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I tried a dozen Linux distros in my browser without installing a single one

Published by Miika Tikkanen

I’m more than comfortable setting up virtual machines and breathing new life into old hardware with Linux. But sometimes I just want to poke around a desktop without it turning into a project. Downloading another ISO, finding the disk space, and configuring a VM just feels like a lot of preparation work to satisfy ten minutes of curiosity. That’s what initially drew me to DistroSea, which lets you try operating systems through your browser. I worked through Linux Mint, Ubuntu, and Fedora before wandering into some of the more obscure distros, like Bodhi and SliTaz. I wanted to see whether these browser sessions could tell me enough to decide which distros deserved a more comprehensive test on my own hardware. Related I was avoiding Arch Linux for one reason, and this tool fixed it No GUI, no problem. I went from picking a distro to exploring its desktop Skipping the setup left more time to see what each desktop offered Getting started with DistroSea was as easy as choosing a distribution, selecting a version or …

Kim Kardashian reveals she was single for five years to ‘heal’ from romantic past

Published by Daniella Wilson

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in Kim Kardashian has revealed that she spent five years single in order to “heal” from her romantic past. The reality TV star, 45, recently entered into a relationship with Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton; her first public romance since her involvement with comedian Pete Davidson in 2021. “That felt great. I could focus on my kids and projects that I really wanted to be involved with. I really felt no rush. Like, I really didn’t feel empty,” Kardashian told The Times. “I felt like I needed my time. I wanted to completely heal and just work on myself. I wasn’t ready to open up. I really wasn’t even thinking about it.” Hamilton, who split from his ex girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger in 2015, also came to the relationship with Kardashian after a lengthy break. However, the couple appear to be moving from strength to strength and have been seen together at …

A Single Health Factor Could Predict Longevity More Than Diet Or Exercise

Published by Sam Flores

If you’re hoping to live a longer, better life, eating well, exercising, and avoiding habits like smoking are great places to start. But according to a paper published in SLEEP Advances, the amount of shut-eye we get at night may be more strongly linked to our projected longevity than even diet and exercise. This isn’t to say that neither of those metrics matter: they definitely do. Scientists think that improved diets could add 10 years to the lives of people in the UK, while a review of studies found that being physically active could increase our lifespan by about two to four years as a “conservative” guess. As sleep physiologist Andrew McHill, who was involved in the new research, said: “I didn’t expect [sleep] to be so strongly correlated to life expectancy”. What did the study say about sleep and longevity? The researchers looked at a huge US database of health survey data taken between 2019 and 2025, alongside state-level life expectancies. They compared those figures by area while also looking for participants’ self-reported sleep duration. Insufficient sleep …

Fat Bear Week Day 1: It’s a battle of the moms and single females

Published by Jenni Sidey

On day one of Fat Bear Week, eight tough females square off. You’ve seen them on the explore.org camera at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, defending their cubs, fishing for meals, and blending families. So who’s competing on Day 1 of Fat Bear Week? Let’s meet the bears. Bear 132 and cubs vs. Bear 284 and cubs Mama Bear 132 boasts one of Fat Bear Week’s most compelling stories. She demonstrated her resiliency this summer after one of her spring cubs separated from the family. Bear 132 emerged this year with three spring cubs, her fourth known litter. Around mid-July, one of her cubs somehow ended up on its own and was later spotted wandering near the Brooks River unaccompanied. The cub tried approaching other bear families, only to be chased away or ignored. Cubs without a mother’s protection face multiple dangers—attacks from other bears, starvation, and more life-threatening risks. Bear 132’s cub managed to survive and was reunited with its family after several days ambling alone. This is Bear 132’s first appearance …

Designer Emily Dawn Long on Her Buzzy New Collection and Watching a Movie Every Single Morning

Published by Jenni Sidey

Since she burst on the scene with her eponymous label in 2019, Emily Dawn Long’s designs have become an inescapable part of the Downtown New York landscape. Walk down the streets of the Lower East Side, or wander into a sceney Chinatown bar, and you’ll notice it: vintage graphic tees with phrases like “SPOILED BOYS,” “BUG ME,” and “TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES”; skimpy knit backless tops and dresses, cropped polos, floppy crocheted hats. But in The Crack of Dawn, a film accompanying her latest collection, the designer is taking over the cityscape in a more literal way. The short film, directed by Mayan Toledano, features a cast of Dawn Long’s friends—including director Terrence O’Connor, model Meadow Walker, and model/actor Luca Apple—running around Lower Manhattan dressed in the brand’s new spring-summer 2027 collection. The film, a playful heist story, is cheeky in more ways than one: It opens with a shot of a model’s butt crack, peeking out from the back of her ultra-low-cut dress, an homage to the famous Guy Laroche dress worn in the …

