https://ground.news/

I haven't seen much discussion about this website in here, and I'd like to know what you all think of it. I've seen it being advertised by several Youtubers I follow, and I've been meaning to check it out for a while. The paid features don't really seem all that exciting, to be honest, and I took a look at it and instantly spotted an overwhelming amount of bullshit in their "left-right" scale for describing news sources.

That being said, I'm The One True Communist on Hexbear and thus immune to such gimmicks. In other words, I'm not really interested in this feature from the site, but I'm thinking it might actually be pretty good as a news aggregator that's not a social network like Reddit or X The Everything App - Blaze Your Glory. I just feel like I've been wasting too much time on these online Skinner boxes and I think I'd be better off using Ground News for an overview of what's going on in the news, paired with an RSS reader to read from individual journalists and writers whose work I like.

What do you all think? Do any of you actually use this? What do you think of the paid features, in case you actually use them?

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About two decades too late, but now the DCEU finally has the chance to actually be entertaining slop instead of a depressing slog full of Übermenschen. I actually really enjoyed the new Superman, so maybe we'll get more fun excuses to eat popcorn this time around.

This based living legend was arrested along with two of her punk friends for kicking the shit out of some nazi in São Caetano, in the state of São Paulo. Of course, the local press is describing this as being an instance of punks assaulting a young student for no reason.

I originally pirated this game on release, but my PC back then couldn't run it reliably. I played it a couple hours and for some reason I can't remember, I just dropped it and never came back.

Picked it up for really cheap recently on Steam because I wanted to give it a second chance with better hardware, and holy fucking shit, how is this game six years old?

Playing in 2025 a game originally released in 2019 really shows me that there's a certain degree of diminishing returns in the games industry, not necessarily in a bad way, but in the sense that I think we've pretty much reached kind of a peak in game development, in terms of tech. As long as you can provide a solid experience, games will still feel great for much longer than they used to.

I might be mistaken and I don't have any handy examples to back this argument, but I feel like ten years ago, a six-year-old game would definitely feel much more dated than this does. Does that make sense? I don't think games used to age this gracefully 10+ years ago.

I can't think of any modern game that just feels this good. Everything is incredibly responsive, the graphics and art style are stunning, the sound design is top notch, the lore is really captivating and it just overall feels like an incredibly polished experience that's leagues ahead of most recent games.

If it were not for the Hiss and all the nightmarish SCP shit going on in The Oldest House, I'd want to live there. I want to touch these gorgeous brutalist slabs of concrete.

Looks fucking sick tbh, I'm generally not a fan of retro graphics like this, but they absolutely nailed the OG Fallout art style.

Hey comrades, I've just purchased a new motherboard and an MP44L SSD to put my OS and my currently-playing games in. The thing is, I also thought that this would be the perfect time to finally make the switch into Linux and a more FOSS-based approach to the time I spend using my computer.

I tried Linux like twenty years ago and did not adapt to it at all. Nowadays I'm much more knowledgeable about computers in a general way but I have a massive blind spot when it comes to Linux. I want to ditch Windows but frankly don't even know where to start the switch.

So I have the following questions, I hope you can help me figure things out:

1 - Is dual-boot a plausible thing? Like, having a Linux distro installed for everyday usage, and Windows for gaming only?

2 - Speaking of which, I've heard good things about gaming on SteamOS. What's going on with that? Honestly, I'm completely clueless and I thought it was a proprietary OS for the Steam Deck. Is it already available for PCs? Also, is it safe? I don't want to just switch the company that has me under their thumb from MS to Valve.

3 - Are there any pages / youtube channels / other kinds of resources you would recommend, so that I can do some learning?

Thanks!

One of the most fascinating videos I've seen in a long time. It's simply mind-blowing how complicated the seemingly simple task of developing a Chinese typewriter actually is, when you think about it. Typewriters are so commonplace in the West that we just kind of take them for granted, but developing a device that can produce tens of thousands of different 汉字 which can mix together elements in varying shapes and sizes is a near-impossible engineering problem.

Also, Jeremy Fielding is a must-follow if you're into engineering, the guy's a bonafide genius, and I just love listening to him speak, he seems like such a cool person.

I love this grumpy fat ass dummy