wiccan2

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[–] wiccan2 4 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Any info out there on how they actually plan on making money going forwards?

The article talks about other platforms charging a fee to buyers instead but mentions nothing about eBay introducing this.

Are they really making enough from ads on the site and vehicles to replace the lost revenue?

[–] wiccan2 14 points 1 month ago

His ex-wife was Connie Booth who played Polly the maid not Fawlty's wife in Fawlty Towers, she also co-wrote both series with Cleese.

[–] wiccan2 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The UK is one of very few places in the world designated rabies free.

[–] wiccan2 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The lack of backwards comparability is because of the large difference in architecture.

The PS2 was a128 bit custom processor, the PS3 had PS2 hardware in the original fat versions to achieve backwards compatibility, it was dropped to reduce the price.

The PS3 was a 64 bit (I think) custom PowerPC processor.

With the PS4 Sony switched to x86_64 processors making the console essentially a PC with bespoke custom hardware. The PS5 is the same but better speced components as the tech moved on. That's why the PS4 & 5 are compatible, they are essentially using the same architecture.

Microsoft is a similar story but they went all in on emulation of their old consoles which is why only certain games are allowed, they only allow the ones tested to work with the emulator.

[–] wiccan2 19 points 2 months ago

If you really want to learn something, go learn it. What's stopping you?

Work.

If I don't work full time I can't afford to house or feed myself.

Work wipes me out mentally leaving me no mental bandwidth to spend what precious little time I have left to go learn, even if I want to.

I would love to be able to dedicate time to learning like I did when I was at university but even with the government funding available to me I would have to upend my life.

I do spend time doing learning around things that interest me but it is depressing how little bandwidth work leaves for me to do that.

[–] wiccan2 6 points 2 months ago
[–] wiccan2 102 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Also known as a "nope rope"

[–] wiccan2 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This reminds me of that scene in one of the Pirates of the Carribbean movies where Davey Jones has to stand in a bucket of water to go on land for a meeting.

[–] wiccan2 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Have you tried the shortcuts for the other side of the keyboard

Ctrl + insert = copy

Shift + insert = paste

Shift + delete = cut

I find them much easier to use than the traditional shortcuts.

[–] wiccan2 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] wiccan2 32 points 4 months ago (10 children)

This actually already exists but it's quite pricey: https://www.eightsleep.com/uk/pod-cover/

[–] wiccan2 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It ended in 2012 as predicted, we're all just living on the still warm corpse and most people haven't realised yet.

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