Single men: tell us about your dating experiences

Published by Sam Flores

The Guardian is looking for single men of all ages to talk honestly about the experience of being unattached. Whether you are 16 or 100, we want to hear the unvarnished truth about what it’s like to live as a single man today. Are you trying to find love? Or are you happy living life as a bachelor? Do you find the experience of modern dating – with all its red flags and height requirements – to be a minefield? Or are you attracting more attention than ever before? If you’re open to talking to us about being a single man you can get in touch by filling in the form below. Share your experience You can share your response using this form. Your responses, which can be anonymous, are secure as the form is encrypted and only the Guardian has access to your contributions. We will only use the data you provide us for the purpose of the feature and we will delete any personal data when we no longer require it for this …

I replaced VLC with a 22MB video player, and I haven’t missed a single feature

Published by Miika Tikkanen

VLC is more than just a video player, and that’s probably why not everyone needs everything it offers. I mainly use a media player to play videos in .mkv format and show subtitles, and MPC-HC does exactly that without cluttering the interface or affecting performance. Related I ditched VLC and finally got high-quality HDR playback without any lag HDR finally works — no thanks to VLC. The minimal interface is the charm Less on screen, more focus on the video MPC-HC (short for Media Player Classic – Home Cinema) has been around since the early 2000s. The original project was discontinued in 2017, but a developer known as clsid2 forked it on GitHub and has been actively maintaining it since. That’s the version you want to download, and the one I’ve been using for the past several months. MPC-HC has a clean and simple design, and that’s one major factor why I find it to be an ideal media player. The main window has a menu bar at the top, a seek bar, playback controls, …

Contributor: Sacramento’s micromanaging of a single lane in the Hollywood Hills

Published by Sam Flores

By Michael SchneiderGuest contributor Sept. 2, 2026 9:06 AM PT How much does it cost to write your own law in California? About $500,000. That’s what Forest Lawn and Mt. Sinai cemeteries have spent on lobbyists since 2025 to kill one road safety project, on one street, in Los Angeles. This week, in the final hours of the legislative session, Sacramento gave them their money’s worth. For the record: 6:59 p.m. Sept. 3, 2026A previous version of this artlcle misidentified the budget trailer bill that would affect a street change in Los Angeles. It is Senate Bill 194, not Assembly Bill 194. Here’s what the money bought. Last Friday, just before 10 p.m. — two hours ahead of the deadline to amend any bill this session — new language appeared in Senate Bill 194, a budget trailer bill. Trailer bills exist to clean up the budget’s plumbing. They skip committees, cannot be amended and go straight to floor votes. They are the last place in Sacramento where a controversial idea can appear without any debate, …

Every single crewed mission to space — on one definitive map

Published by Jenni Sidey

“A Visual History of Crewed Space Travel” is now available in Big Think’s online store on Pop Chart, where you can also find our first two posters, “A Visual History of the Universe” and “A Literary Map of the United States,” and other Big Think merch. Future space cowboys and girls, stick this on your wall as you beat a path to the stars. This poster is a snapshot of humanity’s loftiest enterprise so far: making it off-planet. It maps Earth’s main spaceports, the landing sites on the Moon, the highest and farthest orbits traveled by us humans, and the spectacular array of suits and vehicles that got us there. Liftoff from Baikonur Crewed spaceflight is barely 65 years old. On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin rocketed off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a trip around Earth. Despite its brevity — just one hour and 48 minutes from launch to landing — that single orbit around the planet was, pardon the pun, revolutionary. Gagarin was not only the first human in orbit, but his safe …

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All posts tagged: single

I tried a dozen Linux distros in my browser without installing a single one

Kim Kardashian reveals she was single for five years to ‘heal’ from romantic past

A Single Health Factor Could Predict Longevity More Than Diet Or Exercise

Fat Bear Week Day 1: It’s a battle of the moms and single females

Designer Emily Dawn Long on Her Buzzy New Collection and Watching a Movie Every Single Morning

Single men: tell us about your dating experiences

I replaced VLC with a 22MB video player, and I haven’t missed a single feature

Contributor: Sacramento’s micromanaging of a single lane in the Hollywood Hills

Every single crewed mission to space — on one definitive map