CritFail

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to check of this was an Onion article…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Afghanistan morality ministry spreads 'living things' images ban⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Their flag clearly has wheat on it - is that not a living thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two in five not saving enough in pension for even basic retirement⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Over 1 million people are on zero hour contracts (1 in 33 UK working age people), which does not mandate employers to auto-enroll. Another 4 million are self-employed, and the majority of them are not saving towards retirement.

  That means a potential of 3 million of working age zero and self-employed have nothing saved, a further 2 million from that same pool will likely have less than recommended amount saved.

  In the company employed pool, 9% have opted out of the enrollment, so that’s 2.5 million opted out.

  In total, about 20% of working age people are not actively saving into pensions (although may save elsewhere). A potential bombshell if that many people become officially destitute in a relatively short space of time.

  While the UK has made some steps to try and rectify things (as chancellor, Gordon Brown funded the 2-year commission that recommended auto-enrollment and it has worked well), 14 years of Conservative rule have pet some very nasty employment practices seep in and poison over a decade of pension funding opportunity. Companies are underpaying employees, Government is overtaking employees. Only companies coming out on top and seeing record profits while the country wastes away.

  Fingers crossed, intervening on this is high on Kier’s priorities because our current unfettered capitalist model is a complete mess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Timpson CEO resigns to focus on new prisons minister role - Retail Gazette⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Martin Lewis for a finance advisory appointment next please.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liz Truss loses seat as ex-prime minister becomes biggest scalp in Tory bloodbath⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  By the sound of it, you already know the answer to that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Farage urges Zelenskiy to seek Ukraine peace deal with Russia⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Twat is too nice a word for this malodorous leaky sack of fox shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨England set to miss post-Brexit targets to clean up rivers by 2027⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As he has intentionally finely tuned his public persona to be the embodiment of Dickensian aristocratic psychopathy, I don’t think your hatred is irrational.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eurovision loses almost a quarter of UK viewers compared with 2023⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose that is a fair comment and a possible reason, along with those who boycotted the event will have diminished all votes going to other acts.

  I still think there is a likelihood that Israel tried to play the game on public votes, because it would be a minimal spend for a big PR boost for them. Having a big Israeli company sponsor bought them a lot of the judge votes, then this move would have topped it up. It was just my initial thought when the 300+ points came up. The majority of the crowd did not take that well, along with all of the other stories about booing at the semis, the canned applause on the TV coverage to cover it up, the vote swing just seemed like too big a massive juxtaposition to global sentiment for it to carry weight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eurovision loses almost a quarter of UK viewers compared with 2023⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m waiting on the news story uncovering the voting farms funded by the Israeli government, wanting to parallel the Ukraine 2022 result to claim vindication for their ongoing genocide of the Palestinians. Disgusting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI ‘apocalypse’ could take away almost 8m jobs in UK, says report⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For many, the worry will be that it will take away thousands of high paying jobs and replace them with significantly lower salaried, or even minimum wage jobs. People have bought houses, had children, and generally made life plans based on the premise their vocation could support that lifestyle. The Government need to provide support and retraining to try and prevent these events because they are good for no-one except bad actors and vulture capitalists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have only ever bought phones with a 3.5mm jack. I have expensive Sony headphones I use for music and would hate having that option taken away from me. That’s why Fairphone is still a miss for me right now.

  All of my Bluetooth experiences from headphones to Alexa have been more of a nuisance than a convenience, often not pairing, finding it difficult to unpair to pair another device, not fonding devices literally centimetres away, draining phone battery faster, short bluetooth device lifespan, recharging requirements, sound quality, and price points all going against them. I have seen people unironically suggest adding a wire to the Bluetooth headphones so you could charge them from your phone while listening to music. Bluetooth isn’t good enough to supercede wires.

  Usb C converter is not the same as plain wored connectivity, it solves a problem no-one asked for. Anyone who doesn’t want a smashed screen has a chunky case so phone thinness doesn’t matter. I just want all of my tech to work with each other universally. We used to have the choice of both and say returning to this MO will make everyone happy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ifixit gives fairphone 5 a 10/10 on repairability and maintanence⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Still no 3.5mm jack, still no dice for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is going to happen when people realize climate change is rolling in?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩: