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  • wtf, lol that must be some damn good butta!

  • Green - An environmentalist community @lemmy.ml
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    Great Idea for food waste

    This app doesn't seem to be as popular in the US as in Europe. But I thought it was pretty amazing how they were able to basically create a collective of retailers and stores that want to sell their day old food rather than throw it in the trash. We REALLY need something like this in the US in every city.

  • I think there are a lot of misconceptions about what federated means. IMHO, it would be really cool if there were an easy way to share and remove a profile across instances that wasn't stored on a server, and it was yours and yours alone to do with what you like.

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL: Why good furniture is so hard to find these days

    It’s Not Just Wayfair: Why Does ALL Of Your Furniture Fall Apart?

    Interesting commentary on what happened to the furniture industry in the United States.

  • The city government takes care of the paper work, everyone needs one to get essential services in Spain and it has to be renewed every year or so. (The site below specifies expats, but everyone needs one)

    Here is some more information:

    https://www.thinkspain.com/information/moving-to-spain/what-is-the-padron-and-how-to-register-on-it

    From that site:

    If you are an expat living in Spain, it's important to get registered with your local town hall on the padrón.The Padrón is essentially a register of the local population of a town or city in Spain. In Spanish it’s full name is Certificado de Empadronamiento. It is the certificate that confirms your address, your connection with the town/city, and your official residency in that area. This register allows the town hall to track the population and calculate the resources that should be allocated.

  • Where I live in Spain this is exactly the case, it's called a PadrĂłn, and pretty much everyone adheres to it. Without it it's impossible to do most any business in Spain.

  • Great point. Think of how incredible it would be if you could go on line and get manuals to fix any part of anything you own from a PS5 to a Refrigerator, to a Rivan Truck including all the protocols, chip sets, ect... Or just explore them to see how things work, I'm sure a lot of great inventions and ideas came about from people tinkering with and exploring manuals like these. Anymore these are considered "top secret" and you have to reverse engineer anything to figure out how it works. I think this speaks more to the fact that the things you "buy" these days aren't really considered yours. You are borrowing the IP to use for a fee and if it breaks, tough shit. Throw it out and get a new one.

  • Ah, good point. I do have a monitor with HDR, but I never really paid attention to it in the past. AFAIK unfortunately there isn't really any good support for HDR without a lot of messing with the window server. It seems to be in the works though by various groups.

  • No big surprise here, stars/star reviews are in general completely worthless. I don't really even bother with them anymore.

  • Similar to this guy I haven't used windows to play games for around 2 years now. I have around 30-40 games and I haven't found a game that doesn't work, yet...

  • News @lemmy.world
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    I thought this would be appropriate since I see 404media's articles linked from lemmy often.

  • heavy as boulders?

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Has SpaceX Done Anything NASA Hasn't?

  • Just had a similar issue a few days ago, where my system would freeze and spent 2 days trying to solve it. Ran a memory test, no issues. Tried NVIDIA drivers 470,535 and 550 with different combinations of the kernel including 6.x and 5.x (make sure you're using generic). Issue was still there, grabbed a copy of windows and tried it there, same issue. That narrowed it down to a hardware issue. Started tweaking the bios and found the problem was a pcie gen issue, my motherboard was automatically setting it to 5 which was causing the crash I set it to 3, no more problems. You could use the same techniques to narrow down your problem as well. (Nothing was ever reported in any logs since it was a hard freeze, which made this a huge pain in the ass to fix)

  • Cool! Interesting, I thought True North meant that they somehow pointed north given another reference. Thanks for the info.

  • What is this thing? @lemmy.world
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    Anyone know what this is? They are embedded in the sidewalks around the city

    Any ideas?

  • By far one of the most interesting articles I've seen on Lemmy so far, thanks for the link

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Anyone else have this happen after grabbing a coffee?

    I grab a cup coffee from a shop and it's ruined because the barista is wearing cologne or perfume that inevitably has gotten on the cup and it's all I can smell when I take a sip. I guess 2 things, this means 1 they haven't thoroughly washed their hands, and 2 I can't drink the coffee because it smells so bad and I have to throw it out. Not sure why, but I haven't had this happen with any other type of food/drink, just coffee.

    News @lemmy.world
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    The company hasn’t been the same since Sam Altman’s return — and its treatment of Scarlett Johansson should worry everyone

    Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    Technology @lemmy.world
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    Apex Legends streamers surprised to find aimbot and other hacks added to their PCs in the middle of major competition via anti-cheat software

    Wow it finally happened. So glad I switched to steam running on linux mint last week. I refused to install helldivers because it wanted to install some no holds barred god level permissions anti-cheat software. Windows 11 was the last straw for me. Good times..

    The volunteers at the Anti-Cheat Police Department have since issued a PSA announcing, "There is currently an RCE exploit being abused in [Apex Legends]" and that it could be delivered via from the game itself, or its anti-cheat protection. "I would advise against playing any games protected by EAC or any EA titles", they went on to say.

