Rogue
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- Comment on Are mods usually confusing as hell or am I just an idiot? 1 day ago:
I decided to not even bother with a significant number of mods because they just seemed mind numbingly confusing to set up.
I’m not complaining, I’m just wondering if I’m missing some trick or something.
I think you made the right choice here.
There’s no quality control in modding communities so I’d say the effort the developer puts into the install instructions is going to be a reasonable indicator of the quality of the mod itself.
- Comment on UK seeks smoother trade with EU but customs union is ‘red line’, Cooper says 2 days ago:
Close ties between the UK and the EU is of interest to both parties. However, there’s a very loud minority of the UK populace supported by a lot of the right wing press, who will have a hissy fit if the government shows any indication of collaborating with the EU.
Therefore what your suggesting just isn’t possible. What is possible is a bespoke deal. It doesn’t have to provide unique benefits, that other countries don’t enjoy, it just has to be labelled sufficiently different to quash the overreaction of the right.
Basically, it has to be “special” and “privileged” but only in the sense of wrapping right wing snowflakes in cotton wool. In reality it’ll be a worse deal than the UK once enjoyed, and worse than if the UK rejoined, but at least it would be better than the fuck all we have now.
- Comment on WH Smith in secret talks to sell historic high street arm 1 week ago:
Unfortunately they have a monopoly in quite a few service stations so there’s no alternative at times.
- Comment on WH Smith in secret talks to sell historic high street arm 1 week ago:
WHSmith was the first business to adopt enshittification as a business model.
Back when a 500 ml drink was typically £1 or £1.20 in most stores they’d be marked up to £2 in WHSmith and you’d be conned into thinking±buying 2 for £3 thinking it was a good deal.
Then the sales desk would be littered with giant bars of shitty chocolate that the cashier had to suggest you buy.
Such a shitty store. Wish it had failed a long time ago.
- Comment on Strongest storm in generations predicted as Éowyn to hit UK and Ireland 1 week ago:
I’m far enough that I think it’s inappropriate to have issued it to my area.
It’s a very invasive system. The phone screams at you with a siren noise even on silent. And very boldly declared itself a RED warning.
If they are expanding it to account for travel distances I think they should have more accurate wording.
I’m happy to have these alerts enabled if they’re used appropriately but if they start to make a habit of it I’ll end up disabling them.
- Comment on Strongest storm in generations predicted as Éowyn to hit UK and Ireland 1 week ago:
The government have kicked their emergency red alert system into action causing my phone to shrill at me.
In the true fashion of government competence I’m not even located in the red warning area.
- Comment on Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’ 2 weeks ago:
I might consider using it if it was an open data format, or a download to Google Wallet, Apple Wallet etc but it’s a proprietary app.
Why the fuck does it need to be an app?
Why would anyone want to send telemetry directly to the government, it’s insane.
- Comment on Suspect in UnitedHealthCare CEO shooting used fake ID and traveled by bus to New York, sources say 1 month ago:
And bicycles too
- Comment on The Verge raises a partial paywall: ‘It’s a tragedy that garbage is free and news is behind paywalls’ | Semafor 1 month ago:
Flattr was such a good concept, it’s so disappointing it never caught on
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 1 month ago:
Actions have consequences. It’s important we have precedents that the world is just
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 1 month ago:
Dairy UK had argued that it was unlawful to use “milk” in a trademark relating to “products that are not mammary secretions”.
I think consumers need to argue that all milk should be accurately labelled as “mammary secretions”
- Comment on Suspect freed from custody over suicide capsule death in Switzerland 2 months ago:
What a truly bizarre comment. If you think it through so you really believe that?
- Comment on Who stole all the pies? Michelin-starred chef 'gutted' at theft of 2,500 pies. 2 months ago:
It’s kind ridiculous, possibly even insulting to suggest the pies could be served to people in need.
If recovered there would be no verification of the temperature they were stored at, whether they were still sealed, whether vermin had been crawling all over them.
I agree the food waste is frustrating but it’s not fit for much more than low quality animal feed.
- Comment on Is the UK shut down during easter? 2 months ago:
Easter isn’t really a big deal in the UK. I’d expect places to be closed over Christmas but probably not Easter.
There may be reduced opening hours and smaller venues and shops may be closed but London is a vibrant city so I expect you’ll find plenty to do.
If there are specific places you want to visit it might be worth checking their website or emailing them to confirm. Or just try booking tickets for those dates and you’ll see.
- Comment on ED testing finds thousands with undiagnosed HIV, Hepatitis B & C 2 months ago:
So many unexplained acronyms.
- Comment on Gatwick Airport: Evacuation of 'large part' of South Terminal following security incident 2 months ago:
Somebody succeeded in taking a 500ml bottle of water through security. So to protect their profits the airport had insisted every go back through security and re-purchase the £4 bottles from the air-side shops.
- Comment on DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports 2 months ago:
Google will bribe trump and this’ll be undone immediately
- Comment on Cost of ‘bat shed’ to protect colony near HS2 has topped £100m, chair says 2 months ago:
The latest budget included the funding to Euston.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 3 months ago:
Nah, unfortunately it’s been fed stack overflow. So instead of having a wealth of alternative solutions to a problem it just tells you your problem is a duplicate and refuses to help.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 3 months ago:
I’ve found that just asking “did you make that up again?” after every response improves the quality of code Chat GPT produces. It seems to pick up fairly quickly on methods it just invented.
- Comment on Train crash Wales: Man dies, 15 in hospital, after collision 3 months ago:
The antiquated single track setup.
Which apparently has no physical lockout to prevent two trains entering the same stretch of line.
- Comment on My blog now has Lemmy comments 3 months ago:
Doesn’t Lemmy support cross posting?
I considered implementing Lemmy comments and theorised I’d post to my own community/instance so I had full moderation control, then cross post that to all the relevant communities.
- Comment on Train crash Wales: Man dies, 15 in hospital, after collision 3 months ago:
This really shows how antiquated a lot of our rail network still is. I wouldn’t have believed this were still possible. We’ve had safeguards to prevent this kind of issue since the age of steam.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 5 months ago:
This data is already public. You can just create a kbin account and see who’s voting. Anyone wanting to scrape it already can, the only difference proposed is the Lemmy client showing it.
- Comment on 'Lightning speed' broadband for rural areas 6 months ago:
Just as a counter: I live in a very rural part of the country, pretty sparsely populated and yet I get 1Gbps fibre. There’s a new company rolling out in the area promising 10Gbps, it’s kind of insane. So these programs do work.
- Comment on NHS and care regulator 'not fit for purpose' 6 months ago:
It’s going to take much longer than a five year term to fix the NHS. Liklihood is they’ll inject some life into it just in time for the tories to sell it off next government
- Comment on Why preventing long-term sickness in the UK is an economic necessity 6 months ago:
Oh, for sure in London or any other dense area where public transport is abundant, and taxis run 24/7 there is no need for cars.
- Comment on Why preventing long-term sickness in the UK is an economic necessity 6 months ago:
Nah, if you leave people on waiting lists they give up, turn to private options or just die. That’s the cost saving approach the NHS uses for mental health services.
- Comment on Why preventing long-term sickness in the UK is an economic necessity 6 months ago:
I get what you mean but I find anti car rhetoric way too overdone.
Given the topic is about health issues there’s going to be a lot of people who have limited mobility so cycling isn’t viable and walking may only be short distances. Therefore a car provides them freedom they need.
- Comment on BBC: Level crossing near misses and risk-taking caught on camera 6 months ago:
Because after 14 years of Tory rule our living conditions are dire and mental health services not fit for purpose.