Yeah, it was really noticeable when the clocks changed last weekend. Can’t wait for the lighter evenings again!

I hate winter, but not because of the climate (we get a couple of days if snow at best), but because it’s just constantly dark. It’s incredibly depressing. It’s already getting dark by 16:30 now.

People will be toxic no matter what. I don’t think making prospective new users feel unwelcome is a good idea when we’d like to see some growth.

It’s a noble goal don’t get me wrong, but cars are just way too convenient to get rid of for most that don’t live in the central zones of cities. Just things like taking your kid to their swimming lessons, evening activities, going to the tip and garden centre and dropping off at your parents en route, visiting friends that are several villages away, kids birthday party and then going to the supermarket after to pick up some food etc.

Something I’ve noticed is that people on Lemmy never seem to advocate for busses, it’s always trains.

As much as people on Lemmy love trains, they’re not replacing cars no matter how good the infrastructure is.

Trains are already electrified.

OP never stated what country they’re from, you’ve just gone on some rant about Trump without even thinking that they may not be from the US.

Classic US defaultism.

You’re supposed to stop using the mouse while it is charging, and use the mouse unplugged.

Why? Says who? There’s been a few times where I’ve booted my work laptop up in the morning and my mouse is dead and I’ve had to plug it in. Once it’s charged I unplug it. What’s the harm in that? I’d be way more furstrated if I had to open up my laptop (I keep it closed with an external monitor) and use the trackpad instead.

I get that, but it doesn’t really make sense with a mouse as I pretty much never see the front of it as it’s always ahead of me. The only person who would see it would be if someone were to be sat opposite.

Take up running they said. It’s free!*

I think they’re referring to actually having a cap.

Also it’s a 50% increase not 150%.

Yeah I realise that, that’s why I thought about maybe the advertised salary might not necessarily be the truth and they do get decent compensation to reduce the chance of them getting compromised due to financial reasons.

A part of me thinks it’s low on purpose so the only candidates that apply are doing it for ideological reasons, and aren’t motivated by money (thus opening them up to risk of being bought by a foreign agency). Who knows, maybe it would be revealed their salary would quadruple after they get the job.

But the likelihood is that their budgets are low and can’t compete with the private sector.

Ingress is a good game! I opened it recently and there’s lots of red stuff, though 🤣

Yeah, there’s a lot of red in my area too (I think I saw some global stats and the “red” team are way ahead of green). The last time I played it, it was green vs blue, so not sure when that changed.

I think I’m more traditional. I would like to wake up (not tired), go to an early morning church service and listen to BBC Radio 4’s morning worship while getting ready, then go to another church service in the late morning, then go home, have a sunday roast, relax a bit before ending the day with an evening service.

Damn that’s a lot of services! What would be the difference between the early morning service and the late morning one?

Can’t disagree, every nation has the right to defend itself.

For me feddit.uk stuck out as when I was joining Lemmy, (my initial choice was lemmy.world), it seemed like it would be a safe bet as it was clearly set up by UK based people that had also come from Reddit like myself, so it had a sense of familiarity. I’m guessing that’s why the other feddit.<tld> also became somewhat popular instances.

We very nearly lost feddit.uk to the same issue. The admin who set the instance up just went AWOL, I’m guessing he spun it up during the reddit exodus and then just lost interest in the project. Fortunately people managed to contact him and gave two people admin access to take over it.

Lessons learned: don’t join an instance with a single admin.

But by that time most of your Sunday is gone, wouldn’t it be better going into the day that you still have two full days off?

He definitely is. It’s refreshing to finally even hear this sentiment from our government. However it’s just words, hopefully we start seeing some positive changes in the rental and housing market.

That part of the country is famous for its coastal erosion going on for centuries, probably longer. Anyone that moved within 20 miles of that coastline in the past 70 years knows that their property has been at risk of falling into the sea.

I feel for him for losing his home but I’m not sure what the governments climate change policies have got to do with anything?