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- Comment on Meta considers mixed reality glasses , code name : puffin, will release by 2027 2 months ago:
What a novel idea, that definitely no-one has tried before
- Comment on Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10 2 months ago:
Why fix what isn’t broken
- Comment on UK economy continues recovery with 0.6% growth 2 months ago:
Wow, with this impressive growth we will be recovered by only 2300!
- Comment on World’s highways could host 52.3 billion solar panels, say researchers 2 months ago:
This is one of those ideas that’s just constantly claimed and constantly rebuked as unrealistic and not feasible
- Comment on Dev boots a PC from Google Drive cloud storage — a storage-less laptop becomes a truly cloud-native computer 4 months ago:
Take my money
- Comment on Chinese space firm unintentionally launches its new rocket 4 months ago:
None anymore at least
- Comment on Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show 4 months ago:
Batteries are expensive, range causes anxiety, a small battery is possible in a hybrid thus price is lower
- Comment on Transport secretary considers ban on floating bus stops in UK cycle lanes 5 months ago:
Well I think the stupidity of the proposal is summarised here:
There is also some doubt about the safety case for a ban. In London, which has the highest number of floating bus stops in the UK, statistics for 2020-22 showed that of 623 pedestrians injured after being struck by a bike, 0.6% of them – four in all – were hit at floating bus stops. None of these incidents appeared to have happened at a designated crossing point.
Over the same period, 11,400 pedestrians and 15,000 cyclists were injured after being hit by motor vehicles.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi storybook uses AI to create stories with pictures on its eInk display 6 months ago:
Article clearly stated it’s running locally
- Comment on MoD giving Ukrainian soldiers in the UK free cigarettes to 'boost morale' 6 months ago:
The key sentence being:
A source, familiar with the deal, told the Telegraph: ‘It is fair to say that smoking is going to be less of a threat to these brave soldiers’ lives than fighting Putin’s illegal invasion of their country.’
- Comment on Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road 6 months ago:
I mean that’s exactly what the driver would do, I’m not sure why this is controversial
- Comment on Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off. 6 months ago:
yeah this was me. swapped to Mac. Couldn’t bring myself to sign up to all the debugging that would go into having a Linux based laptop. I left windows due to the overhead of disabling the bloatware, popups and general bullshit. I didn’t want to swap that for other ongoing issues. Just give me something that works. It’s an OS, not a hobby project
- Comment on Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon 6 months ago:
and the vast majority of Linux Devs will just continue building what they were building before, and still complain how windows users dont migrate to Linux (cough usability cough)
- Comment on ytdl-sub 7 months ago:
Really cool concept
- Comment on SpaceX is reportedly building a $1.8 billion network of spy satellites for US intelligence 7 months ago:
Or there is more to that story than we know as the general public.
- Comment on File over App Philosophy 8 months ago:
Logseq is the obsidian foss clone , worth a try
- Comment on File over App Philosophy 8 months ago:
Yep it does
- Comment on File over App Philosophy 8 months ago:
Try logseq, it’s foss and solves some of these problems. Mostly compatible with files from obsidian
- Comment on File over App Philosophy 8 months ago:
Try logseq, it’s a foss alternative to obsidian
- Comment on Exotic ‘dinosaur-like’ turtle that can bite through bone found in Cumbria 8 months ago:
Alternative headline: “snapping turtle found in Cumbria”
- Comment on Dark side of Starbucks app: Coffee giant accused of rigging payments to the tune of nearly $900 million over 5 years | Fortune 10 months ago:
Starbucks disputes this, noting that customers can pay for their purchase with whatever money remains on the app or gift card, then pay the balance in cash at the store.
Seems pretty clear cut
- Comment on Google Fixes Nearly 100 Android Security Issues 10 months ago:
Since when did wired get a paywall?
- Comment on ...So I Finally Quit Spotify 10 months ago:
From what I read, it’s more about stopping people using auto generated songs and uploading thousands of songs
- Comment on ...So I Finally Quit Spotify 10 months ago:
And in 2024, Spotify will stop paying out songs which get less than 1000 streams in a year. Which means for me, as an artist in the early stages of my career, I am going to get paid nothing. I could get over 1000 streams on all my songs in total, but still get paid nothing. I could get 999 streams on a song one year and 999 streams on it the next year… and still get paid nothing.
As the author states in the previous paragraph, Spotify pays 0.003c per stream. I don’t think the author has done the maths. 1000 streams equals 3c. He’s complaining over not getting paid 3c as if that will fund his career
- Comment on Israel grants Intel $3.2 billion for new $25 billion chip plant 10 months ago:
Sounds like the want to ensure access to chips for missiles, and don’t get cut off like Russia was
- Comment on Home Office accused over ‘absurd’ rejections of Hong Kong asylum claims 10 months ago:
UK government, after 12 years, promises this time they’ll actually fix the broken country they broke
- Comment on Disbelief at plan to fix London potholes as part of Network North project 10 months ago:
The joke here is how apparently it costs a quarter of a billion pounds to fill in potholes
How??
- Comment on Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts 11 months ago:
PodcastAddict is better in my opinion
- Comment on 23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users 11 months ago:
Advertisers have my preferences and buying and watching habits, my DNA is… my DNA. That’s another whole level
- Comment on OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say 11 months ago:
Take your meds