GreatAlbatross
@GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk
- Comment on Over £1 billion to boost bus services across the country as bus fares capped at £3. 9 hours ago:
Big bus.
We know they’re paying you off with day savers, don’t deny it! - Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 4 days ago:
I can only speak from a UK perspective, but most home ADSL/VDSL/Fibre providers don’t have limits, other than “if your usage is tanking the network, we’ll ask you to knock it off” type clauses.
Most providers are also signed up to an agreement that if your speed drops 50% below the agreed speed on the package on average, they’ll either give you refunds, or let you out of the contract.
The only ones that throttle are the bargain basement operators aimed at people who don’t care, and one otherwise very competent provider that for some unexplainable reason only gives 1TB by default, charging an extra £10 for 10TB.
And I guess there is also a pricing step up to guaranteed bandwidth. For business use, they tend to be things like 1gbits headline, 500mbit guaranteed burst, 100mbit guaranteed sustained.
- Comment on #notaseagull 4 days ago:
From my experience, they’re “Hanging around outside the chip shop” gulls.
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- Comment on Woman admits hurling McDonald's milkshake over Nigel Farage 1 week ago:
He was made sticky by vicky.
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- Comment on Disc market share for week ending in 2024-10-12: DVD takes nearly half the pie, while Blu-ray and UHD share just over a quarter piece each! 1 week ago:
I think for a lot of people, DVDs hit the spot in the same way CDs did: Quality that was good enough to never think about again.
Glossing over how CDs are at the limit of human hearing, and DVD isn’t close to the limit of vision, imagine the average person with a £300 TV across the room, using TV speakers, and maybe not wearing their glasses.
For them there isn’t that much difference getting a BD/UHD, other than occasionally noticing the 25/24hz speed up. - Comment on Altered the timeline 1 week ago:
That doesn’t sound very typical.
- Comment on Nobel Prize 2024 1 week ago:
The way to tell so often seems to be if someone has called it AI or Machine Learning.
AI? “I put this through chatgpt” (or “The media department has us by the balls”)
ML? “I crunched a huge amount of data in a huge amount of ways, and found something interesting”
- Comment on Universal will be releasing "THE WILD ROBOT" on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on December 3. 1 week ago:
Same here. Kinda crazy that it’s releasing so fast on home media, but I get it.
Going by the reviews, it has a good chance of being a family favourite, so getting it out the door for xmas makes sense.I’m also refusing to watch the trailer, surprises are fun!
- Comment on Cheating alleged after men’s world conker champion found with steel chestnut | Sport 1 week ago:
You’d need steel chestnuts to even attempt such a thing!
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- Comment on 'Botched insulation means mushrooms grow on my walls' 3 weeks ago:
I like to think of it like a passive action that helps handle the smaller amounts of moisture (humans breathing, cooking, laundry), but also an action that helps reduce the problems of acute issues that occur. That way, when something does happen, there is at least a dampening effect while the leak is fixed.
Leaks and rising damp still need to be addressed, obviously.Examples are things like vermiculite render on the outside, Steico/Wool batts as normal insulation.
The downside is, it’s expensive. The insulation is only as good as fibreglass/rockwool, and costs about 3x as much.
- Comment on 'Botched insulation means mushrooms grow on my walls' 3 weeks ago:
There is another thing that I sometimes talk about on here, breathability.
You either need to prevent any moisture moving in any direction, or allow vapor to move with breathable materials.
Ones that allow water vapor to move, but not liquid water.Older buildings, where the original materials were breathable, should ideally continue to use breathable materials. This prevents issues with water wicking through one old surface, then getting trapped behind another. It also removes the risk of damaged or badly designed vapor barriers allowing things through, as the materials themselves help get the moisture out as a passive action.
- Comment on Online retailer eBay scraps fees for private sellers in UK 3 weeks ago:
They’re also changing the way you get money after someone buys something.
eBay balance, apparently. So by default, when a transaction happens, the money stays in eBay, and you have to manually transfer it out, instead of scheduled timed payouts.
- Comment on Anon takes a driving test 4 weeks ago:
And also that you communicate that you’re aware what you’ve done, and how you’re going to continue.
I did it on mine, and said “I’ve just come off at the wrong exit, so I’m going to just continue along here.”
Examiner said it was OK, and just directed things back onto the route at the next junction. - Comment on A Next Generation Approach to Heating and Cooling Buildings 4 weeks ago:
Building wide generating and averaging absolutely makes sense.
It needs tighter regulation though. As when you have apartments that are effectively tied to a provider, protections need to be in place to stop ridiculous energy price hikes and maintenance charges.
- Comment on Rules 4 weeks ago:
Must be the fracking residue in the water.
- Comment on Rules 4 weeks ago:
This is an absolutely brilliant summary.
- Comment on Aldi price match at Tesco - dozens of goods not like-for-like 4 weeks ago:
It’s getting to the point where the only saving grace for Tesco over Aldi is the delivery vans.
- Comment on Nationwide to launch mortgages at six times' income for first-time buyers 4 weeks ago:
Here comes the next house price hike wave, then.
Nationwide are also launching deals under 4%.
- Comment on Dozens from UK take up Putin’s offer to ditch ‘woke’ West and move to Russia 5 weeks ago:
Shipping people out of the UK to Australia?
That’d never work. You’d have to charge them at least ten pound. - Comment on Dozens from UK take up Putin’s offer to ditch ‘woke’ West and move to Russia 5 weeks ago:
The trick is to fit 9.5mm every time, until their partner asks if there is a way to make it stronger.
Then fit 2 layers of 15mm soundboard.
- Comment on Protection zones around abortion clinics in place by October 5 weeks ago:
The great thing is though, it’s completely up to you to choose: If you want to carry a child to term, and have the requisite equipment, you can do so.
If someone else doesn’t want to, that’s their decision too. - Comment on Campaigners tie baby slings to statues in call for better UK paternity leave 5 weeks ago:
That’s a pretty awesome idea, I’m not going to lie!
- Comment on Protection zones around abortion clinics in place by October 5 weeks ago:
Alternative take: People should be able to undertake one of the hardest personal decisions/actions of their life without the chilling effect of others.
- Comment on Oxygen 5 weeks ago:
I thought it was.
- Comment on Oxygen 5 weeks ago:
I just got frustrated with it.
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You’ve got the battle for the survival of an entire planet after they all got biodroned.
How many chapters that actually detail what happened? It felt like all it did was go
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Attack announced, humans arrive and set up a beach head, daar flattens a few cities in the background.
Then spends more time talking about how he is burdened and manly as a result of doing it than the actual doing.
The Hell storyline after that gave me hope, as I trudged through chapters of “cor, look at Adam’s muscular muscles muscling”, but once that finished, and we started getting storylines like “Why can’t we have guns in Folctha? Murica!”, I kinda gave up.
- Comment on Oxygen 5 weeks ago:
The main contributor continued writing it on a full novel scale at deathworlders.com .
However…Imho after about 40 chapters, it really loses it’s way (bar a couple of cool minor plots). And the author goes a bit right wing rhetoric/muscleporn-y.
- Comment on The rise of Britishcore: 100 experiences that define and unite modern Britons 5 weeks ago:
I like to think a list like this is highlighting that you can enjoy being british without being one of the wankers you mentioned.