Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)B

brewery

@ brewery @feddit.uk

Posts
6
Comments
140
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • Scrapping North Sea windfall tax would not reduce UK energy bills, say experts

    Jump

  • Why not leave them alone for now and then when the rest of the world has run out, we've still got the option to use them or hopefully, the best thing possible for humanity - they never get used! We do run the risk of being invaded though - by USA or Russia (can't remember the name but thinking of a Scandinavian drama about that)

  • [academic] [image] Its the car. Always.

    Jump

  • Is *arr stack a real Netflix replacement?

    Jump

  • Depending on your download speed, you can manually download a TV show episode in seconds to minutes. By the time you watch that episode, at least the next one will be ready. It is quite rare to have to do this though, me and my family mostly add shows on Seer when we find them (recommendations, adverts, etc) and by the time we've sat down to watch it'll be ready.

    I did the whole lists thing others have mentioned but to be honest, we found there was too much choice, lots of crap and quickly ran out of space. Taking an active role in choosing shows and films works better for us and I'll have a short list at any time to watch.

  • Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles

    Jump

  • Can we add that access to banking apps should not be limited in the same way either. I've got two credit cards that can only be managed on android play store apps (plus im guessing iOS) since they took away their websites which worked perfectly fine and allowed anyone to get access at a library at a bare minimum (Virgin - fuck you). Then, one app (HSBC UK - fuck you even more!) who won't let you use any unknown apps that overlay others - so it won't work without me removing my fucking lawnchair launcher. That's right, not disabling it, not giving me the option to "take the risk", I have to uninstall it! I trust lawnchair hundred times more than your unnecessarily large sized app with random unnecessary permissions.

    I'm not using one card so it just sits as a cost to them and looks good on my credit. The other I'm a bit stuck as used it to get a cheap loan but it'll be a while before I want to pay it off so switched on paper statements and uninstalled the app. I'll never use their other products though as a result...

  • We live in the future!

    Jump

  • How about

    • reinventing trains but worse
    • rocketing amount of space launches filling up junk
    • we deliver everything but once we take over it'll all be crap rip off products (for slave wages)
    • we deliver any food by people who can't drive (for slave wages)
    • we'll create algorithms to enforce society divisions and hurt mental health of children
    • we'll take over a popular platform and make it even more disgusting and fascist

  • Birmingham Crowned The Least Walkable City In The UK

    Jump

  • So true. It's just purely a weird way of calculating this. Birmingham has come on leaps and bounds with walk ability in the city centre and suburbs. On the few occasions I'm there, I love taking a walk around the city centre noticing the changes and less cars you have to deal with. Nobody would be able to change that you need a bus to get to a suburb housing this attraction.

  • UK recruiter emerges from insolvency for third time, avoiding millions owed in tax

    Jump

  • It feels to me that the only mentions of patriotism are generally against immigrants, who don't really do shit like this and have been shown to be a positive to the exchequer.

    Anyone who has done this to avoid legitimate taxes, anyone who moves to Singapore / Dubai / Monaco etc to avoid taxes, and especially anyone who took advantage during Covid to make a quick buck instead of helping during an international crisis, are deeply unpatriotic and should be vilified by everyone

  • The top 10 speeders in New York City

    Jump

  • Wow, that is insane! Do you have any annual car checks like an MOT?

  • The top 10 speeders in New York City

    Jump

  • That is the same then but how do you get this number of infractions? I don't understand. Maybe I should be asking whether we get the same issues here then if they're falling through some gaps

  • The top 10 speeders in New York City

    Jump

  • That is interesting and shows they need to go further based on this so hopefully highlighting this issue will lead there. Any car without a clear licence plate should be immediately pulled over by police and fined on the spot plus checked for insurance, licence, etc. If they don't have insurance here in the UK, the car is impounded until someone with a driving licence and appropriate insurance collects it. If you don't have a driving licence, im not too clear if they impound it or just leave the car there and arrest the driver. Either way, they're not able to drive off.

    Any vehicle owner should either identify the driver at the time or take the points by default. Cameras should be changed to ones that take pictures of the drivers from the front. The technology exists!

