scrchngwsl

joined 2 years ago
[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 4 points 7 hours ago

"within months"

how many months tho

(this is amazing and I can't wait)

[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What do you mean by that last bit? Was he wishy washy on Corbyn's anti-semitism? I saw that he was wishy washy on the "Zionism is racism" motion.

[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think it's clear that he did, in fact, believe that he could hypnotise women's breasts bigger. And then backtracked when he became a politician and realised this would look bad for him.

Right now I would still vote for the Greens but my god can't we have someone with good policies AND who has never tried to hypnotise women's breasts bigger??

PS. Here is what his website looked like a year after the Sun article was written: https://web.archive.org/web/20141025071852/http://www.zackpolanski.com/page/1/. The main page doesn't advertise breast enlargement, but the blog does mention positively the Sun article. He clearly wasn't ashamed of it, or trying to "defend" himself from misrepresentation. I think we can safely conclude that the guy genuinely believed in hypnotherapy -- him being a professional hynotherapist charging £200 a session and all -- and that this extended to breast enlargement. Whatever he currently believes, I don't like the left denying this apparently basic truth.

[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 1 points 4 weeks ago

I found cleverkeys to be terrible at swipe/gesture typing. It would fail at even simple, common, seemingly unambiguous words. Heliboard + gboard swipe lib was orders of magnitude better.

I still use cleverkeys for termux though as the key gestures are brilliant.

[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 3 points 4 weeks ago

Getting rid of cars is always the answer.

One thing from my personal experience is that I can't really cycle with my children. It's plainly unsafe for them to cycle on the road, but it would be illegal for me to cycle on the pavement. There really isn't anywhere we can go to cycle together near where I live.

[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

still can't believe Martinelli missed that. Or rather that Kelleher saved it. I would put money on him slotting that home every time.

[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

Short answer is no, but you can buy a card holder that integrates into the case: https://shop.fairphone.com/shop/fairphone-6-card-holder-1895?category=5&color=188

I thought I'd miss not having contactless phone payments but actually the card holder thing is fine.

[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 12 points 1 month ago

He was redirected to Sainsbury's, which apologised and offered him a £75 shopping voucher.

Get absolutely fucked Sainsbury's, what a joke. "We're sorry we called you a criminal and chucked you out of our shop, here's some fake toy money you can only spend at the same place we humiliated you in."

[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I know I'm a weirdo in this regard but I would voluntarily get a digital ID from the government. I can see how it would be beneficial in accessing public services but also private services too. I use the Government Gateway account for a wide range of things already including state benefits and self assessment, and it would be great if I could use the same account to prove my identity when signing up for bank accounts.

Right now, to prove my identity to my bank, I have to take a photo of my driving licence, and a video of my face. Then, in probably the most humiliating and degrading thing I have ever been asked to do by my phone, I have to SMILE AT THE CAMERA in order to trigger a selfie to be taken.

My driving licence, video and selfie-with-enforced-smile is then sent to a company that uses "AI" to determine my identity. Now, I know that they do not always use AI to do this, because my wife used to work for this company, and she spent all day looking at people's photos and driving licences to see if they matched. They were able to provide 24/7 service by having large offices in 3 different time zones, so that an 8-10 hour work day would span the full 24 hour day.

That entire process for verifying my ID with my bank is way more dystopian, alienating and humiliating than signing up for a digital ID with the government. So while I don't support mandatory ID, I do support a government issued ID that was widely recognised by banks, workplaces, estate agents, and other private institutions that are necessary for modern life.

[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The decision to ban away fans from this game is starting to look more and more incompetent. I have no idea if it was the correct decision, and I don't trust the judgement of the people who made that decision. Clearly they did not do adequate investigation.

[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago

I said to myself about 20 minutes in that I'd take a point. I never really wavered from that, even after the red.

Why oh why can't we just get a nice season without any injury setbacks?!

[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 3 points 4 months ago

This is a good summary. At this point I am too deeply invested in to NextCloud to switch to a different thing, as I've switched my whole family off OneDrive now and I just cba to go through that again. I can handle it being dogshit and I've got used to it's bugs - a form of stockholm syndrome. I suspect a lot of people are similar to me - we use NextCloud because it's the biggest name and has been around forever, not because it's what we want.

Anyway, performance is clearly a problem, and has been since I started on OwnCloud 10 years ago. I wish the devs would do something to improve it but again, having used it for 10 years, I know that they won't. When it finally blows up I'll move to something else I guess.

 

We're going to be flying to the US soon and it's the longest trip we've done with our child. It's an 8 hour flight entirely during daylight hours, and I am slightly (read: very) apprehensive about the chaos that could unfold. Any tips or experiences?

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