[-] manualoverride@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Brit here… naturally assumed it was a Greggs Sausage roll

[-] manualoverride@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Cat names are the same, have you seen Asteroid Destroyer?

[-] manualoverride@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

The new UK Studio is called Shinfield Studios. (Just realised I didn’t name it in my last message)

[-] manualoverride@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago

No personal experience or connections for you but we have just built a new film studio in Reading, Berkshire which is owned by a US company Shadowbox Studios.

May be worth seeing if you can get a job at Shadowbox in the US and being open to a possible transfer?

As others have said the UK is one of the most LGBTQIA+ friendly countries, your family would be welcomed here.

[-] manualoverride@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

What is the most privacy focussed way to register a domain these days?

last time I did it was about 20 years ago and they pretty much just put your home address and telephone number in a Whois lookup.

[-] manualoverride@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

I’ve come to the end of my patience with hotmail/live, my email is out there on a list so I get tens of spam mails a day and they almost never correctly identify them, but any new service I sign up to and it goes straight to spam.

Proton mail seems expensive for a single offering and the bundle has too many unnecessary things I don’t need. Also the lack of protocol support means you are restricted on clients you can use.

I’m pleased you posted this as I’m going to give all these a try too, but I’m becoming a pessimist and I’m thinking as soon as I’ve fully switched they will put up the price. Your personal email is becoming one of the hardest things to change.

My top priority is the ability to have individual addresses for each service I use going to a single inbox, that way if my email is leaked by a company, I can just nuke that alias, and I’ll know who leaked it. May be a good feature for you too?

[-] manualoverride@lemmy.world 45 points 2 months ago

The preferential treatment was that the body cams were just muted during the cover up and not all accidentally turned off for the entire encounter, not getting beaten up, tased or shot.

I mean as far as preferential treatment goes I’d take that deal, but the fact remains he was pulled out of his car, roughed up, taken to the floor and handcuffed for 18minutes for no reason when the cop should have been writing him a (dubious) ticket.

There are at least 2 cops here who should not be cops and the rest need to be retrained to ensure they step in if they see mistreatment like this again, for face being fired.

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submitted 3 months ago by manualoverride@lemmy.world to c/evs@lemmy.world

This is just a rant… maybe a discussion starter

Margins on 2nd hand and new electric cars are thin, gone are the days where you could get 25% off a new car, and thin margins mean lower commission.

Servicing costs are minimal so no kickbacks for selling the servicing plans.

People are wise to paint protection and alloy wheel cover that cost more than a refurb.

EV buyers tend to make better decisions and are more likely to be cash buyers or finance elsewhere, so no kickback for selling a finance plan.

Manufacturers still selling higher margin hybrid and ICE vehicles mean they are the real target for salespeople.

Manufacturers also want to shift their ICE inventories and new products so they are still pushing the FUD on electric, and myths like “EVs will be obsolete once Hydrogen cars come out, you may as well get an ICE car in the meantime.”

I’ve had a really bad customer experiences at Toyota, Honda and now Kia dealerships.

I know people will suggest the Tesla online sales model, but Musk is just ruining the brand to the point where I can’t buy or recommend one.

So now I’m going to do all my own research, find the exact car I want, and contact the dealer/seller directly while avoiding as much interaction as possible.

[-] manualoverride@lemmy.world 46 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It’s obvious people have not read the article which refers to cases where the decision was made years ago under the Tory government. Future bed and board payments are being reviewed and expected to be scrapped.

In this case he was awarded £650k compensation and £37k was deducted from that.

I understand the line in the sand where the country has been bankrupted and just can’t revisit every bad decision made over the last 15 years and pay up, there isn’t the money or the court time.

Unfortunately this article is written to stoke hate for the current government, I’m just offering the alternative bias.

[-] manualoverride@lemmy.world 58 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Windows defender?

