I once met a person that never drank water, only soft drinks. It’s not the unhealthiness of this that disturbed me, but the fact they did it without the requisite paperwork.
Unlike those disorganised people I have a formal waiver. I primarily drink steam and crushed glaciers.
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You're an archeologist from a future civilization. What would you think of our civilization based on the Internet?
Companies had copystriked all the arts and knowledge to hoard it into their now dead servers to get profit from subscription services only, so the only peak at humanity now are blogs, memes, and random posts.
HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS delivered via automatic updates — many users face black screen after Windows pushes new firmware (www.tomshardware.com)
On May 26, a user on HP’s support forums reported that a forced, automatic BIOS update had bricked their HP ProBook 455 G7 into an unusable state. Subsequently, other users have joined the thread to sound off about experiencing the same issue....
The best computer from 2014 (sh.itjust.works)
While the US and EU are putting up barriers to Chinese cars, Australians are buying them at record levels (www.abc.net.au)
The US gave up sending Ukraine Excalibur guided artillery shells costing $100,000 because they rarely hit their target, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
A Staggering 19x Energy Jump in Capacitors May Be the Beginning of the End for Batteries (www.popularmechanics.com)
Where The Hell Is Xbox Exclusive Perfect Dark? (www.youtube.com)
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/2482871...
Dual headphone jack smartphone scores high in new reparability video (www.notebookcheck.net)
Besides lemmy, what's another good reddit alternative?
Hi! Recently exiled reddit user, here. I’m curious what other alternatives to reddit there are, besides Lemmy, and Raddle, of course. Also, imho, Phuks is a good alternative, there’s no hate-speech (that I’m aware of) and people are pretty respectful. Anyways, let’s hear your suggestions! Thank you!
gimmie (mander.xyz)
SD cards finally expected to hit 4TB in 2025 (arstechnica.com)
Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, printer for school, homework printer you are a printer we are all printers (www.theverge.com)
Verge editor laments the perverse incentives of SEO rankings.
BitTorrent is No Longer the ‘King’ of Upstream Internet Traffic (torrentfreak.com)
Can you un-smart a smart tv?
Instead of ‘splurging’ on a dumb tv bc they’re more expensive now thanks to the data sompanies sell off of smart tvs I was considering getting a smart tv and dumbing it down. Is the way to do this never connecting it to the internet? And is that the only way?
Lemmy, what's your internet speed in mbps?
Boeing: Last Week Tonight (youtu.be)
Its been one of those weeks.. (lemmy.ca)
Roku’s Ultimatum: Surrender Jury Trial Rights or Lose Access to Your TVs (programming.dev)
Did your Roku TV decide to strong arm you into giving up your rights or lose your FULLY FUNCTIONING WORKING TV? Because mine did....
Windows 11 now supports USB4 at 80Gbps, also known as USB 4 2.0 | Faster USB4 devices could start appearing in 2024 (www.techspot.com)
Windows 11 now supports USB4 at 80Gbps, also known as USB 4 2.0 | Faster USB4 devices could start appearing in 2024::undefined
There’s one in every friend group (lemmy.world)
Never Again (dubvee.org)
I bought 5 of these less than two years ago, though they were the 500 GB model. Every single one of them has failed - some within 45 days and just outside the return period. The last one, which I honestly forgot was still running and thought I’d replaced, failed this morning....
Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire (www.tomshardware.com)
Bluesky, a trendy rival to X, finally opens to the public (www.washingtonpost.com)
Bluesky, a trendy rival to X, finally opens to the public::undefined
Floating-point arithmetic (lemmy.ml)
Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin (arstechnica.com)
Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin::US government tracking the energy implications of booming bitcoin mining in US.
Computer RAM gets biggest upgrade in 25 years but it may be too little, too late — LPCAMM2 won't stop Apple, Intel and AMD from integrating memory directly on the CPU (www.techradar.com)
Computer RAM gets biggest upgrade in 25 years but it may be too little, too late — LPCAMM2 won’t stop Apple, Intel and AMD from integrating memory directly on the CPU::LPCAMM2 is a revolution in RAM, but it faces an uphill struggle
Small Android Phone (smallandroidphone.com)
I just mentioned this in a comment, but thought it might be helpful for a larger audience. I’m not affiliated with these people, but I would really really like a smaller Android phone. They also seem motivated to try and make something happen.
The giga crystal (sh.itjust.works)
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Some Beeper users say Apple banned their Macs from iMessage (9to5google.com)
"If you tell a lie big enough and tell it frequently enough, people will eventually come to believe it". What is an example of this happening today?
I would really rather that these were actual examples, and not conspiracy theories. We all have our own unsubstantiated ideas about what shadowy no-gooders are doing, but I’d rather hear about things that are actually happening.
Can An Iranian Silkworm Battery Beat A US Carrier Group? (Naval 17) | DCS (www.youtube.com)
PipeWire 1.0 Released For Managing Audio/Video Steams On The Linux Desktop (www.phoronix.com)