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I just started using Linux... any great tips?

I just installed Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (Cinnamon) on an empty laptop a couple days ago and have been experimenting a lot. I’m coming from being a Windows user since I was just a little kid playing old DOS games on my grandpa’s Win-98 PC back in around 2000. My daily driver is currently running Windows 10 but I am pretty adamant...

Robbie Robertson, Leader of The Band, Dies at 80 (variety.com)

Guitarist-songwriter-singer Robbie Robertson, who led the Canadian-American group the Band to rock prominence in the 1970s and worked extensively with Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese, has died. He was 80....

How smart speakers, fitness trackers and even baby monitors are being used by domestic abusers (www.euronews.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1221538...

It looks familiar... (programming.dev)

AMA with Lemmy creators is live (lemmy.ml)

over at lemmy.ml/post/2920188

Blue Boy (OC) (lemmy.world)

Public Libraries were the original Freemium model.

Free to read all you want in-house, but if you want to take some home, you gotta pony up for that card....

Kickstarting a book about Enshittification since Amazon will not carry it (pluralistic.net)

Another example of how big tech is just corrupted to the core....

Retroid Pocket 2S now live. What's your preferred handheld for retro gaming? (www.goretroid.com)

Gaussian distro? (lemmy.ca)

This is completely random, but… has a Gaussian distribution ever been made? It’d be absolutely hilarious :D...

People sticking with audio jack phones, why is USB-C earphones not a solution?

Don’t get me wrong. Apple removing audio jack was the biggest facepalm in smartphone history. And you can thank it for not being able to make an upgrade without sacrificing audio jack (and SD card too :/). But USB-C is getting standardized everywhere now (laptops, smartphones, etc.). What makes USB-C earphones not worth the...

Tina's favorite place: my belly (monyet.cc)

cross-posted from: monyet.cc/post/68194...

EU says slavery inflicted 'untold suffering', hints at reparations (www.reuters.com)

July 18 (Reuters) - The European Union (EU) said on Tuesday that Europe’s slave-trading past inflicted “untold suffering” on millions of people and hinted at the need for reparations for what it described as a “crime against humanity”....

A Sweet Girl (lemmy.world)

Playing with some socks

Roots of a fallen Sequoia tree (lemmy.world)

Sequoia National Park

My matching dog and kitten (i.imgur.com)

Finally they may rest... (lemmy.ca)

TIL: The average single male changes his sheets just four times a year. (www.cbc.ca)

Watch out ladies, the man of your dreams may have the bed of your nightmares.

Creative Good: Why customers don’t want chat bots (creativegood.com)

The author argues that customers do not actually want chat bots for customer service, contrary to what companies claim. Chat bots can only handle simple, routine queries, but for complicated issues customers want to speak to a human representative. Companies are pushing chat bots to reduce costs and increase profits, without...