25
Is YouFibre any good? (sh.itjust.works)

Hey, I'm in the UK and have been getting bombarded by a somewhat-aggressive campaign by YouFibre for their broadband. The actual claims they make are pretty impressive and their Trustpilot score is good, but it's a little too good and a lot of the reviews feel a bit off so I'm skeptical. Looking on sites other than Trustpilot they seem a little worse, particularly a lack of decent support. Does anyone have experience with them?

Also feels strange that Netomnia would have full fibre set up for my postcode before Openreach or Virgin...

[-] acwern@sh.itjust.works 15 points 9 months ago

Probably not "angry" downvotes. OP provided a link where it's explained exactly why the switch was made. Even if you don't care for Rust it's pretty clear that this was done with more purpose than just "Ooo let's make it in Rust for fun"

[-] acwern@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Florisboard is the keyboard app that stopped me jumping between keyboard apps

[-] acwern@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I used LeftWM for a while, it's a window manager built in rust. One of the cool things about it was its themes functionality. You put all your dot files in a particular directory for things like your bar, and then you can save and switch multiple themes with a short command. Had some interesting community ones too like one based on the Star Trek TNG computer terminals. Ended up moving away from it after a while because it just didn't quite feel polished enough for a daily deiver yet and I got a little tired of the constant tweaking

[-] acwern@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Aye there's some reet proper creatures on British news shows. Scarily sometimes they don't get made to look quite as daft as that

[-] acwern@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

The stupidest thing about it is that the name is based on some imagery from the film for The Wall by Pink Floyd which very much made the point of "Fascism bad"

[-] acwern@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Sadly don't think Bevy's going to benefit too much from this drama. Most people from Unity will want a more complete toolset and probably won't be wanting to learn a whole new language. Can see a lot of indie devs making the switch over to Godot though

[-] acwern@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Not sure about that last bit, Of Mice and Men is a pretty standard GCSE text and it's written by an American

[-] acwern@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Docs can only really help you if your problem is "I have used X from the library Y, yet I do not understand the baseline definition of X sufficiently and this is causing issues". A lot of problems in practice are much more fundamental than that

[-] acwern@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Been using PeerTube on and off for about a year now, been planning on starting a maths education channel on Trom. It's definitely got potential, but I don't see the average Youtube user migrating over to it any time soon. The main issue really is that children/young teens are a large portion of the target audience for a lot of big creators these days and the mobile apps for peertube are heavily lacking still. Not helped of course by the fact that one of the better android apps, NewPipe, which allows both YouTube and PeerTube in one place is not on the Play Store

[-] acwern@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

If you don't mind having some outdated packages (or using nix for the few you want to be most up to date) then you may find Debian works best for your needs. Manjaro's also a solid choice but the team behind it have been in some drama over the past few years so more people are saying to avoid it these days.

You could use Arch, its installation is nowhere near as difficult as people often state (it's also got much easier in recent years) but I don't think it'd fit your "it just works" needs. It does "just work" once properly set up, but the issue is making sure it's properly set up. If it's your first time doing that extra bit of configuration then you're bound to miss a few things

[-] acwern@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

I've always found this sort of stuff interesting, the stark contrast between what Tory voters preach and what the party has often stood for. The party's emphasis seems swayed by whoever has the biggest wallet rather than actually promoting traditionally conservative values.

If anything, the UK has become more dependent on other countries in recent years. Our public transport is pretty much entirely owned by foreign companies that charge extortionate amounts here because their own countries have better regulations.

They could've made Brexit into a huge push to eat more seasonally and support local farmers, which would both help local economy and be more environmentally friendly, but instead they focussed on drawing attention towards immigration

[-] acwern@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Use it and love it. I live in the countryside and google just doesn't bother capturing footpaths. Using OSM (I use OpenMultiMaps for Android) I can see contour maps, much clearer transport maps, footpaths, and pretty much anything else I need. Occasionally the notes people write have been handy too, for example for marking footpaths that are poorly maintained or turb into a swap in rain

view more: next ›

acwern

joined 1 year ago