JustCopyingOthers

joined 1 year ago
[–] JustCopyingOthers@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Some awful app needed to start the game that always needs a protracted update using administrator privileges every time I run it, (on top of Steam which does pretty much the same thing), doesn't really draw me back to their products either.

[–] JustCopyingOthers@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Which part of Kent? I hope it's not hanging around the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery!

[–] JustCopyingOthers@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

USB-C is an absolute shit-show. Half a dozen types of identical looking cables all with different performance and compatability. They can be power only, USB-2 only, USB 3, 3.1, 5gb, 10gb. Some can carry 5A, others only 3A. Some may support thunderbolt. Cable sellers and manufacturers can/will claim anything.

For people selling USB-C devices it's a massive support problem. It looks like the device is defective, but someone may just have swapped out the cable for their phone charger cable and there's no way of telling.

[–] JustCopyingOthers@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

For Firefox: uBlock origin (of course)

Privacy Badger - controls which sites are allowed to use cookies

Mind the time - tracks time spent on various Web sites

Video DownloadHelper - detects media and allows you to download and transcode it.

Bitwarden - password manager

[–] JustCopyingOthers@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Ash only once when the filters failed. You'd occasionally get "power station frost". If the wind was in the right direction on freezing days moisture from the cooling towers would freeze to give a 100m wide avenue of thick haw frost. There's a lot of big transmission lines that aren't pretty and buzz when it rains. (wind/solar don't need lines this big)

[–] JustCopyingOthers@lemmy.ml 23 points 3 months ago

Electoral law should at least demand the same levels of identification for the candidates as it does for the voters. Candidates should be on the electoral register (somewhere) and they should've presented one of the recognised forms of photo ID.

[–] JustCopyingOthers@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I had an extremely religious teacher in secondary school. He had a habit of threatening other staff, tradesmen, drivers in front of his pupils with "I know taekwando", then relising what he'd just done and repenting/distracting with "let us pray". One morning we came into the classroom to find him in a huddle with his union rep. Turned out he'd spent the night in jail after being arrested affray (fighting).

For almost all religious people their faith provides guidance and comfort, but you don't want to encourage the nuts.

[–] JustCopyingOthers@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Would the spread with the cylinder choke also be indicative of the accuracy of a muzzle loading smooth bore musket?

[–] JustCopyingOthers@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure about the quality of the welding near the waterline.

[–] JustCopyingOthers@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I wonder what made youTube decide to fix this loophole? These days the vast majority of people use phone apps or smart TVs to watch. The number of people using Firefox plus ad blockers must be quite small and it'll be a constant effort to keep updating their anti ad block algorithms.

 

Has anyone tried growing A Bay Leaf plant as a bush? I'd like something about 4' / 1.2m tall. I'm in the south of the UK. The location won't get direct sunshine for much of the day and very little at all in the late autumn, winter.

 

At the moment, using lemmy feels a bit like docking at one of those outposts somewhere between Colonia and the bubble. There's not much here yet, but you know its going to grow.