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I have always dreamed of having something like this!

An enclosed electric bike!


pod bike

@Rod Mesa

PodRide, A Four-Wheeled Enclosed Electric Bike That Looks Like a Small Car

The PodRide is a four-wheeled, all-weather enclosed electric bike that looks like a small car that allows the cyclist to ride in comfort.
Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
@Rod Mesa
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Muse
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Muse
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I like the road visibility of this e-bike. Sure the height gives it some drag--and makes it look adorably dorky, but I appreciate sharing the road with bikes I can see in order to drive safely around them. I'm sure smart bicyclists appreciate being seen!

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This is for @Christoph S

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all in one šŸ˜‚ #dog #cutedog #funnydogs #funnyshorts #dogshorts #doglover #puppy #cutedogs #funny

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@Christoph S
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Christoph S
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Christoph S
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Hahaha so true! I miss having a dog for that purpose

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Be informed!

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Are you loading your dishwasher wrong?

Get a 4-week trial, free postage, AND a digital scale at https://www.stamps.com/minutefood. Thanks to Stamps.com for sponsoring this video!We dug into the sc...
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Andreas G
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Andreas G
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I guessed the operation of the arms, at least. But the "bilge pump" operation was nice to get verified, because I have been occasionally worried about what sort of water gets circulated in there šŸ˜

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RAINBOW QUILT
I WANT THIS QUILT!!!

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Asahi Linux Working Vulkan Drivers In Just 1 Month #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/Kabtazz85ew

Asahi Linux Working Vulkan Drivers In Just 1 Month

I am constantly impressed by what is going on in the Asahi Linux project and this time is absolutely no different, a new Vulkan driver being developed in jus...
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#linux #YouTube

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LOL!

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ā­ Guy Who Sucks at Being a Person Sees Huge Potential in AI theonion.com/guy-who-sucks-at-ā€¦

The Onion never misses.

šŸ“Œ rknight.me/links/guy-who-sucksā€¦


Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI

SAN MATEO, CAā€”After spending the past three decades of his life being totally unable and unwilling to engage in any meaningful way with the world around him, James Parker, a local guy who sucks at being a person, told reporters Thursday that he saw hā€¦
ji39f8deollek3 (The Onion)

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I passed this unreal tree today on my way to meet my daughter for lunch. At lunch, my daughter told me she wanted to walk me home on a particular path to show me a really cool tree that I might want to photograph. It was the same one, of course.
#CotinusCoggygria #CoolTree
Looking up at the sun and sky through a smoke tree, or Cotinus coggygria. The tree is an unreal pink color against the vivid boot sky. It has pink feather stands like s feather boots, with little dots that are either dark against a light background, or bright gold if they're in the right path of the sun
Another view looking up at the same tree. This time there's a dark silhouette of trunk and branches and trees, then the pink fluffy stuff, then blue sky
Looking up at the same tree again, but this time not in the same direction as the sun, so we see more of the color subtleties, with specks of green amongst the pink
One more view, this time a close up of a branch covered in pink stands and speckled with green and gold dots like elaborate confetti
#cotinuscoggygria #cooltree

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SteamOS 3.6.5 Preview for Steam Deck out, plus two Steam Beta Client updates gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/steaā€¦

#SteamOS #Steam #Linux

SteamOS 3.6.5 Preview for Steam Deck out, plus two Steam Beta Client updates

Valve has now put up SteamOS 3.6.5 Preview for Steam Deck, plus a further two Beta releases of the Steam Client for all users.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #Steam #steamos
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Vancha
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Vancha
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glad they fixed the not responding left joystick. I thought the thing broke, but thankfully it was just software.

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Wine 9.11 released continuing the ARM improvements gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/wineā€¦

#Linux #OpenSource

Wine 9.11 released continuing the ARM improvements

Wine 9.11 has arrived as a new development release for the Windows compatibility layer, and with it new features and bug fixes for a big part of what makes Proton possible.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#opensource #linux

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Mysterious new Shovel Knight title teased, plus Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope DX gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/mystā€¦

#Linux #PCGaming #ShovelKnight

Mysterious new Shovel Knight title teased, plus Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope DX

As confirmed by developer Yacht Club Games at the end of their latest Yacht Club Games Presents broadcast, a brand new Shovel Knight game is on the way! Plus, we're also being treated toĀ Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope DX.
Pengling (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #pcgaming #shovelknight

