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blackn1ght

@ blackn1ght @feddit.uk

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1d ago

What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?
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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 1d ago
Brimg back double-clicking on the top left corner of a program to close it.
What OS was this on? Not sure it's ever been a feature of Windows as far as I know. What's the benefit of doing this vs just single clicking on the X button?

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2d ago

David Walliams dropped from Waterstones Children's Book Festival

www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/cr7lke07gx2o

3d ago

Someone took a photo of me in the Miami airport and posted it on reddit

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 3d ago

Same for saying "the only good nazi is a dead nazi"

4d ago

If you had to replace the floppy disk save symbol in software with a new symbol for saving what would you choose and why?

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 4d ago

Wow!

5d ago

Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 5d ago

This makes no sense to me what so ever. Why do any apps care about where the taskbar is? How's it any different when a window isn't maximised and the user resizes it? Either I'm seriously misunderstanding this or it's a completely made up excuse.

I'd rather they just say "we completely rewrote the taskbar, but we know that less than 0.01% of users move their taskbar so we didn't prioritize it".

To me the bigger issue with the taskbar is that you can't make it compact. Instead it has to be a big chunky mess.

5d ago

How do you listen to music?

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 5d ago

Primarily Spotify, mixed in with SoundCloud and YouTube for live sets.

2w ago

How Trump's outreach to Europe's far-right aims to split EU

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 2w ago

What's his obsession with hating Europe?

2w ago

Sometimes the Onion just prints the cold, hard truth.

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 2w ago

Ah got you. I interpreted it as that larger vehicles are subject to slower speed limits.

2w ago

Sometimes the Onion just prints the cold, hard truth.

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 2w ago

I'm confused, you said the bigger the vehicle then the lower the speed limit in your original comment.

3w ago

romantism is not dead

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 3w ago

Normalise down voting posts with this bullshit censorship.

3w ago

Who are the best female authors of all time?

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 3w ago

I tried reading The Handmaid's Tale several years ago and struggled to get into it, I felt like it kept jumping around but it wasn't immediately obvious right away. I think I ended up giving up about 25% the way through which I've never done with any book. I'd seen the show too which I thought would have helped. Maybe I'll give it another go sometime.

3w ago

Apartment blocks causing issues for UK fibre broadband

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 3w ago

When I rented a flat nearly 10 years ago, we had to get a wireless broadband solution as the local area hadn't got any decent broadband installed yet (despite being a brand new village between two towns), however to install it they needed to drill through the entire wall. To do that I needed the landlords permission, but it turns out it was owned by someone (or an entity) in China and the estate agent couldn't get ahold of them, so I said fuck it and just said yes they can go ahead and do it.

3w ago

Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 3w ago

Imagine the possibilities!

Heated camping mattress
Sausage roll warmer
Car windscreen defroster

4w ago

What TV series bungled a great concept that you'd like to see tried again?

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 4w ago

I think what made that so annoying at the time was that by that point we knew the show was coming to an end but the story was moving at a snail's pace. There was less and less time to cover an enormous amount of content and it felt like Naomi's arc was taking way too much time.

Re-watching it later was more enjoyable.

4w ago

Does anyone else miss traditional forums?

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 4w ago

I always hated the UX of forums. It was incredibly difficult to follow long threads with loads of pages. Personally I prefer the format we have here on Lemmy where comments are nested off the main post.

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4w ago

A quarter of a million 11-year-olds overweight - including almost half of the poorest kids | LBC

www.lbc.co.uk /article/overweight-children-budget-poverty-5HjdNH5_2/

1mo ago

Jenga Stack

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 1mo ago

When you log into the console and all your shits gone and you start to have a mild panic, when you suddenly realise it's switched you to a different region.

1mo ago

Russian spy ship enters British waters and shines lasers at military pilots

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 1mo ago

Laser - pilots look down at the ship I guess.

1mo ago

Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 1mo ago

As an example, I had a friend in college who had a recipie he ate almost every night for dinner: one can of beans, one can of diced tomatoes. Put in bowl, stir, microwave, eat. He called it… Beans and Tomatos.

Yeah that's not a realistic meal. I'm talking about cooking proper balanced, healthy (although not always!) and tasty meals that are suitable for a family. The prep alone can take just as much time as it can to smash some beige oven food in the oven for 20mins at 180C.

Another friend ate (still eats?) the same breakfast for years. His recipie? Oatmeal. Period.

I do this too. I make it for my kids, throw in some frozen blueberries, sprinkle with chia seeds and add a small dollop of biscoff or golden syrup. Although it's not that much effort, it's still quite a bit more than making a bowl of cereal, especially when cleaning the saucepan after as porridge is a bitch to clean once it's started to cool.

Cost wise it absolutely is more expensive. Every substitute product I get that's UPF free costs significantly more. I'd say it added about 20% to our weekly grocery costs trying significantly reduce it.

1mo ago

Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 1mo ago

Sure, those are a factor but it isn’t like the food themselves have the same kind of chemicals you’d find in things like drugs, cigarettes and alcohol. Those are two huge differences.

You can completely stop those things. You can't stop eating.

There's definitely an element of personal responsibility however it's not always as simple as that. Ultra-processed foods are cheap, have long shelf lives and can be quick and easy to prepare. I don't know if you've ever tried to go on a diet to avoid UPF as much as possible, but it's way more expensive, takes a lot more effort to cook everything from scratch, and generally doesn't last long at home. For a lot people, they don't have the luxury or time to manage such a diet.

Some people are more susceptible to addiction than others. For some, having a pack of biscuits or doughnuts in the house would be torture and would have to eat the lot if they're there, where as for others they wouldn't even think about it at all and probably forget they exist. Of course, people need to take that responsibility and not buy them, but you can say that about any addict.

1mo ago

Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 1mo ago

Can we stop bitching about UPF? They are tasty, so you eat a lot of them and get fat. Simple as that.

That's literally the issue? They're engineered that way on purpose so you eat more and more of it in the cheapest way possible. They're calorie dense but don't fill you up the same as as non-ultra processed foods.