NotJohnSmith
@NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk
- Comment on Standing desks are like gym memberships. Plenty of people (and offices) pay for them but never use them 1 week ago:
Now that’s a great routine, will try it!
- Comment on Standing desks are like gym memberships. Plenty of people (and offices) pay for them but never use them 1 week ago:
Yup, I’m here to agree. Got one at home and work, only used it about twice in a day for all of 5 minutes
- Comment on Average private rent in Great Britain falls for first time in five years 2 weeks ago:
I’m going to have a wild guess too. I’m going to guess the market is so poor that BTL landlords have just given up trying to get out and are renting. Supply therefore has increased slightly, having a slight decrease in demand and therefore what rent can be asked for
- Comment on European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge. 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t Lebara less than that per month and includes roaming?
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 3 weeks ago:
Erm, how did you get a pendant inside you?!?
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- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 3 weeks ago:
How about Soundcloud? I ended up there and have been happy but knowing my luck someone will tell me that Putin and Netanyahu own it! :)
- Comment on How I hacked my washing machine 4 weeks ago:
Interesting read, really like their writing style.
I’ve got one coming and really can’t figure out any meaningful benefit to having the WiFi enabled
- Comment on She's a keeper 4 weeks ago:
Ah ha, thanks. I’ve heard of it but never thought to watch it. Will give it a go
- Comment on She's a keeper 4 weeks ago:
What cartoon is this sorry? Looks vaguely family guy in its animation
- Comment on UK wants to weasel out of demand for Apple encryption back door 5 weeks ago:
I could be wrong but I don’t think s/he was being serious
- Comment on Bluesky age verification uk 5 weeks ago:
How come Lemmy isn’t obliged to also?
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 1 month ago:
Urgh, the ones that say “well my ice car can do 700 miles on a tank so until EV can do that I’m not doing it” annoy the hell out of me.
I know damn well they’re never driven that far without stopping at least once
- Comment on xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier 1 month ago:
Hah, that’s a cool solution [no pun intended]
- Comment on xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier 1 month ago:
Yup, spot on, I didn’t explain it clearly enough but how you articulate it is better: it does indeed have a digital “On” switch so just giving it power doesn’t achieve what I need
- Comment on xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier 1 month ago:
Yeah, I wish I did but alas not
- Comment on xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier 1 month ago:
I feel like I’d benefit from a smart dehumidifier.
I’m on a Time Of Use tariff where my electricity is very cheap at night. I’d like to be able to schedule for it to come on for those 5hrs in the winter to take the moisture out of my shed-office. It achieves nothing to put it on a smart meter as you have to physically press go on the dehumidifier
- Comment on No criminal charges over British woman shot in US 1 month ago:
What’s madness to me is that people in my country have a holiday to the US booked… and are still going.
My safety is worth more than a few sunk thousand
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 1 month ago:
I immediately went looking on temu :)
I don’t the poster meant to happen!
- Comment on Tesla customers in France sue over brand becoming 'extreme right' 2 months ago:
I agree, it’s a step beyond the little sticker on the back of the car.
I’d do the same if I had one but pedoguygate switched me off the brand and it’s never been the direction that I wanted to see EVs go (look I have a button that makes the car/range go down really fast. I also don’t think talk of range without reference to battery size is helpful)
- Comment on That's a good question 2 months ago:
Haha, that made me chuckle. As did this when I saw it on lemmee…
- Comment on That's a good question 2 months ago:
- Comment on You probably don't remember these but I have a question 2 months ago:
Just started using my 2006 SanDisk equivelant of this, I feel attacked lol
- Comment on [China Technology] I drove the cheap Chinese cars that are illegal in the USA. Now I know why [36:49 | MAR 10 2025 | Rich Rebuilds] 2 months ago:
Range doesn’t capture the concept of efficiency.that Op was getting at
It needs defining as kw per 100km or miles per kw, but then neither can be summed in a single word
- Comment on ‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard 2 months ago:
Also, surely this device is no different to a phone in that neither is meant to be listening indiscriminately. There’s a chance a 9 year old has a phone nowadays I’d imagine
- Comment on ‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard 2 months ago:
I think they mean morally on the part of the student
- Comment on ‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard 2 months ago:
In the UK, the take up of smart meters for electric and gas has been slow due go concerns that this would enable companies to do the same.
It’s not a bad argument (haven’t paid, turn it off) but then if you’re struggling financially is it better not to be allowed to rack up further debt anyway?
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 2 months ago:
Yes sorry, I hadn’t finished reading and saw that’s the path it took lol. What fun :)
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 2 months ago:
I don’t know what planet someone is on to think that sort of money doesn’t put this family in “rich” territory.
Maybe it’s the differing interpretation of “rich”. Maybe it’s living in London and losing perspective because you’re surrounded by wealth and lose scale
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 2 months ago:
I know it’s not the point but a gardener isn’t doing shit for £230 a year. That must be a typo, that has to be monthly and if they have a big garden that could be weekly!
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 2 months ago:
How do you know that’s a bot please? Is it specifically a hot advertising that online photos hop equivalent? Is it a real software or scam? The whole approach is intriguing to me
