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tankplanker

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  • What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?

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  • I would buy a feature phone today, preferably something eink, if it was painless to switch my SIM between it and my smart phone. Having to take the SIM out of one, put it in the other, then turn on the phone is not painless and they do not design the little draws to support thousands of open/closes against the contacts to read the SIM.

    There are times I want the smart phone to have the SIM because I will want or need the extra functionality and if you just make the feature phone do everything then its just morphed into a smart phone with extra steps. I want the feature phone to be basic as I can get away with.

    That said, I really want google wallet or similar that I can share between the two phones for my passes and tickets, audio streaming support, and maps. Something like a Hisense A9 would fit the bill but the temptation to add more apps than the basics would be too great, plus I still need a way to switch SIMs between the phones.

    I cannot replace my smart phone, rather than supplement, with any feature phone because I use it for such a wide range of things. I can ssh from it to my home devices, I can manage my bank accounts, it tracks my health, it provides video and audio streaming on and offline, I can read and write documents/spreadsheets, plus anything you can do via a web browser.

  • Boris Johnson hosted Tory peer for dinner the day after the second coronavirus lockdown came into force, leaked documents show

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  • I am sure this compromat leaking is completely unrelated to the news linking Boris with a comeback at Reform.

  • The Job Market Is Hell: Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.

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  • There is also third party recruiters for specialist positions such as IT, Law, etc. who are often the only entry point into a particular firms open positions.

    At their best you used to be able to actually speak to them and they would go find a job for you. They would help you tailor your CV and cover letter to suit, prep you for the interview, etc. They are typically paid by the hiring company a significant percentage of your salary in installments if you get hired. You can pay for this service now, but getting a good one is hard.

    I used to get direct contacts from them for positions that actually matched what I can do for a salary that would actually match what I am after. They used to have an actual industry knowledge and contacts.

    Now, at their worst they spam people on linkedin with connection requests for positions that are completely unsuitable, AI has made this far far worse now. They often use a ghost position just to farm CVs for future positions, totally counterproductive if you wanted to tailor your CV for a position.

  • The Job Market Is Hell: Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.

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  • I am sorry Mario, your job is in another castle.

    But seriously, best of luck

  • Nigel Farage says Boris Johnson is not welcome in Reform UK

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  • Farage scared of allowing his supporters a free vote between him and Boris shocker.

  • Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs

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  • What this chart is missing is the impact of the quality of the screen and the source material being played on it.

    A shit screen is a shit screen, just like a badly filmed TV show from the 80s will look like crap on anything other than an old CRT.

    People buying a 4k screen from Wallmart for $200 then wondering why they cant tell its any better than their old 1080p screen.

    The problem with pushing up resolution is the cost to get a good set right now is so much its a niche within a niche of people who actually want it. Even a good 4k set with proper HDR support and big enough to make a different is expensive. Even when 8k moves away from early adopter markups its still going to be expensive, especially when compared to the tat you can by at the supermarket.

  • Alien: Earth episode 5 is the best Alien movie in 39 years

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  • I have been enjoying the series immensely so I'm already biased but thst was a great episode considering the budget and time constraints.

    I would have preferred it if they took the risk and pushed it to near two hours but obviously that blows screen time and money budgets.

    I think its easy to forget that the entire seasons budget is about the same as a higher tier action film now, one episode is about a tenth of that, for just over an hours worth of content.

    It has a larger number of sets which just eat up budget as its covering more areas. I think with that in mind its impressive.

  • Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein

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  • Does he put forward his case that he is the anti christ? As he sure comes across as someone who would want that. He has always felt like the sort of motherfucker who would read the Stand and identify with Randall Flagg

  • They're literally conspiring against you

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  • Womens clothing tends to be worse as even more expensive clothes are sold by dress size or the generic small/medium large and only a limited number of items offer any build variations for an item. Next typically offer a petite and a tall range for some items, but not for all and they quite rare in high street retailers offering that.

    Men you tend to find a waist, length, chest, neck measurement in cm/inches, which is far more useful. A lot, but not all, of trousers with actual measurement on them also offer different lengths, and in some cases different cuts (jeans are very good for this).

