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What could happen if you would just walk into a police station and say: I want to turn myself in and I take the 5th.
Of course without committing a crime before and without saying anything else.
Western-made armor isn't working in Ukraine because it wasn't designed for a conflict of this intensity, Ukrainian analyst says (www.businessinsider.com)
Western-made armor is failing in Ukraine because it wasn’t designed to sustain a conflict of this intensity, a military analyst told The Wall Street Journal....
YouTube prankster says he had no idea he was scaring man who shot him (www.nbcwashington.com)
A YouTube prankster who was shot by one his targets told jurors Tuesday he had no inkling he had scared or angered the man who fired on him as the prank was recorded....
Zelenskiy secures $325m in new US aid even as Republican support wanes (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine president delivers upbeat message on war progress during second White House visit since Russian invasion...
The Chinese calendar is 4721 years old. Did it have the same problem as the Julian calendar with an imprecise number of days per year?
Fyi there are 365.242374 days in a year.
Any distros like linux mint with gnome desktop?
Ubuntu is great but uses snaps and adds other canonical bits. Linux Mint is essentially perfect but does not come with gnome desktop. Is there a ubuntu based distro that is essentially like linux mint but offers gnome as a desktop?
No love lost: AppLovin helpfully releases tool to switch from Unity to Godot or Unreal (www.pocketgamer.biz)
AppLovin’s attempts to acquire Unity last year turned sour when Unity opted for a merger with rivals ironSource instead . Now, in the ongoing shockwave of Unity's unpopular introductio...
Twitter, Reddit, Unity, Blizzard... who else? (startrek.website)
Unity's Plan Won't Work, but Someone Else's Will | TechnoFeudalism in Games and Beyond (youtu.be)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/5196308...
French ambassador is being 'held hostage at the French embassy' in Niger, says Macron (edition.cnn.com)
Do you pirate? And do you justify pirating? i.e., what is your piracy philosophy?
Well, my friend, he’s kinda poor he can’t afford some books and some streaming services, so he pirates. He pirate books, audiobook and videos and other stuff. Sometimes he buys books he likes a lot out of loyalty to the author (yeah, I don’t understand it either), he likes to read physical books, but yeah, if he hates the...
YSK: The Potential and Profitability of Trash Management: An Insight from Sweden
This is aparently good information fit for here, but the original post had a flame-war-starting tone and was in an inappropriate community, so I asked GPT-4 to rewrite it in a better tone and I’m crossposting it here....
New US sanctions target workarounds that let Russia get Western tech for war (apnews.com)
Press release from the State Department home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1731...
Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off (www.theverge.com)
Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off::Unity has announced that starting on January 1st, 2024, it will implement a new pricing model that will charge developers based on how many times a game was installed.
Linux can be used at your workplaces (lemmy.ml)
I’m just tired. On the last post about having Linux at our work, many people that seems to be an IT worker said there have been several issues with Linux that was not easy to manipulate or control like they do with Windows, but I think they just are lazy to find out ways to provide this support. Because Google forces all their...
Pentagon-Funded Study Warns Dementia Among U.S. Officials Poses National Security Threat (theintercept.com)
Supposed Steam Deck killers are missing the point (www.notebookcheck.net)
Linux advocacy discussion (mastodon) (mastodon.social)
Two main points:...
Elon Musk says he withheld Starlink over Crimea to avoid escalation (www.bbc.com)
Elon Musk says he refused to give Kyiv access to his Starlink communications network over Crimea to avoid complicity in a “major act of war”....
Finnish parliament drops Pepsi as fallout continues from its addition to international sponsors of war list (english.nv.ua)
Install Steam games on external drive
How can I install and run Steam games on external drive? Because I tried to format the drive in ExFAT, NTFS and btrfs (the same of my machine) but with a filesystem I can install the game but it doesn’t start at all, and with another I can’t add the drive as other location on steam
I'm not even sure I want to know (lemmy.world)
Pentagon has the worst IT helpdesk in the US government (www.theregister.com)
Pentagon has the worst IT helpdesk in the US government::DoD is dead last for tech support, equipment, communication, and function, say staff
China looking to car sales as it seeks to get economy back on track (www.scmp.com)
As Ukraine’s Fight Grinds On, Talk of Negotiations Becomes Nearly Taboo (www.nytimes.com)
If you have the power will you ban high fructose corn syrup?
rt, will you ban it?
Are you holding off on any game in particular right now?
I suppose Baldur’s Gate 3 could be an example for a lot of people. Any recent or just “recent” release you are waiting for to get at the moment?
What is your experience with sleeping on a Futon?
Hey people from Lemmy, i like to try out a Futon since many people report they found better sleep with it. I would love to read some more experiences....
WinRAR zero-day exploited since April to hack trading accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Xi Jinping unexpectedly pulls out of BRICS summit speech in 'extraordinary' move (news.sky.com)
The Chinese leader has flown out to South Africa for the summit but asked his commerce minister to read out his remarks.
Does the US have zero employee protection laws??
Just following on from this: lemmy.nz/post/1134134...
The Feds Asked TikTok for Lots of Domestic Spying Features (gizmodo.com)
Whats the least fun fact you know?
Best free, no registration browser-access GPT3.5 or even GPT4 currently?
Need it for my research project on pollution in Europe. But also for general stuff, so not a science based one, just general.
Absolutely nothing of note happened in China in June 1989, right? (lemmy.world)
Why don't more people use desktop Linux? I have a theory you might not like (www.zdnet.com)
I’m curious to hear thoughts on this. I agree for the most part, I just wish people would see the benefit of choice and be brave enough to try it out.
The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 17-08-2023 (lemmy.world)
Have you been spending hours trying to pass a level? Or maybe you are completely addicted to a newly bought game. Do you have a question about a game or would like to share something else? In the Weekly Discussion Thread, you can do it all!...
As an owner of children, I approve this message (lemmy.ml)
how is Lemmy going for you?
Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I’m just curious to know how y’all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?
🪦🪦🪦 (reddthat.com)
Critical support for the Lemmy world peeps in their fight against pro-intellectual property nerds (hexbear.net)
Streaming TV costs now higher than cable, as 'crash' finally hits (9to5mac.com)
Not enough monitors (lemmy.world)
The year of Linux on the desktop is closer. Linux reaches 3% of desktops (web.archive.org)