fuck do cars still have analog speedometers? Surely digital ones would be more accurate and much easier to read without looking away from the road for too long.

Guys it’s been 8 months. It was a bad take.

Linux phones

Anyone use one of those Linux phones like pine phone or librem....

Migrating away from Fedora, looking for advice.

I’m in the market to find a new distro that is similar enough to Fedora that switching won’t be as laborious as I’ve had it before. I keep hearing POP!_os is a good choice but I’m going to as the community what they think is good.

Why are so many climate records breaking all at once? (theconversation.com)

YSK: Subscriber count on communities only show the numbers of users subscribed from your specific instance. The real number might be much larger than you think.

You can use lemmyverse.net to check actual subscriber numbers....

What's your solution to end all wars? (kbin.social)

What are your ideas, that if you could implement would likely stop our species from warring so much?...

Remember when 15% was the expected, not the minimum? (lemmy.world)

Major shifts at OpenAI spark skepticism about impending AGI timelines (arstechnica.com)

JD Vance says he was asked in front of his wife if he had 'any secret family' during vice presidential vetting (www.businessinsider.com)

Sen. JD Vance recounted being asked if he had a “secret family” during the vice presidential vetting process, which he found intrusive and bizarre, especially since his wife was present....