Woodlice

Ah, thanks. I knew it was something like that. I bow to your superior knowledge on 80s sci fi comedies

IIRC it was a character in the movie Spaceballs, and he got into trouble for using the name

Although that photo looks like the old days, when he was Lord Buckethead. He had to change the name for copyright reasons

I got some of those Chipolo trackers shown in the photo. So far I’m pretty disappointed. Based on the locations being reported, I’m pretty sure my phone is the only one in my city working on the Find my Device system, and even that is intermittent. For example, I’ve left my bike, which has a Chipolo tracker hidden on it, in public places such as a busy train station. After two days on the station platform - with goodness knows how many Android phones passing by - the bike is still showing as being at home in my garage. Like, it didn’t even get logged on my own phone as I cycled to the station and left the bike and tracker there. The system really isn’t up to speed yet

The oil and gas industry isn’t short of money. If its workers aren’t getting a share of that dirty money, I’m not sure it’s entirely the government at fault

VAT should be going down - it was raised from 17.5% a few years ago as an emergency measure by Cameron and Osborne. How are we even talking about it going up again when it should be the opposite?

They can vote. The article was saying they just can’t use their veteran cards as proof of identity

Rain Alarm! It’s great, and you can customise alerts too

Yes - but 3db is twice the energy, which is what matters when it comes to damaging your cochlea

I already use a (Garmin) smartwatch to unlock my phone using the Smart Lock feature (which can use any Bluetooth device to unlock your phone when in range). From the sound of it, the difference here is that the range is way shorter. I guess that’s a tiny improvement over what I have now, as in theory somebody in the same room as me could unlock my phone if I wasn’t looking, but it’s not exactly a game-changer

Just in general, can I ask what you’re hoping to get from this thread? I mean, you’re in the Fuck Cars community asking everyone to agree with you that today’s driving is okay, that there aren’t benefits from slowing down motor traffic and that we shouldn’t expect people to act legally. It seems a strange battle to choose.

Perhaps this will help

The concern is about impeding progression when there is no traffic and no good reason, ie an empty road through town in quiet times with few cars or people about.

The thing is, nobody plans to crash their car into a pedestrian. So how does it keep happening? One reason is from people driving faster than they should because they wrongly believe a road is empty. Slower limits help with this, because when drivers are going around with incorrect beliefs about whether roads are empty or not, there is more time to react and less energy to cause injury

Given Tesla stock is very clearly an overvalued bubble, you have to ask questions about how gullible those fund managers are…

Is it, though? Or is it saying “Give us our basic staple needs”? It would be useful if a theologian could chip in on the dates, but I suspect this prayer predates bready communion

Until recently I had both a Samsung phone and a Samsung tablet. According to my PiHole, the phone wasn’t too bad, but that tablet was contacting Samsung almost constantly

All I can say is that I manage a team of people and frequently get the following two messages: “I don’t want to come to the office. I feel very isolated working by myself at home - oh my mental health.” What are we supposed to do with this?

I know the Lemmy/Reddit hive mentality is all “Let me work at home, there’s zero benefit to being in the office”, but there’s another side. We’ve never had a workforce so disengaged, isolated and feeling no sense of community.

As it’s Microsoft, you can be pretty sure the option to turn off the new look and feel will be removed in 6 months