i_am_not_a_robot
@i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk
Avatar is a lemming in bed because this account wasn’t intended to be used except for creating communities… and then my instance announced it was closing.
Fedia: @chris@fedia.io
Mastodon: @confusedbunny@oldbytes.space
- Comment on Earbugld question: Does anyone actually like to silicone tipped earbuds over the solid plastic ones? 4 days ago:
I only like the old style earphones that sit in the ear. Those bottom ones look way too bulky to be comfortable or not fall out, and the silicone tip ones - sod stuffing something like that in my ear.
- Comment on Newish to Fediverse - do I use one account across all services? 6 days ago:
I don’t know if it uses that system, but NeoDB lets you sign in with a Mastodon account too. It’s also fully Mastodon compatible, so you can add it to a client and use it as a basic Mastodon/microblog account if you want. It uses (a modified version of?) Takahē on the backend, a project which sadly appears to have been abandoned.
- Comment on Newish to Fediverse - do I use one account across all services? 6 days ago:
In addition, you can interact with other services from one account, but not necessarily use them fully.
So as above ^^^ at least one account per service is advisable.
- Comment on Brexit campaigning turns 10. Here's how promises to voters hold up 1 week ago:
TLDR; Basically everything Leave said was a lie.
- Comment on Facebook is absolutely cooked 1 week ago:
+1 for NetSurf, I wrote the Amiga GUI for that.
- Comment on What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"? 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t anymore. I think they dropped the My with Vista? Certainly it was gone by Windows 7.
- Comment on What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"? 3 weeks ago:
Didn’t Microsoft start this with the “My Computer” icon on Windows 95?
- Comment on What's the best free version of word? 5 weeks ago:
ITYM Google Docs.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Maybe the Android Authority one mentioned as the source in the article? androidauthority.com/android-17-app-lock-notifica…
- Comment on How do I feel comfortable/safe going outside by myself after being so used to have parent(s) be with me outside most of my life? 1 month ago:
Yes. Was that question aimed at me?
- Comment on How do I feel comfortable/safe going outside by myself after being so used to have parent(s) be with me outside most of my life? 1 month ago:
Unfortunately this is the correct answer ^^^
To overcome anxiety you have to do the things that make you anxious. The best way is to do them now, the thinking time just increases the anxiety, and putting stuff off reinforces the fear.
Source: have anxiety
- Comment on I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop 1 month ago:
I’ve not used paint.net so this might be completely off the mark, but Pinta is a good little paint program which might be a reasonable alternative.
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- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 3 months ago:
After not knowing for ages, I recently discovered it was pronounced pooned. The W is pronounced the same as in Welsh.*
- The Welsh language, not the word “Welsh”
- Comment on It's 2025, And We're Getting A Brand New 8-Bit Game Console 3 months ago:
Evercade has the advantage of a huge software library to draw from (they have a few native games but the majority are emulated), whereas this will only run it’s own software, which puts it at a disadvantage.
Mind you, the Playdate seems to be going well.
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- Comment on Day 475 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 months ago:
@toiletsinvideogames@mas.to
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- Comment on King's coat of arms to feature on new UK passports 4 months ago:
He just waves a freshly minted 50 as he walks through passport control.
- Comment on King's coat of arms to feature on new UK passports 4 months ago:
Yeah, it’s more about updating to the current emblems, which would happen anyway. Sounds like they are updating the passports and doing this at the same time. If the King was that bothered he would have made them change it when they altered the text from “her majesty” to “his majesty”.
- Submitted 4 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 25 comments
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- Comment on Labour votes AGAINST letting disabled people use the bus for free before 9:30am 5 months ago:
That’s a fair point, but I was looking at it from the government’s angle. If you’re working, you have the money to pay for the transport to get you to work. If you can’t afford to eat after that, that’s a different matter entirely.
- Comment on Labour votes AGAINST letting disabled people use the bus for free before 9:30am 5 months ago:
Yes, buses should be for the benefit of all. Unfortunately they are mostly run by private companies who want to make a profit.
(Also I see that I got downvoted for trying to provide a balanced view of why this is even a policy, aren’t the votes supposed to be “adds to the discussion” not “I agree”?)
- Comment on Labour votes AGAINST letting disabled people use the bus for free before 9:30am 5 months ago:
Yes, thank you.
- Comment on Labour votes AGAINST letting disabled people use the bus for free before 9:30am 5 months ago:
I think the point is, if you’re working you don’t need free bus travel. If you’re on the bus at that time of the morning then you’re probably working (or going to an important early morning appointment, who knows), and the buses are at their busiest so discouraging extra users at that time is beneficial. This might be your only form of transport if you are disabled though, so it seems unfair to force payment if you have no other option. I get why the early peak is excluded (you could argue the afternoon peak should be excluded too), although I’m at a loss as to why it finishes at 11pm.