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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.
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- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 1 week 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 1 week 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.
- Submitted 1 week ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 67 comments
- Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on Day 475 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
@toiletsinvideogames@mas.to
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 6 comments
- Comment on King's coat of arms to feature on new UK passports 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 25 comments
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 0 comments
- Comment on Labour votes AGAINST letting disabled people use the bus for free before 9:30am 2 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 2 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 2 months ago:
Yes, thank you.
- Comment on Labour votes AGAINST letting disabled people use the bus for free before 9:30am 2 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.
- Comment on Labour votes AGAINST letting disabled people use the bus for free before 9:30am 2 months ago:
In cities, maybe. Everywhere else - forget it. We don’t even have buses on Sundays round here.
- Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 3 comments
- Comment on Labour votes AGAINST letting disabled people use the bus for free before 9:30am 2 months ago:
The restrictions also mean that disabled people can’t get a bus for free after 11 pm, because
we don’t have social lives or jobs…there aren’t any buses at that time of night.FTFY.
- Comment on A tiny thin knit sweater would be a chunky sweater for a mouse 2 months ago:
I now have a cute image of a mouse in a chunky jumper in my head.
…
Thanks!
- Comment on Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial 2 months ago:
Which means you can’t scan the barcode on the app either…
- Comment on Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial 2 months ago:
It does seem like a very over-engineered solution, with far too many points of failure.
- Comment on Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial 2 months ago:
Weird that it needs GPS given that the barriers that need to scan the barcode already know where you are!
I have a KeyGo card and this works great - you scan the card at the barriers and it works out and bills you at the end of the day. Doesn’t need an app or a powered up phone.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 months ago:
🤣
- Comment on ZX Spectrum Next Issue 3 on Kickstarter 3 months ago:
Same, am upgrading mine to an Issue 3 though!
- Submitted 3 months ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 2 comments
- Comment on "Amiga Is On Our Radar Too" - The Resurrected Commodore Has Plans For The 16-Bit Classic 3 months ago:
Yeah, it’s cheaper than fabricating new chip sets, and more accurate than emulation. You can also reprogram them if bugs are found, or you want it to pretend to be a completely different machine. They are ace!
- Comment on There is probably a advance civilization out there were much more advance in the battery technology compared to them. They just happen to found first a way to run electronics much more efficient. 3 months ago:
!pylons@lemmy.world
- Submitted 3 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
- Old School Rally scratched our ‘90s arcade racing itch... then promptly disappearedwww.topgear.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on UK’s wasted wind power laid bare by new Octopus tracking tool 4 months ago:
Oh, that’s cool.