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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
About 20 years ago, there was an art/tech project for distributing Linux Source code by radio. Probably not very practical in reality, but a lovely concept.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be alert. Don't let Santa trick you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
“That’s a challenging wank”

Sean Lock on “8 out of 10 Cats” (skip to 3 minutes in)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pineapple was never the problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I know society expects me to dislike a macaroni cheese pizza, but that looks absolutely delicious.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Social media platforms face huge fines under UK’s new digital safety laws.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Nothing if the legislation was written properly.

Not good if the legislation was written badly.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework wants to fix the budget laptop with its first touchscreen machine⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Please just give us physical mouse buttons as an option.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current chain of command⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Surely the child has a toy bear or glove puppet that outranks Trump in the chain of command?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Reach" news websites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Other than the ads, there’s also the issue of them posting local articles for other towns on all of their linked websites, without necessarily specifying what town it relates to.

Especially “fun” if they have an article about a really interesting local project or a shock workplace closure etc, and get everyone excited/worried but the newspaper website doesn’t reveal it’s actually from an unrelated town 300 miles away.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twinkle Tush⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Looks like someone’s been reading the Thesaurarse / Thesaurass.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WH Smith in secret talks to sell historic high street arm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I suspect that whoever they sell it to is going to carry on doing exactly the same thing. I’m sure part of the appeal in the sale is all of those “captive audience” shops in train stations etc.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t know about guest user stuff either actually - I might look into it at some point if I feel the need.

And yes, I’ve only ever used the “pin app” practically for letting young relatives play games and stuff on my phone, knowing they won’t be able to switch apps and send anyone a message - like the “Poo poo willy bum” incident last year :)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Well yeah, if they really wanted to “get you” for something, I’m sure they’ll find a way - but it’s a good bare minimum for casual snooping - avoiding the awkwardness of someone accidentally swiping onto your Jerboa app and then you having to explain how “writing silly comments about guillotining billionaires and throwing right-wing politicians into the sea isn’t actually a serious terrorist threat, officer”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It won’t solve the above, but if you’re not aware already, you can “pin” an Android app to lock it to the screen, so nobody can easily switch to another app without using your login pin/code/pattern.

Firstly, to turn it on, you need to go to Settings>Security & Privacy>Other Security Settings and switch on “Pin App”. The location of this setting may be different depending on the manufacturer of your mobile phone.

Then, to lock a particular app to the screen, press the three-lines button (maybe a square on your telephone?) to open up the program switcher, then press the circular thumbnail of the icon at the top of the screen, to open up the menu you didn’t know existed, and select “pin this app”.

Without your password or login pattern, your telephone will only show the currently open app. Nobody can switch to other programs or mess with other stuff without unlocking the phone.

To unlock it afterwards, you then hold the < and the three lines buttons for a few seconds, then enter your normal login code/pin/pattern to unlock. It will tell you this when you lock it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nigel Farage distances himself from Elon Musk on Tommy Robinson⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That might be a bit tricky - perhaps he could simply distance himself from both dry land and boats, by “Maxwelling” himself into the sea?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British girls outdrink boys — and most of Europe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It is often traditionally considered to be an achievement in Britain, yes.

Ideally you don’t get drunk though - you should be able to drink as much alcohol as possible, whilst showing as few effects as possible, for some reason. If you become drunk after too few alcoholic drinks, you “can’t handle your drink” and you are a “lightweight”. These are both negative characteristics in a person.

I’m not saying I necessarily agree with this, I’m just saying it exists :)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Actually, now I think about it, that only covers one section of the market.

You should also release exactly the same product with with different packaging a few times:
- One with an off-brand Mr T character mascot, called “I Pity The Gruel”.
- One called “Bilk : Better than Milk”.
That’s a few shelves of supermarkets covered with selling the same thing. I’m sure you can cover some more with a few like “Barista Supreme: Oat-based Cream”, “Oat Water”, “Oat Juice” and simply “Oat-based Drink”. Maybe even “Oat Blood”, for Goths and “My dad was a gruelmaker” for Keir Starmer fans.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It just needs a bit of snazzy marketing.

Just call it Ultragruel or Oatfuel and write “PROTEIN” on it in big letters.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Transport Secretary Louise Haigh resigns after Sky News revealed mobile phone guilty plea⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That’s what they’re saying… but… so what? Did the police waste hours and millions hunting for a lost mobile phone? Did she receive an ill-gotten temporary replacement mobile phone from work for a few weeks? I’m still struggling to see the scandal or crime.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Transport Secretary Louise Haigh resigns after Sky News revealed mobile phone guilty plea⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I must be missing something. What’s actually the crime or scandal here?

