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Productivity memes might be a killer for your actual productivity, but they really help to speed your day up. (endlesstalk.org)

Finding a good old-style offline German course

I want to find a good German course. I know there’s Duolingo, Babbel, Rosetta Stone, etc., but I find they don’t work for me....

He found the Oracle (loot.buckodr.ink)

23 October 2023 (sh.itjust.works)

Lemmy users looking at stock photos (lemmy.world)

Am i to late for the stock photo memes?

What is this Brave domain

I turned off telemetry and “privacy preserving analytics” but saw the URL below in my DNS logs. Does anybody know what it is? I found this repo but don’t know what it means....

How Ubuntu Linux snuck into high-end Dell laptops (and why it's called 'Project Sputnik') (www.zdnet.com)

Today, the Dell XPS-13 with Ubuntu Linux is easily the most well-known Linux laptop. Many users, especially developers – including Linus Torvalds – love it. As Torvalds recently said, “Normally, I wouldn’t name names, but I’m making an exception for the XPS 13 just because I liked it so much that I also ended up buying...

bought used machine - needle broke - diagnosis needed

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/3317096...

22 October 2023 (sh.itjust.works)

The Monkey's Paw - A place where you can make a wish and ruin other's (sopuli.xyz)

The Monkey’s Paw is originally a short story written in 1902 by W.W. Jacobs, where the paw grants three wishes in a very cruel way. As in: did you wish for money? Well, enjoy collecting the inheritance from your now dead beloved relative....

Procrastinating Pikachu used dash!.... it's not very effective... (slrpnk.net)

Now he has an unscheduled meeting with his supervisor

Happy Little Force (lemmy.world)

The New Christmas Special (endlesstalk.org)

3,000-year-old necropolis found in Batman (www.hurriyetdailynews.com)

The Andor Movie Spin-Off I've Been Waiting For (endlesstalk.org)

Countries/Hosters for a lowcost VPS near USA?

For many a year my needs of DMCA-ignoring VPS hosting have been met by various Eastern European hosters, who either ignored DMCA altogether or helpfully passed along all information without any further actions....

"Doctored" By Mr.Lovenstein (lemmy.world)

mrlovenstein.com...

Linux DNS settings is a total mess

I recently tried to enable system-wide DNS over https on Fedora. To do so I had to to some research and found out how comfusing it is for the average user (and even experienced users) to change the settings. In fact there are multiple backends messing with system DNS at the same time....

Created an alternative to knock for downloading ACSM files (gitlab.com)

I have just created an alternative to knock (and other tools, just going for the simplicity of knock) for downloading ACSM files. Thought some of you might find it useful. It is still pretty early in its development, but it is working.