FWIW, on iOS Face ID is marginally better for this than Touch ID because it requires you to make eye contact with the camera before it unlocks. If you look to the side it won’t accept the biometrics.

But it’s still not as secure as a regular password or pin in terms of forced compliance.

Split in Croatia sounds like it’d fulfill basically all of your criteria.

I don’t think betting on sports should be illegal. The problem is the endless advertising and the way sportsbooks have invaded and completely taken over sports coverage in the media. Feels like literally everything now is just about discussing under/overs and what Vegas thinks.

Call me crazy but I miss when sports was about sports.

Nintendo has always been litigious. I don’t understand this myth that they used to be wholesome and friendly in the good old days.

They sued Atari for making NES games. They sued Galoob for making the Game Genie. They sued Blockbuster for renting their games.

Kirby the character is literally named after Nintendo’s lawyer John Kirby.

Tiger bread is very versatile - good for toast, good for sandwiches, good for dipping in soup, etc.

I’m not sure I know anyone who doesn’t like tiger bread.

I’m also only just learning that it’s a Dutch invention? It’s sold in every supermarket in the UK. Seemingly came out of nowhere here in the early 2010s.

The transition away from flat design back towards skeuomorphism continues.

They broke RIF with the API changes, and Voyager for Lemmy was the recommended alternative at the time. Still here 3 years later.

I haven’t fully deleted my Reddit account because, as much as I hate to admit it, the site is often a good source of information for hobby projects etc, but I’ve gone completely read-only. I get what I need and then leave - no voting, no comments, no messaging.

Absolutely! I saw a talk at Develop last year from some of the Farming Simulator team, and they said a huge chunk of their audience are farmers.

Tons of pilots play flight simulators. I believe the same also applies to Euro/American Truck Simulator, based on the community discussions I’ve seen. I’d be surprised if the same wasn’t true for train sims too.

Wasn’t there a viral Reddit post for a similar issue where someone recommended sucking on the left earbud and it worked?

FYI you can access and download iCloud photos on a computer, which might help your wife transfer them without using her phone.

Which? argues that a customer who would have theoretically paid £1.99 for the service but was not able to do so because the actual £2.99 price was unaffordable suffered a £1 loss, even though the customer paid nothing.

Maybe you have to be a lawyer to understand this, because to me it sounds like complete nonsense.

‘Brought us’ is generous. The 8010 was prohibitively expensive, as the article says - over $16,500 in 1981.

Xerox might have invented the GUI, but it wasn’t for you and me. It was Apple and Microsoft who polished their ideas and made them accessible to the masses.

Yep, CotEditor is fantastic - solo dev and they’re very careful to follow the actual macOS interface guidelines, so it looks and feels native throughout.

Ah, one of the dozen people who actually liked the original Steam controller! A rare sight indeed.

Ah, I didn’t consider that! It’s not a thing in the UK.

You mean if there was enough traffic ahead of you at the lights that by the time you reached them they’d gone red again? In that scenario you still pulled forwards and then had to stop again, so I’d consider it two stops.

It’s only one stop if you stopped once and then didn’t move at all between one red light and the next (in which case either the entire queue is blocked from entering the junction, or you’re doing something wrong).

Americans have a bizarre fixation with ‘perfect’ teeth. The ultra-white, ultra-straight look is uncanny to me.

There may be occasional inaccuracies

I’ll say. Tried a handful of things I’m actually familiar with and it was full of mistakes and hallucinated ‘facts’.

Typical AI slop - looks good at a distance but crumbles under the merest scrutiny.

I’m willing to bet it’s people seeing an ‘AI bad’ headline, upvoting, and moving on without reading.

I don’t like AI either but the hivemind on the fediverse is just as bad as back on Reddit sometimes.

And if it was charged via general taxation, presumably, the cost per person would actually be lower.

I don’t currently have a TV license (we only watch streaming) but I’d be happy with that. As you say, there are huge cultural and social benefits to the BBC. We already pay taxes to make museums free for everyone, why not the Beeb too?