TheGrandNagus

@TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MPs urge Amazon and eBay to tighten controls on ebike and charger sales⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  This is more about retailers selling stuff that doesn’t comply with existing safety standards. It’s not a plot from big auto to ban bikes and scooters.

  Very few people are cross shopping between a new Honda and a £179 e-scooter from Amazon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spelthorne restricts hoverboards, catapults and balaclavas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly the amount of people I see, particularly in cities but sometimes in normal towns too, whizzing around on an e-scooter or e-bike on pavements/the wrong side of the road, or abruptly darting across the road without even looking, wearing a balaclava in the middle of summer is bizarre.

  That absolutely cannot be comfortable. Why would someone want to wear a balaclava like that, other than to avoid being noticed by cameras or the police?

  Fair do in the middle of winter, but it was 28 degrees and humid the other day, yet I still saw a few people like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK to host Donald Trump for full state visit this year, says Buckingham Palace⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately the pragmatic move given the orange toddler could crash our economy with just a single deranged tweet.

  It is not worth it for Starmer to treat Trump like the piece of turd he is – crashing our economy and causing a rampant increase in poverty in the process – just so he can look based on twitter and Reddit for a few hours.

  Wooing Trump while simultaneously becoming less reliant on the US and growing closer to the EU again is genuinely probably the only thing Kier is doing exceptionally well in right now, so I won’t complain.

  Still, I hope we see the return of that giant baby Trump balloon lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You are genuinely the first person I’ve seen online who understands screen size != Phone size, because bezels exist and are different sized from phone to phone.

  My current 6.2" screen phone is virtually identical in size to the 4.2" one I had in 2012.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Qualcomm will have to change that, what with the EU now mandating a minimum of 5 years of updates after the phone is no longer sold.

  So if Qualcomm expects their SoCs to be on the market for 2-4 years, like they do right now, they will have no choice but to provide updates for 7-9 years.

  I wouldn’t be surprised if, given this development, Fair phone turn to the more conventional chips other OEMs use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is Adding AI-Powered Summaries to WhatsApp⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Would be a good feature if it works and is private.

  I’m in multiple group chats and often open WhatsApp to see 800 unread messages in a single chat. I don’t want to read through all of that, but I do want to know a high level overview, so I can see if it’s something I actually want to scroll back to and have a proper read.

  However, I’ve seen multiple AI summaries missing out important stuff, so that’s almost certainly going to be an issue here too.

  I also want it to be completely private. They say it is, but who knows? The fact it’s not on-device is a bit of a red flag to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  So a “phone” without any ability to connect to mobile networks or to WiFi?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t have to buy a new fair phone just because you bought the last one.

  It’s doubtful that someone buying a new phone now would want to buy the fair phone from 2+ years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government to ban Palestine Action, home secretary confirms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. But this isn’t a blanket ban on protestors.

  This specific organisation operates in cells, has caused and advocates for violence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government to ban Palestine Action, home secretary confirms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yikes. Actually wanting to put everyone in the UK at greater risk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government to ban Palestine Action, home secretary confirms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You experience satisfaction seeing our defence sector being sabotaged? Particularly when we’re in a proxy war with Russia and the world in general is becoming more hostile?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government to ban Palestine Action, home secretary confirms⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty surprised so many people are ok with UK defensive capabilities being sabotaged.

  Being against Israel’s war crimes is one thing (and obviously IMO the correct response), but breaking into an RAF base and destroying the engines of multiple planes obviously isn’t something that should be tolerated or encouraged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Majority of children will be overweight or obese in nine areas of England by 2035, study shows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not surprised. So much more of the food we eat now is pre-prepared, highly-processed crap.

  Not only is it heavily advertised to us, but it’s also far less common for there to be households with two parents where at least one of them has time to do some proper meal-planning, shopping, and cooking. Easier to get a couple microwave meals, air fryer meals, frozen pizzas, and the occasional just eat delivery subsidised by below minimum wage labour carried out by people in the shadow economy.

  Then on top of that, kids (and parents) are inside so much more than they used to be. In part because there’s simply more to do indoors now. In the 90s you’d have been bored out of your mind if you were stuck in the house for too long. 5 channels on TV, two of them are crap, and the others don’t always have what you want on, so you go out and do other things.

  Nowadays kids want to stay inside because that’s where their phones are, where their tablets are, where their switch, playstation, Xbox is. TVs have streaming services and so many more channels. You can stay inside for hours and never get bored.

