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Looks delicious! I totally misread the title and wondered why you'd keep making soup if you're sick of doing so 😄

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Is this AI slop? Because it's certainly wrong.

Judas Priest: No original members are in the current touring lineup.

Rob Halfords left in the late 90s but returned in the 00s and is still the frontman.

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TIL. That all happened before their first album though. Not sure I'd count that.

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How did Grok learn this info?

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cd? Let me introduce you to my lord and savior zoxide

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"Ori and the Will of the Wisps" for me. I played the first one a few years ago and really liked it. So far, the sequel is even better!

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Is it possible to try Graphene out, like dual booting on PCs? Without throwing the existing Android setup away or bricking it?

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So, what is it? Rooter? Or rauter?

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No mention of Pizza Shawarma or Pizza Kebab from The Netherlands?

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Problem in that many games using UE5 are coming out, even AA and indy games. A GTX 1060 usually won't do for UE5 unless you accept severely degraded graphics.

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mIRC with gifs? Some people thought it was a good idea to use it as a game engine! It was used for e.g. Shapez

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Can't be. Tim Curry is clearly a muppet

Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST ( automaton-media.com )

It's honestly kinda crazy how long some games spend in development. The Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy is a perfect example of something that should've been quick but ended up being so bloated and took forever to make. ...

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Gaming was always expensive. Super Mario 3 was 50 dollars in 1990. That's 120 dollars in today's money.

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I like the mbin interface much better than Lemmy itself.

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Pasta aglio olio peperonici

  • Cook pasta in salt water as described on the package
  • Put a thick layer of olive oil in a small saucepan on low heat
  • Add pressed garlic and a finely chopped chilli pepper. Make sure the oil stays cool enough not to fry the garlic and chilli. It's just to flavour the oil.
  • Drain the pasta, add the oil, top with too much parmesan cheese

If you want to fancy it up, fry some sliced mushrooms and/or pancetta and add it in.

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Ohh, I'm going to try that, thanks!

Meta progression in roguelites was fun for a while, but it's starting to feel unrewarding

For a while, meta progression felt like a clever way to keep games fresh. You’d unlock new gear, perks, or passive bonuses between runs, and that sense of forward motion made failure feel productive. I still remember how ground-breaking this felt the first time I played Rogue Legacy. The game nearly made me look forward to ...

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I agree. I couldn't finish Hollow Knight because my reaction times just aren't what they used to be. It sucked because otherwise I love that game. I haven't even attempted Silksong.

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I'm about 40 hours deep into "Star Rupture", a pretty fun factory builder / survival / tower defense game that was recently released in early access. I really like it so far.

Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility, Proving Trolls Wrong ( www.phoronix.com )

Sylvestre Ledru who serves as the lead developer of the uutils project for the Rust Coreutils implementation presented at FOSDEM 2026 this weekend on this initiative. Ledru has spoken at FOSDEM in prior years on Rust Coreutils and this year's talk focused primarily on Ubuntu 25.10's adoption of it in place of GNU Coreutils. ...

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Your first mistake was using Ubuntu on a production server. Canonical has made more than enough questionable decisions over the past decade that using Ubuntu for a production system should be a red flag.

Maestro ,
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Switching can be hard sonetimes. At work we still have a few Ubuntu 20.04 LTS machines that need to be replaced.

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If the service is free, then you are the product. Just pay for mail. Someone here mentioned Posteo. I use Soverin.net. It costs peanuts. Also, make sure you get your own domain name. It makes migrating email to a different provider trivial. It's really worth the 10 or so Euro per year.

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Hah, not from me! It won't be the first time that I buy a game on Steam that I previously played for free on EGS, just so I can buy the DLC. I will never spend a cent on EGS.

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Not really. They just announced they want to age gate VPNs too.

Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption ( it.slashdot.org )

As evidence, the lawsuit cites unnamed "courageous whistleblowers" who allege that WhatsApp and Meta employees can request to view a user's messages through a simple process, thus bypassing the app's end-to-end encryption. "A worker need only send a 'task' (i.e., request via Meta's internal system) to a Meta engineer with an ...

