It’ll probably be based on some silly WW2-era grudge, which I find stupid.

Or Dieselgate, which while awful, despite what the headlines would have you believe, the VW group was far from the only manufacturer with illegally high diesel emissions, in fact, they were far from being the worst.

There are of course other things, VW has started trying to get into the DLC for cars bullshit that others have, but IMO that pales in comparison to Elon’s bullshit or China literally using slave labour.

E: oops, there’s some transparency issues on that Wikipedia graph. Dark mode users may struggle. Here’s the link: Diesel Emissions Scandal

I’m as against Israel’s war crimes as the next guy, but I don’t see why some people try to shoehorn it into completely irrelevant topics.

The video is about GPUs being smuggled into China, as well as the futility of this GPU export ban.

It is not about middle eastern geopolitics. That’s why middle eastern geopolitics wasn’t mentioned.

You’re getting really weird with your whole nationalism/xenophobia angle on this.

The banking sector in the UK is very competitive. I have no idea why that ruffles your feathers so much, why you keep lying, or what your weird obsession with nationality is.

I don’t know why you find it unbelievable. I was a citizen of South Africa. Do you think South Africa isn’t real or something? In addition to the xenophobia and misinformation you’re coming across as one of those redditors who argues for the sake of arguing.

I’ve banked in South Africa, the Netherlands, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Poland, Ireland, and the UK. More if you include using British or Polish bank accounts in other countries. The banking sector in the UK is by far and away the most competitive of all those places. Fees are basically non-existent.

You think it’s nationalist to say the UK has a competitive banking sector? Lmao you are crazy. I think you’re projecting there.

I caught you blatantly lying. £30 fee for being overdrawn? That’s way above the legal limit. It literally couldn’t have happened. The most you will have been charged for being £5 overdrawn is the amount overdrawn with a 40% APR, for the amount of days overdrawn.

I.e. if you were overdrawn by £5, then didn’t move £5 back into your account by the end of the day, you would’ve been charged (5*1.4)/365=£0.02

I tell you that in fact, just like the EU, a new payment processing system is being created, and you go straight into denialism and pretend it’s not happening.

Take your weirdly-placed xenophobia out of here. I don’t know why you’re lying over something so inconsequential.

So much text here, and yet so incorrect. Little fees? Lol, so uninformed. The amount of little fees for things you get charged for by banks pretty much anywhere outside of the UK is pretty crazy.

Then topped off with a “they’re working on it? Well I say they’re not!!!” lmao

At least try to make your post believable if you’re going to lie.

The banking sector is very competitive in the UK compared to pretty much any other country, so dodgy behaviour from banks/payment processors wasn’t very frequent.

More recently, however, just like the EU, the UK is working on their own system right now. The EU doesn’t have a unified payment processing system either, just a patchwork of different ones.

It isn’t. And the only source in the article is that a far-right conspiracy theory site said they’re considering it.

after reports in Guido Fawkes suggested it was possible.

That’s the only source? A far-right conspiracy website?

In fairness, what better place is there for Substack users to see it and consider leaving the platform?

It’s all well and good being oh so principled like you’re making yourself out to be, but phones are expensive, and the above user is being completely rational for wanting to settle on a Pixel 9a for $250, especially when the other OEMs have plenty of their own problems.

Get off your moral high horse.

Live and let live is pretty much the antithesis of organised religion

I’m a very vocal critic of LLMs, I think they’re so overhyped and overused it’s hard to believe.

But I’m also getting really tired of people purposely putting extreme effort into tricking the LLM into saying something harmful if someone were to follow it blindly, just so they can make a clickbait headline out of it.

And what the hell is up with the major “ChatGPT is Satanist [if you instruct it to be]” angle? Are we really doing the Satanist moral panic again?

ffs, criticise OpenAI for being closed af, being wasteful, being strong political lobbyists, for stealing work, etc. You don’t need to push disingenuous stuff like this.

Graphene won’t magically fix your dud battery.

An unrepentant homophobe who accused people who dislike him for his homophobic views/actions as being closed-minded and bigoted for disliking him over it.

You can’t make this shit up

I used to maintain a website for a bicycling club in my county that was great for getting people into biking, getting people out the house, making friends, and staying fit.

We had a banner ad along the top of the site for a local bicycle/bicycle repair shop that aided the club a lot and was very reasonable.

He got something out of it (publicity and a seal of approval towards the value/quality of his work), and we got something out of it (money to run the site, and a bit left over for things like puncture repair kits and the occasional celebratory drink after an arduous ride).

Nobody bats an eyelid to those ads. They are reasonable.

What we have now isn’t that. What we have now is an insecure, malware-infested privacy nightmare that ruins webpages and stresses everybody out.

Use Firefox + uBlock origin for your own sanity. Don’t let big tech make you feel guilty for not going along with their game.

Honestly, a physical password book isn’t a bad idea.

Not accessible via the internet, and in most cases if someone has physical access to your system you’re done for anyway.

The main weakness it has is from a nosey flatmate, spouse, or child in the house.

Be rude, someone is rude to you back. Boo hoo.

Trying to bait people into absolutely pointless arguments makes the community shittier.

Oh my fucking god, really?!

You’re so smart, that never occurred to me. I thought that there was only 27 countries in the world, and all of them were in one continent!

Yes, I do realise that, genius. I’m not from an EU country myself.

However, I engaged my brain cells and quickly realised that most phones that exist are sold in the EU, and therefore the OEM has to make and test these updates anyway. In virtually all cases they will then release these worldwide.

Like how the EU mandated USB-C and now it’s worldwide. The EU has quietly become the market that sets international standards over the past 20 years.

I know it seems like I’m being mean in this comment, but fuck me it’s the most Reddit comment ever. A pointless comment just begging to start a pointless argument. Nobody can be bothered with that trolling shit. Do better.

You’re getting angry about people talking about technology in a technology community, leading people to ask why you’re here if you hate technology being spoken about.

That’s obviously not equivalent to racism or xenophobia.

You’re yearning so hard to be a victim. It’s pathetic.

This seems like such an obvious thing to do now that I’ve seen it