Why does Microsoft want me to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11?
Particularly, why are they so desperately pushy about it? WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE IN IT FOR THEM???...
Alexei Navalny: Putin critic dies after 'feeling unwell' and 'losing consciousness' (news.sky.com)
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Google's inconsistent Pixel experience makes its phones impossible to recommend (www.androidpolice.com)
We typically like Pixel phones a lot, but we have some reservations about Google’s quality control
Smaug-72B-v0.1: The New Open-Source LLM Roaring to the Top of the Leaderboard (huggingface.co)
Abacus.ai:...
BitLocker encryption broken in less than 43 seconds with sub-$10 Raspberry Pi Pico — key can be sniffed when using an external TPM (www.tomshardware.com)
Ticketek ‘glitch’ appears to re-sell fan’s $659 ticket for Taylor Swift concert — “They said, ‘someone else has it, we don’t know who, we can’t check or track who has your ticket’” (au.news.yahoo.com)
Ticketek ‘glitch’ appears to re-sell fan’s $659 ticket for Taylor Swift concert — “They said, ‘someone else has it, we don’t know who, we can’t check or track who has your ticket’”::A Taylor Swift fan believed her VIP ticket was ‘stolen’ from her account by Ticketek after an apparent system ‘glitch’.
Found this ancient tome recently... (i.imgflip.com)
Around 2000 or so, I used to work in tech support for a software company who had like 5000 Windows-based customers and 5 running Solaris. My boss chose me to learn Solaris when the previous “expert” left. I bought this book and started hacking. Good times!
AI spam is already starting to ruin the internet (www.businessinsider.com)
AI spam is already starting to ruin the internet::We’re starting to see one prediction come true of how artificial intelligence will affect the internet: AI-generated spam is flooding the web.
Research found drinking even a small amount of alcohol before bed can adversely affect sleep quality. People who do not get enough REM sleep can experience emotional problems. (original.newsbreak.com)
Opposite of clickbait (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
This is too relatable (lemmy.world)
Netflix password crackdown fuels sign-up surge (www.bbc.com)
Colorado pastor accused of pocketing $1.3M in crypto scheme says 'Lord told us to' (www.nbcnews.com)
Monkeys given infinite time would probably get carpal tunnel or form a labor union before typing out Shakespeare.
Announcement of Sublinks (discuss.online)
cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/4522403...
The World Hasn’t Seen Cicadas Like This Since 1803 (www.nytimes.com)
Brood XIX and Brood XIII will both emerge this spring. The last time these bugs showed up at the same time in the United States, Thomas Jefferson was president....
A time traveller comes back from 50 years in the future. You have 3 hours with them. What do you do?
Rules:...
So we're just making Google Assistant even more useless now? (lemmy.world)
Why even bother having it at all anymore. Can’t use it through Bluetooth, it’s slow, can’t hardly handle any tasks…...
What should I use my RPi4 for?
I have a unused RPi4 (the 8Gig one) running DietPi. I did use it as a playground but ever since I am renting a Hetzner machine for (playground) stuff that I want web accessible, I don’t have particular use for the Pi....
How can the two superpowers cultivate friendly relations / avoid escalating a cold war?
Raspberry Pi is now manufacturing 70,000 Pi 5s per week, will surge to 90,000 in February (www.tomshardware.com)
CEOs say generative AI will result in job cuts in 2024 (arstechnica.com)
And last year they were all saying some variation on “don’t worry, AI is not going to cost anyone their jobs.”...
Adblocker for TV - AdGuard is available for Android TV: here is how it works (www.ghacks.net)
Looking to make the switch
Hi everyone, looking to make the switch from windows. I’m reasonably technically apt but not a programmer by any means. I’ve been doing some homework on which distro I would like to use and pop_os kinda feels like the right direction. I’m running an Nvidia 3060TI on a Ryzen 5600 chip set on an Asus tuf motherboard. Any...