    If a car isn't taxed, the police can fine or more usually, the driving authority roams around randomly and if the car is on any public road, puts a boot on the car and a massive yellow sticker on the windscreen. It doesn't happen often but enough to make people pay taxes or get called out to your neighbours. Eventually those cars are impounded too.

    The flip side to all this though is the need for infrastructure to actually slow cars down instead of just a speed limit. Only a combination of a lot of things will do anything

  • Asylum seekers who break law to have support removed

    Jump

  • They have learned nothing from the by election. Stop fucking pandering to the supposed reform vote that is not real.

  • The top 10 speeders in New York City

    Jump

  • How do you not have a points system or something to penalise repeat offenders?

  • Earth's heat to produce electricity for homes in UK clean energy first

    Jump

  • A sinkhole revealled abandoned mines somewhere in Surrey. This sort of project could make the clear up costs worth it but it's probably too late and can't blame them for not realising it's an option

  • Rural drivers to face steepest bills under UK’s mileage-based electric vehicle tax

    Jump

  • Surely this is already the case where petrol taxes are higher if you drive more. I don't think it's fair for me to not be taxed less in an urban environment considering I drive much less

  • British inflation hits lowest in almost a year

    Jump

  • Not sure I care anymore. The UK is for the wealthy only and we can only try to struggle through, whether it's through inflation, poorer services or more tax. Until we address the power dynamics, wealth inequality and tax havens (City of London, Jersey, Guernsey, etc), I could nor give a flying fuck what inflation is quarter to quarter. Prices and housing costs are already fucked

  • Police Wasted £10m Enforcing Unlawful Palestine Action Ban

    Jump

  • I'm really torn about this. We want police by consent and to have some discrepancy to do the right / moral thing but don't want to give them too much power to choose what laws they enforce. You don't want Nazi type "just following orders" but you don't want them targeting left-wing protestors more because they lean right-wing (the Met police at least who let's not forget, targetted/target women, queer people, black people, etc much more than the right wing)

    The laws are made by Parliament and the current labour government should take the full blame for proscribing this group. The anti terrorism laws are so harsh that I can believe the police had no choice but to arrest them.

    The absurdity of arresting the numbers they did, the type of people they did, and this £10m cost should have made the government change the law itself.

  • Who is billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe and how did he make his money?

    Jump

  • ABAB - All billionaires are bastards. Case in point (from Wikipedia): In September 2020, Ratcliffe officially changed his tax residence from Hampshire to Monaco, a move that it is estimated will save him £4 billion in tax.

  • If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting?

    Jump

  • I'm an accountant and tax professional but have always been into computers. I had a social media account breached although it was no issue as hadn't used it did years. I used a terrible password as thought it did not matter but made me realise I needed to be better generally so started using a password manager.

    Then Netflix stopped account sharing. I had just got a 4k TV and only their top level with 4 screens supported it so was pissed off. The fragmentation across services had started so was getting annoyed anyway. This led me to the arr's.

    I decided I could no longer trust Microsoft and hated their pricing structure so was interested in Nextcloud. By then I found the self hosted community (on reddit), bought a desktop PC and after getting the hang of it plus many mistakes I loved my services so will never look back.

    Joined the migration to Lemmy. Am based in the UK and joined the anti-US feelings so am setting up more storage, better redundancy and more services for my family. A few family members are interested in helping so can share backups.

  • Reform faces police investigation over ‘concerned neighbour’ byelection letters

    Jump

  • Surely you would read the leaflet first to double check it is correct before posting. Everyone knows printers can make mistakes. You check first before actual use. No excuse, they just don't care about the law

  • Casual UK @feddit.uk
    brewery @feddit.uk

    The one beauty of traffic

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    brewery @feddit.uk

    Should I replace NPM?

  • United Kingdom @feddit.uk
    brewery @feddit.uk

    The correct way

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
    brewery @feddit.uk
    Article

    British marathon runner Fauja Singh dies in road accident aged 114

    www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk /news/national/25313535.british-marathon-runner-fauja-singh-dies-road-accident-aged-114/
  • Buy it for Life @slrpnk.net
    brewery @feddit.uk

    Shout out to my Berghaus

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    brewery @feddit.uk

    SSH Putty key conversion or android SSH that can use one