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An average of 140 women and girls were killed by a partner or relative per day in 2023, the UN says
  • I guess when you consider global pop and how many overall die from violence then it makes the number look quite small.

    However I think due to the nature of these deaths, committed by a person in the victims life who should be at best a source of protection and safety, it's pretty fucking grim to consider.

  • Houses in my area increases 82% in just 4 years
  • Also here in Europe this is the type of construction we use for a garden shed, not a house.

    Even when we do modern timber frame, it's generally still brick or block at the bottom. How long do these houses last in the US? I imagine a lot of the continent is pretty humid

  • Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers
  • FFS, this makes me think of the new x86 group thing. Linus is a great person so have as a silent advisor, but they've made him and Tim Sweeney public figures for it. Pretty much ensuring something that should be great for the industry turns into a bunch of posturing and controversy.

  • Fans Cancel Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Pre-Orders Because of Denuvo.
  • With the exception of indy games if they're priced in a way I'm happy to take a punt, I only buy games after putting a few hours into the pirate copy. With the near extinction of demos and amount of bs out there over the last decade plus this became my only way of buying. It's why I bought the first KCD back in the day.

    Without a copy to evaluate, I'm happy to wait for it to be cracked, and then happy to wait for the DRM to be removed before purchasing to avoid any related performance issues. It's a shame, but I'm not gonna lose sleep over it..

  • My random thoughts 3 months before I turn 18
  • This is usually pretty consistent. I'm well into my 30s and it was the same when I left school, some left on a mission so do something with their lives, others left preaching doom and hopelessness. Regardless of the luck of their upbringing, of those I still know of, the doomsayers are mostly depressed bums and the others are all doing stuff and have purpose.

    Life really is what you make it and nothing long lasting is built over night.

  • YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50%
  • I bailed because the YTM algorithm is terrible compared to when it was Google music. It had got progressively worse and I really realised how bad it was when I subbed to Deezer for a trial. If they hadn't trashed Google music by integrating it into YouTube I'd still be paying for premium if it came with both. Can't imagine I'll ever pay for it again now.

  • 'Embarrassing for Putin': Russian territory is under occupation for the first time since WWII
  • My preferred fictional outcome is Putin orders a full launch, but almost all the missiles just do a small fart in their tubes as no maintenance was done, and the ones that launch end up reaching escape velocity and disappearing because the people in charge of the silos had long since sold the payloads for yacht money...

  • Linux Mint 22 released: An attractive option for migrating away from Windows | Windows 11 system requirements block millions of PCs from upgrading, while Linux Mint continues to work on older hardware
  • Did I blink and miss something... Mint actually looks pretty modern compared to how I remember the release notes, kernel 6.8... I've never bothered with it as it just seemed like a distro to run on old hardware if you don't mind your core being 2 years out of date, where Debian v.xx with kde just made more sense

    Interesting..

  • Apple Intelligence won't launch in EU in 2024 due to antitrust regulation, company says
  • I think specifically with sarcasm it's an American issue. It's natural to us EU people, we can usually just detect it by instinct.

    I've dealt with US people who just fail to detect it both on the phone and face to face. So no chance with text...

  • Windows just changed my desktop wallpaper and re-added the search bar without my permission after an update
  • Yeah I'll give it a go on my machine soon. I only run win in a VM with a gfx card passed through these days anyway just to use some software I have no option for, so didn't really give it too much thought as there is no data on that system worth stealing anyway. But good to hear its oss.