177265165 comment Comment Re: This is terrible policy (Score 1) 158 by Pop69 on Friday May 02, 2025 @12:51PM (#65347573) Attached to: Solar Panels To Be Fitted On All New-Build Homes in England By 2027 What's a shingle ? In the UK we all have slate or tile roofs Asphalt is for roads
177022599 comment Comment So as crew (Score 0) 132 by Pop69 on Monday April 14, 2025 @12:39PM (#65305139) Attached to: Blue Origin Sends All-Female Crew To Edge of Space in Historic Flight Which part of the flying are they doing If they're not doing any flying then their either passengers or cargo
176923467 comment Comment Disaster Capitalism (Score 1) 225 by Pop69 on Friday April 04, 2025 @08:22AM (#65280871) Attached to: US Stock Markets See Worst Day Since Covid Pandemic If there isn't a real disaster, they'll manufacture one
176593917 comment Comment No surprise (Score 3, Insightful) 156 by Pop69 on Sunday March 02, 2025 @07:42PM (#65205879) Attached to: Trump Names Cryptocurrencies for 'Digital Asset Stockpile' in Social Media Post Got to keep pumping the bubble to continue the grift
176357161 comment Comment I wonder why ? (Score 3, Insightful) 303 by Pop69 on Sunday February 23, 2025 @01:30PM (#65189111) Attached to: Elon Musk Urges Deorbiting the International Space Station 'As Soon as Possible' Wasn't that like 10 minutes after the ISS commander made a complete arse of him in Twitter ?
176330255 comment Comment Odd claim (Score 2) 192 by Pop69 on Friday February 21, 2025 @09:35AM (#65184425) Attached to: Meta Claims Torrenting Pirated Books Isn't Illegal Without Proof of Seeding That's not what people have been jailed and fined for by the RIAA in the past, has the law been changed?
176029353 comment Comment Back to the 90s (Score 1) 62 by Pop69 on Friday January 24, 2025 @04:07AM (#65114415) Attached to: Intel Pitches Modular PC Designs To Make Repairs Less Painful Before everything was integrated onto the motherboard ?
175975759 comment Comment Interesting (Score 2) 109 by Pop69 on Sunday January 19, 2025 @03:06PM (#65101307) Attached to: TikTok Goes Offline in US - Then Comes Back Online After Trump Promises 90-Day Reprieve What other laws can he announce will be ignored via executive order ?
175910477 comment Comment If they're implementing it (Score 1) 88 by Pop69 on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @07:41PM (#65089279) Attached to: Double-keyed Browser Caching Is Hitting Web Performance They already have a way around it to continue tracking you If the product you are using is free, you aren't the customer
175880491 comment Comment Now we know (Score 1) 326 by Pop69 on Saturday January 11, 2025 @05:26AM (#65080433) Attached to: Meta Kills DEI Programs There's no such thing as equality unless companies are legally forced to do it
175478613 comment Comment All mobile phones companies are private enterprise (Score 1) 72 by Pop69 on Friday November 15, 2024 @05:21PM (#64948781) Attached to: The Rich Country With the Worst Mobile-Phone Service What's with mentioning the government ? All mobile phones companies in the UK are private enterprises, they bear the responsibility for any lack of investment in their own infrastructure
174948912 comment Comment It's open source (Score 1) 46 by Pop69 on Sunday September 08, 2024 @01:43PM (#64772176) Attached to: KDE Developer: Why Plasma 6.2 Includes a Once-a-Year Popup for Donations If you don't want to see the message take it out of the code and recompile
174547390 comment Comment Adopt the UK model (Score 1) 39 by Pop69 on Saturday July 20, 2024 @08:04AM (#64640294) Attached to: FCC Blasts T-Mobile's 365-Day Phone Locking, Proposes 60-Day Unlock Rule Since December 2021, all phones must be sold unlocked, including contract phones Solves a lot of problems
174359649 comment Comment Like Foundation I suppose (Score 1) 149 by Pop69 on Monday July 01, 2024 @02:03PM (#64592731) Attached to: William Gibson's 'Neuromancer' to Become a Series on Apple TV+ Featuring some character names from the book Neuromancer
173962357 comment Comment Why would that be a problem? (Score 1) 305 by Pop69 on Friday May 24, 2024 @08:05AM (#64495671) Attached to: Germany Has Too Many Solar Panels, and It's Pushed Energy Prices Negative Surely this negative price gets passed on to the end customer?