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  • Tesla applies to supply electricity to households in Great Britain

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  • Or in true shit company fashion, promise to follow the rules, not follow them, then sue/petition the various bodies that they can't make money unless the rules are removed.

  • Domino’s Pizza profits dive as people cut back on takeaways in UK

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  • Not at all surprised. A Large, even with the DFS-style half-price offer, is £12.50 for a 13.5". And they've apparently started charging £3.50 for delivery.

    Meanwhile, my local pizza place is £14 for a 18".

  • Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK

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  • I found it was well worth ripping to flac securely using EAC (no idea what the modern setup is). As then I knew I had a perfect copy to make whatever MP3 I wanted in the future from.

    Nowadays, I convert everything to V0 for portable use, but who knows what the future may hold.

  • Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK

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  • I'm returning to car boot sales to buy cubic meters of CDs. That, and BandCamp.

  • Police say ill-fitting uniforms leading to crushed testicles and lumps in breasts

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  • Making the job uncomfortable won't help make the police more reasonable. It'll just drive reasonable people away, while not affecting people joining just to have power.

  • Sengled's servers are dead again, so I'm finally taking the plunge

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  • One of us, one of us! Reach out if you have any issues. The dashboards are basically one step away from the configuration, you'll probably have one sooner than you think!

    Also, when you start playing with the light, check out grouping. Very swish having one button to turn all the lights in the house off.

  • What is the best Power Outlet, and why?

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  • And the thin pins means that with any weight (wall-wart, etc.), it starts to come out. Doubly so if it's set into thin plasterboard that already wobbles.

  • All in all, you're just another brick in the wall...

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  • Owl in owl.

  • OK, not to be runde or anything, but why is your banner AI generated

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  • Lemmy honestly tends to run on the ideas of "be the change you want to see in the world" and "well volunteered". Stick a post up, see if people are interested. You could message the mods. While they don't seem to have posted for a while, there are mod actions happening still. And if you don't hear anything back, put it as a suggestion to the admins.

  • OK, not to be runde or anything, but why is your banner AI generated

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  • Honestly, it's because it went in early days. When ML generated art was a novelty, and people hadn't had a chance to sit down and go "wait, actually, no". And it's an absolute arsepain to replace, because you'll get 1001 prompt engineers defending slop. feddit.uk banned generative AI content to make this process easier, and still needs to sweep through and commission new art for a few communities.

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    Show off your dashboards!

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  • French Car Brand Renault To Go Completely Leather-Free By The End Of 2025

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  • And as someone who prefers fabric seats anyway...There are fabric seats too!

  • Who is accountable in privatised Britain?

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  • The worst part about privatisation is the level of "who, me?" that happens. Huge corp doing bad? Fining an entire org takes forever (if it even gets there), and every shitty cog just does their small bit of arseholery, while pretending they're not the problem. And the C-levels mostly walk away with a slap on the wrist, if any. A revolving door of executives, making small parts of the awful changes each.

  • Coca-Cola earnings beat estimates as strong demand in Europe helps offset weakness elsewhere. Europeans need to do better

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  • American accents in English voiceovers

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  • One of the reasons I like my Sennheiser bluetooth headphones is the power on/off/recharge headset is a chirpy hampshire/oxofrdshire accent.

    And the Sonys even more, as they just go "budoom" when you power them up.

  • Coca-Cola earnings beat estimates as strong demand in Europe helps offset weakness elsewhere. Europeans need to do better

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  • Unfortunately, they're the only commonly-available cola with just sugar (rather than artificial sweeteners). I've done a two-pronged approach, of finding alternatives (Karma and Mate are nice), and getting ready to start making my own with a carbonate. But commonly, you'll need to buy an entire 24 pack to even approach the pricing of Coca.

    What I have found is making carbonated squash often hits the spot nicely.

  • Worried about the Trekverse future

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  • PP is basically the Strange New Worlds app for me now. Sub for a month, whenever the new SNW series is almost finished.

  • My Fairphone 6 from Murena review!

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  • Really appreciate the run-through OP, most appreciated. It's a bit of a shame that it's let down by few small issues, like USB 2.0 (WHY?!)

  • Home Assistant as security camera PVR??

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  • I'm a great believer in keeping things as simple and modular as possible. Much easier to just dump files over FTP than have HA do the saving. Plus, the camera can operate like a dashcam, and save before/after the event, while that would be tricker in HA, as you'd have to run a buffer.

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    Protection zones around abortion clinics in place by October

    www.gov.uk /government/news/protection-zones-around-abortion-clinics-in-place-by-october
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    The rise of Britishcore: 100 experiences that define and unite modern Britons

    www.theguardian.com /lifeandstyle/2024/sep/18/the-rise-of-britishcore-100-experiences-that-define-and-unite-modern-britons
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    Campaigners tie baby slings to statues in call for better UK paternity leave

    www.theguardian.com /money/2024/sep/17/campaigners-model-baby-slings-statues-london-paternity-leave
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    NHS must reform or die, PM warns, after critical report

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    UK riots: Judge hands down longest jail sentences yet

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    Pocklington: Farmer dies after being run over by his Range Rover

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/c79wd4z950wo
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    Church of England paid-off priest assessed as a risk to children

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    Battery/Chargeable e-ink displays integration

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    First-time buyers spending 40% of pay on mortgages

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/cxe2842xr62o
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    Huw Edwards pleads guilty to making indecent images of children

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/cmj260e54x7o
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    Ulez expansion led to significant drop in air pollutants in London, report finds

    www.theguardian.com /environment/article/2024/jul/25/ulez-expansion-led-to-significant-drop-in-air-pollutants-in-london-report-finds
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    Ucas plans to drop personal statements for UK university applicants

    www.theguardian.com /education/article/2024/jul/18/ucas-plans-to-drop-personal-statements-for-uk-university-applicants
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    Amazon workers narrowly reject union in historic vote

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    Meatly Receives UK Approval for Cultivated Meat in Pet Food

    www.petproductmarketing.co.uk /news/meatly-receives-uk-approval-for-cultivated-meat-in-pet-food/
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    UK ready to build ‘closer, more mature’ trade links with EU

    www.theguardian.com /business/article/2024/jul/16/uk-ready-to-build-closer-more-mature-trade-links-with-eu
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    Woman wins payout after boss coughed in her face during Covid pandemic

    www.theguardian.com /world/article/2024/jul/16/woman-payout-boss-coughed-in-face-covid-pandemic
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    BBC: Level crossing near misses and risk-taking caught on camera

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/cg3jy6vejepo
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    The amount of sugar consumed by children from soft drinks in the UK halved within a year of the sugar tax being introduced, a study has found.

    www.theguardian.com /society/article/2024/jul/09/childrens-daily-sugar-consumption-halves-just-a-year-after-tax-study-finds
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    Private car parks to offer 10-minute 'grace period'

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/c9r3pq2zg75o
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    Glastonbury Festival 2024 gates open to music lovers

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/clwwyvzyrq5o