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Anyone know how to stop a random alert that occasionally announces: "News Station Alert has arrived."?

I’ve searched elsewhere without a valid option. TIA.

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I was gifted an unopened pack of 3.5" floppy disks. What should I do with them? (wrong answers only)

Do you skip Star Trek intros when streaming?

I mean, I get it. For bingewatching to be effective such option must exist. But I just can’t imagine to skip Star Trek intros. It’s part of the anticipation, the joy, the ritual. What about you? Do you skip intros?

ELI5: What should I do about the newest privacy stuff in Firefox?

I can’t read long texts anymore, so I don’t really understand what’s going on. My internal bullshit-o-meter tells me that it’s being blown out of proportion....

How can I register to vote?

My US residency is a mess....

What was the first song you played after you got the car you always wanted or your first car?

Is there a dock that responds to touch screen movement?

Hey, so I know you can tap on a dock icon to launch the app, but when the dock is more than full and requires scrolling to shift the icons, this still cannot be done with the touch screen, based on docks I have tested. I tried the built in docks in Gnome on Pop, Ubuntu, and also Plank. None respond to an attempted drag via the...

The propaganda is falling on us like a hurricane right now. (USA). Should we discuss that here? Should such discussion be forbidden?

Where to find empty vapes? I want to harvest a battery

Any ideas?

Down with under-screen fingerprint sensors!

One of my favorite aspects of folding phones is the return of the fingerprint sensors built directly into the power button. This is objectively the ideal design, for reasons I assume I don’t have to explain....

Off-Topic Friday

Wanna chat about something non-infosec amongst those of us who frequent /c/cybersecurity? Here’s your chance! (Keep things civil & respectful please)

Are you seeing the propaganda? (USA). The machine is in high gear. The election is over, the right person already won, everybody voted for him/her, and if you disagree then you are criminally insane.

Who do they think they are?

If you use “they” to describe a nameless group of people and you mean anyone other than The Man (That’s how they get you.), you’re probably the one who’s wrong....

What second hand laptop should I buy?

My use case: I’m an engineering student, I need something with a lot of storage, hopefully SSD (right not I have MatLab, Anaconda and KiCAD taking up most of my 128 GB HD, and I had to uninstall the STM32 cube IDE from lack of storage), and reasonable processing performance so I can actually run these things at a reasonable...

Daww, it just wants scritchies

What was the nicest thing you SO has done/said to you?

being that you girlfriend, boyfriend, best friend, or whoever you decide to keep around

Should I use flatpaks or nix pkgs for sandboxed installation ? Greek

Beginners Guides

Hey everyone, I’m relatively new to linux and was looking for some advice/direction. I have been using Mint Debian Edition for around 6mo or so, and want to learn to use the command line efficiently and proficiently....