tony

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[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Fiction tends to get more from the apocrypha and similar spurces.. things like the rebellion, Lilith etc. More meat on the bones when you want to write an interesting character.

If you had to base it on a couple of lines in the old testament you'd have very little. Certainly not a netflix series worth 😁

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 55 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Removing subsidies is a start.. they've never made any sense. If a company can't make money selling fuel then they must be the most incompetent company on earth.

This is just posturing for COP28 though.. makes good headlines but won't happen.. lots of countries talk tough before COP so they can claim it wasn't their fault when nothing is decided, again.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

No. Mostly you run around collect business cards and then go online to apply for the jobs.. that you could have done without going to the job fair in the first place.

TBH It's a huge red flag if a recruiter wants upfront payment with no guarantee at the end of it (or even if they 'guarantee' one). If the recruiters are so desperate for someone they want to organise a job fair, they can bloody well pay for it themselves.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Apple laptops you can't upgrade any of those things and they sell like hotcakes. It's really not something most people do.

Chromebooks have their niche, beyond education they're good as second laptops where you're really only doing mostly browser stuff. Mine is getting on a bit now, a 2017 pixelbook.. but it doesn't go EOL until next year and I'll probably keep it beyond that because it just works.. only thing I'd like really would be a bigger screen.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 4 points 2 years ago (19 children)

Far less, since they're quite locked down (hence their popularity in education).

I suspect it was just a reference to google spying on people.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 2 points 2 years ago

Well to the last, yes definitely.. it'll become worthless as a skill. Once you can make an AI that speaks any line perfectly you don't need anyone special to do it.. joe shmoe off the street would be just as good a 'voice actor' as the current professionals. There's obviously skill in making the AI do that seamlessly but that's a different job.

Translation went through something similar. It used to be something you paid someone a lot of money for now you just type the sentence into your phone.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 9 points 2 years ago

I love my chromebook, 90% of the time when I'm lazing around nothing I need uses more than a browser, although it also runs a debian variant and can run android apps, which is useful occasionally. It's light, doesn't get remotely hot, has no fan noise and the battery lasts ages.

My mother has one because she doesn't need the complexity of windows breaking everything.. she only needs gmail and facebook.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The problem is we're not fixing the economy at the other end. People work later because they're healthier, and that could be good.. but that means more people to do the same amount of work, increasing unemployment.

Until we stop demonising non-work and that's going to be hell for those stuck on it. Get some level of basic income so it's a valid choice. Meanwhile in the UK our govermnent is appealing to the boomers by announcing increased punishment of the unemployed.. We're a long way from fixing the issues.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 1 points 2 years ago

5000 is 3-4 notifications a minute 24/7. I'm not seeing how a phone could be usable at that point.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 6 points 2 years ago

I had one tried that, I crossed it out before signing.. it's total BS.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 3 points 2 years ago

Not only have they thought of that, they charge a premium for it. Of course it doesn't work and the accompanying software is lowest bidder shit that has never been tested in the real world... but what do they care, they have your money.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 1 points 2 years ago

Pixel 5 was peak pixel.. I have a 7a now but TBH preferred the 5 just for its size and rear fingerprint reader.

On the iphone side I picked up an iphone SE 2020 for £120 (no an ios fan but it's good to have around for development and testing).

There's really not justification for £800 phones any more when the older ones are this good..

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