HipPriest @ HipPriest @kbin.social

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Absolutely. And it's easy to take a lack of adverts for granted when you watch public TV it has to be said.

I don't think the IT R&D team had that much to do with Savile. And you don't either.

I'm a fan of the BBC, they make a lot of terrific programmes and the breadth of the audience their radio stations cater to is pretty phenomenal.

They also have a history of experimenting with technology so it's not a total surprise they've taken this step. Since most people on Mastodon are either sharing British news sources from the BBC or The Guardian anyway it will be interesting to see how they fare...

As far as big corps go I think the BBC is probably one of the safest in terms of worries about monetisation. I'm not saying they're perfect but it's very different to if it was Sky or another commercial channel.

Yeah to be fair I've always had a Samsung, either flagship or midrange and never had an issue.

Samsung has gone way overboard with their pricing for flagships recently but their midranges are pretty decent on that score and I guess I just go with them because I'm happy with what I'm getting now. The A52s is what I have now, upgraded from an S10+ which had pretty much the same specs.

In terms of bloatware, I just disable it or uninstall it, same as I do with any software which comes on a work phone or home PC that I don't use. Is this a big deal?

As for pixels - it's great that they get regular updates. But they're also expensive. They seem to look nice. Generally speaking though I agree they are the attempt to do an iPhone version of Android which probably only really matters in the US market

They should just give up and leave, bless them for trying and all but haven't they learned anything...

Don't get me wrong. There's some support communities on Reddit I still visit. I don't want to see them burn down in flames. But there's no help from the admins coming. You might as well ask your cat.

I think most people knew it was a protest and nothing more - I doubt a lot of people thought, hey Reddit is totally going to back down.

It was a mass expression of user dissatisfaction which escalated from an initial 2 day blackout into something so much more, and so I'm pretty impressed with what it did, which was stirred up shit for the management and made the CEO say some ridiculous things in the press to boot.

What I am a little disappointed in is that not as many mods walked. I'm not a mod, but I was fed the line 'it's going to be impossible to mod my sub without the 3rd party apps'. Given the amount of subs that seem to have been ticking over just nicely since the API switch though I feel like I was fed some bs in that department

There are so much socialists/communists around, including Lemmy’s founders. Even the ‘subreddits’ called communities.

I call bs on this. This is just regurgitation of 'common knowledge'. The creators of the code had tanky beliefs and that has no bearing on the vast majority of the content.

What I find is there's a lot of privacy hardliners to the point where I'm scared to admit that I like using Chrome as my browser in case I get lynched. But I've joined/lurked on a lot of communities (and how is that a communist word?!?) and not so far seen anything turn into a debate about socialism/communism.

But bye bye.

Yeah, I used to be a sucker for doing this with real books and now because I don't have the storage space I'm just a sucker for doing it with ebooks!

I do only get books that I know I will actually want to read, and it may even take me a year or two to get to it/get around to finishing it but it's not usually a waste. It sometimes certainly is. But I think the ratio of books I'll read at some point/books I'll die without opening it's much better.

Either way I definitely always have a massive backlog.

I don't see this as a negative though - I always have something to read!

I don't think many people will have the enthusiasm to go through a whole rejoin thing whether they were leave or remain that feels like ancient history now. Bring up Brexit now and most people roll their eyes, myself included

I imagine what will work is that the government starts to rebuild relationships with EU countries and make the best they can of a bad situation. It's obviously not worked but to save face there'll be a lot of unofficial understandings and deals.

It's a mess

I don't know I've never had a degree in journalism but the idea of having to set up a Twitter account be compulsory to take an academic qualification seemed bizarre to me, which was the main thing that stuck with me after reading this article.

I genuinely believe they're beyond giving a shit at this point. They know their cards are marked and it's just like they're trolling everyone at this point while they wait to get booted out

This is why I like having ebooks. I have them on my phone and I find that I might be more able to read something heavy on a lunch break at work than before I go to bed at night.

Generally though I've been having the opposite problem - I can't get into fiction at the moment, nothings grabbing my attention although I did read Yellowface which was excellent

A twist on the subject for years I thought Guns Of Brixton by The Clash was a cover, but it's an original song.

Jimmy Cliff did an awesome cover though

From the UK

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
London Fields by Martin Amis
Alice in Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

All I think are really good reads and also bear rereading!

Not a particular fan of her music but admired her as a person a hell of a lot. A true artist. And that is a really young age to go at as well.

RIP

My father in law bought a flat in king's cross for virtually nothing in the 70s because it was considered shit, there was lots of drugs and prostitution.

I'm too well mannered to ask him upfront exactly how much it's worth now but it's generally accepted he did well there.

That's a different generation though. He went into property his whole life, and he sold us our house at massive mate's rates discount but obviously we've still got a mortgage which we can fit into our budget just. But the moment it comes out of 'fixed rate' territory I'm really worried.

We've been a lot luckier than most - without my wife's side of the family we'd still be renting with the greedy landlord twats in shitty little box rooms. It's a lot easier if the landlord is your father in law. But I worry for people of my generation and for my son's generation because this is, in anyone's book, absolute madness. It shouldn't be so impossible to buy or rent a normal house on a normal wage. The system is fucked. People are paying through the nose in the UK for housing and housing should be made affordable to everyone - it should be a right not a privilege.

I know it's easy for me to say that because I have been privileged by the person I married but it makes me sick that normal people in this country are in doubt about their living circumstances on a daily basis.

I have drunk a certain amount of wine tonight.

I use one to set timers for cooking and to play music on Spotify/radio. Literally nothing else.

My son asks questions like what's the biggest number or how many miles away is Poland or whatever. But not that often these days. Really it's more of a speaker system in our house

I've not heard of that one I'll have check it out!

When I was about 6 I was going to marry my best friend's younger sister, he was going to marry my younger sister and we were going to live in a big house with lots of pets and a playground.