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  • Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal

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  • I went to a site called remove Paywall .com or similar and it offered this. Since I had a free account at 404 Media, the soft Paywall didn't affect me in first place. Do tell about alternatives though.

  • India has splurged billions on metro trains. But where are the commuters?

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  • With the exception of Delhi (which has ~400 km of route length), many cities have perilously low route network (as low as single digit in many cases). This leads to under usage in many cases.

    Of course, not all is woe. I have personal experience with two metro systems listed in the article. Kanpur has increased substantially from the paltry 3% occupancy article lists after route length increased and main railway station was connected. Yes, it is still far below saturation but better than nothing.

    As for Pune, I am wondering if they took non peak time data(or old data) for reference. Because I traveled there last year and at evening, it was exceptionally dense crowd (like barely could get place to stand).

  • Systemd-free antiX 26: Debian 13, in bonsai form

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  • I also am on Void since past couple of years. Paired it with LxQt DE for sometime. I didn't have much opinion (or even cared) about systemd (which Void eschews in favor of runit) when I chose it in my distro hopping days. It's lean and clean though package repos slightly smaller than competing ones.

  • Systemd-free antiX 26: Debian 13, in bonsai form

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  • I think I had used fluxbox once. I see that it was a fork of Blackbox originally. Is fluxbox more feature rich now than Blackbox? (I am assuming former would be more popular than it's original fork now ).

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Systemd-free antiX 26: Debian 13, in bonsai form

    www.theregister.com /2026/03/24/antix_26_bonsai_trixie/
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    Meter Gauge rail track, India

  • Trains @lemmy.ml
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    To Infinity and beyond

  • Android @lemdro.id
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    16KB page sizes return with the Android 17 beta, but what does it mean?

    www.androidauthority.com /android-page-sizes-explained-3644598/
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  • I started with Ubuntu (when it was left, right and center in my country) but soon gravitated towards Debian. The old packages can be a pain sometimes ( I even tried running Debian Unstable for sometime and ironically that is quite Stable as well) but other things are quite sane.

    The distro isn't hard to use (though it does not hand hold like Zorin OS, say) compared to likes of Gentoo or Arch and deb packages are quite common (for third party software).

    I ultimately(distro hopped a lot) settled on Void Linux but Debian, IMO, is still slightly easier. The only Achilles' Heel is the woefully sore update cycle since the focus is on stability.

  • Google's Pixel 10a arrives on March 5 for $499 with specs and design of yesteryear

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  • Sony also has the headphone jack I think. But Sony's phone releases have gotten ahem much less frequent. I don't think even the company is treating it with much foresight (I forget the last time I saw a Sony phone in somebody 's hands).

  • South Korea has passed a major Copyright Act Amendment cracking down on manga and manhwa piracy.

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  • When million dollar AI companies pirate everything in the world

    Silence

    When one single person pirates something

    Jail time

  • Fairphone 6 review: cheaper, repairable and longer-lasting Android

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  • I wish it was available in more parts of the world. I don't mind the mid range specs (they are decent enough for my use case). The long update cycle plus presence of microSD slot is a good thing. Does it have, by an chance, the good old 3.5 mm Jack as well?

  • [Article] India’s tech workers in crisis amid suicides, layoffs, and AI

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  • It is. As if the layoffs (not helped with penetration of AI considering significant part of Indian tech sector is for low level jobs) were not bad enough, there are billionaires advocating for 70 hour work weeks (with one person even going for 90).

    Technology was supposed to liberate us and give us more time for leisure, not the other way around.

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • It is not a power profile problem since I have looked into that. Even under normal circumstances, simple stuff like having tons of tabs open cause it to creak. Yes the hardware is not cutting edge but my previous laptop was worse (4 GB Ram) and whilst Linux showed it's limits then, it never came close to crashing ever. I don't think my Debian install in the past ever freezed on older laptop.

    But it is bonkers on this model.

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    ‘Exclusively for the elite’: why Mumbai’s new motorway is a symbol of the divide between rich and poor

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  • Mumbai is an exercise in public transport gone wrong. The suburban transit system there, despite running to its fullest capacity, creaks and is literal life threatening. Ironical because Mumbai is one of the richest cities in India and yet lives are a penny there.

