Music (mainly prog rock) and veggie loving, geeky cat butler living in Hertfordshire UK. A lover of all things LOTR (since I first read it over 50 years ago) scifi and what have you. Ex soldier (Royal Artillery) and other trades ;-)
This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.
A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels (www.npr.org)
Grocery store prices are changing faster than ever before — literally. This month, Walmart became the latest retailer to announce it’s replacing the price stickers in its aisles with electronic shelf labels. The new labels allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds....
what's your current linux distro?
wanting to hop into the world of linux on a dual boot method (one of my favorite games unfortunately cannot be run on linux at all, and it's a gacha. I don't want to gamble with my account being banned, so I'm keeping windows for it specifically.) this'll be my second go at it, I used Pop!_OS briefly but had some issues with...
Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue (www.404media.co)
"You can also add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce to give it more tackiness."
The Future of America’s Biggest Spy Program Is Being Decided Right Now (www.wired.com)
Should Airships Make a Comeback? (www.youtube.com)
A Chinese Humanoid Just Broke the Robot Speed Record—and Now It's a Race Against Time (www.popularmechanics.com)
Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4 (www.theregister.com)
The platform era is ending. Rather than build new Twitters and Facebooks, we can create a stuff-posting system that works better for everybody. (www.theverge.com)