frazorth
@frazorth@feddit.uk
- Comment on Aldi price match at Tesco - dozens of goods not like-for-like 2 days ago:
Depends if you go to Kentucky Fried Pigeon.
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 weeks ago:
My headphones have a USB c port and connects at USB 2 speeds.
- Comment on August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget. 3 weeks ago:
78 F is 25 C and 80 F is 26 C.
Just saying “ish” doesn’t suddenly make them the same. In C they are different numbers.
- Comment on Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements 5 weeks ago:
This question makes no sense.
Most Windows users are not technical enough to do component upgrades.
- Comment on I just got out of the shower. what is with the product placement ? 5 weeks ago:
Nope Idiocracy is far more optimistic.
Remember, they found our someone was more intelligent so they gave him the job of fixing the country.
- Comment on Cannabis: Drug production booming in UK's empty high streets 1 month ago:
If only there existed other types of services. 🙄
Honestly I have seval ideas that I would love to pursue but we don’t have any suitable vacant buildings. Almost everything is bought up for assisted/elderly care and left unoccupied. It definitely feels like a tax scam somewhere.
- Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 15 comments
- Comment on Civil servants cannot wear ‘fetish gear’ to work, minister confirms 1 month ago:
Ah, a nice normal American that loves judging other countries without realising what the fuck is going on locally.
- Comment on Ofcom to ban inflation-linked mid-contract price rises on phones, pay-TV and broadband 1 month ago:
Marketing and proofreading? What’s that?
🤣
- Comment on Ofcom to ban inflation-linked mid-contract price rises on phones, pay-TV and broadband 2 months ago:
How much data for £9?
- Comment on Ofcom to ban inflation-linked mid-contract price rises on phones, pay-TV and broadband 2 months ago:
TalkMobile.
Vodafone’s other in-house MVNO with no-frills. 30Gb, £7, rolling 30 day contract.
60Gb is £10 per month, 30 day rolling contract.
- Comment on Water bills set to rise by between X and X 2 months ago:
Fuck.
Thames Water planning on fucking us over the most. But remember that Thames water haven’t paid out a divided since the Aussie owners pillaged them and sold it to the Saudis.
In a very narrow definition of dividends that doesn’t include paying out to the Saudis.
- Comment on Let's address the significant issue confronting the nation today.. Which Mr/Mrs Men are you? 2 months ago:
Mr. Upperty is now Mr. Snooty? When did that happen?
- Comment on Let's address the significant issue confronting the nation today.. Which Mr/Mrs Men are you? 2 months ago:
Yeah, I know Mr. Adventure as he is plastered all over the airport play areas.
But there are a lot that I don’t know. I assume like Mr. Adventure, they were created for corporate sponsorship.
- Comment on Why Britain is the world’s worst on homelessness 2 months ago:
Then you should look around. It is very much a thing in the UK.
- Comment on Why Britain is the world’s worst on homelessness 2 months ago:
We need to build more because this is about a Shelter piece on people having to live as families in a single hotel room rotating locations.
We aren’t even at the point of private landlords being the problem and preventing people from buying, as there simply aren’t enough houses for people
- Comment on Why Britain is the world’s worst on homelessness 2 months ago:
Tax the crap out of them until they build is usually easier.
- Comment on Why Britain is the world’s worst on homelessness 2 months ago:
Unfortunately the solutions are opposed by both sides, mostly because lefties are arguing points about house building not reducing costs which doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
If we build a million McMansions, they won’t sell for £500k+ due to oversupply.
“Affordable housing” is just basically building more at this point, the reason you can sell ex-council houses for over £300k is because, as the article you didn’t read says, 1 in 200 are homeless due to insufficient housing.
- Comment on Why Britain is the world’s worst on homelessness 2 months ago:
It is unfortunate that the building companies make more money by not building, than by building.
We need a progressive land/council tax. Hording land should cost you.
My favourite suggestion should be that tax levels are based upon a heat map of urban density, but also linked to area owned. It came out of the US because they have problems with land hording in urban area, spaces that are just a car park to act as a holding for land.
It would mean that ownership of inner city, undeveloped land and also owning large estates is penalised.
- Comment on Why Britain is the world’s worst on homelessness 2 months ago:
Unsurprising that it all shot out of control after 2010, and just more evidence that we need to build more.
- Comment on Why Britain is the world’s worst on homelessness 2 months ago:
Paywall bypass link here:
- Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 37 comments
- Comment on Cutting the ‘green crap’ has added £22bn to UK energy bills since 2015 2 months ago:
Ah, but then you’ll have to put up will all the folks whining about new builds, and that a waste outlet pipe wasn’t connected properly, Vs a 60-70s that’s still standing so must be much better, as long as we ignore the black mold in the cavity that is slowly killing us.
- Comment on Now, if it was a Pixel... 4 months ago:
Not quite sure about that. Wtf is that aspect ratio?
I’ll have to figure out of I can see it in person, because it reminds me of those 2000’s crappy ultra wide monitors that claimed a normal size but because they were extra wide it ended up being smaller.
- Comment on Now, if it was a Pixel... 4 months ago:
Ah, I thought the latest ones were going big again. I’ll have to check them out.
- Comment on Now, if it was a Pixel... 4 months ago:
I’m still on my Galaxy S10e.
The last normal sized phone with USB C and a headphone jack.
- Comment on Count Binface Celebrates beating Britain First 4 months ago:
Interesting back story.
Lord Buckethead has been three different people in different elections.
Count Binface is the second Lord Buckethead, the one who made the character famous when he stood against May in Maidenhead.
- Comment on LinkedIn is the latest company to get in on gaming 4 months ago:
I can understand event announcements, my job applications are for foo widget builders, so let me know if Foo Widget Con is happening with hiring companies or Foo Widget User Group so we can all get together and share in our pain.
Outside of that, most posts are meaningless.
- Comment on Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. 4 months ago:
But are they all moving back to California?
Last I heard was most are going to Nashville which has absolutely terrible traffic, soaring land costs and pushing 100 degrees, arming teachers, arresting folks for DUI even if you’ve not had a drink. Weather has absolutely nothing to do with any of the decisions because the CEOs don’t go to the office. It’s all about the latest city tax break.
It’s weird that people are talking this up like anything Texas has done would cause this. The people in charge don’t give a shit about you, they don’t give a shit about you living in 110 degrees weather, and they certainly don’t give a shit if you die because of a pregnancy complication.
- Comment on Royal Mail insists it will keep fining innocent victims of counterfeit stamps 5 months ago:
I wasn’t referring to the privatisation, you said
What an unnecessary division of labour.
The labour overlap of a parcel network and a storefront are completely different.
It didnt need to be privatised, but separating the two isnt a bad thing.