tony @ tony @lemmy.hoyle.me.uk

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Fiction tends to get more from the apocrypha and similar spurces.. things like the rebellion, Lilith etc. More meat on the bones when you want to write an interesting character.

If you had to base it on a couple of lines in the old testament you'd have very little. Certainly not a netflix series worth 😁

Removing subsidies is a start.. they've never made any sense. If a company can't make money selling fuel then they must be the most incompetent company on earth.

This is just posturing for COP28 though.. makes good headlines but won't happen.. lots of countries talk tough before COP so they can claim it wasn't their fault when nothing is decided, again.

No. Mostly you run around collect business cards and then go online to apply for the jobs.. that you could have done without going to the job fair in the first place.

TBH It's a huge red flag if a recruiter wants upfront payment with no guarantee at the end of it (or even if they 'guarantee' one). If the recruiters are so desperate for someone they want to organise a job fair, they can bloody well pay for it themselves.

Apple laptops you can't upgrade any of those things and they sell like hotcakes. It's really not something most people do.

Chromebooks have their niche, beyond education they're good as second laptops where you're really only doing mostly browser stuff. Mine is getting on a bit now, a 2017 pixelbook.. but it doesn't go EOL until next year and I'll probably keep it beyond that because it just works.. only thing I'd like really would be a bigger screen.

Far less, since they're quite locked down (hence their popularity in education).

I suspect it was just a reference to google spying on people.

Well to the last, yes definitely.. it'll become worthless as a skill. Once you can make an AI that speaks any line perfectly you don't need anyone special to do it.. joe shmoe off the street would be just as good a 'voice actor' as the current professionals. There's obviously skill in making the AI do that seamlessly but that's a different job.

Translation went through something similar. It used to be something you paid someone a lot of money for now you just type the sentence into your phone.

I love my chromebook, 90% of the time when I'm lazing around nothing I need uses more than a browser, although it also runs a debian variant and can run android apps, which is useful occasionally. It's light, doesn't get remotely hot, has no fan noise and the battery lasts ages.

My mother has one because she doesn't need the complexity of windows breaking everything.. she only needs gmail and facebook.

The problem is we're not fixing the economy at the other end. People work later because they're healthier, and that could be good.. but that means more people to do the same amount of work, increasing unemployment.

Until we stop demonising non-work and that's going to be hell for those stuck on it. Get some level of basic income so it's a valid choice. Meanwhile in the UK our govermnent is appealing to the boomers by announcing increased punishment of the unemployed.. We're a long way from fixing the issues.

5000 is 3-4 notifications a minute 24/7. I'm not seeing how a phone could be usable at that point.

I had one tried that, I crossed it out before signing.. it's total BS.

Not only have they thought of that, they charge a premium for it. Of course it doesn't work and the accompanying software is lowest bidder shit that has never been tested in the real world... but what do they care, they have your money.

Many in the Tories are full on climate change deniers.

They don't intend to reach net zero at all

Pixel 5 was peak pixel.. I have a 7a now but TBH preferred the 5 just for its size and rear fingerprint reader.

On the iphone side I picked up an iphone SE 2020 for £120 (no an ios fan but it's good to have around for development and testing).

There's really not justification for £800 phones any more when the older ones are this good..

Well.. contract lengths are getting longer, what do they expect?

Also, one phone is very much like another these days. You don't get a lot by upgrading.

It's pretty hefty.. and there's an official cooling solution to remove all that heat too..

They're basically going for the low end desktop market with it I think.

I think they removed that requirement recently.. I killed the upgrade prompts originally by disabling the fTPM but they've come back in the last month or so.

I've got an entire set of windows test VMs running unactivated for about 4 years now. We have a few at work too (we actually have keys for those but nobody has bothered putting them in).

The worst that happens is you can't set a desktop background.

Rewording it doesn't really help.

Old adage...People don't want choices, they want what they want.

Every time you ask a question you lose a chunk of your audience. With something like lemmy, they want to look at messages and respond. Let them do that. Encourage them to choose an instance later, when they're equipped to make that choice.

Yes that's a hard problem with federation.. mastodon went for a default instance as a solution. There are likely better ones but that's a problem lots of people are working on.

On the one hand I'd kinda love a pair of glasses that told me peoples names as I'm always forgetting them, or gave me directions without having to look at the phone.

On the other hand.. humans.

Google glasses were bloody obvious though.. you looked like a poundshop borg.