Starmer said yesterday that the UK is pivoting away from the US to concentrate more on EU relations.

If companies want to use this stuff they should have to clearly label it, like how restaurants have to clearly show their hygiene ratings. You shouldn’t have to google everything

Why are they requiring an additional two months? If their website is broken send them an email, block the payment, screenshot the broken website. They could try to enforce that but the likely wouldn’t stand a chance. EU law says it can’t be more difficult to cancel a subscription than it was to begin one.

I think the point around them wanting a couple more months is a key point though. Why are they expecting that?

I honestly think this is an April Fools. I recall the Russians have a sort of darkly twisted take on it.

There were a lot of absolutely awful ones when I was kid, so many I just forget them all. Back then we had a ZX Spectrum and the games cost like £2.99 each so you can imagine how much effort was put into them. I understand why the studios keep cranking out crappy movie tie-ins and why they keep selling well, because when I was a kid if there was a movie I loved I’d jump at the chance to buy the video game for it. Back then there was no internet to instantly check reviews so you just bought whatever had good box art.

I remember the Jaws game being particularly depressing. It was one of those classic games where it just drops you in an environment with no instructions on how to complete the game or anything. It was just a maze with loads of moving things that instantly killed you. I generally just moved around until I ran out of lives then tried again.

Self-hosted services are only serving their purpose, they’re not serving ads, crunching user data, training unwanted AI algorithms…

Actually blocking VPNs is pretty tough. Almost all internet traffic is encrypted now and any of that can be a tunnel.

He only eats fast food on the road, when he’s at the White House or one of his own places he probably eats pretty well.

My two main issues are that I don’t want to keep seeing the same post repeated again and again as I scroll, and I want to be able to find a topic and not have to wrestle with all the different communities around the same thing. I just search for a simple topic and often there’s 20 with the same name and I have to find the one that everyone’s using.

I’m not in my 60s or 70s but people that age probably remember practising what to do if a nuke lands. This went on for decades.

I’m gonna try this but my issue is context switching during a meeting or conversation.

Lemmy’s pretty left leaning, extremely left sometimes. There was a conservative community for a while but it turned until a place to ridicule conservatives.

Maybe just start a new community, I think there are people here but a lot on here refuse to even tolerate the right.

Refusing to even talk to people on the opposite end of the political spectrum just makes you another perpetuator of the massive political divide. Do you actually think anyone’s had their vote swayed by someone who refused to even talk to them. You’re not going to bring anyone to the left by demonising the right.

This sounds like ADHD and/or anxiety.

It doesn’t sound like that would make you happy.

Depends on how long I have. If it’s a workday and I don’t have much time then I brush my teeth first, if it’s the weekend and I’m not in a rush I eat breakfast first. I just do this on some idea that sugar (such as in milk) makes your teeth a little softer temporarily and you shouldn’t brush when they’re like that. That from what they say about brushing your teeth after coke but it stuck in my head.

We suspect our kid may be autistic but I’ve never seen her do this other than when she was younger and played with Lego type toys.

I wouldn’t but I think it depends on the culture. In Morocco people would just start chatting to people in the car next to them while they were waiting at traffic lights. They would just chat to everyone.

Me either. I use Plasma because I prefer the whole workflow but I’m fine with GNOME, it’s just a bit shit out of the box, which I think is part of the problem. It feels so much more modern and the settings menu is much better, plus all the GNOME apps feel lightyears ahead of the half-baked KDE stuff. I wish KDE would stop adding obscure features nobody uses and just work on the polish (though I think they’re doing a bit of that now with the new login screen and unified theming).

I don’t care what people on here think, an AI being able to code an OS is really impressive, even if it is shit.