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Comment good year for ambitious tv (Score 1) 185

Altered Carbon was an epic series and The Expanse filled a Firefly-shaped hole in the schedules. Better Call Saul continued to feature great acting and story telling, with some of the best cinematography outside of an actual cinema. The Man in the High Castle finished strongly. Killing Eve was great until the end of the last episode. Detectorists was a whimsical delight, quite unlike anything else on TV.

Comment Re: Needs To? You're Fucking Adorable. (Score 1) 158

Weird isn't it? I migrated myself to linux nearly 20 years ago. Since then: 1) No overpaid consultant has tried to persuade me that there is something I need to do that I can't do in linux. 2) Said overpaid consultants, having invested in MS certification, also haven't tried to persuade me that it is more expensive to support myself using linux. 3) MS has completely failed to lobby me over expensive lunches that I've made the wrong decision. 4) MS hasn't promised to set up a facility in my back garden employing thousands, provided I switch back to windows. 5) MS hasn't offered me a massive discount to switch back to windows. The experience of big companies and governments may be different to mine.

Comment charging by the hour? (Score 1) 123

So the quickest lawyer billed for 1 hour, and the slowest for 3. IANAL but I review all NDAs and other contracts for my company, and a typical NDA takes me 10-15 minutes, but then I don't get paid more for taking longer. Despite my lack of formal legal training, my company hasn't been f**ked over by a bad NDA in the 20+ years I've been doing it. Any lawyer billing 3 hours to review an NDA is ripping off their client.

Comment battery life (Score 1) 120

Not everyone wants Google on their phone. If you offer people the choice of Google play and services, or AOSP with a more limited app store but double the battery life, then you might be surprised at how many takers there are. I have a gapps-free lineage on my Oppo Find 7, and get everything I need from f-droid or via yalp. And I have better battery life than when the phone was brand new several years ago.

Comment Re: Let me guess (Score 1) 218

Or google the Etymotic Bean. It's definitely not a hearing aid (cos that would need approval). It just fits in your ear and helps you hear better. I assume we are only a year or two away from discrete in-ear devices that you tune with an app on your phone via bluetooth. Then maybe the ridiculous hearing aid price gouging will stop.

Comment This includes "far right" content.... (Score 1) 271

Home secretary Amber Rudd said: âoeI want to make sure those who view despicable terrorist content online, including jihadi websites, far-right propaganda and bomb-making instructions, face the full force of the law.â By far-right propaganda I assumes she is referring to the Daily Mail, Sun, Express newspapers etc.

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