wingsfortheirsmiles

@wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨uBlockOrigin is porting uBOL to iOS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Great news, been too long since this was a thing

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  (even though I’d never buy an Apple device myself)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A World Without iPhones?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of this could be achieved by turning off notifications/muting them, turning off fitness tracking, deleting social media accounts, etc whilst retaining the device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Engineers develop self-healing muscle for robots: Device detects injury, heals it and resets to detect future harm.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain is already becoming an ‘island of strangers’ – but immigration isn’t the driver⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent article, agree with pretty much all of it. The cuts to public services instead of heavier taxes on those earning more (including myself), corporations, capital gains, landlords, etc has definitely added to a loss of social cohesion, as these contribute by far the most of refresh, renewal and refurbishment of public spaces and resources, let alone the establishment of new ones. My town has seen the closure of public pools, libraries, walk in centres over the past decade or so, leaving everyone high and dry except for… those who don’t need to rely on them.

  Seeing the political class shamelessly exploit their fortunate position, companies take advantage of "increases in costs driven by supply chain inflation, the “panic” over trans women and it’s no bloody surprise no one wants to talk to anyone else. One of my main escapes is clubbing, not just for the music, the dancing, but the connection that can happen with a complete stranger who “gets” the music and feeling like you do (be it on various substances or stone cold sober, I can’t cane it like I used to…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Low River Levels in UK Raise Concerns of Drought⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m assuming it’s at least partly related to the decades of underinvestment in the water network

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google restores Nextcloud user’s file access on Android⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How nice of Google to highlight another Drive/One competitor to me.

  Any reviews/feedback from current Nextcloud users? I do plane to eventually self host but would start off using storage included in the plan

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'People have been eating chocolate digestives wrong for 100 years'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m fine continuing to eat it incorrectly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally, a Linux laptop with a brilliant display and performance that rivals my MacBook (from Germany)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fwiw, the Infinity Book Pro 14 in the review is also from Clevo. The author does praise Tuxedo’s tight integration of their flavour of Linux to the HW, so perhaps this is ahead of S76. No dog in this fight as I’m both companies, I like PopOS but have never bought a laptop from either

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like Vivaldi but all the manifest V3 stuff just pushed me to Librewolf for everything whether it works or not, so maybe I should “thank” Google

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x08 "Upper Decks"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Loved this episode, weirdly my favourite aspect was seeing all the “Other Deck” characters again: Delta shift, Westlake, Barnes, Bingston, Meredith, Stevens and the cadet who needed help studying.

  Stevens in particular showed his worth as an organised and thoughtful adjutant to the Captain, was great to see him show his worth as something other than Ransom’s biggest fan or just the butt of jokes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x07 "Fully Dilated"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Heartfelt usually but not always equals The Tendi Effect on LD to me hah. I agree about the subplot being weak - both for Mariner and also Boimler/Rutherford which was pretty much a slapstick sketch.

  I would’ve liked to see something like Boims struggling to think of a first book to take to T’Ana’s book club, with Ruthie enthusiastically but haplessly trying to suggest things (usually engineering related)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x05 "Starbase 80?!"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Loved seeing more of the Cetacean Ops crew, plus those ENT unis

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tony Todd Dies: ‘Candyman’ Star Whose Hundreds Of Credits Include ‘Final Destination’ Films & ‘Platoon’ Was 69⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Visitor will always be one of the most beautiful Trek episodes to me, RIP good sir 🫡

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek: Voyager Co-Creator Jeri Taylor Dead at 88⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Really nice article of what she did to improve the representation and perception of women on Star Trek, also weird but cool that she worked on Quincy ME previously: womenatwarp.com/jeri-taylor-woman-in-the-writers-…

  Thanks for your service and safe journey amongst the stars, Jeri 🫡

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actress Dame Maggie Smith dies at 89⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good innings, Maggie, fly high. 🫡 Think I first saw her in Hook as a child