  Years ago, you knew your neighbours, so you play out with them. Now households feel far more isolated than before and there are far fewer kids on streets, so who would you play out with?

  Not that you’d be allowed to play out very much anyway, because the 24-hour news cycle and scary stories on social media has parents convinced there’s a paedophile hiding behind every bush.

  This will be a very tough problem to solve, and there won’t be one silver bullet solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Armed Forces Minister refuses seven times to say whether UK backs US military action in Iran⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t something this minister can say. He can’t just make up UK defence policy and foreign policy on his own.

  This is just outrage bait.

  All we know so far is that Iran has made verbal threats about UK bases, which prompted the armed forces to further beef up their defence, the US informed the UK that they were going to bomb a few sites in Iran (but did not ask the UK to join), and that the UK government paid lip service to the US but seems reluctant on anything else so far.

  I’d hope Iran aren’t actually stupid enough to attack UK bases, but you never know. I think everyone is far more keen on continuing to focus on Russia-Ukraine, rather than this distraction.

  And yeah I know Iran does manufacturing, particularly of drones, for Russia, so it’s not like they’re unlinked… but my hunch is that the monetary and political cost of going after Iran directly would be too much, and Labour would rather stay out of a war with Iran if they can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lime bikes dumped in canals and rivers 'posing pollution risk'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So constant 360° surveillance?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All babies in England to get DNA test to assess risk of diseases within 10 years⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Already widely used in the western world, glad we’re catching up. This will save lives and reduce the misery of kids silently suffering without proper support.

  Goes without saying, but this data should remain with the NHS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s something Americans say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government May Reclassify UK Broadband as Defence Spending - ISPreview UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  On the one hand, this is possibly dubious in that things that aren’t generally considered to be part of defence will be used to inflate our defence spending numbers without actually spending that (i.e. it’s just a PR move)

  But on the other hand, this could be immensely useful in telling the NIMBYs to fuck right off. What’s that, you’re opposing infrastructure improvements? Aw, diddums, that’s too bad. This is deemed critical for national security, and thus the government can give it approval regardless. Sorry Bernard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The right advice for the wrong reasons lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government 'quietly drops' fight for tougher anti-protest laws used to arrest climate activist Greta Thunberg⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good. This was one of the many things from the Tories that was kinda fucked up. Glad to see it dropped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Americans say “86 [thing]” to mean “get rid of [thing]”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Regime Wants to Make Approvals Easier for Tesla's Mythical Cybercab⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought Trump and Elon had a major falling out?

  Actually now that I think of it, news about that fizzled out very quickly. Did they silently kiss and make up behind closed doors or something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your household smart products must respect your privacy – including your air fryer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  FFS an air fryer is a heating element, fan, and thermostat.

  Why are any of them being built with online connectivity and data harvesting capabilities?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petrol bombs thrown at police during fifth night of Northern Ireland disorder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Warmer weather means more riots. There’s been multiple times where days of rain or a cold wind has put an end to riots, and they almost never happen in winter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can afford to pay the protection racket, I just choose not to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess there’s no reason not to post to other sites as well?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open Source CAD In The Browser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One codebase across all OSes and OS versions, no dependency issues, easy to push updates.

  I’d prefer a native app myself, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most likely one of the commercial ones that offer support and contractual guarantees of security patches, uptime, service, and help desk support.

  So likely Ubuntu, SUSE, or RHEL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want to be a photographer, get a camera.

  🤦‍♀️

  Even professional photographers don’t have their cameras on them at all times, nor are they as convenient for just whipping out and taking a picture within 1.5s.

  Plus, cameras are expensive and they’re another thing to carry around (idk about you but I don’t have infinite pocket space) and they’re another thing to keep charged, whereas you have a phone with you at pretty much all times anyway, because they’re effectively required for modern society.

  You may as well be saying you don’t understand why phones can play music when you can get an MP3 player, that you don’t understand why they play videos because TVs exist, that you don’t understand why they have web browsers and plenty of apps, because PCs exist.

  I stick to my guns and I’m on the internet and computers to learn to educate myself, not to dick around with stupid shit.

  He said, on this Lemmy thread.

  And we have to be weary of open source

  Ah yes, that nefarious Open Source software. Tell me more about the evils of FOSS, Mr Balmer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple announces iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t actually like this redesign tbh, but come on, people do care about design and UX.

  Nobody said we need pretty UX design, it’s just nice to have, and that’s fine. Not everything needs to be furthering the development of XYZ. Beauty is fine, aesthetics is fine.