butterflyattack

@butterflyattack@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Price of electricity in Finland peaks at 2.35€/kWh today. Keeping my tiny granny cottage warm costs me over 50 euros for a single day. It's negative 25C (77F) outside.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Space heaters are one of the most expensive methods. Check the power consumption, they are hungry things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Steam] Which lesser known games have you bought or are planning to buy in this sale?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought the old homeworld games. I remember really enjoying them way back when, and the third game finally comes out in 24 so I thought I’d give them a play through to catch up. Still good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t seem fair that some people get paid so well for fucking up so badly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, old games often get overlooked but they kind of laid the foundations for much of what we had today. I remember spending a lot of time on elite, back in the 80s. It seemed so impressive back then, and really it was an achievement considering the hardware was BBC micro computers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Workers at Amazon UK warehouse to walk out on Black Friday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t black Friday an American thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boy, 16, arrested over felling of iconic ‘Robin Hood tree’ next to Hadrian’s Wall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve cut down (dead) trees. This is a job that could be done by one experienced person but I wouldn’t tackle it on my own - it’s an isolated area and if something goes wrong you are fucked. Trees are fuckin heavy and if one falls on you, you’ll know about it. I don’t know where the 16 year old would have got the experience to tackle this, the cuts look reasonably competent. It would also have taken a fairly long blade chainsaw, though it’s hard to judge the thickness of the stump. Also, what a wanker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Minecraft wiki has been moved from Fandom to Minecraft.wiki⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s a shit-ridden ad hole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you go to monkey attack beach you may suffer a monkey attack because monkeys frequent monkey attack beach⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “They don’t speak the same language as me, but I’ve got faith that God will figure something out.”

• Man accused of being Somerset gimp banned by court from wearing masks or wriggling on floor ahead of October trialwww.lbc.co.uk ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crooked House owners' links to previous major fire⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like the famous five got upgrades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly two-fifths of robberies in London last year were for mobile phones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I am pretty sure this isn’t the case if you report the phone stolen. Your provider will have the IMEI number and can brick it. There are probably ways around this - one that I’ve heard is that this bricking is regional. If you sell the stolen phone to someone who is going to ship it to Africa, say, and resell it, it would work fine there.

  I should say that this info is a decade old, but I knew someone back then who would pay for phones, no questions asked. Also vehicles, even large commercial ones. The containers were going to the Gambia, although I’m sure other people were shipping stuff to other countries and continents. I don’t know if bricking is still regional but I’ve not heard that it’s changed.

  Another possibility is that thieves are trying to literally snatch a phone out of the hand of someone who is using it, while it’s still unlocked. Many of us do banking etc on our phones, and have other login credentials, so perhaps if they get the phone while it’s unlocked they can do something with this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man arrested after stabbing near British Museum in London⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  People are so stabby these days, it’s a bit scary. I pick up litter in public parks and find stashed or dumped knives and other weapons all the time. Last month I found a sword. A fuckin sword, stashed behind a bin in a children’s play area. It’s a problem with multiple and complex causes but I’m not seeing a lot of solutions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Guardian have quietly added a paywall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I read it in a browser. It started restricting my access to compete articles so I had a think and decided I’d pay for it. I don’t read it loads and I’m not rich so I pay IIRC £2 a month. Problem solved. Real journalism seems to be having a hard time these days, and I can see why - back in the days before everything was online I would buy a physical newspaper every day. So news media have lost the income from all those people like me who stopped buying newspapers, they’ve got to make it up through advertising or through a pay-for-content model.

  I don’t like paywalls because I don’t like the idea that information should be restricted to those who can afford to buy it. But TBF that was the way it was back when you had to physically purchase a newspaper. The alternative is a load of intrusive advertising. Or articles written cheaply by chatGPT or whatever. Money to pay the wages for journalists to research and write articles has to come from somewhere.