[-] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

What makes it ok for your grandparents, great-grandparents et cetera, but not for these poor souls in the exact same situation? The same could be said for most places if you back far enough. People constantly trying to shut the door behind them, and it’s made worse by pure lies about work. 99.99•% of immigrants work hard af and pay taxes, unlike the top 0.1%

[-] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

There is no helping children’s hygiene except through education, rules won’t do shit

[-] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

“Currently just under 50% of the UK's food is imported including 80% of fruit, 50% of vegetables, and 20% of beef and poultry, while the UK is almost completely self-sufficient for wheat, barley, lamb, and potatoes.”

Bread and Lancashire Hotpot yeah alright

Do we really need Mangoes

[-] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Could also be the sensor, smack bang in between the batteries and where you’d want the port… they should’ve just redesigned it, but they probably thought everybody should go trackpad so why bother

[-] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

The design hasn’t changed since it was AA batteries; it was not designed with the rechargeable battery pack in mind.

The worst you can say really is that it was a lazy upgrade, which is totally valid.

My guess is they didn’t want to redesign the top surface for aesthetics or charitably, perhaps technical reasons to do with the combo touch / click area at the front, and the front is the only place you’d want a port.

[-] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

“Despite Indigenous people making up only 4.6 percent of Queensland’s population, Indigenous children make up nearly 63 percent of those in detention.”

Aha

[-] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Probably saved them from that lunatic who was going around lighting fires

[-] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, American Yorkshire Puddings. I think they eat them with jam, but then they eat scones with gravy so

[-] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Mostly cross-platform suggestions:

Apples to chuck:

  • Apple Music ymmv, I have lots of mp3 with iTunes match that’s why I use it, but if you don’t, Spotify is clearly the better algorithmic music suggestion service
  • Podcasts are probably better in Overcast etc.
  • FaceTime / Messages is fine for apples to apples, but you’ll need other messaging apps obvs
  • Carrot Weather is better than Apple Weather, shame about Dark Sky
  • Calculator is bested by PCalc
  • Arguments can definitely be made against Logic and Final Cut
  • Apple News is pain
  • On that note, even with the highest tier of iCloud, it’s probably not worth it to do Apple One until your are actually spending over that much on things you actually want. Apple TV for example is easy to binge through every few months.
  • Kindle is cheaper than iBooks
  • Fantastical is a great calendar replacement
  • Obsidian is great if you’re a Notes power-user

Apples to keep:

  • iCloud and keychain are probably the best if you’re all-Apple, but back up elsewhere or consider other cloud storage solutions and 1Password. Definitely sign up for lowest tier iCloud as it unlocks a lot of functionality.
  • I prefer iWork (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) to ms office
  • See Apple Music above if you have your own mp3s or old iTunes purchases
  • iCloud Photo Library is getting better and is very convenient
  • Find My is great if you have AirTags, use it all the time on my keys

That’s all I can think of rn! Personally I go for rational functionality over philosophy as I think that’s a trap! They’re just computers, don’t not use stuff based on principle if it works the best, but also don’t get sucked in by the hype, they make it as easy as possible to eat all your money! 

[-] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

And not in the user’s last X passwords! And doesn’t contain their name, address etc! And changes every X days!

Literally writing code to do this rn, even tho I pushed back with modern theories… IT security “experts” set policy using just enough knowledge to be dangerous

One of the banned words hardcoded previously was “monkey”, needless to say I am proud to carry on this tradition

[-] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Afaik the dots are just an aesthetic choice, the black border is functional.

Source: my old oem one had no dots, my new one does, tech said as much

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