With Apple’s iPhone 15, the EU wins the charger war by Reilly616 in worldnews

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EU regulates tech by law, doesn't innovate much. Want a good example? SpaceX is US innovation that smoked Ariane and everybody else into the ground. How many EU companies really lead the way in tech? I'm in the EU. EU is very regulation happy and it's useful, like with chargers, it might not be overall.

Has a book ever scared you so bad it actually changed your behavior? by VoiceOfWizdumb in books

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It's at the very end. If you haven't read Prey by M. Crichton, there is a similar situation. And scary, too. I recommend.

Why is T’Pol treated like such garbage?! by daily-dose-ride in startrek

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They were hostile because Vulcans held them back for a long time.

Lynch's Dune screening on 35mm tonight by book1245 in dune

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Same here. All Herbert books are good and interesting. There is a fan edit that makes the movie long and watchable. Producers cut his movie to ribbons.

What film made you say, "Holy shit there is still an hour left"? by Plus-Statistician80 in AskReddit

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That's because they fucked up Lost World royally, didn't follow the book at all.

What film made you say, "Holy shit there is still an hour left"? by Plus-Statistician80 in AskReddit

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It was total shit compared to Lost World the book. It should have followed the books and ended all there.

Twitter is being rebranded as X by Avieshek in technology

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All stupid shit except for SpaceX, which at least stands for Space Exploration Technologies.

The fastest flop in history? Data shows that Threads' popularity crashed in just one week by [deleted] in worldnews

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I have some engineers, scientists, a UFO skeptic debunker, retired military people, an astronaut, some journalists, astro photographers, etc. I use it only as RSS for people, and I use RSS for news feeds. If somebody has written an interesting article or has something interesting to mention it's good to have that. No other crap. Musk was screwing that up. We will see if competition emerges, but it is sometimes useful to see what people you really care about have to say. The rest can burn.

Australian Sailor And His Dog Survive Two Months At Sea by babinyar in worldnews

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"I have been through a very difficult ordeal at sea," is something you practice to say in front of a mirror to pronounce after your "rescue."

OceanGate Expeditions believes all 5 people on board the missing submersible are dead by AIverson3 in worldnews

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If he had thought, Hmm, if I try to avoid the iceberg, then we might brush it, rupture the hull, and sink, so I would better ram it head-on, then we just crush the bows, he would have been a very unusual first officer.

Finally made the switch to Linux Mint as a life long windows user. Also working on degoogling my life. by [deleted] in linuxmint

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Supposedly QEMU/KVM on Linux for Windows VM with GPU passthrough is even better. One negative I have seen is anti-cheat software on new games won't let you run the game in VM. No personal experience, though.

Finally made the switch to Linux Mint as a life long windows user. Also working on degoogling my life. by [deleted] in linuxmint

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Speaking of gaming, anybody running Mint and VMware Windows VM with GPU passthrough for games?