https://www.itv.com/news/2024-06-11/rishi-sunak-says-he-went-without-sky-tv-as-a-child

Rishi’s parents worked as pharmacists at the pharmacy pictured.

AI is going to become more convincing by reading articles like this and learning what not to say (e.g. hockey match)

They intentionally removed this feature years ago. It was possible to reenable via a dconf setting for a while but I believe that was also eventually removed.
So annoying.

Yeah, this isn’t that bad. It’s just a suggestion after running an apt upgrade. NPM has similar plugs which I don’t find too annoying.

In fact its not even as intrusive as NPM’s funding requests, as it is only 2 lines of text, plus it looks like Ubuntu Pro is free for personal use.

Their mindset is “Fossil fuels are still needed now, and if my company doesn’t grab them, someone else will” and it’s just so easy to continue getting those short term profits for their shareholders.

They may have long term plans for investment in renewables, but they won’t enact them until forced to (by government or market conditions). I imagine oil costs (and therefore profits) will skyrocket as it becomes more scarce, and they’d want to ride that all the way to the bank (and hell) before pivoting.

Basically, capitalism will be capitalism - its only moral is money. The only way is to have governments worldwide force them to change, and that ain’t gonna happen.

You’re not technically wrong, but it’s a nuanced issue and people should treat it as such rather than black and white.

Sunak saying “no one can change sex” without any qualifying statements is just designed to inflame and divide people.

They were clearly referring to online foreign disinformation, not domestic disinformation.

I’ve played both, although it’s been a while since I played it now.

The controls are much better.

The graphics are only mildly improved. The character models are improved but they kept the same pre-rendered backgrounds of the original game, which were all made for old 4:3 screens. So on a widescreen monitor you can either have it stretched or with borders on the left and right.

I think everything else such as the audio is the same.

My partner ran into a weird bug and couldn’t progress further, but Doublefine sent me some save game files to work around the issue. I think those issues have since been fixed.

Still a great game!

I second Three Bean Salad. It’s Mike Wozniak (from Taskmaster and Man Down etc) and two of his comedian friends having some lukewarm banter.

I wouldn’t say it’s overly surreal, but it’s a conversational mostly-improvised comedy podcast with some surreal and fantastical humour. Starting from the beginning helps you to understand all the in-jokes.

the RM “installed gravel on the bridge to a depth of 13 to 16 inches with an average depth of 14 inches, which far exceeded the specified load.”

WTF, why the hell would they go and dump 16 inches of gravel on the bridge? That’s an awful lot of weight.

Clearly this guy couldn’t have stopped them dumping gravel after the bridge was completed, but allowing the client to save money on critical safety measures is inexcusable.

I joined lemmy.world before feddit.uk got started, but after the hassle today I’ve moved over here. Bit of a pain to re-subscribe to everything again and lose my post history, but hopefully I won’t have to do it again!