Ideally ones that provide RSS/Atom feeds. Currently, I'm following the BBC, CBC, The Guardian, DW, and Al Jazeera, and they provide reliable information, but there is always a bit of a bias. For instance, BBC and DW are quite pro-Israel, while Al Jazeera are rarely critical of the Qatari government. Are there any independent news outlets that have less of bias w/ RSS feeds?

edit: Wording has been changed a bit. One more thing, I'd rather have news sources that are not US-centric. As somebody from Hong Kong, I'd also like to ask if there are any good ones that cover the South China + Southeast Asia region, since SCMP was bought out by Alibaba a few years ago.

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Their ToS mentions the laws of New Zealand, while their privacy policy includes GDPR. Are the servers hosted in NZ, the EU, or somewhere else?

Also, is there any reason not to use the piefed.social instance (over other Piefed instances)? I'm interested in trying out Piefed, and use it in conjunction with Lemmy

edit: It looks like it's hosted in Australia, and rimu (who operates the instance) is from New Zealand. Mention of GDPR does not mean it's hosted in the EU.

Also, it looks like it might be better to use a different instance regardless of where piefed.social is hosted, for decentralisation (like piefed.ca and piefed.blahaj.zone, which are Canadian, piefed.nz, which is hosted in NZ, or nord.pub and retrofed.com, both German)

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Since Autistici/Inventati was sanctioned by the U.S. government as a "global terrorist organisation", I'm looking for alternatives.

The company is based in France and their services are in Finland (so GDPR!), they have a free plan + IMAP support too, but there doesn't seem to be much discussion of it compared to other email providers, like mailbox, Fastmail, or Posteo. Does Murena have a good track record with their email?

The main improvement seems to be the larger 1024x768 4.3" screens (compared to the 640x480 4" screens on the RG DS) and the inclusion of a built-in stylus (still one of those rubber nib ones though), as well as some minor changes to the hinge and other bits. However, it uses the same chip, has less RAM (from 3GB to 1GB), and ships with a Linux-based OS instead of a barely-runnable Android version. It also has a single stick instead of dual, but the RG DS was never powerful enough to run most dual stick games anyways (PS2, GC, etc.), so that probably isn't an issue. The internal eMMC storage has also been removed in favour of another microSD slot (one for the OS, another for ROMs)

It's a little weird they called it the Plus, since the only improvement is the screens and maybe the stylus, while having downgrades to the memory.

It comes in pink, black, and blue (navy-ish), while the RG DS had the red/black, turquoise, and white colourways.

What do you all think of this RG DS "Plus"?

edit: announced, not released!!

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They fit really well, and I actually like the plastic housing since it makes them a bit lighter, and the transparent window is really neat! The nozzle is plastic too, so it shouldn't corrode like the brass one on the Moondrop Chu II. It was also a bit cheaper (though only by a couple dollars)!

The cable is slightly thicker than the Chu II's, which hopefully means it will tangle less often. I will continue to use it with my Fiio BTR11, IEMs with Bluetooth adapters is the best of both worlds in my opinion: longer lasting, cheaper, better audio quality, harder to lose like IEMs, and you can move around more and automatically switch between multiple devices like wireless earbuds

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I prefer analogue clocks since they tend to be smaller in desk footprint and they are much easier to manually adjust (you need to do 20+ beeps on a digital alarm clock). They also just look kind of neat. I prefer if the clock ran on AA batteries (not AAA, and definitely nothing non-replaceable), and some sort of backlight would be ideal (but a good white/warm one, not a blinding blue/green light!

edit: I have bought two alarm clocks by "Rhythm", they take a single AA battery each and have cute colours too. Quartz movement, backlight, everything! I also found the Braun BC02 (and BC03, the bigger one), which also uses AA batteries + quartz movement + backlight, but it only came in black or white, at least where I was purchasing it.

