[-] octochamp@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

Giving up eating meat. Not sure if it was cause or effect, but I got so much more interested in cooking food properly and looking after myself. Food and cooking became one of my favourite hobbies and 7 years later is still my go-to healthy wind-down activity that helps me relax after a long day at work. Knock-on effects have meant I'm happier and healthier than I ever had been in my life.

[-] octochamp@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

Search works really well for me. Definitely reveals a less aesthetic side of Thunderbird but it works!

A works to archive messages btw, I'm not sure about a shortcut for labels though.

[-] octochamp@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

Sure but if you don't want a worse UI then you can use these models with Heliboard, best of both worlds

[-] octochamp@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago

Yeah it's a big contrast to continental Europe where if you go into any electronics shop they'll have Kobos on display as prominent as Kindles.

[-] octochamp@lemmy.ml 56 points 7 months ago

I think it's only Amazon that does lock screen ads but since they have two-thirds of the market share globally (and a near monopoly in the US where the Verge is based) then whatever they do in the e-reader space is "normal"

[-] octochamp@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago

This update somehow has broken haptic feedback on my keyboard 🤔

[-] octochamp@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

this is the most important comment in this whole thread. Sunak – who absorbed the party leadership role as the "continuity candidate" – is trying to pitch his own party as the radical opposition when they've been running the country for 30 of the 43 years he's been alive, and have been more or less electorally unopposed for the entirety of his political career. the amount of unironic opportunitistic populist bullshit he's got blowing his sails along would be funny if it wasn't so viscerally horrible

[-] octochamp@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Sure, that's why I qualified that harmful accidents do happen, though relatively rarely compared to car accidents, and relatively rarely anywhere near as harmful as a similar incident if it was caused by a car.

Similar anecdotal incident - I know someone who was hospitalised and got multiple fractures while riding his bike on a cycle path because someone was walking their dog without a lead and the dog ran in front of his bike. These things can and do happen, they're not unusual - but it's also a weak argument for, say, mandating that all dog owners get liability insurance for their pets.

[-] octochamp@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

I both drive and cycle for commuting, and having experience with both it's hard to imagine what practical use mandatory insurance would be for cyclists, given that only third-party insurance is mandatory for drivers, and it's largely to cover the huge amount of physical damage someone can create with a 2-tonne block of metal propelled by an engine, something that really isn't comparable to ~10kg powered only by one person's legs.

and yeah sure hypothetically a cyclist could make a mistake that indirectly causes a car to cause an accident but this relatively very rare compared to the hundreds of accidents directly caused by drivers every day, and even rarer that the accident would be solely the fault of one party (ie. if a cyclist in front of a driver did a bad maneuver and the driver had to do an emergency stop, the driver was probably far too close to the cyclist)

at the end of the day, calls for cyclists to have insurance or licence plates usually come from people who are less invested in whether or not these are practical solutions, and more from car drivers who irrationally just want cyclists to suffer from the same inconveniences they have to deal with

[-] octochamp@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

I've seen a lot of chat recently about Google search quality tanking and it's made me realise that I haven't re-searched a DDG query in Google for a really, really long time. when I first started using DDG as my main a few years back, I would repeat searches in Google probably 25% of the time? but I honestly can't remember the last time I had to now. Been at least 6 months!

[-] octochamp@lemmy.ml 56 points 1 year ago

Debates about animal testing are important and understanding the realities of them is good, but I feel like it's easy to overlook maybe the most crucial component of this: Musk has openly and clearly lied about these tests and the realities of what point his technology is at, seemingly to mask the grim reality behind it

[-] octochamp@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

feel like it must obviously be that the car is wrecked rather than Lance is hurt. Why wouldn't you put a reserve in the seat if you could?

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