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- Comment on Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’ 3 days ago:
I don’t know about guest user stuff either actually - I might look into it at some point if I feel the need.
And yes, I’ve only ever used the “pin app” practically for letting young relatives play games and stuff on my phone, knowing they won’t be able to switch apps and send anyone a message - like the “Poo poo willy bum” incident last year :)
- Comment on Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’ 3 days ago:
Well yeah, if they really wanted to “get you” for something, I’m sure they’ll find a way - but it’s a good bare minimum for casual snooping - avoiding the awkwardness of someone accidentally swiping onto your Jerboa app and then you having to explain how “writing silly comments about guillotining billionaires and throwing right-wing politicians into the sea isn’t actually a serious terrorist threat, officer”.
- Comment on Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’ 3 days ago:
It won’t solve the above, but if you’re not aware already, you can “pin” an Android app to lock it to the screen, so nobody can easily switch to another app without using your login pin/code/pattern.
Firstly, to turn it on, you need to go to Settings>Security & Privacy>Other Security Settings and switch on “Pin App”. The location of this setting may be different depending on the manufacturer of your mobile phone.
Then, to lock a particular app to the screen, press the three-lines button (maybe a square on your telephone?) to open up the program switcher, then press the circular thumbnail of the icon at the top of the screen, to open up the menu you didn’t know existed, and select “pin this app”.
Without your password or login pattern, your telephone will only show the currently open app. Nobody can switch to other programs or mess with other stuff without unlocking the phone.
To unlock it afterwards, you then hold the < and the three lines buttons for a few seconds, then enter your normal login code/pin/pattern to unlock. It will tell you this when you lock it.
- Comment on Darn it 4 days ago:
The invention of Racism is often credited to Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Racism - though it’s generally now considered that German inventor Johann Philipp Reisism had a practical example of Racism fifteen years earlier.
- Comment on He died trying to suck his own penis, RIP. 1 week ago:
It was trying to plug its power output plug into one of its power input sockets to get “free electricity”.
- Comment on Nigel Farage distances himself from Elon Musk on Tommy Robinson 2 weeks ago:
That might be a bit tricky - perhaps he could simply distance himself from both dry land and boats, by “Maxwelling” himself into the sea?
- Comment on British girls outdrink boys — and most of Europe 2 weeks ago:
It is often traditionally considered to be an achievement in Britain, yes.
Ideally you don’t get drunk though - you should be able to drink as much alcohol as possible, whilst showing as few effects as possible, for some reason. If you become drunk after too few alcoholic drinks, you “can’t handle your drink” and you are a “lightweight”. These are both negative characteristics in a person.
I’m not saying I necessarily agree with this, I’m just saying it exists :)
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 3 weeks ago:
Why are they starting with “starting the game”?
They forgot to start with a kernel-level anticheat and a pointless, slow to load “need an account, always online” launcher.
- Comment on Hubris 3 weeks ago:
Too late, I’ve already dipped me Hob-Nob in me mug o’ Bisto.
- Comment on Uh. So how are the Maplin's in your area doing? 5 weeks ago:
A lesser known UK option that may be worth checking is ebuyer.com for some of your A/V, networking and computer stuff. Nowhere near the full range of Maplin/Amazon etc, but they will deliver quickly from UK warehouses - and if you’re trying to avoid using Amazon, always worth an extra option.
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 1 month ago:
Actually, now I think about it, that only covers one section of the market.
You should also release exactly the same product with with different packaging a few times:
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One with an off-brand Mr T character mascot, called “I Pity The Gruel”.
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One called “Bilk : Better than Milk”.
That’s a few shelves of supermarkets covered with selling the same thing. I’m sure you can cover some more with a few like “Barista Supreme: Oat-based Cream”, “Oat Water”, “Oat Juice” and simply “Oat-based Drink”. Maybe even “Oat Blood”, for Goths and “My dad was a gruelmaker” for Keir Starmer fans.
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- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 1 month ago:
It just needs a bit of snazzy marketing.
