manualoverride
@manualoverride@lemmy.world
- Comment on The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit 1 day ago:
Not easy when 7 of the top 8 newspapers are just propaganda for the Tories. You can only convert so many people when entire fear and belief systems have been cultivated over decades.
- Comment on The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit 2 days ago:
- Comment on The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit 2 days ago:
- This can of worms Carnegie UK and the lobbyists have opened.
- Comment on The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit 2 days ago:
I think you may be generalising based on what our politicians say and comments on social media that are written by Russian bot farms or not mass reported by them.
All poles confirm the UK public know they were lied to and would never make the same mistake again.
- Comment on The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit 3 days ago:
We don’t want this dystopian nightmare either, and just like Brexit we weren’t told what it was before it was too late. Hopefully you will welcome us back when all the liars are voted out and ignored.
- Comment on Tesla applies to supply electricity to households in Great Britain 4 days ago:
In case anyone else wants a template:
I would like to object to Tesla becoming a UK electricity supplier. I do not believe the person who cut USAID and is projected to lead to the deaths of 14 million people (double the member of Jews killed in the holocaust) should be put in charge of anyone’s electricity supply in the UK.
That kind of psychopathic behaviour should not be anywhere near a vital and live saving service.
- Comment on Tesla applies to supply electricity to households in Great Britain 5 days ago:
Make sure to write to OFGEM and let them know how you feel about Tesla having a license.
- Comment on NHS bosses and the British Medical Association are accusing each other of endangering patients 2 weeks ago:
Possible unpopular opinion, I think striking a year after the government agreed a very generous pay rise including a good step towards pay restoration, is bad faith, and especially tone deaf when the economic forecasts are not exactly encouraging.
I’d like our resident doctors to be well paid, but your timing and strategy sucks.
- Comment on What a fantastic deal 2 weeks ago:
Why do I always get the knob seat?
- Comment on Labour MP claims it'd cost "Upwards of £100bn to Nationalise Water". He is an extremely smart man. Why does he lie like this? 3 weeks ago:
The investments I was referring to was gilts, which is how the government borrows money from foreign countries and private investors.
We do absolutely need foreign investment as our national debt is currently £2.7 trillion (about £40k per person)
If governments start selling that debt, then higher interest rates will be demanded for new gilts by those willing to still buy them.
- Comment on Labour MP claims it'd cost "Upwards of £100bn to Nationalise Water". He is an extremely smart man. Why does he lie like this? 3 weeks ago:
You know what you’re right “collapse” of the pensions is overstated, but it will hit “low risk” pensions by a couple of percentage points. Low risk pensions options are mostly owned by people in their 60s who are keeping a close eye on their retirement income, and who also vote in large numbers, not the people you want to make clear you are going to take away a few hundred a month for the rest of their lives.
Just today government borrowing went up just because the growth forecast was a little worse then expected. If the government is suddenly on the hook for tens of billions in water infrastructure investment at the same time they are seen as anti-business and willing to rug-pull private investment, you bet foreign governments will sell their investments in the UK.
- Comment on Labour MP claims it'd cost "Upwards of £100bn to Nationalise Water". He is an extremely smart man. Why does he lie like this? 3 weeks ago:
There is another way… the new government regulator can force terms on the water companies that limit bill hikes, pay, dividends and bonuses until the upgrades they were supposed to do over the last 40 years are completed and their debts are repaid.
The pensions take a bit of a hit without wiping them out and the government is just ensuring the vital infrastructure is upgraded and sewage is treated as promised when they privatised.
- Comment on Labour MP claims it'd cost "Upwards of £100bn to Nationalise Water". He is an extremely smart man. Why does he lie like this? 3 weeks ago:
In that case I know a political party you’ll love… until the “find out” period comes for you.
Just ignore what is happening elsewhere, I’m sure it will be different here.
- Comment on Labour MP claims it'd cost "Upwards of £100bn to Nationalise Water". He is an extremely smart man. Why does he lie like this? 3 weeks ago:
I’d love this to be a 4 step plan however…
Step 5, Watch the collapse of virtually all private pensions in the UK as their value drops due to heavy investment in various water companies.
Step 6, Watch the gilt markets collapse as the UK government is seen as reckless and anti business as it removes assets from private investors.
Step 7, government borrowing goes up just as debt to GDP goes flying past 100%.
Step 8, government collapses and Nigel Farage comes swinging to the “rescue” by stuffing as many of the remaining £50 notes passing through the government into his pockets, and the pockets of his friends, while selling off the NHS and making the UK the first nation in the world to revert back into a 3rd world country.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 4 weeks ago:
Let’s not forget all that lovely metadata they can harvest by accessing the camera module, including the exact GPS co-ordinates the picture was taken.
