LMDE 6 “Faye” released! – The Linux Mint Blog (blog.linuxmint.com)
How to upgrade to LMDE 6
Key details behind Nord Stream pipeline blasts revealed by scientists (www.theguardian.com)
TIL: In the song DARE it's "you've got to press it on you" rather than "you've got depression on you" (genius.com)
Passengers left upside down as ride malfunctions in Canada (www.bbc.com)
The park's maintenance team brought the passengers safely to the ground after 30 minutes.
The Internet Is About to Get Much Worse (www.nytimes.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5400607...
Vancouver group says they stopped gangs from profiting over $100k by selling cocaine, heroin and meth (www.vancouverisawesome.com)
Google sued for negligence after man drove off collapsed bridge while following map directions (abcnews.go.com)
Torture, rape, killings in Manipur: An Indian state's brutal conflict (www.bbc.com)
Libya protesters set fire to mayor’s home in anger over Derna flood deaths (www.theguardian.com)
Beijing says it now has capacity to build Taiwan high-speed rail link from Chinese mainland (www.scmp.com)
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Wall Street Bet Big on Used-Car Loans for Years. Now a Crisis May Be Looming. (www.propublica.org)
The used-car market’s hot streak may be ending as borrowers struggle to make payments and regulators say some auto lenders are “setting up consumers to fail.”
Apple Discusses iPhone Repairability at Keynote for First Time in Its History (www.404media.co)
For the first time, Apple discussed repairability during its iPhone launch event. An engineer mentioned the new iPhone 15 Pro models were designed with a structural frame that makes the back glass easier to replace. This comes after the iPhone 14 introduced a design that allows removal of the front or back. Repair advocates...
Poverty Rate Soared in 2022 as Aid Ended and Prices Rose (www.nytimes.com)
Google's dominance of internet search faces major challenge in legal showdown with U.S. regulators (apnews.com)
The U.S. government is taking aim at what has been an indomitable empire: Google’s ubiquitous search engine that has become the internet’s main gateway....
the new clone (sh.itjust.works)
Vietnam Air, Boeing near $10 billion deal for 50 737 Max planes, Bloomberg reports (www.cnbc.com)
Vietnam Airlines will sign an initial agreement to buy about 50 Boeing 737 Max jets in a deal valued at $10 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter....
Uttar Pradesh Shocker: 8-Hour-Old Infant Buried Alive in Kanpur, Miraculously Rescued by Couple (www.latestly.com)
Consumer Nintendo Switch 2 rumored to have more RAM than the Xbox Series S (www.notebookcheck.net)
A new Nintendo Switch 2 rumor has surfaced claiming that the next-generation hybrid console could actually arrive with more memory than a powerful rival like the Microsoft Xbox Series S. The same source has also offered an update in regard to the Switch 2’s potential DLSS support and ray-tracing capabilities.
Barred from freezing their eggs at home, single Chinese women are traveling elsewhere (www.nbcnews.com)
Egg freezing has become a growing topic of discussion in China, where officials alarmed by the country’s first population decline in six decades are trying to boost the birth rate even as young people are increasingly putting off marriage and childbearing or avoiding it altogether....
Had to burn off some excess oil from my chainmail hauberk. Thought it was cool (youtube.com)
So we used too much linseed oil, so we had to burn it off so we could recoat it with a lighter gunoil.
NSA Orders Employees to Spy on the World “With Dignity and Respect” (theintercept.com)
This week in KDE: Custom ordering for KRunner search results (pointieststick.com)
pfetch-rs: A rewrite of pfetch in Rust (github.com)
I really like pfetch, so much that I have it set up to run every time I open a terminal. Since the original pfetch is no longer maintained, I decided to rewrite it in a compiled programming language with a buch of new features. It runs about 10x faster than the POSIX version, which is very noticable on slower devices. Any...
Dentist accused of killing wife by poisoning her protein shakes set to enter a plea to charges (apnews.com)
A Colorado dentist accused of killing his wife by lacing her protein shakes with poison is set to enter a plea in court to a first-degree murder charge on Tuesday....