Nighed
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- Comment on SNAIL PRO TIPS 1 day ago:
Huh, they originate from central America. TIL
- Comment on SNAIL PRO TIPS 1 day ago:
What vital work do they do, other than feeding birds?
Eating my beans definitely isn’t!
- Comment on What are the best free mmorpgs for a beginner? 1 week ago:
Also not good if you get RSI, damn that game destroys fingers.
- Comment on is there any way to invest ethically as a sole individual? 1 week ago:
Most of the ‘green’ funds really are not.
I found one group that actually does really green funds though: www.edentreeim.com. Specifically their green infrastructure fund for actual green energy stuff. (This should do better as interest rates come down)
- Comment on Less than 20% of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4’s soundtrack is made up of songs from the original games [VGC] 2 weeks ago:
Could the artists not just re-record the old song? Or was it a artistic decision?
- Comment on Royal Mail given go-ahead to scrap second-class post on Saturdays 2 weeks ago:
If they are delivering anyway, why not deliver second class too? Just gives them more work on other days
- Comment on Ubisoft EULA demanding consumers destroy delisted games adds fuel to Stop Killing Games movement 3 weeks ago:
Care to explain then?
I didn’t want to dig out the EULA for more context of that snippet.
- Comment on Ubisoft EULA demanding consumers destroy delisted games adds fuel to Stop Killing Games movement 3 weeks ago:
That’s saying that if YOU stop the agreement, you have to delete the game though.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls Online Dev's Unannounced MMO Was Doing Well and Even Scaling Up as Xbox Cancelation Blindsided Staff 3 weeks ago:
We don’t even know it’s business model, they all want live service games right?
Feels strange, especially for a dev that has actually made a modern and (apparently) profitable MMO.
- Comment on UK Stop Killing Games Petition's Map of Signatures ✍️ 4 weeks ago:
Is that the percentage of the signatures, or a % of the people in the area that have signed?
- Comment on The UK continues to lag behind Europe for cycling-friendly towns and cities, new data from PeopleForBikes finds. 4 weeks ago:
Or the opposite! They put bike lanes in that just exist to avoid roundabouts… That lose you the right of way!
Useless things. Some are just long enough to give you hope before they spit you back onto the road with no warning.
- Comment on Students in England now graduate with average debt of £53,000, data shows 5 weeks ago:
Also to be clear, this is more like a graduate tax than a loan.
You pay back 9% of whatever your earn over £26k and whatever you owe is written off when you are 50 something. It doesn’t count on credit reports etc.
It’s not great though as high earners end up paying way less over their life as they pay it off early.
- Comment on Students in England now graduate with average debt of £53,000, data shows 5 weeks ago:
They did it to get a referendum on a new voting method. They chose a shit one no one wanted though
- Comment on Students in England now graduate with average debt of £53,000, data shows 5 weeks ago:
Repayments are 9% of your salary above £26k. If that’s less than interest (inflation +3%!) then it goes up.
It gets written off at 50 something (… probably)
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 1 month ago:
I thought ifixit was carrying everything?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Places with the wireless battery powered payment terminals will still work without power for a while. Lots of them don’t even need network, they just sync up later.
But for the most part, if there is a significant power outage, things are screwed anyway.
- Comment on Drought conditions already hitting UK crop production, farmers say 2 months ago:
That’s a cool photo, from 2022 apparently though, not this year.
Give it a couple of months and they can take photos for next year’s drought lead up…
- Comment on Warning RTS electricity meters in 300,000 homes could stop working 2 months ago:
… Then the original meter must have been faulty?
All the smart meters do is make it easier to collect the readings (end enable fancy tarrifs)
- Comment on I’m in dire need of a new monitor but, it seems, it is harder to find a good one than I thought. 2 months ago:
They also said in their last Q&A that there isn’t a non oped monitor on the market that they can recommend for this use case ☹️
- Comment on 11-year-old boy died cycling home after bus driver "beeped and startled him" before collision — but coroner concludes driving in line with Highway Code 3 months ago:
Horns are a hell of a lot louder when you’re not in a vehicle. There is really no such thing as a ‘friendly’ beep.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 months ago:
Build new computer. Old computer to be a home server running Linux or something fancy.
- Comment on Discord heightens ad focus by introducing video ads to mobile apps in June - Ars Technica 4 months ago:
Is there an alternative app that offers a centralised account service but with user hosted servers?
- Comment on Discord heightens ad focus by introducing video ads to mobile apps in June - Ars Technica 4 months ago:
Their problem is probably that they actually took too long to monetise it.
Before Discord, groups were often paying for hosted team speak, ventrillo or mumble servers. Then almond came discord with it’s VC money and did what they did and more for free. Now most people probably are not willing to pay for what used to be a paid service.
- Comment on Major disruption as Heathrow closed all day after nearby fire causes power outage 4 months ago:
That’s going to be chaos for at least a week, (assuming they get power back today!)
Shouldn’t an airport that big have redundant power feeds?
- Comment on The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area 4 months ago:
The only problem with the bins that got removed had with wildlife was when wasps nested in them one year. They had sprung loaded flaps
- Comment on The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area 4 months ago:
Is only mildly annoying. Lots of people asking where the bins though.
I can see a lot of paper cups being left in tables etc
- Comment on The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area 4 months ago:
So only mildly infuriating?
- Comment on The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area 4 months ago:
Photo is under the red dot
- Comment on The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area 4 months ago:
As in, their reception’s front door has a letter box.
- Comment on The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area 4 months ago:
They should give me tea in a mug instead of a waxed paper cup (and plastic lid!) then!
