GreatAlbatross
@GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk
- Comment on Not enough teachers, children turned away: Schools 'can't cope' with population boom 3 days ago:
100% agree on this. The societal backstops get underpaid, then every other resource comes crashing down on them.
Honestly, I’d consider teaching, and probably wouldn’t even mind doing the pastoral side of things, if it just paid OK, and wasn’t treated like “wow, you get to teach? And you get 6 weeks off in summer? Lucky!” - Comment on WH Smith in secret talks to sell historic high street arm 5 days ago:
Smiths own a lot of their commercial property, so they can often hang on to a location when other stores on lease agreements might have closed up.
It’s been talked about for a while, when the vulture capital firms would eventually be in to squeeze all that real estate juice into billionaire pockets.
- Comment on Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin blames 'dinner party classes' for pubs crisis 1 week ago:
For me, the price difference between chain pub food and nice resturant food is now too small as a percentage.
If I’m going out, and the choice is £20 a head in a half decent local restaurant, or £17.50 for something mediocre in a pub full of sports fans, it’s not a hard decision.Same as happened with a lot of the fast food places: When you’re approaching “proper food” money, people will spend a couple of quid extra for something nicer.
My local does decent cheap food, and does well because of it. (And in this comparison, it’s the £12.50 option)
- Comment on You better find a different spot 1 week ago:
The ninjas will get you.
- Comment on I need this framed in every room so I don't make that mistake again 1 week ago:
It also gives you a retreat space if you’d like to stay, but want half an hour to yourself midway through.
- Comment on Driver stopped in Tesla Cybertruck banned in UK 2 weeks ago:
I think Brum lives in the Cotswolds.
CT would never make it there, too many A roads. - Comment on Bloodletting recommended for Jersey residents after PFAS contamination 2 weeks ago:
Always nice to have a silver lining!
I really don’t want to think about a 10 year future where everyone has to go through this. - Comment on Bloodletting recommended for Jersey residents after PFAS contamination 2 weeks ago:
The bioaccumilation of PFAS in mortal blood is concerning for me and my colleagues.
It would be very sad to live for 600 years, only to be killed off by rain fire suppressant. - Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 17 comments
- Comment on UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder - as he slams obsession with 'work-life balance' 2 weeks ago:
IIRC, the owner chose to support brexit because it might mean the UK implemented minimum alcohol pricing sooner, which might have increased his trade when the gap between supermarket and pub drinking got smaller.
It really rubbed me the wrong way that was his reason. - Comment on UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder - as he slams obsession with 'work-life balance' 2 weeks ago:
Spoons and BD have been on my “do not drink at” list for a while.
This underlines the BD one for me. - Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 18 comments
- Comment on If you save, we will charge you more 3 weeks ago:
This is roughly what we have in the UK.
For electricity, the standing charge is 61.6p/day, then 23.3p/kWh.
And gas is 29.6p/day, then 6.1p/kWh. (The numbers vary, and you can choose to lock rates for the duration of a contract).There has been some discussion of it in recent years (after it doubled, thanks Putin).
Whether it is fair for people using less energy…But in reality, everyone has similar 100 or 60A connections to the grid.
There are tarrifs for very low users, where the standing charge is combined with the first kWh.Once I’m off the gas boiler, and on a heat pump, I may get my gas disconnected to save the standing charge.
On a tangent, as you may be interested, we now have the option of flexible electricity pricing that tracks the wholesale rates for the day. Usually, it’s cheaper, sometimes even negative. Link.
However, this week there has been a lot of expensive energy, so it’s been butting up against the £1/kWh limit! - Comment on UK lawmakers slam Chinese fast-fashion company Shein for refusing to answer questions on its cotton supply 3 weeks ago:
#JAM
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 3 weeks ago:
Maybe the best way to think about it is not dark, but the absence of more light. On a DMD projector, we use tiny micromirrors for each pixel which flash thousands of times per frame of video.
The flash/no-flash ratio decides how much light makes it out of the projector. This gives us thousands of light levels per colour channel, from near dark, to full light.