Haigh: “Help, I’ve been mugged”
Police: “What did they take?”
Haigh: “I can’t remember exactly what was in the bag, I guess my money, my bank cards, my keys, my work phone”
Police: “Ok”
Haigh: “Oh, wait a minute, my work phone was at home, they only threatened me, assaulted me and took the other stuff I mentioned”
Police: “Your list was wrong? Ha! Then it is YOU who is the criminal, not them!”
Government, ten years later: “Also, you’re not allowed to fix our railways or have a job”
Tories: “Unlike all our politicians who merely do things like millions of £s of fraud, destroying the economy and endangering the lives of millions of people for their own personal profit - this horrific excuse for a human once put something in a list and then realised it shouldn’t have been on the list, so a decade later, it’s only correct that they shouldn’t be allowed to have a job”

I assume I’ve missed something key here.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Hahaha, yes, exactly this - and perhaps the same situation with “bum crack or inner-fold of a bent elbow?”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Maybe it’s worth bearing in mind Lemmy’s older, nerdier audience?

You remember those build-a-model magazines they used to rip off grandads with?

“Build your own model Lancaster Bomber! Only £1.99! You’ll receive a large piece of the model with your first issue! Then the rest of it in pieces over future issues! (Future issues cost £9.99 a week, for 500 weeks)”

So you get your “special interest” photographs produced into jigsaws, then sell one jigsaw piece a week, eventually completing the full photograph at the end of the year.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New measures unveiled to crack down on subscription traps⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Good.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Oh, those are just to stop the kids escaping from the paedodungeon.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man arrested over theft of 22 tonnes of cheese from Neal’s Yard Dairy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I think so - he definitely played for Leeds. He must be in his 50s now, so maybe he’s took up journalism? :)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do allergies feel like for you?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I suddenly picked up “allergies*” in my late 30s - couldn’t work out what they were, other than antihistamines (cetirizine or loratidine) made them “not as bad”, and I also needed to avoid certain things in particular (breathing in dust, aerosols, perfumes, other chemical fumes, car fumes, cigarette fumes, wood dust and drinking alcohol).

Turned out to be Nasal Polyps. I was due for surgery to remove them in 2020, but then Covid happened and I’ve been on a waiting list since. Surgery may completely remove the problem, or at least lessen it - but they could grow back within five years.

Basically every day is like I’ve got cold or sometimes flu. Sometimes I feel like I’m drowning in phlegm. If I take antihistamines, it’s pretty mild or controllable, as long as I can reasonably avoid those triggers. Sometimes I have to drink lemsip in the morning (powdered hot drink of paracetamol, lemon flavour & decongestant). It’s there every day, permanently, but how severe it is varies between “slightly inconvenient” and “too unwell to work”.

Antihistamines are essential for me to function at all, and make a huge difference - though I feel they’ve become less effective in the last year or so. Thankfully they’re very cheap over the counter (~£1.30 for 30 days’ worth). I also use a saltwater nasal spray sometimes, and I sometimes eat a lot of menthol sweets. I have to be careful with decongestants to avoid “rebound congestion” where your nose adjusts to life with decongestants, then becomes twice as blocked up if you stop.

If I drink alcohol or breathe perfume etc, my sinuses block up within half an hour, I can get an asthmatic response, and I get crippling arthritic pain in my hands and joints. Sometimes perfume and other sprays can cause severe, possibly dangerous breathing problems. I have an asthma inhaler for these emergencies, and always have to carry it with me, in case someone sprays perfume in an enclosed space (which might cause me to die).

If I keep reasonable control over these things, I can live pretty “normally”. If I actually get a cold, it’s like I’ve got a “double cold”, and it can make me too ill to go to work.

When it’s bad, it’s a pretty miserable existence to be honest, but in the larger scale of things it’s not a serious or life-threatening illness, so you feel guilty for complaining.

When it’s not so bad, I can normally ignore it for most of the day. It’s worst in the morning/night when I’m horizontal.

Your case outlined in the original post sounds particularly upsetting and you have my sympathies.

*technically it’s an intolerance or hypersensitivity, and not truly and allergy, though it behaves in much the same way, and symptoms can be controlled in much the same way.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Police investigating suspected gunshot fired at taxi containing Ian Hislop⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Perhaps a warning rather then a genuine murder attempt?

Though the list of suspects must be “Any politician, celebrity or person who has been in the news and done something wrong, stupid or hypocritical since the 1980s”.