blackn1ght @ blackn1ght @feddit.uk

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burnt my toast

(perfectly working) android phone that I had had for 6 years. The phone brand was not providing android updates for it.

I get it through from the banks perspective. The OS is no longer getting security updates, so this is a fault of the phone manufacter for not having a long term commitment to security and OS updates.

And the app itself required a code that I could only get by SMS.

Yeah this is pretty bad.

And I will be stuck with them for decades.

Why's that? I have my mortage through one bank but literally never use the actual services of the bank, I've never called them or used their app or logged into the site. My current account and savings accounts are with another bank separate to my mortage provider.

Also, won't you be able to change when you come to re-mortgage if another bank offers a better deal?

I just can't get excited about him joining Aston. I really hoped he'd join either Ferrari or Williams.

Our instance is federated with hexbear, lemmygrad etc. I want to be resonsible for what I see and block, I'm really not a fan of defederation unless it's a last resort (i.e. CSAM or other illegal content).

I did end up blocking the lemmy.ml instance though, fuck that place. I haven't even blocked hexbear or lemmygrad.

The problem is most likely people that are new to the fediverse/lemmy just not understanding it and choosing a "default", popular instance. I was going to pick it as a safe option when I first came here but it was under load and wasn't accepting new users, where I then had to find another instance and settled on feddit.uk.

It would be good if lemmy instances could have the option of "load balancing" new users, so if the current instance has way more active users than it's federated wtih then it disables registration but recommends other, smaller instances to the user.

My 1st & 2nd gen Chromecasts are working just as good as was the day we bought them and the UX is exactly the same - what was it about the UX that went down hill?

Don't forget "it's too complicated"

It'll just be part of the culture settings - en-GB (I'm in the UK) systems will have the calendars set the first day of the week as Monday.

Open the calendar on your phone. It’s Sunday.

It's not, it's Monday - Monday is the first day of the week here, to be honest I thought that was the same across the western world. TIL I guess!

I love how the week starts on Monday.

Don't all calendars start on Monday? I guess calendars in the Middle East might be different as their weekend days are different to those in Europe.

What's it got to do with the mosque leaders? Does absolutely everyone have to make public statements?

Funny how there was no rage when Lucy Letby was found guilty or that guy who very recently murdered the mother and daughters with a crossbow.

Probably because it's a Crowdstrike issue, they've pushed a bad update.

Sausages, but they have to be good quality ones. Cheap ones can get in the fucking bin.

No that's new to me too, based off me searching the word and seeing the Wiki article on the toy. I'd seen the word because of one of the instances (blahaj zone), but I literally never see the word outside of Lemmy.

Why is he referred to as JD Vance and not just as James Vance?

TIL blahaj refers to a soft toy shark sold by IKEA.

turns off life support

"HAMMOND YOU BLITHERING IDIOT!"

Have they retired yet?

I don't know what the system is called but it's been around on a lot of cars for a while now. Our car does it (2016 Nissan Qashqai) - the hazards came on automatically when I had to brake hard on the motorway, and everyone else's hazards came on too - it was exactly the reason I knew how I knew I had to instantly brake hard due to all the cars ahead hazard lights coming on with the brake lights.