Seriously you don’t need anything else, it’s really lightweight and Microsoft uses it to enhance their paid for corporate offerings. Anything more is just expensive bloatware for 99.9% of users.

Edit: Kaspersky has been banned in several countries because it may be a Russian Trojan program.

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Anyone else so used to being gaslit by the government they started to read this thinking ‘Great! Let’s find out how I’m a “failed citizen”, who had rubbish plans during the pandemic’

I’m finding this transition a little difficult, I’m hopeful but I’m still half expecting the Home Secretary to announce concrete shoes at low tide for all immigrants or something.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by manualoverride@lemmy.world to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

As a Thames Water “customer” (given the complete lack of competition maybe “hostage” is a better term) who will have a £20 rise per year, and as someone with no money I’m fine with paying an extra £1.65 a month for water, but not to Thames Water who will inevitably use that money to pay shareholders dividends.

If it stops us from dumping raw sewage into the rivers and oceans I’ll happily pay ten times as much, but it’s clear that Thames Water is just corrupt, and cannot be trusted with any extra money.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by manualoverride@lemmy.world to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

James Dyson who famously championed Brexit then moved his company’s head office to Singapore, and finally lost a libel case when papers pointed he was a massive hypocrite, has now announced he is cutting 1/4 of the UK workforce.

All this while parliament is busy swearing in all the new members.

In case you needed another reason to avoid his crap vacuum cleaners other than the horrible repairability and quality of failure prone components.

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"Latest" (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by manualoverride@lemmy.world to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

Is YouTube actively trying to make their platform as unusable as possible?

In case you can’t zoom the YouTube definition of ‘latest’, is any time in the last few years.

My video suggestions are also 50% text posts now for some reason.

[-] manualoverride@lemmy.world 57 points 4 months ago

What kind of backhanded EV misinformation bullshit is this?

Electric, gas, petrol, hydrogen, diesel, cooking oil or vodka; what you put in your car to make it go makes no difference to the tires or the wear.

[-] manualoverride@lemmy.world 63 points 4 months ago

The company that provides your banks phone system has full access to pretty much every piece of information your bank holds on you, including call recordings, phone numbers, addresses, debts, credits, and your phone password. We can trick our own systems into thinking it’s you on the phone.

Avoid calling your bank at all costs, and if they call you say “no thank you I’ll do that online or in branch”, as soon as you pass security the phone system is accessing all your data. If possible go into branch or do everything on a banking app which has far better security.

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submitted 5 months ago by manualoverride@lemmy.world to c/evs@lemmy.world

I need some help finding the simplest but safe small EV for my parents in their 80s. They currently drive a massive old Mercedes E and S-class, but they don’t need such big cars, as sight and reaction times dwindle having such big powerful cars might get them into trouble. I’m looking for a small simple EV with the ability to lock things down and start every drive with consistent user selectable settings. Maybe limit the power, ensure the air conditioning is set appropriately every time and that the radio turns on to their station and with the volume at a good level. Basically so they just have to get in and press the go pedal, without worrying about messing anything up because the next drive will be back to normal again. For size I really like the Honda-E but I have taken them to two garages and both have been terrible experiences, where the salesperson tried to convince my parents that EVs were a dead technology and that they should buy a Hybrid until the Hydrogen cars come out. The longest journey they ever do is 100miles but mostly journeys are <50miles round trip. Anything with 130miles + would be perfect and give some cold weather/degradation buffer.

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On some things the UK is progressive, on other issues, like sustainable transport, they see it as antisocial behaviour.

[-] manualoverride@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago

I very rarely downvote people but @RobotToaster you are just posting the most gutterish drivel. We get you don’t like Labour but if you insist on posting here please try to elevate the quality of your sources and commentary. 57p for the graphic sounds like the sort of bargain we need after 14 years of corrupt Tory contracts.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by manualoverride@lemmy.world to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

Looks like the Labour Party have finally hired someone under 60 to handle their social media. Excellent, no notes.

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