[-] veng@lemmy.world 125 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Even if it comes down to a browser addon placing a black rectangle over the video and muting browser audio when an ad plays, I'll be choosing that over watching ads.

[-] veng@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

iPad / tablet, and applying for jobs can easily be done on a phone. My wife works at a high school - half the kids can't even use a mouse properly,and don't understand minimizing a window etc.

She had to teach someone what the enter button did yesterday..... They were using space bar to get to a new line. I shit you not.

[-] veng@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

The main issue to solve is kids not having access to a computer at home, whether it be lack of incentive or money. Most people don't even own a laptop anymore, so the only computer time they get is in a school setting.

Once the majority of schools have a system in place for most homework to be done on a PC, then there may be some creative ways to incentivise more PC adoption... again. It's like we've gone back to the early 90s again where only kids who were really interested in computing knew anything about it.

[-] veng@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Usually if you're involved in something that is genuinely urgent, it doesn't even need to be said. I remember being in a situation where a server wasn't starting back up after some changes while we were in the data centre, and if it didn't come online by the time we left the office, one of the largest pay as you go networks in the UK would have gone down lol. If a PM had approached us with something 'urgent' during this they'd have to run away from projectile rack mounts..

[-] veng@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Plenty of people out there spend more money just on soap and diffusers, than you or I make in a year and a half, lol

[-] veng@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well in the UK, considering that a return ticket to London for commuting hours costs me £140, no, it is not the future here. I could drive most of the way from home into London, pay the ULEZ charge, park in an expensive train station car park and get a short distance train for a third of that, including fuel.

[-] veng@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Why would they care about your opinion enough to not go on holiday where they want? If you want to fly without the chance of noisy kids then fly first class, or better still, private jet.

No? Can't afford? Suck it up then lol, people are going to live their lives regardless of a bit of noise that you can easily cancel out with headphones.

[-] veng@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I don't even use a computer, I just hunt fish

[-] veng@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

I'm finding the sync experience far nicer than Jerboa so far, not surprised. Jerboa fails to load comments half the time and I get errors constantly that stop content refreshes.

[-] veng@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

It's strange - in the UK we're usually getting toasty this time of year too, but we've had unusually mild weather despite many other parts of the world experiencing record temperatures. Feels like the mildest summer we've had in about 10 years.

[-] veng@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've used vim for so many years now that it blows my mind when people act like it's difficult to use.

The same thing with installing Arch and even Gentoo .. if you've got good experience with something like redhat/centos and can read documentation it's a breeze.

[-] veng@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why not jerboa? Works decently well.. EDIT: nevermind, forgot it's not on iOS and mlem isn't great yet

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