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MitM: Meta-in-the-Middle

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With e2e you don't need to trust the servers. You only need to trust the client that does the encryption.

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That's a given I think. If you can't trust the OS then you can't trust the client.

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I play the clarinet pretty well, and the trumpet decently-ish. I can get a sound out of a lot of instruments though. At home I also have an acoustic guitar, a keyboard, bagpipes and a euphonium.

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At least we don't have to look at his face

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Beautiful penmanship. My only comment is that your ascenders and descenders are too short. They should be just as tall as the base letter (that is: a "t" or "f" or "g" should be twice as tall as an "a" or "o". You can get lined paper with 4 lines instead of 2 lines if you find that easier to practice.

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Have you ever seen watermelon eating competitions?

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How old is yours? Mine is nearly 4 and has figured it out. It helped that, when we went on vacation, the supermarket sold complete chicken with the head and feet still attached, and cow tongues and pork feet and things. We even pointed out a pig brain for him to look at. It also may have helped that is favourite food is snails, mussles, squid and small fish with their heads attached (fried anchovies, he calls them eye fishies). All pretty recognisable on a plate!

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Eh, not really. We have only very recently cracked the code to getting him to eat any veggies aside from cucumber. Before that he would usually just eat meat, fish, potatoes and rice. Anything green would lead to drama. We showed him Popeye and how the spinach made him strong. Now, anytime he eats his veg he gets to "pick me up" and throw me on the couch. It's been three weeks and he still likes doing it so, fingers crossed! 😄

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Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker. I went in with very low expectations and it still managed to disappoint so badly that it makes me angry. I hate how the Palpatine plot point retroactively ruins the entire original trilogy.

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Wait, what, it's possible to have 8 dwarf lobbies? That is so cool!

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Same for me! I just unlocked the cargo dispatcher and the tier 2 building mats to build them, so I wiped my entire spaghetti factory and I'm rebuilding in a nice bus layout, transporting in the remote ores using the dispatchers.
I like that there's more combat in the game. I was a tad disappointed that, when I entered a cave for the first time carrying a lot of guns and ammo, I only found some plants and crystals. I was prepping for a big fight with bugs hiding from the rupture! 😄

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The big advantage of the robot over human pals is that you can send items directly to your ship. In coop you need to carry it. The biggest downside is that it uses soooo much ammo when acting as a ship gunner. I'm flying the small ship and put on the lance railgun. The long reload time ensures that the bot can't waste all my ammo.

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It really depends on your workflow. I use a tiling extension and 9 fixed workspaces. I have no need for dash-to-dock. I reassign a bunch of hotkeys to make working with 9 workspaces easier, but the rest is all Gnome defaults and it works just fine for me.

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This is my go-to "can't be arsed to cook properly" dish. But I add peperoncino as well. Like a nice fiery rawit chilli.

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I got a cupboard full of basic staple ingredients and a freezer full of meat, veg and leftovers. I think I can last a week, if not two, if I really have to. And that's for a family of three.

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Thanks for the tip! I haven't tried soy meat yet. I usually use 50% lentils when I want to stretch ground beef

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Ohhh, nice. Do you have an aquarium?

Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete ( hothardware.com )

Exciting news for those enough who are 40+ and spend too much time in front of a computer screen: a Finnish startup called IXI is promising to end the era of clunky bifocals and the 'head-tilt' struggle of progressive lenses, replacing them with a pair of glasses that focus as naturally as the human eye using a combination of ...

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Are these the auto-focus ones? If so, that's surprisingly slim.... If there are no other components.

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Per another commenter (and the article):

When the battery dies, the glasses continue to function as a traditional pair of single-vision specs, ensuring the wearer is never left in the dark or have safety compromised such as when driving or operating machinery.

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When all her friends and family see that image, she is definitely involved. And it's definitely abuse.

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Same. I will never spend a cent there. Occasionally I rebuy one of the giveway games on Steam just so I can get a DLC.