I'm actually quite pleased with this because it seemed like Starmer was weakening on environmental issues, especially after the whole Ulez business. Hopefully if the PM is getting flak for diluting his policies on it Starmer will stick to his guns for once
I just started using it for Android the last month or so when Chrome dropped the flag feature that let you toggle dark mode for websites with system dark mode.
I have a VPN with an adblocker so that aspect of Chrome never bothered me so much. Chrome felt like it worked slightly smoother but at the end of the day a browser is a browser and Firefox does the job. (Samsung's browser is actually surpringly good for those with a Samsung device looking for a Chrome alternative)
Firefox does seem more trustworthy overall, although I've learned by now that trusting tech companies is not a sensible thing to do.
I've been using a VPN, blockers, all sorts in the UK to disguise some of my online activity from Google and other companies so if I'm just doing the same thing to avoid the government there's not much difference.
The fact that I still use Google products is a lapse and due to laziness on my part...
Of course it could be a vote winner for Starmer at the next election to say he'll repeal it on free speech grounds of he played it right. But then the opposition could spin it as him not wanting to protect children online so he probably won't have the guts to risk it.
VPN subscriptions in the UK will be a lucrative market then for people wanting access to, let's see, Wikipedia...
I'm interested to know what the Signal President meant when she said she's much more optimistic about working with the government than she originally was.
The thing is it obviously does come from good intentions, and it's very rare you'll find me saying that about something to do with the Tories. But it's so obviously the wrong approach and yet here we are. Thanks for nothing. Yet again.
Still use Google search, but switched out Chrome for Firefox recently and it's working out well. I do still use their calendar, docs apps but I've never been a big one for YouTube. I do have some Google speakers though and use Maps all the time - so I guess out of big tech Google is the one I'm suckered into the most...
Stopped using Facebook around 2016 and deleted my Twitter account a few years before that, basically when the novelty had long gone and it all seemed to be more toxic.
In the UK around that time it was just everyone going on about Brexit on Facebook but even before then people weren't sharing stuff about themselves (with good reason) so it was just low effort memes). Use Facebook once in a blue moon to get in touch with really old friends
Didn't miss either, although I recently signed up to Mastodon more just to see how the fediverse worked over there.
Then Reddit - probably the social media I was most invested in just because it was so granular in it's There's A Sub For That ability to cater for virtually all interests. But the utter disdain they held for their own volunteers and the contempt they seem to hold virtually everyone in was a bit of a wake up call. I do go back and check on it but I'm finding that I check on it less. Fedi has less content so I am reading all those eBooks I should have been reading instead!
My son is 7, I'm interested in how things are looking in 5 year's time when he's an early teen. He's already got bored of watching YouTube videos, tiktok isn't really a thing with us or anyone we know yet... time will tell I suppose. The main thing will be constant reminders that porn isn't real and cyber security lectures
Point taken though - didn't do the whole thing but more then a few I thought were Hitler turned out to be Lovecraft. Never actually read any of his books. (Lovecraft's that is. Well Hitler's either thinking about it...)
A lot of people can hold low key prejudices against the abstract notion of a group of people but make exceptions for people that they actually know, it's really weird but that's humans for you...
Another vote for Kbin here - the atmosphere seems so much more chilled from what I've heard and seen on Lemmy. The feddit instances also seem pretty cool.
I mean it seems to me all is saying it's that instead of having a separate app for BBC, ITV, C4 it'll all be under one app for when you want to stream live programmes. But I honestly can't remember the last time I watched a live programme, so will still be using the separate apps to watch stuff on catch-up.
Britbox is actually pretty decent to find old things on, but the smart TV app interface is rubbish.
I don't think this opinion is that unpopular - I don't even like anime but still see these images pop up in memes and comics sometimes, with the laughable defence 'yeah this highly sexualised picture of a (10-16) year old girl is actually a 900 year old in a child's body so it doesn't count' or something.
The term is lolicon I believe. The fact I know that makes me want to cringe.
Yeah I was expecting a some sort of out of context thing as I didn't think anyone would out themselves as as a twat so publicly... but he did so there it is.
He would have been better off just saying "I wanted to write about people I'm interested in and am friends with". Instead of literally questioning the articulacy of figures like Joni Mitchell (of all people) in the media...
I would say that the most obnoxious games live on mobile but think it's going to hard the other way to say good games on mobile don't exist.
Mostly you have to pay for the good ones which is true of most things in life. I say this because I've been playing Root, Kingdom Two Crowns and the Rusty Lake games this week on my tablet and feel like a lot of people also play quality things not crap on mobile devices
What if they realised they'd made a very stupid decision and if there'd been some more checks and balances that decision could have been avoided?
The Third Reich, I think we can all agree was totalitarian. Hitler wanted to plunge into a war on two fronts against the USSR drunk on victory against France and expecting to beat Britain. Most of his military advisors weren't keen. But being a Dictator he could just do it and hey presto war against Stalin. As time went on he got more erratic, made more random millitary decisions overruling his generals and made a pigs ear of things but whatever decision he made on a whim happened straight away anyway.
That's just a famous and obvious example of a totalitarian leader rushing into things and getting where he wanted to go faster which didn't end well for the leader.
I'll join you there - I loved Pratchett's writing already from his Johnny series I read at school and read those first two all in one go during a summer holiday in my early teens. Great fantasy comedies.
But - I can see the argument that they're not representative of the series as a whole as it developed... not that I think Terry was probably setting out to write a massive series at the time he was writing those books. Anyway they'll always have a place in my heart.
However, it's a series that ran for decades ago I compare it to something like Doctor Who on TV where people have favourite eras or favourite stories from different era's, and those books are like the first few William Hartnell stories which are great but still have some moments that jar with what came later...
I'm actually quite pleased with this because it seemed like Starmer was weakening on environmental issues, especially after the whole Ulez business. Hopefully if the PM is getting flak for diluting his policies on it Starmer will stick to his guns for once