Seems like an interesting way to get people to slow down (people will want to time the melody not just hear a sudden clash of notes), but it’s a bit irritating to see an AI-generated article being posted here.

It’s frustrating to read this. Repetitive and verbose, like a student trying to pad out their homework to meet a word count.

Starmer seems to have done an alright job in getting closer to Europe, and European leaders seem more warm to him than our previous few leaders (to put it lightly).

I just wish he’d been a bit bolder and not ruled out things like rejoining the Customs Union during campaigning. I get why it was done, the press would’ve called him undemocratic and other such nonsense, but in case Kier hasn’t noticed, the press doesn’t like him anyway, so don’t pander to them!

I seriously hope Labour drop the “No rejoining the EU or CU” pledge for next election. It’s only doing us harm.

As for the patting Trump on the head and offering state visits thing… Meh. I don’t like seeing it either, but if gestures like that help avoid Trump having a hissy fit and economically destroying the UK, then I’m all for taking the pragmatic approach. If the choice is ever between the US and Europe, though, the choice is obvious 🇪🇺.

It isn’t an OLED screen. It’s an E-ink one. I don’t know where you got this idea that it’s an OLED from.

It absolutely bewilders me.

If I had anything approaching her levels of wealth, I’d be on a beach sipping cocktails, going rock climbing, getting railed by goth girls, or trying all kinds of new hobbies that the normal person wouldn’t have the time or resources to try.

She spends her time doing this, and sitting on twitter trying to get retweets from people with swastikas in their profile pictures.

Time is the one thing that’s finite for her, and she’s choosing to spend it on this bullshit. I can’t wrap my head around it.

TVs generally don’t come with unlocked bootloaders. That shit is locked down big time.

That would certainly be ideal, although there’s great difficulty in finding 50"+ monitors, and they cost a huge amount more

Sad people buy more to try to make themselves happy. Retail therapy.

People who serve ads have a vested interest in knowing when you’re unhappy and what makes you unhappy, so they can capitalise on it.

Jaguar Land Rover may be owned by Tata, an Indian financial holding company, but they’re still based in the UK, designed in the UK, built in the UK.

That was broadly the same for Mini too until the most recent generation, where the EV version is actually a Chinese car.

It’s nothing like that at all.

A keyboard is not a piano. Nobody can reasonably expect it to be a piano.

You’re talking about a very different situation to the one I am talking about. I never advocated for companies buying up exclusivity deals, particularly not when the development was done by publicly-owned institutions. I’m not sure where you got that from, because it sure as shit wasn’t from anything I wrote.

I agree it’s the world we should live in. But it’s not exactly realistic. And I’d rather discuss ways we can make our lives materially better as opposed to self-flagellation over a perfect solution while mocking anybody who proposes an imperfect but better-than-status-quo solution.

There is so many people letting perfect be the enemy of good on Lemmy.

Charge parents with neglect if they should have been expected to notice and respond to problems. That should be a jailable offense.

Great, send everyone to jail. Overcrowd prisons and put children into care. All because a parent let their child on social media…

I’m more saying the age limit is clumsy here

It isn’t. We have age limits for all kinds of things. How should this be any different?

Social media is completely different though, since parents are in direct control of the devices their kids have access to at home, and what’s available on their home network. Parents have the power to handle this themselves, so they should be expected to do so.

Parents can also control whether children buy alcohol, yet we still have restrictions on children.

I didn’t insult you, I remarked that you didn’t appear to have understood my comment, and by the looks of it you still don’t.

Apologies if you’re upset by my comment. That was not my intent. I was just pointing out the absurdity of your judgemental comment.

I’m not the one taking issue with something I don’t own. That’s my entire point. You are discouraging someone from wanting something just because you personally don’t value it.

The piano is the headphone jack.

You don’t need a headphone jack, and feel the need to disparage others who do. “I don’t use a headphone jack, so you shouldn’t want a phone with one.”

Similarly, I don’t need a piano. However, I don’t go around telling people they shouldn’t want/play one, because I recognise that the things I want in my life are different to the things other people want in theirs.

You’re not making sense.

Your position was that someone else is wrong to desire audio jacks, because you personally don’t need one after spaffing money on some Bluetooth earphones.

My point – which I thought was very obvious, but apparently you missed it – was that just because you don’t see the value of something doesn’t mean others don’t or that it shouldn’t exist.

I don’t have a piano, and I don’t know why you think I do.

My entire metaphor is that I don’t play or have a piano, but I recognise that it’s stupid for me to discourage others from having them solely because I personally don’t have or want one.

The whole point of Paint and Notepad is that they’re extremely simple and no-frills.

If MS really wants to add this bloat, it should be to their Office suite.

Truss thinks she can be a Trump or a Farage-style populist that can easily get people to jump in on any stupid scheme, but she just doesn’t have the charisma to pull it off. Such delusions of grandeur.

It’s certainly less stable than Gnome or Cinnamon, but to be fair, Plasma 6 is very stable compared to Plasma 4 and how Plasma 5 was for a long while.

I use Gnome on my PCs usually, but Plasma probably seems a lot more familiar to people who are used to Windows, which I imagine was a consideration.

Wanna know how many times I played a piano in the past 20 years?

Zero. Clearly they shouldn’t exist.

It’s not fiction, that’s the reality.

Profit is a purely ideological drive, medicine and healthcare do not need profits to exist.

No shit. Everyone knows that. But it does exist. That’s the world we live in. Income tax doesn’t need to exist, but it does, and things would go wrong if you suddenly stopped paying it.

Moderna did not single handedly make the covid vaccine

Who said they did? Many companies did, and some had government or university help.

I can go deeper if you want

Go as deep as you like. I’ve already explained the situation, though.

I am speaking in good faith. How do you go about avoiding companies simply refusing to create new medications when they know for a fact making new ones would cost billions and they’d never get the money back?

I don’t like that that’s the situation. I want companies to make medications and sell them at a loss, but that’s a fantasy world. I’m being pragmatic. We can improve IP laws without completely killing off future medicine development.

“Just, like, don’t make profit, broooo” would be nice, but that’s not how the world works.

Why is Nvidia saying that Nvidia will be building these chips in the US, when they are actually being manufactured at TSMC Fab 21 in Arizona?

All these news articles, and Nvidia themselves, seems to be stating that Nvidia is not only a fab company now, but is on bleeding edge nodes.

Bad reporting, or trying to trick potential stock investors into thinking Nvidia is a hell of a lot more capable than they actually are as a means to drive up stock prices?