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  • I used to use ANSI, but then moved to England and bought a laptop and returned it because of the “weird” ISO keyboard, then forever bought dell because I could customise it.

    Moved back to ANSIland, but will still probably just buy dell.

  • Pros:

    • not as big as the UK plug
    • not an American plug
    • those power cords that stick out at a diagonal parallel to the wall

    Cons:

    • no inbuilt fuses
    • no inbuilt guard on the socket
    • every plug and socket feels cheap.
    • thin shitty pins that bend easily
    • shitty sockets that break when shitty bent pins get plugged into them.
    • used by a handful of people with tight regulations … and China. Good luck getting decent affordable, certified, smarthome sockets.
    • that cunt who invented the vertically oriented twin socket wall unit. What a fuckhead.
    • those power cords that stick out perpendicular to the wall.
  • You’re conflating copackers with brands.

    Store brands will go to the same copackers, truth. But the copacker will not just make a premium brand product for a store brand at a lower cost. It will be a recipe made to a taste/price spec. Maybe all the ingredients are sourced from the same place, but the recipe will be different.

    What can be nearly identical are branding tiers. Large companies like Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble etc will sometimes have multiple “competing” brands in the same market, all made in the same factory.

  • We had the same. And you would have thought for a heavily regulated industry we’d keep it that way.

    But no, some executive wonk from Microsoft flew over, gave our c-suite a “it’s safe, promise” chat over champagne and lobster, and now we’re happily using copilot.

  • If people generally atent buying, there’s still People that need to buy (businesses, oems, etc)

    They’re just doing the ol covid ratchet. Tightening the thumbscrews on the people who can’t opt out.

    Doesn’t affect their bottom line much if nobody’s choosing to buy.

  • Literally the first image in that page is a picture of Singapores public housing, and a claim that they have the highest home ownership rates in the world.

    It’s nearly as if public housing can work?

  • It’s nearly as if there’s no single solution. Houses suck and apartments suck for completely different reasons.

    (But tbh, nearly all of the reasons you mentioned apartments suck have been maybe an issue once 10+ years of living in apartments)

  • Houses are pretty terrible for a multitude of factors:

    • urban sprawl
    • congestion
    • pollution
    • high cost public works
    • low income for public bodies doing those works
    • environmental erosion
    • flood protection

    We should be building apartments that everyone can own, live and be happy in. It shouldn’t be reserved for home owners.

  • What fresh hell of link rings is this.

    A lemmy post, linking to a Mastodon post (yes, the video is linked as a comment here), linking to a vice article.

    Relatively normal so far.

    Except, it’s an article about a video. The only copy of the video in the article is actually a twitter embed of the author posting the article and then replying to the tweet with the video.

    Why isn’t the video just in the article?!