wiccan2

@wiccan2@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online retailer eBay scraps fees for private sellers in UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That makes a lot of sense, I hadn’t considered that business sellers would still be charged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the other way around. Nintendo is a law firm with a game dev hobby.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online retailer eBay scraps fees for private sellers in UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Any info out there on how they actually plan on making money going forwards?

  The article talks about other platforms charging a fee to buyers instead but mentions nothing about eBay introducing this.

  Are they really making enough from ads on the site and vehicles to replace the lost revenue?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The lack of backwards comparability is because of the large difference in architecture.

  The PS2 was a128 bit custom processor, the PS3 had PS2 hardware in the original fat versions to achieve backwards compatibility, it was dropped to reduce the price.

  The PS3 was a 64 bit (I think) custom PowerPC processor.

  With the PS4 Sony switched to x86_64 processors making the console essentially a PC with bespoke custom hardware. The PS5 is the same but better speced components as the tech moved on. That’s why the PS4 & 5 are compatible, they are essentially using the same architecture.

  Microsoft is a similar story but they went all in on emulation of their old consoles which is why only certain games are allowed, they only allow the ones tested to work with the emulator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How different would the world be if school never ended but you could leave anytime you elect to?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you really want to learn something, go learn it. What’s stopping you?

  Work.

  If I don’t work full time I can’t afford to house or feed myself.

  Work wipes me out mentally leaving me no mental bandwidth to spend what precious little time I have left to go learn, even if I want to.

  I would love to be able to dedicate time to learning like I did when I was at university but even with the government funding available to me I would have to upend my life.

  I do spend time doing learning around things that interest me but it is depressing how little bandwidth work leaves for me to do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why 🤷‍♂️ do users 👨‍💻 dislike 👎 the use ✅ of emojis 😀 on Lemmy 🐭?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cords⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also known as a “nope rope”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With this heat, I find an idea of a safe and temp-regulated bath-bed tempting.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This actually already exists but it’s quite pricey: www.eightsleep.com/uk/pod-cover/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t surprise me, he has a track record of ignoring rules set out by the government, even when it was him making the rules!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They should still be charged if the wrong amount of postage has been paid.

  So if you send what royal mail count as a large letter but with a normal stamp instead of a large letter stamp they will be fined and charged the difference in postage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You have forever changed the way I communicate from this day on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have never once missed it. I’ve already switched to Bluetooth for my headphones and car. At home I cast to the hifi or Bluetooth speaker.

  I got an adaptor to let me use cabled headphones when I need to and I’ve used it twice, once was to test it even worked.

  The use case just doesn’t exist for me anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best and worst parcel delivery firms revealed in Citizens Advice rankings⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As it doesn’t seem to be linked from the article …org.uk/…/parcels-league-table-2023/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is a Lemsip Max just a paracetamol?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much, it’s paracetamol, caffeine and a decongestant. All things that are normally cheaper as tablets.

  See: www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/5620/smpc

  I’ve always hated the taste of Lemsip because of the paracetamol, don’t understand how people can stand it.

  I just take some tablets and have a mug of hot lemon/honey, the hot drink helps with congestion and the honey soothes a sore throat. Lemsip just mashes it all up into one powder.