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I think she loves me. #CatsOfMastodon
A gray tabby cat is sleeping on a cushion with its front paw resting on a person's knee.
#CatsOfMastodon

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DNA from prehistoric and modern-day people suggests that humans interbred with Neanderthals 47,000 years ago for a period lasting 6,800 years, Live Science reports:
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#DNA #Anthropology #Prehistoric #Neanderthals


Neanderthals and humans interbred 47,000 years ago for nearly 7,000 years, research suggests

DNA from prehistoric and modern-day people suggests that humans interbred with Neanderthals 47,000 years ago for a period lasting 6,800 years.
Charles Q. Choi (Live Science)
#dna #neanderthals #anthropology #prehistoric

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I guess this is what moss looks like after the sporophytes have blown their tops and dispersed their spores? Thanks to the hashtag #mosstodon I've paid a lot closer attention to moss this year so this is all new to me.
Some silvergreen byrum moss but there's nothing silver or green about it. The sporophytes have blown their tops (that used to be pointy), and now they look like red cups or goblets on top of long slender stems.
#Mosstodon

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i have gained a new enemy today as i learn that biorender is $100 a month for the privilege of exporting to SVG, making color gradients, and using times new roman.
Biorender free plan: $0/month Individual (single industry user) $79/month when you subscribe a year at a time, or $99 monthly
benefits of paid plan: Unlimited figures Publish in journals and for commercial use Request custom icons* High-resolution export without watermarks Create slide decks Effortlessly draw cells, membranes and more with Premium ā€˜bio-brushesā€™ Illustrate changes in temperature, pH and more with color gradients Use Times New Roman, Arial or Helvetica in your files
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Frank Aylward
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Frank Aylward
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@lwpembleton we looked into an institutional license at my uni, but they refused to discount anything, so it would have been full price for thousands of people.
@Luke Pembleton

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One of the most fascinating facts about online advertising is how every product or business you interact with from your TV to your grocery store literally sells your data to advertisers EXCEPT the companies everyone thinks sells your data, social media apps and Google.

The answer to why your Smart TV was so cheap is that part of the price is your viewing habits being used and sold for targeted advertising.

notus.org/2024-election/streamā€¦

Campaigns Can Now See What You Watch on TV. Itā€™s Changing Everything.

Smart TVs that track what people watch and how they watch it give political campaigns a new trove of data to exploit, with little transparency on how itā€™s happening.
Maggie Severns (NOTUS)
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Eugen Rochko
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Eugen Rochko
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This is why I went the projector route instead of buying a TV.

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The bump system in Ys 1 is just an inferior combat system to what's used in the later games but the music original PC-88 music is amazing and maybe it's just me but the Chronicles music is even better youtube.com/watch?v=HplgXxaKu5

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Cylis
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Cylis
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the vid isn't available šŸ˜” but you just dug up a horrific memory, gameplay wise the first 2 games caused me so much trauma

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Journaling doesn't have to be about beautiful things. Sometimes it's about the stressful stuff too: socialwork.buffalo.edu/contentā€¦
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Michael Perry
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Michael Perry
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my journal is my end game. All goes there. I write in it when I need and want to.
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Michael Perry
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Michael Perry
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my journal is my end game. All goes there. I write in it when I need and want to.

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I've been obsessively watching through the in person #BloodOnTheClocktower games on the #NoRollsBarred channel, it's so much fun.

youtube.com/watch?v=pSxsdMGy4Xā€¦


Paralegal Activity | NRB Play Blood On The Clocktower IN PERSON

Here's the script for the episode - https://imgur.com/a/DKyzc3XFor exclusive Clocktower episodes, access to our Discord and MORE, join NRB's Patreon https:/...
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#norollsbarred #bloodontheclocktower

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Die HollƤndermĆ¼hle im Freilichtmuseum Molfsee.

Einwegkamera mit SchwarzweiƟfilm.

#BelieveInFilm #SchleswigHolstein

SchwarzweiƟ-Film-Foto einer HollƤndermĆ¼hle vor bewƶlktem Himmel
#schleswigholstein #believeinfilm

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Burnt umber
Best art joke, EVAH!

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Nothing is better in this world than a birthday kitten!