Just call it Ultragruel or Oatfuel and write “PROTEIN” on it in big letters.
- Comment on Transport Secretary Louise Haigh resigns after Sky News revealed mobile phone guilty plea 1 month ago:
That’s what they’re saying… but… so what? Did the police waste hours and millions hunting for a lost mobile phone? Did she receive an ill-gotten temporary replacement mobile phone from work for a few weeks? I’m still struggling to see the scandal or crime.
- Comment on Transport Secretary Louise Haigh resigns after Sky News revealed mobile phone guilty plea 1 month ago:
I must be missing something. What’s actually the crime or scandal here?
Haigh: “Help, I’ve been mugged”
Police: “What did they take?”
Haigh: “I can’t remember exactly what was in the bag, I guess my money, my bank cards, my keys, my work phone”
Police: “Ok”
Haigh: “Oh, wait a minute, my work phone was at home, they only threatened me, assaulted me and took the other stuff I mentioned”
Police: “Your list was wrong? Ha! Then it is YOU who is the criminal, not them!”
Government, ten years later: “Also, you’re not allowed to fix our railways or have a job”
Tories: “Unlike all our politicians who merely do things like millions of £s of fraud, destroying the economy and endangering the lives of millions of people for their own personal profit - this horrific excuse for a human once put something in a list and then realised it shouldn’t have been on the list, so a decade later, it’s only correct that they shouldn’t be allowed to have a job”I assume I’ve missed something key here.
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 1 month ago:
Hahaha, yes, exactly this - and perhaps the same situation with “bum crack or inner-fold of a bent elbow?”.
- Comment on 2k Launcher has been fully removed from all games 1 month ago:
Fried Ian Slip
- Comment on 8 yr old me after my parents did my woodworking assignment 1 month ago:
His main talent is “already having lots of money”.
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 1 month ago:
Maybe it’s worth bearing in mind Lemmy’s older, nerdier audience?
You remember those build-a-model magazines they used to rip off grandads with?
“Build your own model Lancaster Bomber! Only £1.99! You’ll receive a large piece of the model with your first issue! Then the rest of it in pieces over future issues! (Future issues cost £9.99 a week, for 500 weeks)”
So you get your “special interest” photographs produced into jigsaws, then sell one jigsaw piece a week, eventually completing the full photograph at the end of the year.
- Comment on New measures unveiled to crack down on subscription traps 2 months ago:
Good.
- Comment on Am I a real working person? 2 months ago:
What would we call it? hallo-old-chum-you-fiend? my-good-friend-the-dishonourable-sir?
Is anyone posh using British Lemmy who can help advise?
- Comment on Man arrested over theft of 22 tonnes of cheese from Neal’s Yard Dairy 2 months ago:
I think so - he definitely played for Leeds. He must be in his 50s now, so maybe he’s took up journalism? :)
- Comment on CODA 3 months ago:
Or Hocus Pocus, by Focus (youtube link)
✅️ Menacing scream at audience
✅️ As loud as possible
✅️ Crazy eyes
✅️ Flute - Comment on Please stop 3 months ago:
Hahaha. Oops. That one was automatic/accidental, but I’m not going to change it :)
As mentioned above/below, perhaps it should have been wikipædia :)
- Comment on Please stop 3 months ago:
Twitter is actually 1982’s classic erotic Atari 2600 game "Beat 'em and eat 'em.
There’s Vladimir Putin at the top of the building, firing his pixellated ejaculate over the side and the player controls both Elon Musk and Donald Trump, running left and right with their mouths open to collect it.
- Comment on What do allergies feel like for you? 3 months ago:
I suddenly picked up “allergies*” in my late 30s - couldn’t work out what they were, other than antihistamines (cetirizine or loratidine) made them “not as bad”, and I also needed to avoid certain things in particular (breathing in dust, aerosols, perfumes, other chemical fumes, car fumes, cigarette fumes, wood dust and drinking alcohol).