    Delhi is India's national capital. Sure, the metro there also sees heavy crowds but one would need to be actively suicidal to somehow die there (the tracks and platforms are automatically gated at many stations). Both serve the common people, but one is emblematic of being faster, modern and most of all, not being a death trap.

    So why did Mumbai did not copy Delhi's success? Well, first they started off with a monorail project that has lower speeds, lower capacity and incompatible with the newer subway/metro tracks. To say it's a disaster is an under statement. They quickly changed tracks (pun intended) and switched to conventional metro system. But the latter is so bare bones and much smaller than what the city needs.

    Every single year Mumbai delays it's metro, the suburban system will continue to creak and people continue to lose limbs and/or die. Investing in this fancy road instead of modern public transit isn't just prioritising the rich; it's saying that the poor and middle class lives don't matter.

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • This issue did not affect my previous laptop. However, under heavy load, my current laptop sometimes freezes and even REISUB sometimes failed to work. The only way is to force power off via button.

    This persisted across all distros from Debian based to Fedora to current Void.

    Other times, laptop will stutter to a near halt post some complex process and even after said process(like a Handbrake task) is closed, continues to act as if the resources were never freed.

    I only used Windows 11 for a single month b/w 2016- current (other wise, distro hopping was default) and it was stable. I can't pin point the actual root cause (driver issues, kernel level problem) but still persist with Linux (Windows has its own stuff of problems that we all are aware).

  • Reddit stock down 9.39%, after digg open beta launch

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  • I have used Digg since couple of months (it was in private beta). As of then, the only AI they used was for providing summaries for articles/links which is not the worst use case. Of course, app is slow, communities are restricted to a few set of default (Atleast until couple of weeks ago) and worst of all, low user activity. Like, till a month before, it was impossible to see any post that even got 100+ up votes (they have a ranking/leaderboard system where it showed the deficiencies in the system).

    Sure with public beta, user activity will go up. Digg till now had one advantage and that was literally no trolling (but when you have such minimal activity it is not surprising).

    The site and official app both aren't exactly lean and I don't think third party official alternatives(apps) are available (or will be) yet.

  • When you get tired of Distrohopping

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  • There is no one reliable distro. Mint, itself is based off Ubuntu and also releases LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition).

    If reliablility is measured in terms of how stable a distro is, then likely Debian with it's conservative approach to packaging updates comes to mind (No wonder large number of distros are based off Debian only).

    I would even argue as long as someone isn't messing with a niche distro such as KDE Neon( meant to showcase KDE packages) or Linuxfx (or whatever it has renamed itself to, one of the few shady ones IMO ) or Trisquel OS (a GNU certified distro where running into dependency hell isn't new); it will suit user's case.

    Debian, Slackware, Void, Zorin, even rolling release like Arch (basically any one that meets the user's use case is reliable)

  • Honor launches Win and Win RT gaming-focused smartphones with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset and massive 10,000 mAh battery

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  • 80 W wireless charging

    That even one ups the Oneplus 50W that requires a custom charging pad (or something I think). I find it quite ironical that wireless charging on some phones is now more than twice as fast as that on Pixel series (Wired)

  • Opera wants you to pay $20 a month to use its AI-powered browser Neon

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  • Opera did ditch their own browser engine long time back and are now just a skin on Chromium [like many other browsers]. Opera, for some reason, has multiple browsers running. Neon isn't their main offering as of now. They technically have Opera GX [gaming focused version] and Opera Air [released some months earlier though I haven't used the latter] as well.

  • Now that's journalism

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  • Dawn (newspaper in question) seems to have come downhill. They used to have a respected name amongst Pakistan's newspapers. I wonder how many other newspapers (across the world, in general) are slowly getting on this AI trend.

  • Hawa Mahal, Jaipur

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  • Yes, I am aware. Two images ; one shows a similar perspective like yours and other a view towards the outskirts / fort side.

  • Linux is the reason Windows apps are bloated these days

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  • There is no way to be sure. Either case, it can be a case of Hanlon's razor. "Never attribute to malice [in this case: baiting] what can sufficiently be explained by stupidity".