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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey now, they care so much about protecting children that they’ll cover them in body armour and send them in big groups to far away lands (to keep them safe from domestic terrorism ofc)!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are few things more satisfying than finding a use for that thing you stored away ten years ago "in case" you ever had a need for it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly, like my box of condoms! Knew they’d come in handy one day 😎

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The fanbase? They didn’t take this kindly and have now been making it a campaign to make that user’s life a living hell.

  I only browse the community stuff rather than engaging with it, but we’ve had very different experiences.

  What I’ve seen is everybody discussing how messed up you’d have to be to do something like that, after a minority of players did all that horrible stuff, the fanbase overwhelmingly calling for those responsible to face punishment in court and to be permanently banned from the game and community.

  As can be expected of any community, there’s always unhinged, bad people in the mix. There are bad people on Lemmy, there are bad people everywhere. That’s just life. As a society, we deal with them when they show themselves, and we take care of each other.

  You can tar the whole community with one brush if you’d like, but that’s not a path towards anything positive. It only leads to people like me being offended and angry when you claim I’ve (as part of the fanbase) been on a campaign to make someone’s life hell.

  It’s just not productive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If it has a MicroSD slot, 3.5mm jack, a removable battery and costs no more than £300, I’m interested! <3

  I’d rather it were made in Europe too, but I understand we can’t have everything, supply chains being what they are.

  P.S Bonus points if it has an IR blaster, I use the one on my current phone quite a lot, surprisingly enough!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senators Launch New Effort to Ban Federal Elected Officials Profiting from Prediction Markets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gambling. Call it gambling.

  Trying to whitewash it as “Prediction Markets” so it doesn’t sound scummy, addictive, damaging and horrible is really annoying.

  There is a market for predicting outcomes of things and waging money against those predictions, yes. We call it Gambling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Motorola has been kinda crap for years now, not supporting their android phones with updates, etc.

  Hopefully this is a new leaf for them.

  Isn’t Lenovo that dodgy company that did the China stuff though? Hopefully they’ve been bought by someone else since then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is anybody acting like this is new? Shops relabel stuff with price changes regularly, this just makes it quicker and easier - staff don’t have to run around for a hour with a price gun and a bunch of shelf labels any more.

  Improving how we display prices isn’t the issue, that’s a good move, it’s how prices are decided that are the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Every penny given to a US company is bankrolling their government through taxes, and thus funding authoritarianism.

  OpenAI has direct government contracts sure, but yeah.

  I agree it sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Hole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oof, unsupported walls in holes can kill you extremely fast. I’d never go into a hole deeper than my waist without shoring (even then, ehhhh).

  Stay safe!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millions worth of prediction market bets placed on US airstrikes on Iran⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Prediction market”. Let’s just call it what it is:

  Gambling.

  What a stupid waste of time and money, encouraging addiction and ruin in people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I didn't want to just sell them. As the owner I put in the extra effort so they fit perfectly⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a great service to offer free of charge, a properly fitting bra can be a life changer!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doom Bar maker Sharp’s Brewery in Cornwall to be closed by US owner⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s sell our country piece by piece to foreign nations so they can siphon every penny they can to their own coffers, then let them shut it all down once they’ve bled us dry! Yay! We r smort!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No you don't sit on it. In the olden days people used this to make orange juice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do people use something else to juice citrus fruits now?

  I still use one of these, can’t imagine another design that would be better?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who remembers when you needed a separate "Download Manager" to handle concurrent downloads?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Download Accelerator Plus, my beloved 🥰

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI contributes to inflating global debt, already approaching $346 trillion or 310% of GDP⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which planet do we owe the money to?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Forest.

  There’s a great sequel too, but the first one is a lot of fun with friends if you like survival, base building, beautiful scenery, and naked cannibals chasing you through the woods screaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do they only ever "sensationalize" news when it helps the Nazis!?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who is this missing person with the pacemaker, and how is covering what’s happening to her helping Nazis?

  If it’s the elderly woman in the photo, and if she’s missing (trying to locate her heart makes it seem so), should word not be spread via the news, in case someone might have some information as to her location, etc?

  Or is the elderly woman a Nazi and you’d rather she not be found?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Break fast and move things!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Celebrate, brothers and sisters!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh my god you can’t use big boy grown up words on the computer what if mother sees, we’ll all be sent to bed without our tea

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bit rude, innit?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We put our old furniture/appliances out, and when the scrap man passes they take it away for free (or you can call the council and they’ll take it away for free also).

  I’ve got a couch out in my garden at the moment, council’s taking it to the tip on Monday.

  …Where are we supposed to leave it for pickup, on the roof?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bit rude, innit?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s a dick move, it’s so rare that we get snow, I enjoy looking out of the window and seeing it.

  Not to mention that it’s taboo over here to enter someone else’s garden without good reason, this bloke’s asking for it though, where’s his hedge? Not even a fence? Come on. But I digress.

  Thing is, if they’d just asked I bet he’d have said sure, and been happy to help, but it’s people stepping over the line and going outside of the basic social contact we have in our communities, that’s what pisses ya off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One day when you’re an adult, you’ll look back at the childish patronising insults you threw at millions of women, men and children, none of whom you know or have any right to judge, in order to feel a sense of smug superiority for a few moments on the Internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10+ year manager named Joe was apparently fired for bringing cookies to be thrown away before their sell by date to a food pantry in my town⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting, here in the UK they sell it at a discount, which greatly helps us poorer people afford food.

  Ironically if it’s all donated to food banks instead, I’d never see it and would struggle more - I may be poor but I can afford food so I don’t want to take away from what others might need more than me.

  The whole system is sadly broken anyway, so much food, yet so many hungry :-(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So long as it’s affordable. I’m not paying more than £250 for a mobile phone, even that’s on the high end of what I can justify for a phone.

  I’m stuck using Chinese brands if I want a good, affordable phone, but they have so many intentional software issues.

  Nothing’s perfect, but if I could get a better phone that doesn’t lock down stuff (it’s my phone after all, I’m in charge of my own life), and if it were at an affordable price point - unlike these crazies that think £1000 is a reasonable price for a phone (!!!), I’d jump on it <3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homeless kids in Greater Manchester to get free bus travel⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good.

  I’d rather things were done at a true national level, holistically with many other things, bringing in the systemic change we so desperately need to solve homelessness and beyond, but I suppose life has taught me that that will never happen.

  So, if my city can at least do one small thing to help one small group for a few years, good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha, funny you should say that, I’ve been linking this to people but taking the tracking portion out of the URL as I always do, I think that’s pretty common amongst us lot :-D

  I’d say oopsie, but I dunno, articles like these should probably be free without needing special URL parameters. Not everything of course, but vital public safety announcements like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My feelings on the Super Bowl⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What was Wenger thinking, sending Walcott on that early?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My feelings on the Super Bowl⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  United won 1-0 I think

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Laws exist outside of that country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slice radishes, toss them with a little olive oil, salt, and seasoning, and air fry at 380°F for 10-12 minutes, shaking halfway⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pity it’s not radish season yet, I grow loads of them, bloody love radishes.

  Will have to try to remember this!