What’s that web interface thing? Is it home made? I keep thinking about doing something like that to save me having to remember port numbers for the different services on my home server.

Why are these companies wanting to pay to infuriate me? If I want to watch something and I’m suddenly interrupted by a 90 second unskippable intrusion I’m not going to have a positive relationship with your company.

All the oil and gas in Morocco is owned by the state. Morocco is big on solar, being one of the sunniest countries in the world, but Shell don’t have a hand in that. There’s phosphor in the south but the big international companies aren’t allowed to touch that as it’s occupied territory according to the UN.

This must just be showing only companies owned by foreigners. I know in Morocco they have way more petrol stations than just Shell. All the service stations on the major roads are owned by the mayor of Tangier.

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.