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Nice!
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I’d be intrigued if there was a method to assess retention of words read as well. I tend to read a little slower but often with much better recall than my faster reading wife 😂
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“White British” to be the minority? Sounds magnificent! All these foreigners and their offspring have a rather persistent habit of adding wonderful culture and amazing food! I mean I like fish and chips as much as the next pasty whiteboy but the more the merrier!!
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Also practical as dust covers too! They're looking nice
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I am le tired
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But only if you have coin..
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Whatever it is you do, it is degrading to it to call it "content"
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Anything that gets in the way of the races & repeating a race to better the time / position is highly irritating to me.
I know Nintendo needed to do something to set this apart from the most excellent Kart 8 Deluxe but I'll take some convincing on this one.
Probably end up with it one day still 😂
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We had an opportunity to move to actually decentralised places but the masses didn’t want to put in the small effort required to understand a slightly different approach (that they almost certainly already use daily with email).
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I think it’s more incompetence (or at least under-resourcing) than malice.
But it really does highlight that Bsky, for all the bluster, has exactly the same architectural problems as Twitter.
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Yeah and Iwata had been as much the heart of Nintendo as Miyamoto since they got into video games.
I’ve no doubt the actual games will still be top tier Nintendo, the development teams are still fairly well treated & still have some passion, but the “Business” is going to suck for a while :(
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How? By Iwata sadly passing with his passion for gaming then being replaced by Furukawa who is an accountant and staunch businessman. Switch 2 is the first console that Furukawa has been in full command of and it really shows.
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The box for Donkey Kong Land made it an immediate impulse purchase for young me when I saw it! It did not disappoint ^_^
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if there is ever a day where Pratchett is not relevant in some way to our world at any current moment we will truly be living in Interesting Times.
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Ratio or not they're all being a shower of bastards and really all need to get in the bin and let Israeli and Palestinian peoples just be. Shouting down one sounds dangerously like excusing the other. tbqfh.
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It’s awful.. I don’t think either “side” in this comes out looking good in history. Everyone involved are barbaric awful people, meanwhile all the folk who just want to go about their lives are subjected to unspeakable horrors. 😣
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Console? Sega Master System but we played a lot on the majestic C64 before that ^_^
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It has more depth than the surface suggests. "First and last of the War ChelonianS". There's multiple of them. Meaning the one speaking is either long lived and raised the whole lot of them before outliving them all OR there's some Doctor Who timey wimey shenanigans on the go 😃
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And only then are photos then removed from the phone 😜
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that sounds a solid plan. I'm a touch cautious when it comes to backups of anything worth caring about. Photos, for example, get backed up right away when taken / transferred to phone to cloud. Cloud regularly synced back to local drive. Local drive them mirrored to another local disk.
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One of my favourite examples is Alone in the Dark on the Game Boy Color. The GBC is stated to be able to display 56 colours at once. Alone in the Dark had backgrounds with much more than 56 colours by manipulating the system to change the pallet for each individual draw line.
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That's it really - towards the end of a console's time game developers have gained huge amounts of experience in working with the hardware. It's that experience & knowing how to push the hardware beyond it's designed capabilities that can only come towards the end.
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Ha! That said I rarely use it. I'd use it more if I had a >new< 3DS with the eye tracking thing but aside grin flipping it on for the odd Mario 3D Land puzzle I don't miss it much.
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Things holding me back from going all-in on iOS are reader view, website dark mode that switches on and off depending on system dark mode, and cookie consent notice blocking. Currently I get all that from Safari albeit with an extension or two.
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“Environment concerns are being placed over public health!”
If you can’t see they’re linked you need to not be in Westminster. (Yes a member of The Lords is trying to make that very argument)I’m
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but then how would we differentiate each news piece about Big G?
/s
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To be clear though I only use it on mobile. I don’t have a Mac so couldn’t comment on how awful the desktop implementation seems to be!!
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For me I got sick of how awful the Spotify mobile app was to use. It’s ongoing identity crisis was too much for me after 12 years of premium.
Hopped to Apple Music because the mobile app is way more simplistic. It just focuses on music - not fitness, not books, not lectures.. music.
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Upping the prices to pay for AI nonsense that most people don’t actually want without a “no AI slop, thanks” tier is crackers.
They’re so obsessed with chasing AI that they’ll chase away their customers in the act.
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Gen Z. Mostly because they grew up in the golden era of streaming so never learned how to torrent.
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Didn't that already happen just yesterday?? 😴😴😴😴
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This is one of our absolute favourite Discworld books. It's utterly sublime.
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scalability NB: or users just wait for the momentary chug to pass. It's no bad thing to be reminded that we don't need to be on socials ALL the time
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different viewpoint about how schemas should be handled - could be done in a fork rather than a round-up build of something new.
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Account portability - ActivityPub has this and it is well used
scalability - in practise this has been rather good on fedi. Some instances have the odd chug when something big happens but users either contribute to funding more resources or spread to other servers
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Bluesky 's only key benefit to the average use is being functionally centralised and so familiar with the very platforms folk were leaving but also leaving it very much exposed to the same pitfalls.
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I get the notion of not just following an existing format if you have a better idea but I've not seen anything that's functionally "better", and why they didn't just fork ActivityPub to get started is beyond me.
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Though it's functionally difficult for, or at least obfuscated from, the average user from taking any meaningful advantage of that. Where as on fedi the process is much more clear and well established.
As another reply around this I've made, why reinvent something?
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So.. Essentially recreating what ActivityPub already delivers. This is what baffles me about Bluesky - they're trying to reinvent the wheel. Imagine how much more powerful it would have been to be based on, and interoperable with, fedi where these issues are already solved.
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Also hosting your own PDS isn't going to be realistic or viable for the vast majority of people.
Most it bluesky's decentralisation noise is just that: noise. It has a LOT of work to make any of it meaningful to general users.
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Conversely on fedi it's difficult to avoid that understanding. Granted that has resulted in some folk finding it overwhelming (Mastodon in particular has a real issue with how it's proposition is communicated) but at least it's pretty visible.
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Looking around at 3rd party bsky clients there doesn't seem to be a lot of noise made about how it if they provide an alternative moderation experience. So it's functionally trickier for a user find an option or even know an option exists.
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Oh.. oh wow several authors of the guidance are women 😳
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It's sickening. Women need *more* protections and support not an erosion of what they do have.
Without any evidence to back it up I am willing to suggest that this absurdist motion was cooked up by a man 😑 Damn it, men, try out a little empathy !!!
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So basically the act of getting pregnant involves granting police access to your everything in the event of tragedy.
That's an even more egregious overstep than the Online "Safety" Bill and will likely be at least as damaging 😫