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How did marking corrections with the astrisk originate?

Just a random question that popped into my head while correcting a message I sent to a friend.

The hubris of AAA publishing in three panels.

Who had it worse: Enterprise-D or Voyager?

Which ship encountered worse natural disasters?

Pixel 9 Fold Pro - Backordered on Day 1 with T-Mobile (US)

Woke up early today and the first thought through my head was … Hey, the Pixel 9 Fold Pro is going to be available today. So I jumped on the site and found it… backordered until mid October....

♪ YOU ARE DEAD, DEAD, DEAAAAAAAAD ♪

It's been said it's always a game of chess with the Romulans

What is your take on youtubers looking at multiple cameras on their videos ?

I see this trend lately where a lot of youtubers tend to face and look at multiple cameras while they are explaining stuff....

Anyone made a DIY immutable distro?

I know you can build a Debian system with debootstrap. Using debootstrap it should be possible to create a custom image. The main partition could be read only with separate mounts for anything that need to be read write....

libmtp error when copying from ntfs to phone on Linux

Ok I was copying a bunch of games from one of my Windows drives over to my phone while booted into Linux. And I got this error that says “libmtp error: Could not open source file”. Thankfully I was able to copy the files when I was booted into Windows but it would be nice if I could Transfer files from my Windows drives...

I am in fear

ELI5: Does a DNS provider or an adversary know my real IP address if I have a DNS leak?

I use a VPN service that is connected to a server in another country, however this VPN service does not offer control over my DNS requests to block some sites so I preferred to use another DNS resolver that has this function....

Manual hobbies - active communities promotion thread

Active = one post in the last 7 days

Are there any other services that use the AtProtocol other than Bluesky?

All I can find are third party apps for Bluesky but I can’t find anything like a Lemmy style service or Instagram style service using the AtProtocol

Andrew Greenberg, co-creator of the classic RPG Wizardry, has passed away

Source: twitter.com/David_Mullich/…/1829574742686548110

Looking to Adopt - Advice Pls :)

My partner and I are recent graduates, and are looking to adopt. I’ve only lived with a dog briefly and them a cat, so I don’t have insight but I’m not opposed. Casting a wide net as I’m the one lacking confidence here, their gung-ho ;~;...

Easy WM based desktops to use

As a beginner I mainly focused on Cinnamon, XFCE and GNOME but want to try out a windowing DE on a VM to get a feel for things....

(Solved) How to save URL to homescreen? It doesn't keep the link! Grrr

Hi all, so as per title, when I use browser app to make a pwa or ‘add to homescreen’ it works, but then opens the home page not the actual link I had created. From memory there was a hack where you would put your phone offline, airplane mode I think’ and then it would save the link. But doesn’t work anymore. Any1 have...