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Which link/bookmark manger do you prefer, and why?
  • Ok, I realize this is c/selfhosted, but I have a question… why not use something like the xBrowserSync extension for this?

    Aside of someone could associate the data to me for my list of favorite web places, which has 100 other exposure points. Is there another use case you’re solving?

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    Farmers Hiding Bird Flu Cases in Cattle from the FedGov
  • I thought they already test the milk from each farm. Truck comes to pick up your milk and takes a sample to check quality and butterfat levels to pay out on. If you allow bad milk into the truck, you just bought the whole truck as it can’t be used.

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    I've never wanted a smart fridge before now
  • I’m gonna. Amp out here to see if there’s a good fridge maker out there still.
    Samsung, whirlpool, lg, and ge all seem to be crossed off.

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    Behind the Baltimore bridge collapse is a familiar story of a corporation cutting corners
  • Because corporate personhood is different than person personhood?

    I always find it interesting to take corporate fines, translate them to a % of gross income and then apply it to my salary to put it in perspective.

    Here’s the best part, a basic 1st offense traffic ticket is usually way more expensive. (I assume a ticket would be around $250 not counting the increased insurance rates.)

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    Does portable bluetooth speaker with USB input exist?
  • Are you looking for something like the jabra speak 510?

    https://a.co/d/4fhFWxm

    It has a cord that wraps around the base for charging and it works as a speaker off the computer.

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    Do you drink milk from the cereal bowl?
  • How about you do you? If they’re going to judge or exclude you for drinking some cereal milk from the bowl, who needs those people anyway? Scan the room while you drink the cereal bowl milk and identify the small minded judging you and rule them out as individual unworthy or your consideration.

    Be happy, enjoy life. Jump in puddles and sing!

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    Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired
  • Kagi! I can’t say it enough, it’s the new growth in the underbrush from the dumpster fire of google. Web archive of sites is there and tot can use context filters. You can even prioritize sites in results. I don’t to see Pinterest in results ever again.

    Yes it’s a paid search, but the priority is bringing quality results without ads. This is a reasonable trade off to me that, so far, keeps their interest in serving the searching end user as their customer, not their target.

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    Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles
  • I’ve never gotten past Luke-warm with duck duck go. I don’t have anything bad to say about it, but I don’t really have any praises to sing beyond it gives us the privacy we ought have.

    Duck duck go never “engaged” me as a user so I don’t have meaningful feedback to give.

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    Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles
  • Unfortunate at best. But if I moved away from every product where company leaders demonstrate themselves to be crappy people, I don’t think there would be anything left.

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    Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles
  • Not that anyone asked, but I’ve been really happy using kagi as my primary search engine. Qwant is usually #2 on my list.

    But if I’m trying buy something, I’ll use google if I can otherwise find it through the others.

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    DOJ Slams XCast with $10 Million Fine Over Massive Illegal Robocall Operation
  • Slam blocked by uno reverse card apparently

    [quote]The order, which also imposes a $10 million civil penalty judgment, has been suspended due to XCast's inability to pay.[\quote]

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    What are your tips for saving money and reducing waste?
  • If you have space to store stuff buy bulk in things that don’t expire.

    Make your own cleaners for some things. Vinegar, dawn soap, and rubbing alcohol are the base for most.

    Boardwalk laundry detergent has been a great cost saver. You have to buy 40 lbs at a time, but it works great. We typically use half the recommended amount since it’s made for larger washers.

    Watch for commercial products as sometimes this is the way to go for simple items that need to be durable.

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    Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads
  • I was surprised to see lemmy.world didn’t defederate. I hope it does. And, I hope a mod weighs in on the planned direction for the instance.

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  • Good morning everyone. I've got the age old question of what distro should I use. I got started with Ubuntu and eventually moved to Linux Mint Cinnamon. I'm pretty happy with using it as a daily driver, and it's worked reasonably well with my NVIDIA graphics card. I enjoy a bit of the "it just works" I've experienced here, though there's been a few things I've had to address with light usage of the terminal; using the right audio out by default, and disabling HDMI video sources I'll never use. I'd say I'm probably somewhere in the beginner-moderate capability for use of terminal.

    I've got Fedora, Debian, Majaro, Gentoo, Ubuntu, and Kali (not a daily driver) installed in virtualbox as VMs. Linux will be used as my daily driver and must accommodate occasional steam gaming. I don't want dual boot windows on my machine, it living in a VM is adequate for any one-off needs.

    I think I'm going between Debian and Fedora, though I think Debian might be the way I'm leaning, as I want to get further upstream in the communities. I don't know how to explain it, but I feel a bit "bored" with mint. I think I'm eyeballing some of the fun stuff that exists in KDE.

    This machine is my daily driver and used for work, so as long as I can get the basics in place to connect to my work VM through Horizion I'm OK. I do have a backup device to use for work in a pinch.

    Laptop/setup overview:

    • 9th gen intel I7 processor
    • 64GB RAM
    • NVIDIA GForce RTX-2060
    • Generic style USB3.0 DisplayLink docking station
    • Secondary display link device
    • I'm running two 34" 4k monitors (3440x1440) side by side, another output on an HDMI duplicator running a 27" and a 55" 4k tv (,1920x1080) and the laptop display (1920x1080) is the 5th screen) so far working as intended, but I can't get only the built in display to run at 125% scale without affecting the others.

    Should I be looking at ways to better customize Mint, or am I on the right path looking at Debian and Fedora? Are there other disros I should be evaluating?

    EDIT: I think what I'm wanting is something that gets new features more frequently, yet doesn't become unstable. I feel drawn to the desktop eye-candy that I see getting featured with KDE desktops. I seem to believe I'm missing out on something, but can't directly state what. Ultimately, I think I simply want to move to a more core/upstream version of Linux so that I get new functionality faster. I'm trying to find what I desperately need but never knew it existed.

    EDIT2: Thanks everyone I really appreciate all the info and it's given me a better perspective on what to do next on my learning journey. It's fun, because there's so much to choose from and each has its own sprit.

    EndeavorOS has been installed as a VM, and Fedora's KDE Spin in progress!

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