When the mirrors are not in position, the light output is very low. (1/1000th of the full output, on a projector with a static 1000:1 contrast ratio)The screen is designed to reflect light well, which means in a non-perfect room, it will have a light floor of the reflected ambient light, plus whatever still makes it through the projector (as Cygnus mentioned, room treatment).
If you do treat a room well enough that the small amount of light that makes it through the projector at all-off is a problem, you can do things like fitting an ND filter to the lens (reducing the full light output, while also reducing the minimum). Or you can use the dynamic iris fitted to some projectors (which reduces the amount of light being put out based on the overall scene illumination, similar to the way LCD TVs lower the backlight level to “reach” contrast ratios of 100000:1).
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 3 weeks ago:
I love having a projector in the living room.
I won’t lie, it gets used far less than I’d like.
But it cost me almost nothing, and it’s just fun to have a massive wall of video. - Comment on Elon Musk wants the U.S. to “Liberate the people Britain from their tyrannical government” 3 weeks ago:
Adrian Binnmann will be straight over as soon as you let that nice billionaire run the country.
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 3 weeks ago:
AFAIK, LG still do not require internet access on first startup.
At least on their medium/high end lines (C and G series) This was a hard requirement for me. Mine has never been on the internet. - Comment on Elon Musk wants the U.S. to “Liberate the people Britain from their tyrannical government” 3 weeks ago:
Maybe they’ll bring some friendly bombs for Slough.
- Comment on Anon's PC works 3 weeks ago:
I feel this.
I went AM4 in 2017 when the AMD gave a leap forward at a reasonable price and efficiency.
Then I added a 3060 when one became available.
They’re both undervolted, and ticking along nicely.
I don’t plan to change anything until probably 2027. Heck, I’m still catching up to 2020 in my games backlog.
- Comment on Blu-ray players will soon be almost gone: Here's what to do 4 weeks ago:
I’m currently mulling this. The “gold standard” sensibly priced UHD disc player is £250+ (Panasonic UB-820).
While it’s getting close to just getting a console, where it does cinch it is adjustability and handling of WCG and HDR content.
I strongly agree that for DVD/HD/, it’s a solved problem: They can all output the correct ranges, at the right framerate, at the right resolution.
But WCG and HDR are a bit of a minefield even years on.
And it’s stupid that’s it’s necessary, but being able to specify “my TV goes up to 300 nits, compress anything above that” is useful.
Which none of the consoles (to my knowledge) have managed to implement yet. - Comment on Anon visits America 4 weeks ago:
Last year, I got to march, and realised I hadn’t had a McDonald’s in over 3 months.
So I decided to just stop going there.
I think it was all the price hikes: When it’s £7 for any half decent burger and fries, I might as well be spending a bit more and going to a local place.
Or getting something better than a burger!Or spending the same, and getting slightly better at Wendy’s.
- Comment on End of an era as Radio City tower hosts final live broadcast on Christmas Eve | Liverpool 5 weeks ago:
They’re mostly very, very, very automated.
Any human that can possibly be replace with a server, or multiple humans replaced with one central one, they’ve done it.
- Comment on Simple spelling rule. 1 month ago:
I frequently confuse the two when I’m not thinking, or my browser has defaulted to the colonial spellchecker.
- Comment on Wallace & Gromit fans appalled by the AI upscaling on new 4K UHD release 1 month ago:
It’s 100% this, imho.
A lot of dumb-asses have latched onto the idea that AI can allow them to do skilled work without learning how to do it.
And they don’t want to hear people pointing out how it’s imperfect. - Comment on The burden of being different 1 month ago:
They can be shown on US television at least.
- Comment on Is this the end? 1 month ago:
Why do I get the sinking feeling that a sub-£250 UB-820EB is now sliding further and further from my view?
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 1 month ago:
The barista grade stuff works pretty well in builders tea, honestly.
You just have to get in the habit of shaking the carton. - Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 1 month ago:
They see younger generations moving away from dairy, and claim it’s because non-dairy stole the words.
When in my case at least, it only took a week milk-free to realise that having mild discomfort in your stomach all the time isn’t normal.
And that drinking MOMA instead left me feeling lighter and happier. - Water firms push for higher shareholder returns as Ofwat considers bills increasewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 6 comments