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AMD is the only x86 CPU vendor I will remotely bother with at this point, but folks shouldn't use x86 anyway if they can avoid it: theverge.com/2024/6/14/2417875ā€¦

Intel says it still doesnā€™t have the true fix for its crashing i9 desktop chips

Despite what you might have seen earlier today, Intel says it doesnā€™t have a final fix for its 13th and 14th Gen Intel Core i9 ā€œRaptor Lakeā€ and ā€œRaptor Lake Sā€ chips just yet.
Sean Hollister (The Verge)
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Ariadne Conill šŸ°
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Ariadne Conill šŸ°
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and for the love of all things, apply CPU microcode updates on your machines, *especially* with x86, where basically *zero* x86 cores have been taped out in the past 20 years that did not immediately need bugfixing in microcode

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crazy cat
#MoodoftheDay
#moodoftheday

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Donkey world
So QUTE!

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Animation: Black Hole Destroys Star

Video Illustration Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab

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Animation: Black Hole Star Shredder

Credit: DESY, Science Communication LabDetails: https://www.desy.de/news/news_search/index_eng.htmlDetails: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210426.htmlComments:...
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#APOD

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Startup Creates LEGO-Like Bricks That Can Affordably Remove Carbon Dioxide From the Air


"By nature, plants and trees are our best allies against carbon emissions. On top of ā€œbreathing outā€ oxygen, they capture CO2 during photosynthesis, keeping the world in balance. However, when they decay, the carbon they stored is released back into the atmosphere. Now, a startup called Graphyte has found an affordable and nearly permanent way to stop this processā€”sparing the world from tons of emissions through carbon casting."

Startup Creates LEGO-Like Bricks That Remove Carbon Dioxide

Graphyte has found an affordable and nearly permanent way prevent decaying plants from releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere.
Regina Sienra (My Modern Met)

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Microsoft Recall Is A Disaster #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/ctudlkw_oQ4

Microsoft Recall Is A Disaster

We've all heard about it by now but Microsoft's new Recall system is an absolute privacy and security nightmareFull Episode: https://youtu.be/nAoHSpw3hhM====...
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#linux #YouTube

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This YouTube Change Broke 3rd Party Clients #YouTUbe youtu.be/n_hSdCMRE10

This YouTube Change Broke 3rd Party Clients

It's nothing new for Youtube to make changes that break 3rd party clients, or other aspects of the site so it's no surprise that something like that is happe...
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#YouTube

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This is her "you've been at the arcade all day long and my lap time has been too damn low!" face.

#cats #catsofmastodon #caturday

A black and white cat with an intense stare looking right at the camera.
#cats #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

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A few weeks ago this girl complained at length about the lack of tasty food in her life. In an act of desperation I poured a tablespoon of water over her wet food and told her it was gravy. It's now her favorite meal. If she finishes her gravy before the food is gone she waits for more to be added before finishing her meal. #Caturday #OldCatsNewTricks
A chunky tuxedo cat, laying on a striped rug, crosses her paws like a dowager and looks into the camera.
#Caturday #oldcatsnewtricks

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Multi panel drawing of Gray Catbirds gathering different types of berries. The last panel has two catbirds on top of a bird bath fill with berries captioned "Soup!"

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Latest comic: Billionaires Fund Human Intelligence

#ai #cartoon #comic #tech #technology #economy #internet #education

BILLIONAIRES FUND HUMAN INTELLIGENCE 1. BILLIONAIRE 1 - HMM... MAYBE NOT EVERYTHING SHOULD BE REDUCED TO PATTERN RECOGNITION AND THEFT BY ALGORITHM. BILLIONAIRE 2 - WHAT IF WE FUNDED H.I.? 2. BILLIONS ARE POURED INTO ARTISTS, MUSICIANS, AND WRITERS, SPARKING A NEW RENAISSANCE. ARTIST AT DRAWING TABLE - YOU MEAN... I ACTUALLY... GET PAID? 3. CLASSES ON CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS ARE LAVISHLY ENDOWED. TEACHER HOLDING POINTER AT VIDEO MONITOR SHOWING AN OPINION COLUMN - WHAT LOGICAL FALLACIES CAN YOU FIND HERE? STUDENT - THERE ARE SO MANY! 4. EVENTUALLY... WOMAN TO BILLIONAIRE 1 - THANKS TO YOUR FUNDING OF H.I., I NOW CAN SEE THAT YOU SHOULD BE PAYING AT LEAST A 90% TAX RATE. BILLIONAIRE 1 - HMM... SHOULDA STUCK WITH A.I.
#technology #AI #tech #Comic #cartoon #Internet #Education #economy
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Jeff Grigg
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Jeff Grigg
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A good portion of their AI funding has been going to HI.

... to gig workers in foreign countries earning starvation wages.