    As for players of the tournament, they strongly recommended taking protective measures. "It is advisable that you change your Discord passwords and ensure that your emails are secure. also enable MFA for all your accounts if you have not done it yet", they said, "perform a clean OS reinstall as soon as possible. Do not take any chances with your personal information, your PC may have been e

    Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    TikTok Ban, good or bad?

    As someone in the US who has had their private data leaked multiple times (ive lost count) and is extremely careful when browsing you tube as to not be drawn into a conspiracy ridden rabbit hole, I'm not sure what the point of this tik tok ban is. To me tik tok is social media business as usual. If congress is going to go this hard on a social media company and privacy concerns they should be doing this with all the other companies that pry into our private lives and try their best to manipulate us as well (car makers, appliance manufactures, phone makers, wearbales, ect...) otherwise to me this comes across as the US congress extorting a single company to make billionaires richer. It has been shown time and time again that even US based social media companies are vulnerable to influencing conspiracy theorists and swaying the votes of thousands of people.I feel like we are at the pinnacle of technological ignorance here. Thoughts?

    Technology @lemmy.world
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    Microsoft, doing it's part to make the world a better place.

    No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    I'm a US citizen, people in other countries, what do you think when you read stories like these about the US health care system?

    I'd like to know other non-US citizen's opinions on your health care system are when you read a story like this. I know there are worse places in the world to receive health care, and better. What runs through your heads when you have a medical emergency?

    A little background on my question:

    My son was having trouble breathing after having a cold for a couple of days and we needed to stop and take the time to see if our insurance would be accepted at the closest emergency room so we didn't end up with a huge bill (like 2000$-5000$). This was a pretty involved ~10 minute process of logging into our insurance carrier, and unsuccessfully finding the answer there. Then calling the hospital and having them tell us to look it up by scrolling through some links using the local search tool on their website. This gave me some serious pause, what if it was a real emergency, like the kind where you have no time to call and see if the closest hospital takes your insurance.

    Programming @programming.dev
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    Codeberg.org Opinions?

    codeberg.org Codeberg.org

    Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

    Codeberg.org

    Hello, I was thinking of moving all my open source projects here. Anyone have any opinions? Excuse the post if this has been discussed previously, I was unable to find anything directly relating to peoples opinions on using it.

    Edit: Lots of great discussion going on here! Thanks to everyone who contributed! I wasn't sure before but now I am set on moving all my projects over. The fact that it will be federated makes it even more appealing given that github is now requiring phone numbers and other personal information in order to create an account on their site.

    Games @lemmy.world
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    NVidia Shield For Streaming Steam Games Opinions?

    I really get fatigued sitting in my chair playing steam games, I almost pulled the trigger on one of these the other day with the intent of installing moonlight, and sunshine to stream to my TV. Anyone have any opinions? I saw there's 2 versions, does it make sense to get the pro version? Can I use my PS5 controller on it?

    Edit: Thanks for all the input everyone!You all have given me a lot to mull over, much appreciated.

    Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Spam calls and texts are driving me fing crazy anyone have suggestions?

    After repeated data breaches that no company really seems to give a s--- about my phone is blowing up with literally hundreds of spam calls and texts month. I get and make MAAAAYBE 2 or 3 important calls per month, 180-200 of the rest are literally all spam. Anyone have any suggestions, apps ect that they have found refuge with? I really don't use SMS that much either, mostly it's via signal, discord whats app, ect...

    Just to put it out there I run CalyxOS on a Pixel 5a.

    [Dormant] Electric Vehicles (Moved to [email protected]) @lemmy.world
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    Aptera Motors Solar Powered EV

    This car seems pretty amazing if it comes to fruition.

    Coffee @lemmy.world
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    Rocket Milano Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzing

    I love my new Rocket Milano, but it buzzes like craaaAAzy when making a shot. I understand the pump buzzes, but it also sounds like there is bare metal hitting metal inside, like a metal tube is rattling against the metal case. Is this normal?

    Technology @lemmy.world
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    How do people find good information on the internet these days?

    It used to be that you would do a search on a relevant subject and get blog posts, forums posts, and maybe a couple of relevant companies offering the product or service. (And if you wanted more information on said company you could give them a call and actually talk to a real person about said service) You could even trust amazon and yelp reviews. Now searches have been completely taken over by Forbes top 10 lists, random affiliate link click through aggregators that copy and paste each others work, review factories that will kill your competitors and boost your product stars, ect.... It seems like the internet has gotten soooo much harder to use, just because you have to wade through all the bullshit. It's no wonder people switch to reddit and lemmy style sites, in a way it mirrors a little what kind of information you used to be able to garner from the internet in it's early days. What do people do these days to find genuine information about products or services?

    Linux @programming.dev
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    Favorite Linux Prompts?

    I was curious as to what prompts people find are the best for development? I'm looking for a change from the generic debian:

    PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '

    Which yields:

    dell-xps-13@pop-os:~$

    Machine Learning @programming.dev
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    Training using AMD GPUs?

    Everything seems to be very Cuda centric, has anyone tried training or other ml projects using AMD GPUs? How was it?