_pete_ 3 weeks ago • 100%
I guess YMMV, I just tried a few places around me (UK) and it found them all. You can also defiantly tap on a place to select it.
Did you try it recently or a while ago? I know it was pretty woeful when it came out but it’s improved a whole lot over the years.
_pete_ 3 weeks ago • 100%
I wish Kagi wasn’t as expensive as it is.
If it was $5 a month for unlimited searches I would be all over it but 300 searches is too few and $10 is too much money.
_pete_ 3 weeks ago • 100%
Pfttt… at least with DDG you can turn any of that stuff off with a button in a UI rather than having to make a new bookmark or fuck around with your browsers search engine.
You can even turn the ads off if you want.
Also, Apple Maps is totally fine, it’s not overloaded with ads like Google Maps is and it basically always finds the place I search for.
_pete_ 4 weeks ago • 100%
Yea, thats fucking nuts…
_pete_ 4 weeks ago • 100%
Ngl, this is basically what we do :(
_pete_ 1 month ago • 100%
We had some from Lidl that broke on the way out of the shop! I wouldn’t trust most of them for 3 trips, let alone a lifetime of them.
_pete_ 1 month ago • 100%
I don’t drive every time I go to the shops, plus I also have to remember to put them back once I get my shopping inside.
_pete_ 1 month ago • 100%
The plastic ones (here in the UK at least) also split and fall apart, they’re better than the “standard” ones but they don’t usually last that much longer.
Also I have a million of them because I always forget to bring them.
_pete_ 1 month ago • 71%
Nice! With the best will in the world I always forget my standard shopping bags and I feel that the “bags for life” just replace one thin and crap lump of plastic for an overly engineered one.
_pete_ 1 month ago • 100%
Yes but if you don’t cause a bunch of poor people conflict and pain how will your wife know that you love her? /s
_pete_ 1 month ago • 100%
Wtf did I just read…
_pete_ 1 month ago • 100%
Phones and PCs are fine, I’m talking more smart speakers like Amazon Echo or consoles like the PS5.
_pete_ 1 month ago • 100%
I’ve never been impressed with YouTube Music, the UI feels jank and it doesn’t work on half the devices in my home (compared to Spotify which just works on everything)
_pete_ 1 month ago • 100%
Brave is run by some pretty shady people who do things like automatically adding affiliate links to your URL or collecting donations for content creators without their consent
As far as an actual browser goes, Brave is based on Chromium so its more likely to work on every site but it has a bunch of crypto nonesense added that you probably would want to uninstall. There are more extensions that will "just work" on Chromium browsers, for example I've had issues with the Postman extension on Firefox before
Firefox is based on Gecko, its pretty well supported and follows all the standards but there is probably a higher chance that a site might break (usually down to its pretty strict privacy defaults) there isn't really much bloat (other than a Pocket integration that you might want to turn off)
Mozilla also feel (to me at least) like one of the last groups of Good People on the web, you can reach their manifesto to learn more.
_pete_ 1 month ago • 83%
This is pretty much it.
YouTube Premium is only remotely worth it because regular YouTube is an absolute shitshow
_pete_ 1 month ago • 87%
Tab groups are coming but in the mean time containers work well enough for me with the added benefit that they’ll also block tracking from the sites that are within them.
_pete_ 1 month ago • 100%
Interesting article!
Its pretty US centric though so I think one would have to contrast that against the UK and Europe which generally has homes that are brick and concrete rather than lumber, we also have (I believe) tighter insulation regulations and - just generally - vastly smaller homes.
I think if US houses were built to European regs and sizes then the numbers would look much different.
_pete_ 1 month ago • 100%
It’s easier and more efficient to wrap yourself up with blankets and covers and use minimal heating (with decent home insulation) to warm yourself up than it is to cool down when you are too hot.
_pete_ 1 month ago • 100%
I would love to see it!
_pete_ 1 month ago • 100%
Nearly 36 degrees (that's 96 Freedom Units) in the Arctic circle?!?
How is this not bigger news?!
We're so fucked :(
_pete_ 1 month ago • 100%
I think there is a big difference between the passive warming / cooling of clothing vs the huge energy requirement, spent resources and emissions required to basically run your entire home / office / factory / hotel as a giant fridge.
_pete_ 1 month ago • 97%
Humans probably shouldn’t be living in these conditions if they can’t survive without AC, no?
_pete_ 1 month ago • 93%
Not bad, but I prefer Swatch Internet Time
_pete_ 1 month ago • 100%
Agreed.
I would be hyped to play a new version of actual Marathon, it’s a game that existed before my time and was only on Mac before they were cool so basically no one played it.
This is just a different skin on a genre that has no interest whatsoever to me.
_pete_ 1 month ago • 100%
When it’s done right, it’s amazing. The problem is that (here in the UK) it’s just terrible.
Example, going from London to Edinburgh
A flight takes 1h30m and costs £33 A train takes 4h26m and costs £178
Yes there are other monetary costs involved (driving to the airport, parking) and other time costs involved (you need to be at the airport 90 minutes early) but the headline price make a flight seem like much better value for time and money.
