TroublesomeTalker
@TroublesomeTalker@feddit.uk
- Comment on How do people survive in America? This is with insurance! 3 days ago:
What’s maddening is even this pricing is about what it costs off the shelf in the UK on a private prescription, no insurance involved, and like a 10th of that through the NHS. Like they don’t even try to be consistent about it.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 2 weeks ago:
Also. Apple has alt app stores in other regions. Data transfer on Apple hasn’t needed iTunes for a long time, and it will read USB-c hard drives and keys. I don’t disagree with you that iOS is more locked down, just pointing out the gap keeps getting smaller. I have a Jolla pre order in, because I’m a fan of open hardware, but it will likely be my android phone that I drop in favour of it.
- Comment on Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison 2 months ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension
Not at release. It came later though for certain chipsets.
- Comment on Longing, Rusted, Seventeen, Daybreak, Furnace, Nine, Benign, Homecoming, One, Boxcar 2 months ago:
Huh. See a police car around here and it’s “ey-up, they’ve found you.”
But I see you. Since kids I have found any phrase that is a song title (or key refrain) gets sung back to them just to be annoying too. Sometimes said track is immediately played in a vain attempt to not seem crazy.
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 4 months ago:
No complaints about Yomu.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows 7 months ago:
They did this with “plays for sure” DRM protected music files too, way, way back. Never bought content of any kind from them after that and then killing Windows LIVE.
Just assume everything from them has a “destroy after” date set in the near future.
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 7 months ago:
When the scores are settled sure, doesn’t mean there’s not mechanisms in any particular country that make this harder. Work two Jobs in the UK without carefully sorting PAYE and one of those will be collected at 40% emergency rates. You get it back eventually, but if you are paying transport, meals and other expenses to attend the second job I can see how it could get close to nothing. You get most of it back later, but that doesn’t help marginalized people trying to earn extra right now.
- Comment on Home cooking 8 months ago:
Have you read the news lately? We’re just training for the next few years.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 11 months ago:
ALVR isn’t awful. I needed new hardware and bit the bullet knowing I was likely going to lose VR, but with the hardware upgrade, it’s nicer in the new machine (Bazzite, 7900XT) than the old (Win 10, 2080 Super Max Q). Definitely not a drop in replacement yet though.
- Comment on AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds 1 year ago:
It’s a “how the mighty have fallen” kind of thing. They are well into the click-bait farm mentality now - have been for a while.
It’s present on the news sites, but far worse on things where they know they steer opinion and discourse. They used to ensure political parties has coverage inline with their support, but for like 10 years prior to Brexit, they gave Farage and his Jackasses hugely disproportionate coverage - like 20X more than their base. This was at a time when SNP were doing very well and were frequently seen less than 2006 to 2009.
Current reporting is heavily spun and they definitely aren’t the worst in the world, but the are also definitely not the bastion of unbiased news I grew up with.
Until relatively recently you could see the deterioration by flipping to the world service, but that’s fallen into line now.
If you have the time to follow independent journalists the problem becomes clearer, if not, look at output from parody news sites - it’s telling that Private Eye and Newsthump manage the criticism that the BBC can’t seem to get too
Go look at the bylinetimes.com front page, grab a random stort and compare coverage with the BBC. One of these is crowd funded reporters and the other a national news site with great funding and legal obligations to report in the public interest.
I don’t hate them, they just need to be better.
- Comment on AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds 1 year ago:
But the BBC is increasingly unable to accurately report the news, so this finding is no real surprise.