They do it everywhere. It’s just pretentious nonsense.

Mirror universe Ezri Dax. She can beat me up anytime.

Yes, I have problems.

The only reason Pebble has come back is that Google agreed to open source the software after the original pebble founder pleaded with them.

This is probably a cheap “thank you” for that.

Pebble in its current state is absolutely not a big tech megacorp lol

In London, yeah probably.

In a wetherspoons in the north east? You could get 8 pints for that, if you’re down for some cask ales.

Haven’t had an Xperia for a while, but I always really liked them.

It feels strange that the Xperia 5 V hasn’t had a successor yet.

If I were to be charitable, she gave them 4 months notice, when the law only requires one, then she tried to sell it and it is still actually on the market at a reduced price. The bulk of the £700 increase, too, is that she was actually initially renting it out at below market value.

However, this is fucking disastrous for image, doubly so given what she’s a minister of.

Given the information above, are the headlines overblown and missing very important context? Definitely. Deliberately so, even.

But that’s what the media does. And Labour are morons for not preparing for that by vetting their ministers for shit like this.

God they are actually so bad at this. They aren’t the Tories, they should know they aren’t going to be let off for things like this. They need to be whiter than white. The media wants nothing more than a Conservative or Reform government, and Labour keeps giving them ammo.

The one child policy and the nightmare that will cause is not just a social policy.

And yes, China’s infrastructure is very very impressive, however it’s also true that when everything has been built in the past 30 years, it’s inevitably going to be a lot more efficient and modern than a country that has a lot of legacy baggage. A prime example of that is probably the UK, who are still trying to keep Victorian-era rail infrastructure working. Tearing out old stuff and replacing it is time consuming, complex, and expensive.

A lot of the Linux community are the most obnoxious entitled scumbags I’ve ever met in my life.

The amount of people that get very demanding or hate developers (who are donating their time for free) when they don’t cater their project towards that user’s desires… it bothers me. It’s even present in this very thread. It’s an extremely popular viewpoint to have, and it seriously bugs me.

If you don’t like how a project is run, don’t use it. It’s their project.

This isn’t an article on what Britain wants, it’s an article on what Reform voters want, but Reform voters are unlikely to vote for either Corbyn or Starmer, which this article later confirms… “The levels of disapproval for both are 98 and 89 per cent respectively”

In fact, the bulk of the article is actually about detailing how awful the polling methodology used by Merlin Strategy is here!

Reform voters are voting Reform. They may vote Conservative again if the Tories manage to turn themselves around, although that seems unlikely under Badenoch. I asked my friend group (which yes, is a bubble, I know) what they thought of Badenoch, and two of them said “I’ve never heard of him”, which says it all really.

I don’t use YouTube as a music source, but that’s a cool addition for others regardless

Exactly. Criminals should not get to hide behind stage names.

That said, they do say his name:

Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon

Because one is the official storefront and one isn’t, it’s a 3rd party launcher.

Heroic is neat, I’ve used it, but it still has those quirks, extra set up time, configuration, and complexity that something like Steam simply doesn’t.

I install Steam to buy/play Steam games. I click install, it just installs. It doesn’t ask me to jump through hoops to get anticheat working, I don’t need to set custom wine prefixes or do anything daft with install scripts, it just plays, and my cloud saves work flawlessly with zero additional effort.

I’d be a lot more sympathetic towards Gog if they hadn’t told us on multiple occasions they were going to bring their storefront to Linux, only to not do it and ignore community questions regarding it.

I don’t really see how it’s overblown, either. My complaint is that Gog Galaxy doesn’t support Linux, and it doesn’t. I’m just stating things as they are.

Clearly you don’t mind the extra legwork/tinkering (nothing wrong with that btw, tinkering is cool), but I do. I work, I have kids, my time is very limited. I’ve went from being an avid tinkerer on my PC to someone who can’t stand it when my PC doesn’t ‘just work’ in the simplest, fastest, barrier-free way possible.

I have like 40 games on Gog, but I don’t buy from there anymore. I want to just play games on my PC/TV PC/Steam Deck without having to spend a while configuring everything, and that currently isn’t possible through Gog.

The nexus mods app is native. You’re thinking of Vortex, their old one.

Android is far less open than it has ever been.

You could find an article and post it?

Gog frustrate me. It seems that Linux users and people who dislike DRM are natural bedfellows, yet they continue to not support Linux even after saying they’d bring Gog Galaxy to it.

Now I’m sure people will reply with “why don’t you just configure bottles, why don’t you install Wine and these 30 prefixes, why don’t you install Lutris”, but all of that has quirks, extra set up time, and extra complexity.

I don’t want to battle my PC, that’s half the reason I moved from Windows in the first place. I just want to open the launcher, click install, then click play and have it work. Steam has that going for it.

Sony got a lot of shit for making their phones skinnier and 21:9 but I honestly think it was great

The screen being less wide meant typing one handed was easier, and I frequently have my apps split one on top and one below

If only their phones weren’t so bloody expensive upon release. It’s always the same with them. Good phones that cost way too much, they get panned in reviews for it, then 3-5 months later they drop the prices because people aren’t buying at the full price… but by that point the reviews are already out there and public opinions are set! So stupid!

It isn’t. And the only source in the article is that a far-right conspiracy theory site said they’re considering it.

after reports in Guido Fawkes suggested it was possible.

That’s the only source? A far-right conspiracy website?

In fairness, what better place is there for Substack users to see it and consider leaving the platform?