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Got my Switch 2 early! Tears of the Kingdom is amazing on this thing :)
  • Honestly terrible, the Vita's WiFi chip is lousy so even with a wired PC and sitting right next to the router the lag is pretty poor.

    Also the lack of additional triggers really causes problems for a game like Zelda where you're expected to use them a lot, you can use the touch pad but the lack of feedback makes it pretty unplayable.

    Its a fun experiment though!

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  • On behalf of my countrymen I can only apologise.

    I honestly dislike him as much as you and it's worrying that we're increasingly turning into another US.

    As others have mentioned though, the road tax rules (we pay very few tolls) have changed in the UK in April meaning it's now a lot more expensive to buy EVs than it has been in the past.

    I expect that if you looked at other manufacturers in the same time frame their sales would have increased a lot more than Tesla's.

  • Why do steaming services think they have a captive audience and I'm not going to ditch all of them with the crazy influx of annoying ads?
  • Because the “you wouldn’t steal a car” nonsense scares a lot of people off

    Because some people want to support the creators of content but digital downloads from iTunes or whatever are more expensive than getting a month of a streaming service

    Because there is a level of convenience of having thousands of hours of content at your fingertips without having to store content locally or finding it on a “dodgy” website. Setting up torrents / usenet is more work than giving someone your credit card number

    Because a lot of people don’t know where to find content and if they did they don’t know the difference between a 480p avi vs a 2160p HDR DV MKV and get confused with torrents and file formats and how to get them on their TV.

    Because - at the moment - the ads aren’t that bad, I got one ad at the start and one episode in the middle of an episode of Gen V - obviously they’ll add more until it’s as bad as cable but they’re not there yet.

  • YSK: It's possible to get search results from Google without the annoying 'AI' answers at the top
  • 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.

  • YSK: It's possible to get search results from Google without the annoying 'AI' answers at the top
  • 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.

  • What the fuck happened to YouTube!?
  • 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.

  • I created Blueydle - a Wordle / Framed clone where you guess a different episode of Bluey each day!
    blueydle.fun Blueydle - Your daily Bluey guessing game

    Bluedly is your daily Bluey guessing game. Guess which episode it is today!

    Blueydle - Your daily Bluey guessing game

    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 :)

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    Be honest: have you ever lost your temper with a customer service rep? And did it ever help?

    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?

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    Am I missing any?

    Just checking I’ve got them all?

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    What do you do when you’re really f’king angry?

    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?

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    Is there a way to quit just using a controller?

    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.

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    Are there any more episodes of 3C yet to come?

    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?

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    Interview questions you would ask a junior?

    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?
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