blackn1ght
@blackn1ght@feddit.uk
- Comment on Is it possible to move the three buttons at the bottom to the side? 10 hours ago:
I was being an idiot, I didn’t know you can do it from the right edge.
- Comment on Is it possible to move the three buttons at the bottom to the side? 10 hours ago:
I’ve just given it a go but unfortunately that’s even worse, as I need to reach the very left of the screen. Cheers for the advice though!
- Submitted 11 hours ago to askandroid@lemdro.id | 5 comments
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 20 hours ago:
They’re still using computers to do their university work and submit it though. It’s more about them not using a laptop in a lecture hall and using pen and paper instead. That’s not really a big deal considering that’s probably what most people were doing anyway up until relatively recently.
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 21 hours ago:
Title is misleading:
Nick, a philosophy student at the University of Cambridge, stopped using his laptop for university work in the last year of his undergraduate degree. He still types his essays, but lecture notes, revision, and essay planning are all done by hand.
The second sentence contradicts the first:
stopped using his laptop for university work
then
He still types his essays
So basically he’s not taking a laptop in to the lecture hall to take notes etc but is still using a computer to complete his work. Which makes sense as pen & paper in that environment is way more practical anyway.
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 23 hours ago:
I used to work at a popular electrical retailer in the UK, and Samsung had come to our offices with some of their latest appliances, including a fridge freezer with a screen like this. They were trying to demonstrate the feature where you could look inside your fridge so you didn’t need to open the door, amongst other things, but it was of course a horrible laggy mess. I told the rep that nobody is going to use this after the first time and it’s just easier to open the door and look inside. You could tell he thought it was shit too but couldn’t come out and say it, but his smirk said it all.
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 23 hours ago:
Sammobile apparently has 1660 “partners”, the fuck?
- Submitted 23 hours ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 23 hours ago:
I know it’s cool to shit on spotify and streaming services on Lemmy, but personally I disagree. I loved Winamp and had tens of thousands of songs back in the day, downloaded on my zippy 56k dial up connection. But being able to search for and play virtually any song available instantly and share collaborative playlists, no matter where you are, is so much better.
- Comment on Privately educated still have ‘vice-like grip’ on most powerful UK jobs 1 day ago:
It’s both. The networking with kids from private school and their parents is probably more valuable than the education that they receive.
- Comment on Four arrested after photo of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle 1 day ago:
Arrested for displaying a picture onto a stone wall? Fuck off
- Comment on UK’s last local currency axed due to rise of digital and card payments 2 weeks ago:
The Lewes Pound – the UK’s final surviving local currency – is being officially discontinued after 16 years of circulation
I didn’t even know you could get ultra localised currencies like this.
- Comment on Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn 2 weeks ago:
Change the vehicle tax to be based on height, width and length dimensions.
- Comment on Jeremy Corbyn on Britain’s New Left-Wing Party 4 weeks ago:
sign-up figures are insane, 650 k is huge! The last published Labour membership figures were about one third of that.
It’s 650k people subscribing to a list vs being a member. Not really the same thing.
- Comment on Parents in England skipping meals to afford school uniforms, survey finds 4 weeks ago:
Just scrap school uniform entirely and don’t allow any obvious branding on clothes. It’s such a fucking waste of time.
- Comment on How I hacked my washing machine 1 month ago:
I guess you’ll need to go back at least 40 years. Even so, if the belt or motor breaks then the washing machine doesn’t work either.
- Comment on How I hacked my washing machine 1 month ago:
That could happen to the washing machine whether it’s “smart” or not.
- Comment on Bluesky age verification uk 1 month ago:
Blame the shitty UK legislation. Bluesky, Reddit etc are just complying with it.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 1 month ago:
Lemmy.zip blocks uk users on its front end but I think its contents is still federated.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 1 month ago:
Honestly I have no idea. I guess they could just block it if they don’t comply?
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 1 month ago:
I’d say 10 over on any 30mph zone is crazy. These are usually in built up areas so there’s no excuse for it.
but there are many roads where 20 over is still fine.
Can’t say I agree. National speed limit is either 60 or 70mph depending on the road and I wouldn’t want to do 20mph over on either.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 1 month ago:
Under the new UK law, lemmynsfw would also need to have some kind of age verification for UK users.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 1 month ago:
In the UK you’re allowed 10% (and I think +2mph) due to car speedo’s not being 100% accurate.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 1 month ago:
If she was caught doing 38mph in a 30, then her car was probably displaying 40 or 41mph as the speedo’s always report you going a higher speed than you’re going. So I’d say that’s pretty bad, especially when you’ve been caught several times before in such a short space of time.
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 2 months ago:
How are PeerTube instances funded? I’d imagine that the cost of running an instance is significantly higher than a Lemmy instance.
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 2 months ago:
True, but in order to make it a healthy viable alternative to centralised platforms then there needs to be a financial incentive for creators to use peertube. I guess any creators who give a shit about this kind of thing could upload their content to both platforms, but doing so could have an impact on their YouTube earnings.
Early youtube was beautiful precisely because it was normal people making videos as a hobby, not trying to earn money.
It was also a novelty as it as very new, but the quality of content being put out now is significantly higher than it was in 2005.
- Comment on Experiment finds yoghurt can lower house temperature 2 months ago:
The thick layer of wasps and flies on the yoghurty windows would also help.
- Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on Starmer and Macron to announce ‘one in, one out’ migration deal 2 months ago:
- Nigel Farage
- JK Rowling
- The twat of a passenger who gave me a wanker sign in another car that was doing about 50mph in a 20 after I pulled out of a junction on a corner where I couldn’t see them until I was already half way across the road
- Comment on Royal Mail given go-ahead to scrap second-class post on Saturdays 2 months ago:
It’s this. The company I work for will sign contracts with Royal Mail for 12+ months. It’ll also give their business customers time to potentially switch to alternatives, either pushing people to First Class or maybe the tracked options such as T48.