How the fuck do you know my PIN number?!

That’s pretty lore accurate, though, right?

Most Links are portrayed as being either kids/teenagers or very young-looking adults, and Zelda is often portrayed as being a more experienced character, still young but often already embroiled in the politics or conflicts that are core to the story’s initial setup. Link usually shows character growth as he rises to the challenge, but Zelda is often a more static character, who starts the story fully fledged.

I’ve never heard of either actor, but a cursory Google to look at their various photos and I can see them working in the roles. Obviously assuming they can act, too.

If only the biggest problem was messages starting “I asked ChatGPT and this is what it said:”

A far bigger problem is people using AI to draft text and then posting it as their own. On social media like this, I can’t count the number of comments I’ve encountered midway through an otherwise normal discussion thread, and only clocked 2 paragraphs in that I’m reading a chat bot’s response. I feel like I’ve had time and braincells stolen from me in the deception for the moments spent reading and attempting to derive meaning from it.

And just this week I received an application from someone wanting work in my office which was very clearly AI generated. Obviously that person will not be offered any work. If you can’t be bothered to write your own “why I want to work here” cover letter, then I can’t be bothered to work with you.

Unfortunately it’s a combination lock, and the code is written on a post-it stuck on the front of the drawer.

They have some valuable IP (patents and designs around their battery and charging systems, mostly), but none of their physical assets are really worth any more than face value (at the end of the day a battery factory is a battery factory).

Potential buyers would be far better off waiting for them to collapse and then snaffling up the IP on the cheap. Paying their current meme stock price is just throwing money away.

It’s just old fashioned terminology. 4% was the strength of a standard bitter or lager, round about 5% a premium bitter or lager.

The UK doesn’t use the term “light beer”, so you can probably just think of it as being the equivalent to that distinction.

Obviously there are some wildly strong craft beers out there these days, but the lingo still is what it is.

She’s talking about Tomiwa Owolade’s words on racism in Britain.

She gives three, and only three, examples of racism to illustrate her point:

In pre-civil rights America, Irish people, Jewish people and Travellers were not required to sit at the back of the bus. In apartheid South Africa, these groups were allowed to vote. And at the height of slavery, there were no white-seeming people manacled on the slave ships.

Pre-civil rights America, the American slave trade, and Apartheid South Africa are all explicitly not about racism in Britain.

Tomiwa Owolade’s points may have been more focused (and more valid), but her own commentary takes it in a wildly unhelpful direction. And it’s her commentary that’s being criticised, not Owolade’s.

Don’t forget Tizen too; MeeGo’s other bastard offspring.

I think Tizen is still around?

It’s not really a thing. ADHD is usually medicated with stimulants, not depressants. Counterintuitively, ADHD brains suffer from a lack of sensitivity to dopamine and similar chemicals, and stimulants flood the brain with these giving ADHD people an experience closer to neurotypical.

Alcohol as a depressant does the exact opposite thing that an ADHD brain needs, and will make core symptoms worse.

with a little booze in it

I’ve never heard of this drink before, but I’ve looked it up and it’s 5% ABV. That’s not “a little” booze; that’s the same as a premium beer.

There’s no legal minimum age, but some retailers voluntarily limit sales of high-caffeine drinks to under 16s.

UK retailers also mostly operate a “challenge 25” policy, which means for any age-restricted items (alcohol, tobacco, blades etc.) with an 18 or 16 limit they ask for ID from anyone who looks under 25, to make sure they’re catching people who look old for their age.

Oooh, that’s a big one.

It was an old truism on Reddit that you could avoid 99% of the worst behaviour by just never going on /r/all or visiting the default subs. If you just visit communities you actually like, you have a much nicer experience.

It’s the same here. I subscribe to a bunch of communities I enjoy, and I browse Local on my home instance feddit.uk. I basically never go on the big All feed. And my experience is pretty tranquil; rarely do I see any trouble, and even more rarely trouble that the mods/admins can’t keep on top of.

The rules are different for parties registered in Northern Ireland versus political parties registered in Great Britain.

Great British parties can only accept donations from UK sources. However Northern Irish parties can also accept donations from Irish sources.

Look at it the other way around. Should similar rules be introduced in Ireland would they be happy that UK companies are donating to Irish political parties?

This is already the case, in that Irish political parties can accept donations from any individual or organization in Northern Ireland. The position is reciprocal to the UK situation.

Last time I heard a deal talked about in serious terms (which was some years ago), I believe the plan was for a “permanent loan” to Greece in exchange for a rotating selection of loans in return. Greece has a pretty impressive collection of ancient artifacts, and it would give British museum-goers a chance to see them.

There mostly aren’t standalone Land Rover dealers either. They’re almost always Land Rover and Jaguar, being the two brands of the same company. Again, if they want to give the Range Rover brand more premium billing, it’s not the weirdest thing the context of the history of the brands.

Debatably that’s not strictly true. Both Land Rover and Range Rover were originally two different models under the Rover marque by British Leyland that weren’t really connected other than both being 4x4s. Following the collapse of Leyland, one of the successor companies was Jaguar Land Rover, and Range Rover ended up in that portfolio.

It’s as accurate to say Range Rovers are Jaguars as they are Land Rovers. If JLR want to spin them out under separate branding then it’s really not that weird, all told.

You can get local FM transmitters. USB ones are quite common (i.e. for turning computer audio output into FM), and there are ones that can take input through a 3.5mm jack too.

So in theory you could take any cheap DAB radio, plug in an FM transmitter, and then have all your FM radios tuned into that.

Presuming that’s an AI summary, but it only covers the bit that’s not blocked by the paywall. It’s one of those that has the first couple of paragraphs visible and then blocks the remainder, and that’s just summarised those first few paragraphs. The meat of it, where presumably it tells us about the shenanigans from the local councils and the details of the “policy failures and internal conflicts”, remains a mystery.

Paywalled, unfortunately…