TheGrandNagus

@TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK government should end rail outsourcing ‘racket’, says union⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope that as the integration of the now nationalised rail companies continues, this shit gets cut out. It’ll probably be a matter of waiting for contracts to expire, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber rewrites contracts with drivers to avoid paying UK’s new ‘taxi tax’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You think HMRC is conspiring with Uber with the goal of making less money for HMRC? And that after years of this, it’s never been leaked or alleged?

  Dunno mate. Seems more likely to me that tax-dodging internationals are just experts in dodging tax.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA and AMD GPU Prices Projected to Surge in Q1 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Adjusted for inflation some of them did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crypto users forced to share account details with tax officials⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Good.

  People shouldn’t be seeing crypto as a means to not have to pay towards society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨London coroner calls for circumcision safeguards after baby death⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  We absolutely care about mutilating the genitals of girls, too.

  It’s just young boys that get fucked over

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MegaLag - The Honey Scam is Worse Than I Thought⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I kind of roll my eyes at it, but I get it. People have to earn a living and feed themselves, and they can’t do that without clicks.

  And really, pulling a dumb face on a thumbnail is a hell of a lot more ethical in terms of driving engagement than some headlines you see that are so misleading they may as well be outright lies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MegaLag - The Honey Scam is Worse Than I Thought⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m resisting my inner Lemmy user desire to shit on this for its thumbnail, but this is a great video, people should know about this. What Honey did is fucked up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Similar to Trump’s in rhetoric, but without the massive advantage that the US has in that countries trying to separate from them would undergo an economic catastrophe.

  So in terms of impact, probably worse than Trump.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no forced Gnome 3 (and it’s not been called that for a long time either), because you choose to install it, have the freedom to install anything else you want, and can customise it infinitely if you so choose.

  Besides, Gnome is great. Maybe you don’t like it, but it seems odd to say that the way Linus Torvalds uses Linux is the “wrong” way to use Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh

  Maybe it’s different in other countries, but why would there be a different allowance for tethered/hotspot data?

  Surely unlimited means unlimited and it makes no difference whether the ones and zeros go to a phone or something connected to it?

  I’ve never had any problems

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so glad this was made illegal in the UK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably because one uses slaves in the manufacturing process, and the other has the Elon musk affiliation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  beta male

  This bs is essentially just astrology for men lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The state of the UK is fine?

  Free healthcare, relatively low food prices, growing wages, one of the highest minimum wages on Earth, low income taxes, decent workers rights, low levels of violent crime.

  There’s some not great things, like house prices, but as I understand it, that’s an issue in most of the developed world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Your car radio can’t kill people lmao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s more than just Qualcomm in the ARM market.

  Also, so what? Do you think the cars are currently sold at a loss? They profit on each car sold, and that includes the infotainment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
  • nowhere in their comment are they saying they blame automakers by specifically
  • nowhere in their comment are they saying they should get cars for free

  Stop getting so offended, snowflake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the confusion is that you basically said “Tidal lost me when they lost me.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK: University of Liverpool supports Chinese, Russian military through its joint venture campus in China, assists Moscow and Beijing's military modernization and human rights violations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am so sick of tankies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Asus won’t be producing it. They’ll be slapping their name on some kits produced by another company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Titanic, Sinclair C5 and Brexit: the Museum of Failure is coming to the UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “The Toyota Corolla is an absolute failure”

  “Really, how so?”

  “My uncle crashed his into a lamppost and then it was rendered un-drivable”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD's legacy Ryzen 7 5800X3D chips now sell for up to $800, more than a new 9800X3D — AM4 chip costs twice as much as MSRP, as enthusiasts flock to old DDR4 memory⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  AM4 is the greatest CPU socket that has ever been created.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Question is, though, who now isn’t on your blacklist?

  Samsung and SK Hynix never sold to consumers directly, yet seem to be avoiding flak.

  Who do you get that isn’t that three? Almost all RAM on the market is Samsung, SK Hynix, or Micron.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Motherboards seem to have a normal amount of slots though?

  Not like you can populate them all anyway, though. Use one modern (i.e. oversized) graphics card and it seems to block three slots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is off by default.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s literally in their original post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The alt-text tagging is pretty amazing according to my sister (blind), too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good thing it’s open source and we’ll immediately see that they aren’t doing the thing you’re claiming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, they won’t be used at all, and will be hidden from view, if turned off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Alt-text generation for screen readers (amazing feature)

  Private, offline translation (amazing feature)

  Chatbot sidebar (I have very little use for it, but some may like it)

  All of these are opt-in.