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Given how you translated the cost into $, am I correct in assuming that you’re not British?

Because I am, and honestly, £14.50 a month for what the BBC actually offers is, if anything, not enough. Because it’s not just TV.

The income from the licence fee covers TV, radio, broadcasting infrastructure, and R&D into said infrastructure. It also covers a broad range of community initiatives (several orchestras receive much of their funding from the BBC). And let’s not forget the iPlayer. It may have since been surpassed in utility by some of the other streaming companies, but it was one of the first to offer that kind of service, and for a long time, pretty much the gold standard.

On top of that is the intangible benefits of having a state broadcaster that is, according to the rules by which it is bound, absolutely not allowed to run advertising for commercial products. Other broadcasters in the UK are held up in comparison to the BBC, which means that they have yet to fall to the diabolical levels that commercial broadcasters in places like the US have. If they did, people would switch off.

BBC News can piss up a rope though. Sometimes stories don’t need balance.

You need a TV licence because that’s the funding model for the BBC (and wider broadcasting infrastructure), not because the government want to keep tabs on who has a TV.

I once asked on one of the Linux gaming communities on here for tips on how to optimise my Sunshine on my system because it wasn’t streaming well at all

Got a bunch of shit from several people because I didn’t formulate my post like a proper support ticket.

Haven’t asked for help on here since.

Ads Georg, who lives in a cave and looks at adverts 17.7 billion times a day is an outlier and should not be counted.

No

Actually, PSP also pushed a video format, the MiniDisc movie format, whatever that was. That did make its way to the US, but it didn’t do very well there. I don’t know how well it did in Japan.

UMD.

As far as I’m aware, it was essentially hi-MD, but with video support as well as audio. MiniDisc was an awesome format, sadly usurped before it could really take hold, partly by the rise of MP3, but also by the fact that anyone wanting to produce a player had to licence it. So very few companies bothered because CD was already good enough for most people.

“Fans of the Pub Landlord, laughing through bared teeth like the dogs they are”

Please, tell me what exactly I can do to force a change of mind in the current government?

The Detectorists is one of those shows that those who love it, LOVE IT, and those who don’t have never heard of it.

It’s genuinely one of the loveliest, most beautiful TV shows I’ve ever watched. It’s a truly happy space to be in, with almost no mean-spirited jokes.

I lived literally 100m from the church in Broadchurch. Jodie Whittaker and Olivia Coleman’s houses were just around the corner. We lived there while they were filming the third season, so it was kinda cool to see some of the local businesses dressed up as sets.

It was a proper headfuck to watch the show, and see people walk round a familiar corner, only to suddenly be in a town in Dorset, where the rest of the filming took place.

I know writers who use subtext, and they’re all cowards.

you fukkin wot m8?!

swear on me mum…

War Horse is all about war horse, like.

This is partly why I’m alright with Keir Starmer being my Prime Minister.

Yes, I recognise my privilege, and yes, I recognise that other people are likely suffering because of his government’s policies. But there’s not a huge amount that I personally can do to change the government’s minds, and it was much, much worse under The Fucking Tories.

So for my own mental health I’m taking the view that it’s quite nice to not open the news sites and see nothing but nastiness and horror. Until I browse the world news section, that is.

Not as far as I’m aware. A keen collector of war/Nazi memorabilia though.

It was Lemmy dying a couple of weeks before Bowie that was the beginning of the end.

My dick’s been out for nearly 10 years now. I’ve been arrested a number of times over it, but I’ll keep my dick out for Harambe until we get justice.

I had the Java version of Opera on my Sony W800 back in 2006. Shit was amazing. I got the full internet on my little candybar phone, and iirc, it even formatted (some of) the pages to fit the smaller screen.

In terms of gestures, the one thing I do still struggle with is Linux not having a useful equivalent to BetterTouchTool. Whenever I set up a new macOS, that’s pretty much the first thing I install. As a result, I’m so used to using a middle click for Expose that even after a year of mostly using Linux, I still find myself middle clicking several times a day and wondering why it’s not showing me all the windows.

The closest I’ve found is Input Remapper, which can help you get your mouse buttons to perform a bunch of things. However, as far as I can tell, it will only allow you to save one at a time, which makes it mostly useless. So I’m forcing myself to get used to the Linux defaults instead.

Literally the only thing Preview can’t do is edit a PDF. It can do markup and annotation, but not edit the basic structure of the document.

That one program can rotate individual pages, add and remove them, resize them, crop them. You can reorder pages just by dragging the thumbnail around in the side bar. It’s really, really useful.

In my year or so of using Linux I’ve yet to find one program that can replicate everything Preview can do, so I have several that I draw upon depending on my need. It’s little things like that which keep me from fulling abandoning macOS.

Apple are many things, but their history of making software that puts the user first is a huge chunk of why so many people swear by using Apple stuff.