... just another kind of theft, exploitation, and externalizing of costs and responsibilities.

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I was grossed out when Apple got to image generation in their WWDC keynote, and I was grossed out when I read that Applebot scraped "the open web" to train their AI model, with publishers only being able to opt out after the fact. Disappointing to say the least.

macstories.net/linked/apple-deā€¦

Apple Details Its AI Foundation Models and Applebot Web Scraping

From Appleā€™s Machine Learning Research1 blog: Our foundation models are trained on Appleā€™s AXLearn framework, an open-source project we released in 2023.
Federico Viticci (MacStories)
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Federico Viticci
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Federico Viticci
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Wanna know the best part?

According to our web developer's findings, the folks at Perplexity AI seem to be lying about the user-agent they're sending when scraping webpages.

They claim it should appear as 'PerplexityBot', but in reality, they mask it as Google Chrome running on a headless Windows 10 instance.

Details: rknight.me/blog/perplexity-ai-ā€¦


Perplexity AI Is Lying about Their User Agent

Perplexity AI claims it sends a user agent and respects robots.txt but it absolutely does not
rknight.me
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Eugen Rochko
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Eugen Rochko
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It's possible that there's different user agents based on if it's a request for training or a request for a user's query. To my knowledge of the topic, these models don't train live; it will not remember the page you asked to summarize, so likely these companies identify the requests differently.
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Bret Carmichael
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Thatā€™s how Google works. You can block bard bot from LLM training, but you have block googlebot to be excluded from generative search results ā€” effectively deleting you from search entirely. This is extremely problematic for a company that owns 85% or search. Give us your content, or donā€™t exist.
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Federico Viticci
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Federico Viticci
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@Gargron That seems plausible but it's not documented at all and, worryingly, also not clear if user requests are then used to further train the model after use.
@Eugen Rochko

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Been after a petrol strimmer for a while, but didnā€™t want to pay a stupid amount for one.

Found a non-running one for free locally. Wasnā€™t running because of perished fuel lines. Ā£6 in parts and the thing is now running great. šŸ˜‚

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Kev Quirk
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ok, I'll say it again in simplified English (should I drop all the U's from words and replace S with Z too? šŸ˜‚)

I wanted a petrol strimmer (image below as you Americans probably call it something different, like a "spinny freedom grass chopper" or something). I got one for free as the previous owner thought the engine was fucked, but it wasn't. It just needed a service and some new fuel lines, which cost me around $8 for the parts.

That help? šŸ˜‚

in reply to Kev Quirk

nebunez
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It always makes me giggle to say, but in the American South we call that a weed whacker.

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Happy #Caturday from this jerk who screamed at the bedroom door to be let in, was let in, sat by the bed and screamed some more until I opened the curtains, then sat here, not even looking outside.

#cats #CatsOfMastodon #catstodon #cat #funnyanimals

A black and white cat with a black nose and yellow-greenish eyes laying in the top of a short book shelf in front of a window. The cat is facing away from the window and has his front legs (which are completely white) hanging over the edge of the shelf.
#cats #cat #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday #catstodon #funnyanimals

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The VR gaming experience of the future, at Dave & Busters
VR arcade system at Dave and Busters showing only a Windows out of box experience wizard

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LIVE SOON: Yo yo, we're going live on the main channel, I planned to do this a few weeks back at 75k but better late than never #Linux youtube.com/watch?v=mDw9JRLAQZā€¦

怐Q&A怑Answering Your Questions + Look Back At Plasma 6.0

StreamElements Tip: http://brodierobertson.xyz/streamelementsCheck out my Twitch: http://brodierobertson.xyz/twitchI was supposed to do this stream at 75k bu...
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#linux

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Prominences and Filaments on the Active Sun apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240615.htā€¦ #APOD

APOD: 2024 June 15 - Prominences and Filaments on the Active Sun

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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#APOD

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This week in KDE: Final Plasma 6.1 polishing and new features for 6.2

pointieststick.com/2024/06/14/ā€¦

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
#KDE #Plasma #KDEPlasma #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource


This week in KDE: Final Plasma 6.1 polishing and new features for 6.2

Plasma 6.1 is due to be released in three days, and lots of attention went into final release readiness activities: QA, bug-fixing, performance profiling, auto-testing, stuff like that. Boring but ā€¦
Adventures in Linux and KDE
#opensource #linux #foss #KDE #Plasma #kdeplasma @KDE @KDE

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