    Nexts shirts, like a lot of high street fashion, have two broad ranges for men, casual and formal. The former is shit for sizing as its the small/medium rubbish that I wouldn't touch with a barge pole, not least because the arms are always too fucking narrow for my arms. The latter most definitely comes in a range of body fits and actual measurements.

    The best clothing is sold by the actual measurements of the garment so you can actually compare against stuff that actually fits you. I typically get stuff tailored from there as I buy larger to fit my chest/shoulders and its too long. Its not expensive (about £15 for a t shirt) if you are not buying endless fast fashion garbage and buy stuff to last instead.

  • Turkish transport minister fined after posting video of himself driving at 140mph

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  • I would love to know how many owners actually ran out of fuel or near as damn did doing long high speed runs

  • Turkish transport minister fined after posting video of himself driving at 140mph

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  • That includes corners, which can be as low as 50kph, which will lower the average significantly over lap.. Straight line they are approaching 340kph on the longest straights, but have hit nearly 380kph in recent history.

    They would be a lot faster if they were allowed to tweak the gear ratios for each circuit rather than them being fixed for multiple circuits, and they didn't have a fuel flow limit per lap. A twenty year old car nearly hit 400kph in non race spec.

  • UK’s richest set to produce 13 times more transport emissions than poorest by 2035

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  • Richest 4%? Show us the gap between the richest 1% and the richest 0.1% vs the bottom rather than dragging down the multiplier by deliberate widening the boundaries to imply its not even more lopsided when you look at the rich as people who travel by private jet and super yacht.

    Do the wealthy need to cut their emissions? Of course, but stop pretending that they emit anywhere near the amount of the actual rich.

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  • Yeah it pushed me to finally put in an order, got to wait till December now as I'm in the third batch.

    I wanted to wait till we had proof thst the graphics card would be updatable and a better one would be available as their AMD card is a bit too lightweight for me.

    I would rather it had been a better AMD card, I have a 7900 xtx in my desktop, but i will take what I can get at this point, especially as I know I can upgrade later.

  • Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those?

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  • With CDs they were negatively impacted by the loudness war as it became much more widespread. Having to hunt around for the right recording, often the earlier ones, can be expensive. Normalisation of the recordings by streaming companies is just an awful idea as it doesn't fix the bad parts of the mix just turns everything down.

    I prefer SACDs to CDs, mostly because they tended to be mastered and mixed better than the CDs of the past two decades. The surround audio mixes are mostly just gimmicky, although they are a good fit for some records, but they almost always had a two channel mix that you could pick instead. The higher frequency range is mostly pointless.

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    RTFM is Sage

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  • I read the manual before i buy a product, I watch the product reviews, and if I can I watch the repair videos as well.

    Big part of my enjoyment from buying things is the work I do upfront. I tend to do the same with any tech project.

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  • But how do you pay the overseers to enforce it when money is no longer valid? And the overseers are bigger and tougher than your average billionaire?

    Slavery only works when there is money to pay the overseers and a legal system to protect the owner class from being extorted by the overseers.

    ICE is in a similar boat and they have to pay significant amounts to attract people to carry out ICE fascism.

  • Parents in England skipping meals to afford school uniforms, survey finds

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  • The issue is the branded tat that schools insist upon such as blazers, jumpers, skirts, etc. Its almost always overpriced compared to the basics from Asda and Tesco.

    Ban the branded shit and you fix at least half the problem.

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  • Who is he going to staff it with? There is zero chance he will cook and clean for himself and he will need a substantial army to protect himself from the collapse of the human race.

    If he goes with people how long before the security guards realise they can dump his scrawny ass off a cliff and have a better quality of life as money becomes irrelevant? If he goes with robots how long before they break beyond what they can self repair? If he goes with robots with human engineers, how long before the engineers realise the same thing as the security guards and program the robots to kill Bezos?

  • Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told

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  • Till they come after you for doing so.

    The way it will work is a public crackdown on a couple of the big providers, then a few high profile cases where unlicensed VPN usage will be a tacked on offense with additional penalties for those getting investigated.

    Its the same with the identity checks now, big porn sites and the like have them or will have them very soon, some small scale stuff does not and might get away with not implementing it. Using such small scale sites then becomes grounds for further investigation if you get swept up with it later.

    These things are never about 100% compliance, there will always be those who can work around it. However working around it will in itself become an offense and grounds for further investigation.