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by extraisland 1y ago
I was talking more generally about the general design of the app. It is "ok". I have a really rubbish signal (I live in the sticks in the North West). There was almost no reception on near the gym. It never took 30 seconds. Gene
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by extraisland 1y ago
It is a gym app. Realistically as the article says it really doesn't have to change much. The UX of that app is actually "ok". While it is a wrapper around their mobile site it works well enough.
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by extraisland 1y ago
I have the app on my phone (I just used to use the pin key pad). It looks like a wrapper around their website.
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by extraisland 1y ago
Consistency is better than any theoretical FPS improvements IMO. Often for games that don't work with modern Windows there are fan patches/mods that fix these issues. For games that are modern frequently have weird framerate issue
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by extraisland 1y ago
It annoys me when people claim this. It depends on the game, distro, proton version, what desktop environment, plus a lot of other things I have forgotten about. Also latency is frequently worse on Linux. I play a lot of quick twitch games
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by extraisland 1y ago
> One of them is closed and had a yearly of 5k, not exactly screaming legitimacy. I've closed businesses after they weren't successful. Doesn't mean it was illegitimate? No. It means they didn't make money. Even if th
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by extraisland 1y ago
Brexit wasn't a protest. It was a campaign.
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by extraisland 1y ago
What is fake about them? I can find two of the agencies on Companies House: - Dreams Agency - https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c... - Envisage Promotions- https://find-and-update.company
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by extraisland 1y ago
Right. Let me get this right: 1) You asked for evidence of a rent-a-crowd / rent-a-mob service. Something which you could have looked up yourself. 2) I gave you links to companies that offer these services. I understand that these webs
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by extraisland 1y ago
> You’re analysing things in a vacuum, there are historical and contemporary examples of public protest, pressure campaigns and civil disobedience leading to policy change, and you’re arguing they’re what, all CIA plants or impossible? I
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by extraisland 1y ago
> Sorry for your past, happy you got out of it. Thanks. > Listen, yes it’s very hard work, but it’s this or be squeezed until there’s nothing else. And when people start having famines we’ll have a new French Revolution, millions will
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by extraisland 1y ago
There are a number of issues with this view: - I've been to many protests in my time and often I believe them to be counter productive e.g. Critical Mass. I travelled to London twice to see what the protest was about. This was in the
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by extraisland 1y ago
I really get annoyed when someone suggests this (it not your fault). You are believing what you are told at school about how Politics works. Many of us understand this is unrealistic. Here is an incomplete list of reasons why I would never
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by extraisland 1y ago
Voting for the alternatives won't make any difference either. The power structure is designed in such a way that it is difficult for the Government itself to do change anything.
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by extraisland 1y ago
A lot of games are ported to Mac / Linux by a third party. The quality of that port is dependant on the company and the budget for porting it. If I was a game developers I would never do a Mac port.
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by extraisland 1y ago
It depends on the game, the distro, the version of the game, the kernel and the windowing system as to how well it performs. I am using Debian and while a lot of games work well, some games are an absolute PITA to setup properly. It is easi
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by extraisland 1y ago
> I couldn't agree more. It's like when you see headlines claiming "people" are outraged by a jeans advertisement. Are they really? Who? How many? Really I think it's just something to argue about for entertainme
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by extraisland 1y ago
I don't think remaining in the EU would have helped matters considering they are enacting their own spooky internet/tech legislation. I don't know enough about the ECHR to comment. I think it is a combination of many things.
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by extraisland 1y ago
This is often not understood by many people who simply say "well you should vote harder" or "we need <X> system of voting". The government structure seems to be setup in such a way that any meaningful change is rej
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by extraisland 1y ago
The police will protect their own first. The blue code of silence is a thing that happens in the UK.
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by extraisland 1y ago
It is the "Thin end of the wedge". Then it will be sold to the public as being successful (they are already claiming that in the article itself that it is successful). Then that will be used to justify them in other places.
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by extraisland 1y ago
I honestly think a lot of the modern games (especially triple A), kinda miss the point. The gameplay just isn't there. A lot of the better indies are filling the gap though. I recently played the original PS1 version of Resident Evil 2
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by extraisland 1y ago
I was listening to an interview with Dominic Cummings while walking this evening. It was about two hours long. I don't really know what to make of Dominic Cummings, I did think it would be interesting to hear his perspective. During th
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by extraisland 1y ago
Most of the charm of retro-computing is Nostalgia and yearning for the simplicity of older machines. I own two Amigas. The OS boots pretty quickly and you can start using your computer. Until the invention of NVMEs did I have a PC that woul
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by extraisland 1y ago
There is a similar trend against drinking culture. Less people are going "out on the lash". So it is entirely believable.
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by extraisland 1y ago
It reads more like something to appease some media outlets and activist groups than the general public.
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by extraisland 1y ago
> The government also insists the tech is independently tested at the National Physical Laboratory, which found the underlying algorithm to be accurate and free of age, gender, or ethnicity-related bias. I feel so much better! /sarc
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by extraisland 1y ago
Your framing is misleading. Most people weren't aware of the Online Safety Act. I would argue it wasn't even any of the policies. The Tories were in power for 14 years previously. During that time we had 5 prime ministers all of w
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by extraisland 1y ago
This has been my precisely my experience. There are lots of odd gotchas when working with these fancy stacks and the platform themselves often don't provide much benefit.
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by extraisland 1y ago
> I’d still call that statistical illiteracy It am suspicious of polling because I have a decent understanding of statistics. That is the opposite of statistical illiteracy. > But someone concluding that all polling is useless because

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