TheGrandNagus
@TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 3 weeks ago:
It’s not really that hard to have a quarter be 3 months + 1 week tbh.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 3 weeks ago:
Split it to 3 months as is now, then the remainder is 28 days. 28 is divisible by 4 to leave 7.
Q1 ends 1 week into April, Q2 ends 2 weeks into June, etc.
- Comment on Liz on Liz 3 weeks ago:
A head of iceberg lettuce releases new book titled “If Did It” discussing ways it would have ousted Liz Truss as PM
- Comment on Minimum wage is UK’s ‘most successful economic policy in a generation’ 1 month ago:
New Labour had the longest period of sustained low inflation since the 1960s, despite overseeing a massive increase in wages for the lowest paid.
Increasing minimum wage doesn’t actually have that large an effect on inflation.
- Comment on I'm loose bottom, tag yourself 1 month ago:
I used to live in Wideopen
- Comment on I'm loose bottom, tag yourself 1 month ago:
Or Cockermouth?
- Comment on Paramount Has A Plan To Bring Star Trek Back To The Big Screen, Says Roddenberry Entertainment Exec 1 month ago:
Man what is it with some mods being such authoritarian losers?
An absolutely tiny amount of power and they’ve still let it go to their head.
- Comment on "looks inside, individually packaged" 3 months ago:
first of all why would anyone steal pills?
Remember, people in the US often have to pay a shitload for medication.
But even outside of the US, there’s still the issue of people wanting to steal prescription medicine if you can sell it and/or get high on it.
- Comment on "looks inside, individually packaged" 3 months ago:
There’s been a shift away from putting pills in bottles.
IIRC it was pioneered by the NHS (UK), because they found that the mild inconvenience and time of popping out the pills one by one, in comparison to the ease and speed of downing a whole bottle of them, cut down on people attempting suicide by overdose by a surprising amount.
- Comment on You know how bad it needs to be to be ignored for over 2 decades! 3 months ago:
Ireland has had issues with BSE too, even recently.
In 2020, Irish beef destined for export to china was found to be infected, and it resulted in a 3 year ban on Irish beef imports. In 2023, another case was found, and exports have been stopped again.
There have been ~2000 cases since 2001. Way down from the 90s, but it still exists
- Comment on Anon notices what they've taken from us 3 months ago:
No. This law keeps being misquoted, and people are going to be disappointed if they go into 2027 thinking we’ll be able to pop out batteries like the good ol’ days.
It does not necessitate battery removal like that. Only that it not be too difficult to change out for a repair (i.e. stuff like gluing it in place with a strong glue, or necessitating removing the display before the battery).
It also doesn’t apply at all for batteries over a certain capacity, or so long as the battery retains 63% capacity or more (presumably this means throughout the warranty period) from 2027, or 73% from 2030.
There’s also a 2 year grace period after the law comes into effect where it won’t really be applied.
- Comment on Buy 519, get 1 free! 4 months ago:
1p off
BUY BUY BUY
- Comment on Biggus.... Dickus.... 4 months ago:
Thwoww him to the fwoww
- Comment on MSI CLAW gaming handheld leaked, features Intel Core Ultra 7 155H with Arc graphics and 32GB memory 4 months ago:
Might make a superb hand-warmer in these cold Winter months, though
- Comment on MSI CLAW gaming handheld leaked, features Intel Core Ultra 7 155H with Arc graphics and 32GB memory 4 months ago:
It’s also because they want to advance gaming on Linux specifically.
When Windows 8 released, Microsoft was pushing their app store, ARM devices that could only access the Windows store, and were trying to push Windows Phones, Valve became scared - Microsoft clearly wanted their future to be installing software through the Microsoft store.
They also added an “Xbox” app to windows - a clear indication that MS wanted to bring that business to PC, and have an unfair advantage by having their services pre-installed.
Gabe Newell has worked for Microsoft before and he knows just how ruthless and anti-competitive Microsoft can be. He knew that while Valve was 100% dependent on Windows; Valve was at risk.
So they brought out the Linux client and released Steam Machines, which as we all remember were a flop due to limited game compatibility and poor performance.
So Valve got to work on adapting WINE to create Proton, a Windows compatibility layer integrated into Steam. They put money into Linux development, then, when Proton was good enough, they released the Steam Deck.
Make no mistake, the Steam Deck is ultimately a part of Valve’s overarching plan to reduce dependency on a hostile competitor that controls the entire platform that they operate on.
- Comment on How many Star Trek fans will see red because they don't see red? 4 months ago:
3 pips and gold uniform? TIL Picard was in engineering or security before he made captain
- Comment on Picture that sparked Microsoft's "SexGate" released by a whistleblower. 4 months ago:
Gates has always been a piece of shit and I hate how he became the poster boy of Reddit because he set up a tax-beneficial charity to clean up his image. I got doxxed for bringing it up in one of his AMAs.