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A few days ago, the U.S. government sanctioned A/I for supporting "extreme far-left antifa terrorists". If you didn't know, A/I is an antifascist and anticapitalist group based in Italy, and they host a lot of services (like email, website hosting, etc.) run through donations. Their policy states that they are against racism, sexism, militarism, homophobia, and transphobia, and you have to agree to those principles to use their services. Their website and mailing server has been taken down, and unfortunately, that also means my email no longer works. It's kind of insane how quickly the American government can take down internet services they don't like. A/I has denied all of the allegations by the Trump admin, and rightfully so, they're just a digital services provider who respect your privacy and are against fascism and bigotry.

relevant link if you want to read more about this: https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10076

I still need to use email, so what's a good alternative email provider that doesn't profit off of my data? I have used Disroot in the past and had good experiences with their services, so they are currently my fallback. I have ruled out Proton and Tuta, as neither support IMAP properly.

edit: It appears that it's only the autistici.org domain that has been blocked (the registrar for the .org TLD is American), the services are still running (though my email is unable to receive mail, I can only read existing mail). A/I is working towards providing users with a new mail address. If that doesn't pan out, I'll probably go with Disroot.

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I have the Moondrop Chu 2, an awesome IEM that works really well, but the brass nozzle it has easily oxidises, especially given that I live in a relatively humid climate, so green bits keep on clogging the nozzle and need to be cleaned out. Are there any good value options (let's say under 100 ideally) that don't have a brass nozzle (or similarly corrosive materials)?

edit: I have bought the Truthear Gate, since it appears to use a plastic nozzle

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Important: I didn't create this project, I just think it works pretty well for my usecase

I do know that Betterbird, a fork of Thunderbird, has a systray icon for Linux, but I don't require the few power user features that Betterbird adds, and the developer is pretty hostile towards Thunderbird (despite their project being a very close fork of it).

On the Arch Wiki, systray-x was mentioned as an option, and it works really well! (Birdtray is another one mentioned by the Arch Wiki, but it hasn't been updated for 3 years, so I went with systray-x.) It's pretty customisable as well, it's very easy to change the icon as well as the behaviour for startup, minimising, and closing the window. It has also been packaged in the official Arch repos, which is always nice (the repos are usually more reliable + often faster than the AUR), as well as for other distro families too. It looks like there are separate versions for KDE (what I'm using) and GNOME, which is neat!

It is a little janky though. For instance, if you select startup in tray, it opens the full window before minimising to the tray. It still works quite well for me though!

edit: Forgot to mention one thing, you need to force Wayland for Thunderbird for systray-x to work on Wayland desktops!

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Like the phrase "peeping tom" is used to refer to a creep trying to see somebody else using the bathroom. What on Earth did this Tom character do to become the definition of such a creep?

Why are women who do not have traditionally feminine traits sometimes called tomboys? Why Tom?

And why do people say "Bob's your uncle"? Was this Bob a super helpful and reliable guy, so much so that his name is used for the definition of something being finished and done?

And the playing card representing an aristocratic / upper class man is called Jack, who is this Jack? Why do people say a "jack of all trades", was this Jack character incredibly talented? Or is it related to the playing card, where they are good at everything but not the best (i.e. a king or queen)

I know of a few that are of religious origin, like the Achilles's heel after Greek mythology, and the bumpy bit of your throat is called Adam's apple is biblical.

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It's the same design as last year, the main changes are the new chips (Wildcat Lake), so better performance and power efficiency, the backlit keyboard (which happens to use open-source ZMK firmware), and a fingerprint reader that will work OOTB on Linux!

However, it's still using the same display that has not so great colours (they are "working on it", but no schedule for when it'll be released), and memory prices make it too expensive for anybody who doesn't already have RAM and storage available. For the people upgrading from the old gen, it's kind of neat that you can just get the fingerprint reader, main board, or backlit keyboard.

It's also really neat that it will ship with Fedora OOTB, and the prebuilt is now the Sage colourway since they found that to be the most popular over grey (hooray for colourful computers!)

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Why should you never invite a circuit board designer to prom?

After the first write, they will leave you on read(-only mode)

What does the maintainer say when asked whether one can contribute to their permissively licensed project?

M I Teasing you? Of course you can add Apache 2!

Why did the animated graphic end so quickly? It was in a GIFfy! (for the people who advocate for a soft G)

What did the villain say to the protagonist in a popular meme? GIF me your power! (for the people who prefer a hard G)

What do you call a Japanese style of mood boards? JPEGboards!

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