9point6
@9point6@lemmy.world
- Comment on Perception is everything. 4 days ago:
Oooh the beaver is half submerged, that took longer than I’d have hoped
- Comment on ...and then suggest something totally unrelated... 6 days ago:
And to save you jumping around different VPN countries looking for it:
- Comment on Good offer! Which one should I pick? 6 days ago:
I have something similar with my phone plan
My current plan includes unlimited everything and global roaming across basically anywhere I’ve ever visited (only had to get a separate ESIM once)
I’m regularly getting offers from them to switch to a plan with limits and more restricted roaming for only an extra 25% more a month…!
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 1 week ago:
Mario kart 64
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
…erm
£12,898 according to SteamDB at today’s prices
In my defense I’ve had my account for 20 years and had humble bundle monthly/choice for like a third of that time, so the real number is hopefully not quite that
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Oh right, I think I basically only remember seeing that size in the UK in those cup dispensers on the side of those office water coolers, which now I think of it are something I’m also seeing less of these days.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
How big are they? The ones I have in mind are usually either 500ml or a UK pint (568ml)
I thought the solo cups were American pint size (473ml)
- Comment on Keir Starmer says some road and energy projects will be scrapped to pay for £15bn defence plan 1 week ago:
Starmer, who despite being a former human rights lawyer has supported the genocide in Gaza and the illegal war on Iran, would not be eligible for the Nato role until it falls vacant in 2028.
(Aside, I’m glad we’ve got Novara media)
- Comment on Anon comes up with a dating strategy 1 week ago:
I hope you don’t go around actually saying that to overweight people who are working hard on improving themselves, you might as well be saying:
“What are you even bothering for? You’ve fucked it. Game over. Damage done.”
And for a percentage of those people, that’s going to be the line that does make them give up on improving themselves.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I think everywhere else in the world, the go-to plastic disposable cup is transparent, I don’t really see the red ones unless someone has gone out of their way to get them from an American importer for some reason (usually beer pong, funnily enough)
- Comment on What's gunna to happen when the American Federal Government starts prosecuting people for owning powerful computer hardware and software? 1 week ago:
Nah never gonna happen, it’s easier to just price people out of ever owning it in the first place
- Comment on High-street slot machines and casinos could face £460m tax rise under Burnham 1 week ago:
Honestly the high street casinos are one of the strangest things in this country.
I literally don’t think I’ve ever seen someone step into one, yet they’re on every high street. You see old fellas using the sport betting shops a bit, but never these mini casinos
Does it literally only take the occasional poor sod to keep these places open or are people just getting in when it opens and not leaving until it closes?
- Comment on Is it true that airport customs can legally demand access to your unlocked phone? 1 week ago:
Everyone should know most phones have a lockdown mode that makes it require a pin to unlock the next time
- Comment on time to eat 1 week ago:
Conventional meal for this time of day
Or
Another black filter coffee
Choose your adventure!
- Comment on Bro, I'm not picking that up. 💀 1 week ago:
- Comment on What is your favourite gaming console you have played? 2 weeks ago:
PS1 or Gameboy
Probably because they were the ones I had as a kid, but they both have great libraries of games from an era when it seemed like anything goes. Also the hardware limitations of each give the games a charming character
- Comment on Am I just bad at games??? 2 weeks ago:
10 mins to get to a title screen sounds like a red flag without having actually played it myself
Assuming you’re playing on PC, have you got it installed on an SSD rather than an HDD? Some games really don’t like being run from an HDD these days
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Old boys club attends old boys club
- UK could keep special pre-Brexit terms if it rejoined EU, Michel Barnier says | Brexitwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 6 comments
- Comment on God speed brother 3 weeks ago:
You turn invisible off?
I see what my profile looks like sometimes (“last online 150 days ago”) and quickly toggle it just so people don’t think I cuddled a moving bus or something
- Comment on How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi 4 weeks ago:
Honestly the subhead could have been the headline if prefixed with “Britain:”
A case study in self-sabotage
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t this a message that the intended recipient will never see?
- ‘You can be made a laughing stock to millions’: can gen Z escape the fear of being cringe?www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on Title 5 weeks ago:
I think this would probably be covered by unsporting behaviour or dangerous play.
There might be some stuff that would consider the ball out of play in this scenario too as no specific player has possession, but that might be a stretch
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
At least, yeah. The estimated lifetime for pressed consumer compact disks is 30-100 years, assuming a bell curve distribution, you should get at least that
- Comment on Is there any open source ATM machine ? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah if it’s not owned by a bank, it will be owned by an institution that runs (or otherwise has access to) a proprietary interbank network. In most countries consumer financial services are super regulated legally, so everything gets locked down
- Comment on Is there any open source ATM machine ? 5 weeks ago:
I think there’re a few crypto based ones out there from when people were trying to make bitcoin in shops a thing, no idea if they’re even still maintained.
If you’re talking about a traditional ATM that hooks into a specific bank or interbank network, you’re not going to find a complete system, because the banks basically only want machines they (or partnered banks) own talking to their systems.
Depending what you’re interested in though, Linux based OSes seem to be becoming increasingly used, but there’s still probably a big majority running some form of windows (or funnily enough OS/2). And a quick Google has shown me the industry has seemingly actually worked out an SDK for talking to the ATM hardware that’s catching on, XFS4IoT. However the software written by the bank to implement that SDK and actually talk to the banking network is (and basically always will be) proprietary software.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
VHS is cool to have on the shelf if you’ve got space, but unless it’s a modern reproduction, the tape is very much going to be turning to dust over the next decade or so
- Comment on Four in 10 struggle to access mobile signal on the move in the UK 5 weeks ago:
You don’t need to, just the one mentioned in my first comment
I’d say 70% of the journey between London and Manchester the signal you get is bad enough that it’s unusable.
You then proceeded to tell me I was entitled, despite apparently not knowing what you were talking about
- Comment on Four in 10 struggle to access mobile signal on the move in the UK 5 weeks ago:
That’s not the route I’m talking about though is it?
