I bought a refurb Pixel 7 on eBay for like ~$150 and put Graphene on it. It’s not like you have to spend four digits unless you want to.

Yep. My Dad in his late 70s uses this system and it works great for him.

People make fun of it, but for people with low tech literacy this is actually far better than having a mish-mash of solutions where some their logins end up automatically saved in iOS on their phone, some are saved in Chrome on the desktop, some are just in their head, they don’t know where anything is, and are constantly losing access and resetting credentials all the time.

And it definitely reduces the burden on me of parental tech support, when its all in the book.

In what way?

I switched recently to Librewolf, but as a long time Firefox user (of which Librewolf is a fork anyway) it didn’t seem unusable out of the box. There are some settings for privacy and studies etc you mght want to change, but they are all very obvious in the GUI preferences.

I did personally go into about:config to set a few things, like not allowing searches from the address bar because I’m weird, but what makes Firefox no good for the average user?

Same with me, and a few people who call me ‘Tira’

I am perfectly happy to have it that way - just like OP suggested it’s a nice separation. And while I have nothing against my given name and actually quite like it, Tira is a name I chose for myself.

This is not a thing I ever wanted to think about

In a world where almost every drink product is artificially flavoured and sweetened, I appreciate my tea as a plain drink which is nothing but leaves and hot water.

I don’t think I need my tea to taste like cherry bakewell, jam on toast, or a tin of biscuits.

Interesting article.

It’s sometimes a placebo, but often still real, depending where you are in the world :)

The crossing pictured in the anime seems the kind most likely to be real, incidentally - a crossing on a straight stretch of road that isn’t at an intersection. There are several of these near where I live, and they’ll stay red all day long if nobody pushes the button.

The ones near me are especially satiafying to use, too. Because they don’t have to wait for an intersection sequence the light changes almost immediately when you push the button (if nobody else has recently pushed it) so it feels very powerful haha.

You just have to ask yourself “If it was a daughter asking her mother for personal grooming advice, would things seem different?” and if the answer is ‘yes’ then it’s easy to recognise there might be a double standard there in society which maybe shouldn’t exist.

Lol, brilliant.

At first you are thinking “this is going to be so nice and compact and tidy” and then…

Love it though

Swiftfin is what I’m using for Plex on my Apple TV

It’s perfect for me because it supports direct stream and decoding of the file for playback on the Apple TV - because the Apple TV is capable enough to do that.

This is ideal because my NAS server is a venerable but now very long in the tooth HP Gen 8 microserver from 2014, so it doesn’t have the chops for reencoded streaming anymore.

Mandatory disclosure when images are misleading?

How about just ban images that are misleading ?

The “problem” they are trying to solve is “how do we keep people on the platform clicking and watching more videos for longer?” and the “solution” to that doesn’t necessarily involve showing you what you actually wanted to find.

They are the ones who fucking started it, not us.

Seems like you’re in the UK too.

Yeah, this was never a thing until Amazon made it one.

Thankfully, the law is very unambiguous about this, and if a parcel is left outside and then stolen before it gets into your hands (unless you specifically asked for it to be left outside) then you are entitled to a refund or replacement.

Amazon play the numbers game and figure that replacing x number of packages costs less than needing their drivers to bring all the undeliverable packages back and try again a different day.

It’s not a cool precedent though and I very much dislike it being normalised.

[The proposal] defines a deepfake as a very realistic digital representation of a person, including their appearance and voice.

The government said the new rules would not affect parodies and satire, which would still be permitted.

Seems like they’ve already thought about this, and the law will cover only digital clones, not human lookalikes - plus carve-outs for fair use satire.

Nice job :)

Serious question: what is it about bottom-up that is useful or desirable, compared to ones that only come down from the top?

Well, that part at least I don’t think is necessary. It’s a parody of a dating app, and it seems from searching screenshots the real app doesn’t have units either - just the number.

Which is just fine, because the number next to someone’s name being their age is clear from context.

I suspect the person you responded to understood the context, but was cheekily calling out the “technically incorrect” usage of ±

The ± symbol requires a tolerance value to create a defined maximum and minimum range, e.g 300±20 (so Soran could be anything between 280 and 320)

it doesn’t mean “approximately”

But I understand this is just an inconsequential funny picture, so whatever right.

Yes, of course it will be online.

Viewers have literally zero attention span, so if the talking isn’t super high speed back to back without even a single second to pause for breath, people click off or scroll past.

Same with subtitles that flash up rapidly, a single word at at time.

That’s the sorry state of affairs we are now living with.