- Comment on What quintessentially British images should go on the new banknotes? Our panel has some ideas 5 weeks ago:
JK Rowling hate-tweeting
- Comment on What quintessentially British images should go on the new banknotes? Our panel has some ideas 5 weeks ago:
A turd floating down a river?
- Comment on Owners of laptops with very cheap aftermarket batteries, is it worth the discount? 1 month ago:
Extended family “IT Guy” here. Have replaced 30ish laptops batteries. The cheap ones on Amazon/eBay you have a ~30% chance of them being DOA, and 99% chance of them being dead within a year.
“Brands” like Duracell GreenCell I’ve had better luck with but I’ve been sent batteries from GreenCell which only lasted a year because they were sitting on a shelf for 3 years before they were sent to me.
OEM batteries tend to last longer than the originals as most BIOSs from Dell, Lenovo etc. now include battery optimisation which extends the life of cells.
It all come down to what you need, and how much you value your time compared to money. My personal stuff I always go OEM as I rarely replace my laptops. Current one from 2015 is still going strong. If you are willing to put up with returns and rapid replacements a £20 cheapie can look good when the OEM is £100
- Comment on How do you charge an electric car without a credit card? 2 months ago:
I went back through your posts to find out where you were based… and I have discovered that there are in fact many stupid questions 😀…
This may be different in the US as your distances are a little larger… but we charge at home overnight and have never needed to charge anywhere else. Every morning we have 250miles available and 1200miles a month costs us ~$30 in electricity.
You may be able to get a prepaid debit card and use that on public charging stations for long journeys or emergencies.
- Comment on Blocking stolen phones from the cloud can be done, should be done, won't be done 2 months ago:
User replacement of “Activation Locked” new, 2nd hand, and OEM parts can be done, should be done, won’t be done.
- Comment on HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional 4 months ago:
Still in warranty or less than 3 years old? I saw the Reddit post on this issue, might still be worth asking, they may have developed a hardware of software fix, and if not they may allow you to switch model.
- Comment on HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional 4 months ago:
That noise is the heads being cleaned, which needs to happen on all inkjet printers. It may be that your one was simply broken. I bet if you call Brother and ask for some advice they will help you.
- Comment on HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional 4 months ago:
Called brother about this and talked through the issues raised by Rossmann, they convinced me enough to buy 3 printers from them this month.
- Comment on HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional 4 months ago:
Which printer and why? I just bought three L8690CDW Colour laser printers for me and my family after calling Brother who were happy to talk me thought my concerns, they informed me that this model does not have chipped cartridges so it’s ineligible for their cartridge subscription program and they also can’t tell if the cartridge is genuine or not. They don’t care if you use 3rd party toner.
- Comment on The grand prize 9 months ago:
Possible but the expense ruined my plans in the end… I did consider collecting broken tungsten end mills and inserts from machine shops and throwing them in molten lead, like croutons in a lead soup.
- Comment on The grand prize 9 months ago:
I really wanted to use Tungsten as the base ballast for a custom narrowboat, for better headroom. Other than the cost you also have the problem of tungsten’s melting point being so high you can’t pour it into a boat hull without melting through.
- Comment on I can imagine the "will you be using the mobile app?" question to get cheaper food is going to devolve into the Mark of the Beast and someday no one will be able to buy anything without using the apps 9 months ago:
Credit card companies know where you are spending your money, but not what you are buying.
They have been selling your data but it’s less valuable in the world of store apps and online stores where every search and purchase is linked to your email. Still worth opting out of any “data sharing” options your Credit Card company has though.
- Comment on I can imagine the "will you be using the mobile app?" question to get cheaper food is going to devolve into the Mark of the Beast and someday no one will be able to buy anything without using the apps 9 months ago:
It’s not “a set of people” anymore it’s you, and there is always more data.
Buy some doughnuts for the office… your health insurance just went up.
You buy a new car which has fancy connected features, but now it sells your driving safety score to your car insurance company.
Buy a vegan ready meal, both vegan food companies and the meat industry compete for your business, you might get a few discounts, but your free will is being influenced.
- Comment on I can imagine the "will you be using the mobile app?" question to get cheaper food is going to devolve into the Mark of the Beast and someday no one will be able to buy anything without using the apps 9 months ago:
The difference is when credit cards were introduced their business model was charging customers interest and businesses fees.
Now the business model is making customer profiles to sell to advertisers, insurance companies and anyone else who is willing to buy the data. I don’t want every business I use to be collecting all this information.
- Comment on Apple teases “week of announcements” about the Mac starting on Monday 9 months ago:
I guess you don’t read usernames