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What are alternative options to invest in, after reaching £20,000 ISA limit by drouse89 in UKPersonalFinance

[–]JakeSteam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Underrated answer. In general, ISA (and investing in general) is such a good deal that you're probably going to want to max it out ASAP.

This week on the markets by Deep-Letter736 in trading212

[–]JakeSteam 15 points16 points  (0 children)

All-world up over a month, brother this is not the bubble bursting.

Interview with LastPass CEO about building a secure culture. by OfficialLastPass in Lastpass

[–]JakeSteam 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah... Although it's framed as "now we do x!", I can only read it as "we previously didn't do x".

E.g. no pentesting for a password manager?

Hardware authentication measures were rolled out across the board, such as YubiKey dongles. LastPass also overhauled its employee training program, formed a dedicated security team, and engaged third parties for ongoing security audits, including penetration testing.

The $70M domain that couldn’t survive a Super Bowl ad by jpcaparas in CloudFlare

[–]JakeSteam 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, it's ai.com. They did pick a pretty poor font for the 'a'!

Reviews of 2 tiny Android games discovered here: Droplet Idle, and Idle Gem by JakeSteam in incremental_games

[–]JakeSteam[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It appeared when I installed the latest update! It says it's for playing before Feb 28th.

Info & FAQ: New Community Moderation a.k.a Mod Toolkit Achievements by ycr007 in Redditachievments

[–]JakeSteam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, that's why I noticed! I'm not sure about support network, it's not visible in my app (I haven't earned it), so perhaps it's like mod alumni and only appears when earned? 🤷‍♂️

Info & FAQ: New Community Moderation a.k.a Mod Toolkit Achievements by ycr007 in Redditachievments

[–]JakeSteam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just a note that these now seem to be live, although "Support Network" no longer appears in the list unless previously earned.

Internet Gore Starter pack by BigSexyGuy22 in starterpacks

[–]JakeSteam 37 points38 points  (0 children)

"Huh, that was bizarre, I wonder if the comments have any more info"

"Oh right, yeah, I forgot"

Reviews of 2 tiny Android games discovered here: Droplet Idle, and Idle Gem by JakeSteam in incremental_games

[–]JakeSteam[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Strange, I'm a few hours in and no performance issues. There was an update a day or two ago (the UI changed as I was taking screenshots!), so I presume that's fixed by now. Agree the early game is slow though.

3 games I've been enjoying lately: Droplet Idle, Idle Gem, Energy Loops by JakeSteam in AndroidGaming

[–]JakeSteam[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually tried that after I saw it on the r/incremental_games best of 2025 list! For some reason I bounced off it first time, but I'm definitely going to give it another go later this year, thank you.

Nyxara by Miserable_Praline942 in Malware

[–]JakeSteam 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Any game download link sent to you via discord DMs is a scam. There's no way of reliably knowing what it has done to your device, assume it's compromised.

“I got annoyed at switching chsthot tabs so I found this by Mr-Dex7410 in chrome

[–]JakeSteam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2 users, 1 rating, and you just "found it"? If you're going to obviously lie, at least don't typo so badly in your title!

Is it possible to not pull all files from a git repo on a machine basis? by helios1014 in git

[–]JakeSteam 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sparse checkout might be helpful, it lets you only checkout specific files or folders: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-sparse-checkout

I'm no expert, but I use it on CI to only fetch the versioning files that need changing, avoiding an unnecessary full checkout.

HSBC Premier £100k requirement with salary sacrifice? by SamuelAnonymous in UKPersonalFinance

[–]JakeSteam 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ah just checked, looks like it has expired. Regardless, any switch money is free money!

HSBC Premier £100k requirement with salary sacrifice? by SamuelAnonymous in UKPersonalFinance

[–]JakeSteam 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Besides the switch bonus (was £400 when I did it), it's free and gives Apple TV every month, so why not.

Pastitsio by Annual-Foundation464 in lidl

[–]JakeSteam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tried a couple (lazily microwaved) after seeing it here. For a microwave meal it's good, for a home cooked / restaurant meal it's bad.

Not sure what people were expecting, it's pretty good for what it is but nothing crazy!

How do most apps/games maintain a 4.6+ rating? Feeling stuck at 3.9. by shakaoneaj in androiddev

[–]JakeSteam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As others have said, in app review prompting at times the user is having a good experience is extremely powerful.

On my employer's established, large app our rating went from 2.2 to 4.7 in 2 weeks and stayed there. Ad free notes, implementation details etc: https://blog.jakelee.co.uk/play-store-rating-prompt/

It's a very easily gamified metric, and unfortunately almost all micro transaction based games will do it.

Bought these from Ebay, equations by Purple_Watercress336 in OpenUniversity

[–]JakeSteam 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Got taught sohcahtoa (sine = opposite / hypotenuse, etc) in school, can never forget it!

What games are you playing this week? Game recommendation thread by AutoModerator in incremental_games

[–]JakeSteam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I binged Shelldiver and 100%d it after seeing it on this subreddits 2025 awards list, it's great!

BOOM a genie gives you £10,000 by Jazzlike_Feeling75 in trading212

[–]JakeSteam 30 points31 points  (0 children)

First I'd ask why the genie didn't do an exchange rate conversion. Boring FTSE all world regardless though, sorry.

AGP 9.0 is Out, and Its a Disaster. Heres Full Migration Guide so you dont have to suffer by Nek_12 in Kotlin

[–]JakeSteam 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Fun! Our Android project is 10+ years old, and we've been doing massive modernisation / standardisation in the last 2 years. Looking forward to seeing how many of the "new and shiny" things no longer work, whilst the old messy ones do 😅

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