This is the mindset most should have about it

Perfection is hard

People shouldn’t be giving others grief for making moves in the right direction just because it’s not as far as they’ve gone

I can’t imagine anyone running server farms is particularly hyped about this

Didn’t a load of them get burned pretty badly by apple killing off the last server line and Steve Jobs just told them to cry more when challenged about it

Wooden chopstick(s)

Or plastic I guess, but mine are wooden

$6.9

Very typical way to display a price that a human would definitely choose

I’ve pretty much only seen it at shit nightclubs and areas with a big student population. They’re not super common and I’ll be honest it’s been a few years since I’ve seen one, but then I don’t really go to either of those kinds of places anymore

One grand monitor stand

Hmm… That didn’t seem right to me, so I looked it up

The “knock, knock, ginger” is linked to a 1967 Childhood in Poetry book by John Mackay Shaw. Behold these glorious verses:

Ginger, Ginger broke a winder, Hit the winda—crack! The baker came out to give ‘im a clout, And landed on his back.

However, we’ve also seen the game called knock down ginger.

This may actually be more accurate, as “knock down” is a term dating to the late 18th century. It refers to knocking on a door by pulling the door knock striker.

Plus, ginger was a common term then as it meant to “ginger up” (move smartly). So, knock the door, leg it in timely fashion.

https://professionalmoron.com/2022/04/18/history-of-knock-knock-ginger/

That feels a bit more like it to me, though surprised it’s not even a century old, I figured it was Victorian

I was curious

https://www.bristol247.com/climate/news-climate/council-bans-advertising-of-fast-fashion-flights-and-cars/

The new advertising policy bans advertising related to cars, airlines, fossil fuels and excessive consumption including fashion.

Bristol is the first UK council to ban adverts promoting ultra-fast fashion, including any references to flash sales, stock or time limited offers, and Black Friday.

The ban specifically refers to advertising of petrol, diesel and hybrid-electric vehicles and SUV’s; flights, airports, cruise holidays and travel agents; firms and lobbying related to the fossil fuel industry; and marketing that encourages excessive consumption of fashion products or trends.

You know you can just not talk to people, you don’t have to creep people out to achieve that goal

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I’d be very surprised if there was anyone on Lemmy that thought Brexit was a good idea given the apparent demographics.

If we’ve got any sense, we’ll either adopt wero or build something compatible with it in some way

Problem is it looks like we’re letting privately owned banks handle it, so it’s going to probably be something that seeks to benefit businesses over consumers

As someone who grew up down south in the UK, it’s “knock down ginger”

I have no idea who ginger is and what they have to do with prank knocking

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Slight devil’s advocate position:

Given for the past decade, the current automated system for places that want to do this seems to be to scan your driving license or passport to store in some private database for some arbitrary length of time, this seems to be an improvement from that from where I’m sat. At least a random pub landlord, that knows nothing about infosec, doesn’t get a copy of your ID anymore.

Though hopefully this stays at the places that I don’t really go to given they’re pretty much only deployed in places targeting students. I can’t imagine your standard boozer is going to suddenly deploy door checks on everyone when there weren’t any before

He’s also got a feather boa

It’s a somewhat solved problem already

Glastonbury festival has made you register your name, address and a mugshot for about a decade or so now

It gets printed on the ticket.

If you don’t look like the person on the ticket and don’t have the ID of the person named, you’re not getting in

Kinda invasive, but it’s basically killed touting

Not quite sure how you do this with hardware, perhaps tying it to the device?

Maybe you need to own the device for a year or two before you’re allowed to use it with another account

Ed could have also said “Free Palestine”

The show does not have to go on for the benefit of shitheads

Here’s a bit of a mixed list of good channels indicative of my interests, in no particular order, and excluding traditional media orgs and stuff like bands (though as an exception I’ll shout out tiny desk by NPR):

Technology connections - video essays about household tech

Techmoan - retro AV gear and adjacent stuff

Nostalgia nerd - video essays about retro games

Cathode ray dude - video essays on old video production and industrial tech, and adjacent stuff

LGR (+ Blerbs) - classic PC video games and hardware

Retro bytes - more video essays about retro games

Hbomberguy - video essays about games and politics

Philosophy tube - video essays about philosophy

Evan edinger - mix of topics (often transit, language, travel, differences between US/UK) about an American who’s lived in the UK and Europe

AudioPilz - retro audio gear

Ringway Manchester - amateur radio

Jago Hazzard - trains and transit, particularly London

William Osman (+ 2nd channel) - unhinged engineer currently trying to farm

Kurzgusagt - edutainment about science, health and philosophy

Binging with babish - cooking

Bigclivedotcom - electronic/electrical engineering

Macho Nacho productions - retro game console mods

Modern vintage gamer - retro game emulation and adjacent stuff

Slow news day - topical UK news analysis

Chris Spargo - short documentaries about random oddities

Tom Scott (+ the technical difficulties) - currently visiting various interesting sites around the UK, general documentary content

Pad Chennington - video essays about obscure music genres and trends

Linus Boman - typography and design

Humano Studios - vinyl DJ sets

James Hoffman - coffee documentaries and reviews

Notjustbikes - public transit and urban planning

The Serial Port - 80s/90s era Telco and ISP tech

Clabretro - similar stuff, maybe a bit more stuff about old servers

Abroad in Japan - travel content and entertainment for Japan hosted by a British expat

Rion Ishida - walking vlogs in Japan focusing on travel

Nilered - science experiment edutainment

Defunctland - abandoned theme park video essays

Adam Ragusea - cooking and health

Lockpicking Lawyer - guy picks into every lock in front of him

Gary’s Economics - video essays about why everything is going to shit (economics)

Adrian’s digital basement - retro tech repair

How to drink - cocktails and their history

VWestlife - more retro tech repair

Adam Martyn - British broadcast media history

J.J. McCollough - pop culture video essays

Summoning Salt - speed running video essays

Wendover Productions (+ half as interesting and jet lag the game) - video essays about logistics and adjacent topics. HAI is more short content and general topics

MattKC - retro game reverse engineering

Self sufficient me - gardening

Ogmios - pov vlog with a fun voiceover

Level1Techs - more tech content

Ambiguous amphibian - game challenges

Civilian airspace

Prices will only increase, and at a rate faster than average salaries, until billionaires are removed from society

Public spending allocation is not a major cause of price rises