Is it better that he gave money to charity than for him not to? Yeah, sure. But I won’t be fooled into thinking he’s a great guy. He’s a piece of shit with a great PR team. The world would be better without his shitty monopoly.
- Comment on Stop pussyfooting that gaspedal! 4 months ago:
Adult-humour comedy/comic strip magazine from the north east of England. It has a bunch of material like this
- Comment on Stop pussyfooting that gaspedal! 4 months ago:
This is 100% from Viz
- Comment on MSI teasing a handheld gaming PC like the Steam Deck 4 months ago:
I think that’s more to do with them not wanting to provide support and not deal with the headache of people installing steamOS on Nvidia hardware (which doesn’t always play nice with Linux).
- Comment on MSI teasing a handheld gaming PC like the Steam Deck 4 months ago:
Windows has its strengths, but my god, handheld devices aren’t one of them. I’ve not seen a single one of these windows handhelds that don’t have weird janky software problems with the overlays and quick settings menus they have, suspend/resume, etc.
Linux is just the natural pairing for devices like these, and I’m pretty sure Valve would be very open to allowing SteamOS or a fork of it on MSI’s devices.
The entire reason Valve tried Steam Machines and is now doing the Deck is to try to get out from MS’s grasp. The more devices running Linux the better from Valve’s perspective.
- Comment on you have to subscribe to the dictionary now 4 months ago:
You can still buy the book or access the site via most libraries.
I get that it’s a bit annoying, but I’m guessing you’d also be annoyed about an ad-ridden, data-harvesting dictionary.
The Oxford English Dictionary is without a doubt the most well-researched, comprehensive, and linguistically complete English dictionary on Earth, bar none. It perhaps is the most well-researched and comprehensive dictionary of all languages, but I wouldn’t know.
It’s laid out in an unusual way and even has words and alternate meanings that haven’t been used for centuries. It’s not meant to be a general-purpose dictionary, it’s niche and predominantly for linguistic experts or people fascinated by language.
An unbelievable amount of research goes into it, and those people deserve to be paid.
There are dozens of freely-available general-purpose dictionaries out there if you want them.
- Comment on It's a vibe 4 months ago:
I’ll neither confirm nor deny the accuracy of this post
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 4 months ago:
I said pointing to the Google antitrust case and equating them is misleading, not that it’s impossible for Valve to engage in any anti-competitive behaviour.
And the reason why I said that is because they’re completely different and not even in the same stratosphere in terms of shady ongoings. Nor are they doing the same thing. The Google case has zero bearing on this one.
As for the 30% cut, that’s been deemed fine. See the Apple case and the Google case. Even in Google’s case, where Google lost, it wasn’t down to pricing.
And Valve would have an easier time justifying it too. They could point to their service being much more bandwidth intensive, and including things like friend systems, a messenger, voice chat, streaming, cloud saves, Linux compatibility layers, compatibility for controllers that the OS doesn’t natively support, etc.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 4 months ago:
Wowww this is crazy misleading.
The difference is that Google’s software is forced onto OEMs without them having any real choice. That Google makes them sign contracts forbidding other default app stores. That Google has secret back room deals with some app developers and not others waiving the store fee, giving them an unfair advantage.
Valve does none of that. Can you point me to valve forcing, say, Dell or HP to pre-install Steam and no other game stores? Or them not taking a cut for some games?
- Comment on This would be a nice temperature for Easter, not for Christmas Eve. 4 months ago:
Quit your performative bullshit. This is one of the few instances where accusing someone of “virtue signalling” is completely valid.
Your life is carbon intensive too. Stop looking down at others.
- Comment on This would be a nice temperature for Easter, not for Christmas Eve. 4 months ago:
Until the gulf stream gets fucked, then Ireland, the UK, and plenty of other places in Europe will suddenly plummet in temperature. Remember we’re further north than the bulk of Canada… fun times ahead.
- Comment on This would be a nice temperature for Easter, not for Christmas Eve. 4 months ago:
Mate what? You typically see -3 to maybe 7C. It’s 13-14C today it seems. That’s not normal.
The warmest Christmas in UK history is 15C. Yesterday was the hottest Christmas eve since 1997. We won’t know until tomorrow if today is the hottest Christmas on record.
Quit your climate change denial bullshit.
- Comment on Truly inspirational 4 months ago:
I didn’t say the US did… I’m explaining it in a way Americans would understand, because they use feet but unusually don’t use its weight equivalent, and ask in comment sections wtf a stone is (bit of a funny role reversal considering it’s usually US units people are asking wtf they mean)
It’s pretty much just the UK and Ireland that use it, and even then, it’s only used for weighing people and in horse racing.
Even then (again), though, a lot of people just say their weight in kg, stone is used less and less as older people die out.
- Comment on Truly inspirational 4 months ago:
Stones = feet but for weight not length