elgordino

@elgordino@fedia.io

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple will let iPhone users in Brazil get apps and services outside of the App Store⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. It’s super annoying when visiting a foreign country and you want to install an app for a local transport provider. If they haven’t made their app available globally you just can’t install it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey reveals most people are holding onto their phones for a long time, and it makes sense⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hanging on to my 13 mini for as long as i can.

  Looks like the foldable will be the next with a small, external, screen. If they can magically get the weight in the ballpark of the mini I might be interested. That said at $2k+ I probably won’t be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to hunt to find them, they are proposed amendments and not yet part of the bill.

  Go here https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3909/publications

  And expand out ‘Ammendment Papers’ and choose ‘ HL Bill 135 Running list of amendments – 22 December 2025‘

  It’s this doc

  https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/64067/documents/7529

  For example

  LORD NASH
  BARONESS CASS
  BARONESS BENJAMIN

  _ After Clause 27, insert the following new Clause—

  “Action to prohibit the provision of VPN services to children in the United
  Kingdom
  (1) Within 12 months of the day on which this Act is passed the Secretary of State
  must, for the purpose of furthering the protection and wellbeing of children, make
  regulations which prohibit the provision to UK children of a Relevant VPN Service
  (the “child VPN prohibition”).
  (2) Regulations under subsection (1)—
  (a) may make provision for the provider of a Relevant VPN Service to apply
  to any person seeking to access its service in or from the UK age assurance
  which is highly effective at correctly determining whether or not that
  person is a child;
  (b) must apply the child VPN prohibition to the provider of any Relevant
  VPN Service which is, or is likely to be—
  (i) offered or marketed to persons in the United Kingdom;
  (ii) provided to a significant number of persons.
  (c) must make provision for the monitoring and effective enforcement of the
  child VPN prohibition.
  …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the RAM prices explosion another manufactured crisis to corps drain money from people before the AI bubble collapses?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The RAM manufactures would normally consider increasing production in the face of increased demand, but they all know it’s a massive bubble so don’t want to, resulting in increased process until this all plays out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you do store your data, like me, in iCloud and Apple Photos then you should still take a backup.

  The easiest way to do this to request a data export of all your Apple data. It’s then prepared into zip files you can download onto a local storage device.

  I do it about once a year, which for me is a reasonable balance between risk and impact.

  Here’s a guide: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/get-a-copy-of-your-apple-account-data/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The BNPL company also charges the merchant much more than a credit card company does. Something like 6%. So they’re also making money on people who do pay in full at 0%.

  The theory goes that the merchant is happy to pay the higher rate because it makes a sale happen that otherwise wouldn’t. Unfortunately that increased cost just gets added to the price everyone pays.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 install size reduction effort yields 131GB in cuts, and you can try the slim build right now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting, so it does load the data slower, it’s just that the world generation process runs in parallel and is even slower. Thus allowing loads of headroom for the data loading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that the First-Past-The-Post voting system allows a political party to gain an absolute majority with a minority of the votes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember David Cameron being interviewed by John Humphries on Today (the Radio 4 morning news show). Cameron basically lied about what was in the proposal to make it sound like it was some crackpot idea, Humphries did nothing to call him out on it.

  Same went for most media coverage really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Apple makes hundreds of millions of dollars with personalized advertising. If you have an iPhone, you should turn it off.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish there was a way to turn off that massive Klarna advert in Apple Pay.

  Every time you pay there is a ‘Other cards and pay later options’ button. You use it to change to a different card, but when you do there’s an option to sign up for Klarna.

  Apple should do better than be promoting shitty BNPL services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I picked it up in a sale recently, it’s not normally my type of game but I thought I’d give it a shot. I’m only a couple of hours in and loving it so far.

  The story is sucking me in and I’m starting to appreciate the combat, things seem to be unlocking at about the pace I can understand. I’m a little worried it’ll be repetitive but it looks like there’s plenty of opportunity to be creative to keep it interesting.

  Definitely my solo game for the longer nights ahead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ernest is alive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad to hear it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember when OpenAI launched Dall-E 2? You got a few tokens for free images and then had to pay for it. Presumably that was at least some reflection on the cost of producing the images.

  Now you can create video for free and consumer expectations that generative AI should be super cheap have been set. That genie is not going to go easily back into the bottle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m reportedly getting ready to move to CoMaps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has sold 5 million copies worldwide; new content update to come to celebrate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just picked this up in the Steam sale, looking forward to diving into it and the nights draw in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand the point of this. The govt is only just now rolling out Gov.UK ‘One Login’ with identity verification across its services. That should be enough for what government needs, this is just overreach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's just science, i guess⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the milk from the milk rounds

  This wasn’t raw milk. It was still pasteurised. Just not homogenised.

  Homogenisation mixes the fat in the milk more effectively so you don’t get separation in the milk which increases its shelf life. Your memories of the tasty milk were probably the creamy part at the top of unshaken pasteurised but not homogenised milk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Confirmed: Starmer knew about Mandelson's 'Yum Yum' Epstein messages when he defended him at PMQs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm. This headline should have been ‘Number 10 knew’ not ‘Starmer knew’. You could try to argue that they should be the same thing but obviously they’re not.

  There are obviously communication problems in number ten that Starmer needs to sort out, but this headline is just agenda pushing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Balatro

  I still have two decks to gold stake. Then I’ll quit. Honest.