Turned out to be Nasal Polyps. I was due for surgery to remove them in 2020, but then Covid happened and I’ve been on a waiting list since. Surgery may completely remove the problem, or at least lessen it - but they could grow back within five years.
Basically every day is like I’ve got cold or sometimes flu. Sometimes I feel like I’m drowning in phlegm. If I take antihistamines, it’s pretty mild or controllable, as long as I can reasonably avoid those triggers. Sometimes I have to drink lemsip in the morning (powdered hot drink of paracetamol, lemon flavour & decongestant). It’s there every day, permanently, but how severe it is varies between “slightly inconvenient” and “too unwell to work”.
Antihistamines are essential for me to function at all, and make a huge difference - though I feel they’ve become less effective in the last year or so. Thankfully they’re very cheap over the counter (~£1.30 for 30 days’ worth). I also use a saltwater nasal spray sometimes, and I sometimes eat a lot of menthol sweets. I have to be careful with decongestants to avoid “rebound congestion” where your nose adjusts to life with decongestants, then becomes twice as blocked up if you stop.
If I drink alcohol or breathe perfume etc, my sinuses block up within half an hour, I can get an asthmatic response, and I get crippling arthritic pain in my hands and joints. Sometimes perfume and other sprays can cause severe, possibly dangerous breathing problems. I have an asthma inhaler for these emergencies, and always have to carry it with me, in case someone sprays perfume in an enclosed space (which might cause me to die).
If I keep reasonable control over these things, I can live pretty “normally”. If I actually get a cold, it’s like I’ve got a “double cold”, and it can make me too ill to go to work.
When it’s bad, it’s a pretty miserable existence to be honest, but in the larger scale of things it’s not a serious or life-threatening illness, so you feel guilty for complaining.
When it’s not so bad, I can normally ignore it for most of the day. It’s worst in the morning/night when I’m horizontal.
Your case outlined in the original post sounds particularly upsetting and you have my sympathies.
*technically it’s an intolerance or hypersensitivity, and not truly and allergy, though it behaves in much the same way, and symptoms can be controlled in much the same way.
- Comment on Police investigating suspected gunshot fired at taxi containing Ian Hislop 3 months ago:
Perhaps a warning rather then a genuine murder attempt?
Though the list of suspects must be “Any politician, celebrity or person who has been in the news and done something wrong, stupid or hypocritical since the 1980s”.
- Comment on Billionaire Guy Hands’ property firm takes housing reforms to European court 3 months ago:
I think it meant to say “Scrounger Guy Hands realises legislation loophole, which allowed him to steal billions of pounds of unearned money off the British Government and the British people, will be closed, leaving his company with a tiny fraction less of immoral profit, whilst still making billions in profit”
- Comment on Should you have to pay for online privacy? 4 months ago:
A “consent and pay”, or “paywall” (or even “register-wall”) website is totally fine and should be free to exist - but it shouldn’t be indexed by search engines as a response to a question, and shouldn’t be linkable on any form of social media.
- Comment on Do you skip Star Trek intros when streaming 4 months ago:
Is it a weird guilt thing?
I hated that song when the programme was new, but now I feel guilty about it, because someone was trying their best, and they wrote, re-wrote, edited and worked on that song and for every instrument and vocal, someone practised and practised and performed, and even if it wasn’t quite to my taste, it doesn’t mean it was bad, and I picture them still crying themselves to sleep at night, twenty years later, going “everyone hates the song I did for Star Trek Enterprise and now I hate myself”, so I make sure to watch the full intro so I don’t hurt their feelings.
That’s what everyone else does too, right?
- Comment on Schools to teach children how to spot fake news and ‘putrid’ conspiracies online 5 months ago:
This is good, but they could really do with running these for older people too.
Here’s one I heard this week for example:
“My friend down at the bowls club said on Facebook that they’re not even real immigrants, but they’re special forces soldiers from the secret UN Army and they’re bringing them over here to take over the British and they’ve all got really good shoes and mobile phones you see, that’s how you can tell and they’re all of fighting age aren’t they?”
