Cities: Skylines 2 is turning deadly and will launch with new natural disasters (www.techradar.com)
What is your favorite underrated or unknown DOS game?
We all love our “Doom”," Command & Conquer", “Commander Keen” etc....
How do you containerize stuff you install from source in a way that you can completely remove later?
I’m doing a bunch of AI stuff that needs compiling to try various unrelated apps. I’m making a mess of config files and extras. I’ve been using distrobox and conda. How could I do this better? Chroot? Different user logins for extra home directories? Groups? Most of the packages need access to CUDA and localhost. I would...
A Tribute to Bram Moolenaar, The Maestro Behind Vim Code Editor (stackdiary.com)
Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the widely respected Vim code editor, has passed away at the age of 62. The family announced his passing in a heartfelt Google Groups message on August 5, revealing a sudden progression of a medical condition that had afflicted him.
MRW someone is claiming Star Trek should not do comedy episodes (i.imgur.com)
Printing Rant! Why is this so hard?
Debian 12. HP Laserjet Professional P1606dn...
Illegal medical lab containing bioengineered mice and infectious agents including HIV and herpes discovered in California (www.insider.com)
We should stop saying "The customer is always right" because it's not true
In the grand scheme of things, the customer may have slightly more pull than the cashier ringing up their order, but it’s the CEO and the board of directors that control the narrative. That’s why we’re getting bigger and less fuel efficient vehicles, bigger and more fattening meal portions in restaurants, and bigger less...
'X' logo installed atop Twitter building, spurring San Francisco to investigate permit violation (abcnews.go.com)
San Francisco has opened a complaint and launched an investigation of a giant “X” sign that cropped up Friday on top of the downtown headquarters of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter
Taylor Swift Fans Cause Seismic Activity Comparable to Small Earthquake at Seattle Eras Tour Shows (www.billboard.com)
Sinéad O’Connor, acclaimed Dublin singer, dies aged 56 (www.irishtimes.com)
Social Media Has Run Out of Fresh Ideas (www.wired.com)
The internet has become soulless and i hate it (tim.kicker.dev)
Japan’s population drops by nearly 800,000 with falls in every prefecture for the first time (www.theguardian.com)
Ship Lighting (startrek.website)
My biggest complaint with Live Action Trek vs the two Animation shows is that they seem obsessed with giving us a black ship on a black background. It’s nice to be given a reprieve, even if for only one episode.
1 in 10 flights taking off from UK are private jets (www.thetimes.co.uk)
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Meet the latest way the superrich prove they're really, totally worried about the environment: $10 million electric superyachts (www.businessinsider.com)
Meet the latest way the superrich prove they’re really, totally worried about the environment: $10 million electric superyachts::Electric cars? The superrich have already moved on to electric yachts.
What desktop environments are you using?
Not counting the Steam Deck, since KDE isn’t actually turned on while you’re running games....
We need a 4th emergency service for people in crisis to just evac them from bad situations, almost like the witness protection.
I don’t want to get too political in shower thoughts, but this would solve a lot of the hot button issues if more people just had safer and supportive environments to escape to and volunteers / paid professionals to help them on the other end.
Outcry over Quran burning in Sweden: A timeline (www.aljazeera.com)
Iraq has expelled Sweden’s ambassador shortly after protesters had stormed its embassy in Baghdad and set parts of the building on fire....
A.I. experts downplay ‘nightmare scenario of evil robot overlords’. Over 1,300 sign letter claiming it’s a ‘force for good, not a threat to humanity’ (fortune.com)
In an open letter published on Tuesday, more than 1,370 signatories—including business founders, CEOs and academics from various institutions including the University of Oxford—said they wanted to “counter ‘A.I. doom.’”...
Do you see a problem? (programming.dev)
If incandescent lightbulbs have a vacuum inside, why do they get so hot on the outside?
Shouldn’t the vacuum insulate the glass from the heat of the burning filament?
It's official: Smartphones will need to have replaceable batteries by 2027 (www.androidauthority.com)
Do you miss phones with replaceable batteries? By 2027, you won’t anymore because, by law, almost every smartphone will have them again.
Usage for Old Notbook (lemmy.world)
So my wife has a 10 year old low end notbook. 500Gb of storage (HDD), 2GB of GDR3 RAM, and an intel Celeron Processor N2806. It originally came with Win 8, then she “upgraded” to win 10 and after that it was pretty much unusable. I am talking CPU and Ram about 80-90% in idle, opening a browser got everything down to a crawl....
