jafffacakelemmy

joined 8 months ago
[–] jafffacakelemmy@mander.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Swearing is brilliant if you smash your thumb with a hammer, or break something expensive. If you swear all the time in normal conversation you don't have any special words left to use when those things I mentioned happen.

[–] jafffacakelemmy@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Its rumoured that in the Falklands war (early 80's) after a UK ship was hit by a French-made Exocet missile fired by Argentina, UK diplomats massively pressurised their ally, France, to provide the required codes which could be radioed to future in-flight exocets. further french-made armaments would not be able to hit the UK forces.

[–] jafffacakelemmy@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

I had an objection to google pay for a while, and discovered Barclaycard (credit card in the uk) use an app which would act as a replacement for google pay. Worked perfectly. Of course then I found out how terrible barclays bank is for the environment, so I tap my co-op credit card now. Interestingly, google pay takes nothing when you use them to buy stuff, Applepay grab 0.25% as a transaction fee. Makes them billions per year, and the cost is shared by all of us.

[–] jafffacakelemmy@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

Every extra oil well widens the availability of the product, that's bad. Please stop drilling.

[–] jafffacakelemmy@mander.xyz 17 points 3 months ago

if the device switches off while in use on charge, that's too slow. if the device switches off whilst charging because it overheats, that's too fast. in between, forget it, the electronics will handle everything, and yes slower charging is better for battery life but you needn't obsess over the difference, it's there but unquantifi able. if you've heard anything other than this advice and you believe what you've heard, there's not much point in people here trying to guide you.

[–] jafffacakelemmy@mander.xyz 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

you can tell how "working class" the potential election winners are by the fact the probable PM has a knighthood.