YurkshireLad
@YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 1 day ago:
Wtf??? That’s insanity…
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 2 days ago:
How many dollar stores are required for it to be classified as a town?
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article 5 days ago:
This is real? Holy crap….
- Comment on When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans? 1 week ago:
I find it very strange that so many American women vote to reduce their own rights.
- Comment on Gaming Website Polgyon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Layoffs 4 weeks ago:
Layoffs is the precursor to adopting LLM generated content?
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 2 months ago:
“Mental landscape”?
- Comment on Technology isn't fun anymore 2 months ago:
Yes! And Windows is anything but.
- Comment on Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website 3 months ago:
Why are we not surprised?
- Comment on How do I realistically get out of the US? 4 months ago:
University fees for foreign students can be very high. For example, I think the fees at Edinburgh university for a foreign student are 3 times the cost for English students, and almost 9 times compared to Scottish students. I’m going from memory here so I could be off a bit.
- Comment on Meta to End Fact-Checking Program on Facebook Ahead of Trump Term: Live Updates 4 months ago:
Meta knows they don’t have enough CPUs and memory to run fact checkers on all the Trump supporters.
- Comment on It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers? 5 months ago:
This was during the summer. The only thing might be bird poop?
- Comment on It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers? 5 months ago:
One of my neighbours sometimes hoses down her driveway in the pouring rain. Who knows why neighbours do the things they do.
- Comment on Pringhouls 6 months ago:
Geez where’s your sense of humour today? 😁
- Comment on Pringhouls 6 months ago:
Our universe is but one Pringle in a can.
- Comment on Pringhouls 6 months ago:
Wouldn’t it be bizarre and ironic if the universe is shaped exactly like a Pringle?
- Comment on Suddenly firefox on ios shows ads on homescreen 7 months ago:
The android version has had this for a while.
- Comment on Downfall at 20: A Sobering Take on the Final Stages of World War II 8 months ago:
Is it available on a streaming service?
- Comment on Walmart's use of digital price tags signal the future of retail shopping, but consumers are worried 9 months ago:
That’s exactly what this is. All stores will eventually do this and prices will fluctuate throughout the day.
- Comment on Is this just how it’s gonna be till Election Day? 9 months ago:
I keep getting emails from some republican Colorado group and I don’t even live in the US!
- Comment on X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm 10 months ago:
Can’t have a woke water pistol on Musk’s manly website!
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Why? Because the platform is owned by Elon Twitler, and he’s opened the floodgates to anyone who wants to help destroy the world.
- Comment on Dyson job cuts: One third of vacuum company's UK workforce to go 10 months ago:
Well that sucks.
- Comment on A live ranking of airlines by how much luggage they are losing 10 months ago:
Historically for me, the Canadian table is reversed to - Air Canada 1, WestJet 0.
- Comment on What's the worst hacking scene from any movie or show? 11 months ago:
Independence Day.
- Comment on What would happen to your body if you only ate 750g of 2% cottage cheese every day for a month? 11 months ago:
I lost 40lbs on keto and after the first week of keto flu, I felt great. No sugar crashes, no energy level drops and overall, more energy than usual. I stopped after six weeks as I couldn’t deal with the lack of flavour and texture in the food I was eating. I reached a good weight that I’ve maintained, 7 years later.
One thing it taught me, was to reduce the amount I eat and to balance things out if I eat more carbs than usual.
- Comment on Why don't electric car manufacurers put solar panels on the car roofs? 11 months ago:
I have a very vague memory of watching a video where someone calculated the amount of energy produced, which was minimal. The benefit vs the cost is very poor.
- Comment on Man scammed after AI told him fake Facebook customer support number was real 11 months ago:
🤦♂️
- Comment on Resume Tip: Hacking "AI" screening of resumes 11 months ago:
I’d be surprised if they didn’t, to be honest.
- Comment on Resume Tip: Hacking "AI" screening of resumes 11 months ago:
The big question should be “are recruiters posting your resume to ChatGPT? If so, any personal information is no longer private, as ChatGPT will probably absorb it as additional training material.
- Comment on Does it seem odd to track my lifespan? 1 year ago:
Very odd.