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Ah I hadn't realised development is falling behind a bit (addon last released 6 months ago, though it's possible it doesn't need updating I guess)

https://libredirect.github.io/ does this for many other services and has a good reputation

Some people will grumble. Majority will just continue tapping their cards without looking at what it costs, because they can afford it. Some will fall prey to the gamification and think they're "saving" when the prices are "reduced"

And so it's obviously a plan to take advantage of drunk people so I'm not sure how it ties into relatively strict laws about alcohol pricing. Though I do notice these days many bars love hiding the prices and menus (staff pretending not to know where the price list is is a classic)

Ditch Samsung mate. Their consumer/appliance division products are trash

Next stage will be significant broadband/mobile price rises.

This is happening in the UK - 24 month contracts with annual 10-18% rises built in are the norm now

(The regulator worked in cahoots with the companies. A big storm was created during the high-interest rate period inventing/overstating a problem that people can't predict their bills because the rises were based on official inflation figures, which naturally varied. So the companies went: ok sure we can do fixed price rises...(At a nice high rate). This was sold as a 'win' because the rises are now 'predictable')

Plus the cheaper broadband (ADSL) is being phased out and replaced with fibre which for many people is overkill and everyone has to pay the price for that the upgrade whether you need it or not.

Three and Vodafone just merged which will mean price rises in mobile data too due to reduced competition

> The future of QA is upstream

I've heard this theory a lot - and it's been around a while now. But only seen them made redundant, or forced to become normal software devs.

Do you know of any companies that have converted a large chunk of legacy QA teams to this proposed model?

To finish my review: there are a lot of rough edges and questionable defaults, but ultimately, KDE is impressive. It's extremely snappy, full of useful features. I can live with it

I think fast + full of features gets KDE a LOT of mileage in terms of what users put up with. But it doesn't help anyone denying that there are crashes and bugs all over.

Most MacOS major versions slow down older (but perfectly competent) hardware ("hehe whoopsie daisy")

They do it do encourage turnover. Also: uncomfortable seats

Are you a Jordan Peterson fan by any chance? It reads a bit like how he talks (not a criticism just curious)

I recommend only sitting on a leather seat, or laying a waterproof jacket over a cloth seat. Too many times I've come out of Wetherspoons itching - and not from knackering my liver!

Worth it though for ~£1.30 unlimited tea and coffee.

Yes, not perfect, but MUCH better than their current version of touch-screen only climate control, which is an exercise in frustration. "Relative perfection" :)

The numbers are centigrade, which for the local market is mostly very obvious and widely understood. 22 is roughly room temperature, so it's good that's at 12 o'clock. This model doesn't have auto climate control.

> which means one may need to find the white marking to decipher where the dial is pointing

You hand can feel the angle the dial is pointing. It was a non-issue for me. the white is illuminated softly at night, and one very quick glance can confirm the position anyway.

Anyway, I'm contrasting to this modern VW abomination: https://www.discoverauto.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2... . Try to feel where the slider is set to on that interface... :D Or quickly enable the rear/front demister options...

It's still ugly though, isn't it?

The speedometer and rev counter are ugly as sin.

And still no temperature dial. They achieved near perfection 20 years ago:

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

It was running headless Debian for a while with no issues, and Windows prior to that. The hardware is fine (it's a Dell dock too fwiw). Drives are NVMe

I'm not sure what you mean by your question.

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So I tried KDE on Debian Stable, which is a bit less broken (it gets the Ethernet preferencing correct). But still:

- Logout causes the monitor to turn off then on, introducing more delays and flickering

- Only certain application seem blessed to be permitted to be pinned to the task manager when you right click in the applications menu. For the others, you have to drag and drop. You can only drop to the left of the existing icons, not the right. You can't change the order or remove them unless you enter the editing mode which is non-obviously done by right clicking then "Show panel configuration". You are however allowed to drag the open windows around without editing? Go figure

- Switching from the Dark theme to the Light theme just crashed plasmashell

- GWenview stutters between images because its default animation is enabled, and set to software. Much better turned off.

