Mantis wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 11, 2025 6:33 pm

I had a coffee from McDonald's […]. It tasted like drinking through a toilet roll tube.

Sounds like maccie's coffee, yeah.

The paper straw thing seems like an absolute piss-take. The lids are still plastic, but the bit that needs to survive a few minutes is paper?! Stupid idea. Why not make lids you can drink through without a straw at all, and make those from recyclable or biodegradable materials? It's such a nothing g...

(Not really metal per se, but metalcore? Metal adjacent? ) Went to see Trivium and Bullet for my Valentine last week, touring in celebration of their albums turning twenty years old . https://media1.tenor.com/m/b8WAqSZ2k7AAAAAd/savingprivateryan-ww2.gif I've never really "listened to" Trivium despit...

Presumably the QR code is a URL that takes you to some site that shows the latest info?

It would be way cheaper to print your own QR code with useful info directly embedded in it, sack off the stupid subscription.

Oof. Pay attention, everyone. If you never check or test your backup, it has a chance of being worthless.

Battlefield, XDefiant, Finals, Marvel Rivals, Siege Finals is pretty good actually, yeah. One of my friends is a weirdo and hates it though. I love Siege, but it's a very different beast in terms of sitting around waiting after you're dead. Watched a friend playing Marvel and was astounded they've ...

I'm glad CoD is on Game Pass, I definitely wouldn't want to give them any money after the last few releases. I pretty much ignore all battle passes in games, I don't have more time to spare than what I already spend on gaming, so they can't tempt me to spend longer to grind some pointless trinket, s...

I've been seeing BF adverts for bloody weeks, I wasn't even sure which Friday it was, they started harping on about it so early!

The amount of money spent on marketing their Black Friday "deals" are inversely proportional to the savings.

Alan wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 15, 2024 12:44 pm

Might be worth buying a fiver of doge coin :p

Just don't be left holding the bag when the pyramid collapses!

Over the last few days I've found it's limited to when I'm sat at my desk chair, which I haven't changed in over 4 years, so that's odd. I have the chair quite upright to help with my lower back, but I've just tried reclining it to about 30 degrees and there's immediate (not total) neck relief. It'...

With that ending in mind, would you still recommend people watch it overall?

I've had it on my "to watch" list for ages but haven't got around to it.

The deal helper is so very nearly useless. It would be way more effective if it would tell you what deals you're close to, rather than only activating ones your basket is eligible for. As it stands, you might be able to save a load by adding a single item, but there's no way to know. Just browse the...

Yep, same. There are things these LLMs are good at, and many many things they are not. Endless shitty implementations of shitty things they're bad at is exhausting. Smells a bit like Bitcoin and NFTs at the moment, they're bloody everywhere and also horribly useless and wasteful.

If you don't already have one, might be time to get a password manager like 1Password, Dashlane, Bitwarden, etc. You can even put your 2FA tokens in there if it's a standard TOTP one, but that might be too many eggs in one basket.

Old man shouts at cloud? I was 100% on board with that but you reminded me of bands like Bullet For My Valentine which a young me also thought was cringe as fuck so young man also shouted at said cloud. -_- Hah, yeah that's fair. Daft name, but they've got some smashing tunes. You know it might be ...