Trains are also often late or cancelled, this seems to happen much less with flights.
Until flights are taxed to hell people aren’t going change their habits.
_pete_ 1 month ago • 100%
The UK could meet its net-zero goals if it halved the number of private-jet flights.
Flying isn’t entirely horrible, but private jets are just about the worst thing you can do for the environment.
_pete_ 1 month ago • 100%
I don't know for sure in this case but some EA games require you to use EA Play as a launcher, even if you buy the game through Steam.
_pete_ 1 month ago • 100%
It’s EA Play now, which is actually somehow worse than Origin was.
Still, Titanfall 2 is actually a great game (probably my favourite of the PS4 era) and is well worth a little suffering for.
_pete_ 1 month ago • 100%
Yeap, but Digg was still pretty early in it's life and was very much catering for tech nerds.
Reddit is basically the home of all communities these days, its swallowed what used to be individual forums from around the web and put them into a single place.
Building those new communities across multiple lemmy instances also adds to the complexity.
_pete_ 1 month ago • 100%
Reddit also didn’t have Reddit to compete with, which certainly makes things harder.
I posted this on Reddit a year or so ago but some may have missed it so I figured I’ll drop it here too :)
_pete_ 1 month ago • 100%
Hooray!
The soundtracks are absolutely incredible for a kids show.
_pete_ 1 month ago • 100%
I feels like they either badly copy (see Gemini) or don’t think about what they’re offering (see Stadia’s busted business model) they’re content to milk the existing services they’ve already got and make them worse by cramming in more ads (see YouTube, Google’s search result pages) and they cut out or dictate the web through their monopolies (see AMP and Chrome) rather than working with other parties to make good products.
They feel like Hooli in Silicon Valley, basically the definition of a fat tech giant who doesn’t do any innovation of their own.
_pete_ 1 month ago • 100%
I feel the original Chromecast was probably the last truly great original Google product, it was simple, it was inexpensive and it worked - you just plugged it in, joined your network and you were off, there really wasn’t anything like it at the time.
I really hate what they’ve become.
_pete_ 1 month ago • 100%
I mean you do you but I don’t find it that difficult.
- download your files, put tv shows in one directory and movies in another
- install Plex Media Server, create an account and point it to directories you set up in step 1
- install whatever clients on your smart TV or tablets or whatever, sign in with the same account that you setup in step 2 and you should be good to go
You don’t need to automate downloading files (although it can be really nice when you do!) just grab what you want from a decent private torrent site.
Yea, Netflix and Disney are easier but Plex doesn’t constantly increase their prices.
_pete_ 1 month ago • 100%
Plex will do downloads too ya’ know?
_pete_ 1 month ago • 100%
Take out is probably OK but as OP has experienced, you won’t always get the freshest food.
Dining in and you’re basically just annoying people.
_pete_ 2 months ago • 92%
Cool, now do Chrome!
_pete_ 2 months ago • 100%
I’m in the UK, we have a system for switching ISPs that is apparently relatively painless so I’ve started that process but it’s apparently going to be another 2 weeks before the switch can happen :(
_pete_ 2 months ago • 100%
This had already gone past the first level “customer service” level to the 2nd level “technical support” team who sat on it for a couple of weeks, they’ve apparently now escalated it again and they’re waiting for their “network team” to take a look at it.
I’ve basically lost all hope with them at this point.
I’m having a hell of a time with my current ISP (sitting at 18 days now without a connection) and I’m having to bite my tongue every time I’m talking to them (Remember The Human and all that) Whilst the front line support are nice people and answer the phones quickly they are honestly pretty useless and they never really sound like they know what they’re talking about, also seemingly none of the departments seem particularly good about communicating what’s going on so it’s hard to get a straight and useful answer out of them. Have you ever lost it with a rep? What happened? and did it ever help push things along?
I’m not going to buy an Apple TV or a HomePod just for this.
Never again.
I’ve not had a good day today. The kids have been shits, my wife has winged at me for not doing something I have already done, I’m hot, tired and stressed from work and fed up of not having a good nights sleep due to my 3 year old waking us up in the middle of the night constantly. I want to rage at something but I can’t leave the house. I have access to a gaming PC, PS5 and all the movies the streaming services have to offer, my wife isn’t home so it’s just me and a couple of kids who should be asleep in the next hour or two. I need some catharsis, what would you do?
I’m enjoying Yuzu with my PC hooked up to my TV via HDMI, however there are times I want to back out and get back into Steam Big Picture. Is there a way to quit yuzu with just some esoteric button combination? At the moment I’m having to Remote Desktop in to hit the Esc button and going from there, which isn’t really ideal.
This is a test for multiple links in an unordered list: - [https://lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world) - [https://lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml)
I just checked IMDB and it has Cricket as the last episode of the season. Does anyone know if there are more episodes on the horizon or are we all done for now?
I’m in the very fortunate position of being made a senior at my new job and have the task of helping recruit a new Django dev to help us out. I have never had to do this before so I was wondering: 1. Does anyone have any tips for making a candidate feel comfortable? 2. What sort of questions you feel would be appropriate for a junior django dev to be able to answer?