- Dolphin "Duration" column doesn't work for videos (I checked baloo was indexing properly, including with 'content') (edit: had to fully relaunch Dolphin...)

- Display scaling set itself to 170%. Seems like an odd number?

- Konsole configuration has many options, but none that I can immediately see to change the default font size ?! Well, at least I can configure Thumbnail generation and Memory Monitoring

(edit: oh right you have to create a new Profile - oh and you can't edit the current "built-in" profile. What a mess. Steps: hamburger menu, Settings, Configure Konsole, Profiles, New, Appearance, "Choose", Apply, OK, OK... not done yet...got to make your new profile the default one..."set as default", OK. Finally, you've changed the default font. Madness!)

I don't know how anyone defends this

Do people struggle with the concept that an old ruthless businessman continues to be a ruthless businessman?

I don't remember him setting up a foundation and giving away all his money and assets prior to getting into office!

Though I don't like it as explanation or topic as it ventures into "it's just business" and "business as usual" in a way that normalises it

90s Hollywood was immense man. With you there!

Is there a job you can work as a student in Iowa that pays $830/week net in 2026? (I'm from the UK and have no idea about such salaries)

So I just tried KDE with Fedora 43 on a 4 year old Intel Dell laptop (I've used Linux pretty extensively for 15+ years). It's hilariously bad :

- I managed to make a process crash just clicking around the Settings app

- Sleep doesn't work (spins up the fans, then turns them down, then turns off off displays etc but I then the fan are spinning, so something is running). Looking at the menu, supposedly Firefox is 'blocking' sleep, but I blocked it, and that just meant the fans stayed spun up during sleep. Wtf?

- Monitor connected via dock via USB-C only worked after I plugged it directly into the laptop then back into the dock

- WiFi is preferenced over Ethernet (?!)

- KDE default panel is 'floating' which means wasted pixels below it. Looks ugly and wastes precious vertical space. And the blue highglight of the active window is over the top. And the default panel height is 44 pixels!

- Default fonts especially in Konsole look ugly on a 1920x1080 laptop LCD.

- Booting takes forever

- Impressive it can stream to Homepods out the box...but it cuts out when you open the sound widget in the taskbar. And also at random points

- The default pop-up notifications are too numerous

- The Night Light quick option is to suspend it, not to enable it. Which is interesting, as it's not enabled currently. I want to enable it! There is no option to once-off enable.

EDIT:

- And during boot, the LVM2 unlock is only shown on the built-in display. Then the Login Screen is kind of mirrored, but updates are only shown on the external display ?! (ie password characters not filled in on the built-in display). Very odd

I love Linux, and MacOS might be turning into iOS and becoming buggier, but MacOS has none of those issues.

And a list of the wider world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

It's a long read but that should not be a surprise to most people.

BTRFS is certainly adventurous. That's one way to make sure you have a good backup policy in place.

Corey (a character of mine) says stick with ext4.

The EU? Or a prior institution with different goals and aims?

Why are you addressing HN like a headmaster addressing schoolchildren?

BMW would put it behind a subscription

It's almost impressive that they designed a port that feels so wrong when you actually get it right

Various parts of Europe keep announcing extraordinarily expensive new drone defense systems, so you'd hope so (or that the announcements are a bluff)

> Any cutting board made of glass, marble, metal

I've never understood this. Those things are/were just used to prevent counter-top damage here in the UK (hot pans, things that would stain etc).

We never considered them chopping boards.

Did the USA not get the memo?

Yup the aim is to de-anonymise the Internet for increased policing/spying abilities

> How long before your phones browser is digitally signing all your social media posts with your ID...

Under 10 years I'd say at this rate

Brighton is £559/mo for the Thameslink only ticket (the cheaper one) and 50.5 miles to London Bridge. Even being generous saying 22 days a month, that's 25p/mile.

Just give up.

I've proved your "A typical season ticket into London is under 20p a mile" claim wrong multiple times.

Southampton to Waterloo is just about the exception at ~19p/mile if you assume 22 days per month which I think is exceptional.

"failed state" coupled with "don't even speak German" seemed like dog whistles

What did you mean by failed state?