Me too. I don’t see the point. My life is already full of distractions and I bet the batteries in those are hard to replace when they inevitably don’t hold charge any more.
This is an interesting list. It’s missing some of the true great classics, like Frankenstein, and it has a number of unusual, less well known titles, but there’s a lot to like on it. There’s certainly a lot for people to disagree about, but it may well have your less often cited favorites, too. What do you think?
There’s an old saying in London – you’re never more than 6ft from a rat and 50m from a Pret a Manger. But the popular high street sandwich chain has struggled in recent years with consumers abandoning ship. With a rising tide of debts, it has now recalled its initial founder, Sinclair Beecham, to the top table in order to...
Microsoft is trying to restore Bing as the default search engine on users’ browsers by spinning it as a “repair” through a utility app called PC Manager....
Samsung is sunsetting Tizen and fully ending support for the smartwatch OS (9to5google.com)
‘Looks at perfectly functional Galaxy Watch 3 on my wrist’
Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster. (doublepulsar.com)
Q. Is this really as harmful as you think?...
Our [New Scientist] writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time (www.newscientist.com)
This is an interesting list. It’s missing some of the true great classics, like Frankenstein, and it has a number of unusual, less well known titles, but there’s a lot to like on it. There’s certainly a lot for people to disagree about, but it may well have your less often cited favorites, too. What do you think?
Why Greggs is beating Pret in the battle of the lunch break (www.cityam.com)
There’s an old saying in London – you’re never more than 6ft from a rat and 50m from a Pret a Manger. But the popular high street sandwich chain has struggled in recent years with consumers abandoning ship. With a rising tide of debts, it has now recalled its initial founder, Sinclair Beecham, to the top table in order to...
Waitrose only major supermarket with majority Tory customers, polls show (www.theguardian.com)
Reinventing the wheel (lemmy.world)
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Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good (arstechnica.com)
What Parity Flag is that? (lemmy.world)
Canterbury Pride festival reduced to one day due to ‘financial climate’ (www.kentonline.co.uk)
Amber - the programming language compiled to Bash (amber-lang.com)
Mum’s horror at rats scurrying around children’s play park (www.kentonline.co.uk)
Asian hornets: Kent on front-line after record number of reports (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/16992083...
Maybe those 20 seconds were because of the lack of getting raises? (lemmy.world)
Good estate (jlai.lu)
Microsoft PC Manager App 'Repairs' Your System by Making Bing the Search Default (uk.pcmag.com)
Microsoft is trying to restore Bing as the default search engine on users’ browsers by spinning it as a “repair” through a utility app called PC Manager....
Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows (about.winamp.com)
EDPM vs Fibreglass for a flat roof
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