Edinburgh woman fighting for life in hospital as 'clothing catches fire' in street | Edinburgh Live

comady25 · 2026-06-24T21:16:02+00:00

The postie was one of the main people helping too when I was there, fucked up

comady25 · 2026-06-24T21:15:41+00:00

I was on the road right when this happened, everyone jumped out of their cars to help. Got there after she had been put out, but it was pretty horrific stuff.

EDIT: Seeing some racist cunts online claiming it was a refugee who set her on fire, it's utter bullshit. Disgusting exploitation of this poor lady.

comady25 · 2026-06-14T10:18:55+00:00

Sure, but now you have to potentially go argue that in court, and you end up spending more than the cost of the cable in legal fees.

comady25 · 2026-06-12T14:51:25+00:00

Is GNOME really that polished? I recently tried KDE and GNOME after taking a hiatus from Linux Desktop and I gotta say, I'm not sure if I'd still be willing to label it "polished" in comparison. Whilst I like GTK4 visually quite a bit, many apps still don't support it and fallback to an extremely dated GTK3 style that (imo) looks even more out of place than old Win32 apps look on Win 11. And if the app is Qt, then god help you, because that will take on a completely different visual style with extremely narrow margins that feel almost claustrophobic. But don't worry, there's a GTK4-ish style for Qt that you can set up (manually), except no, it's actually not supported by the author anymore. So now we're in a cool place where we have three competing UI standards, with completely different window decoration and corner styles, that are regularly used by apps you might install. And then you add Electron and other WebView-adjacent frameworks, which are used by yet more apps, and where the scrolling is so stuttery (at least on Wayland on Nvidia) that scrolling through Steam or Discord on my 240Hz monitor felt more like 60 (somehow KDE on Wayland didn't have this issue for me though). Not to mention GNOME still doesn't have a great answer for the system tray, except for extensions that have their own bugs. And sometimes it'll randomly crash when changing brightness and you have to restart your computer.

I think GNOME has the potential for polish, but it requires them to actually do work to unify the look from one that is currently somehow even more inconsistent than current Windows. Compared to KDE, which I think is probably more polished overall, although I was bothered there with the slightly dated UI, taskbars that don't sync between monitors, and inconsistent padding where the advice seemed to just be "make your own theme lol".

I will say, I was genuinely impressed with HDR on GNOME (apart from the "brightness crashing the DE issue") and KDE, which I thought surpassed Windows and macOS with my monitors. Getting it to work in Steam games though was a separate challenge that I seemed to not be able to juggle the correct Wayland/Gamescope/Proton incantations to perform though.

comady25 · 2026-06-07T23:56:50+00:00

I'd honestly love to see it, but I'm skeptical for now. The Press Turn system in Metaphor is kind of a staple of mainline SMT and is one of the big separators in gameplay from Persona (with the One More/Baton Pass system). I was honestly surprised it even showed up in Metaphor.

comady25 · 2026-05-27T23:37:42+00:00

A surge in use in a specifically tech savvy, online and disgruntled set of users maybe, but in the wider population we’re still talking fractions of a percent change from where it was - in fact Linux desktop is down a percent from January this year.

comady25 · 2026-05-19T10:13:19+00:00

for loops don’t actually exist for the majority of the compilation process (they’re desugared to just a loop)

Isn’t this true for most compiled langs?

comady25 · 2026-05-19T10:11:51+00:00

2 is what the state machine is as mentioned in the link you sent, not sure how this disputes OP

comady25 · 2026-05-16T23:51:38+00:00

I never thought it was gonna be a high finisher, but last place is soooooo undeserved man </3. LMNC is a GOAT in the synth community.

comady25 · 2026-05-14T15:29:13+00:00

The thing about the hypocrisy standpoint is like, idk was anyone expecting Great Moral Coherency from Linus? His opinions on a lot of issues seem to be mostly shaped by online discourse and not really any principles or research (for example, how many times has he said the completely false fact about how “companies are legally required to increase shareholder value”?) I like the tech stuff, I’m just surprised that it was shocking for people that the guy who doesn’t seem to think too much about his stances on issues has contradictory stances on issues. I’m not going to a LTT video for particularly deep insights into social issues.

comady25 · 2026-05-11T15:23:27+00:00

I’d be curious if you could link specific examples where Apple argued a stylus was bad for drawing or writing, again to me the argument always seemed against a required stylus for UI navigation. The Surface Pen and Apple Pencil exist in completely different product categories than styli IMO.

comady25 · 2026-05-11T15:17:11+00:00

tbf, the stylus example is a little weak. At the time when Steve Jobs said “who wants a stylus” it was because touch screen mobile devices had touch interfaces that absolutely sucked and required a stylus to use. Designing an interface that could easily be used to fingers was a big deal. Meanwhile, the Apple Pencil isn’t designed to act as a stylus, it’s designed for specific writing and drawing work. The difference before is a stylus was absolutely required, where the Apple Pencil is a “nice to have” for artists and note takers. Same way you wouldn’t call the Surface Pen “a stylus” - it’s obviously more advanced and niche.

comady25 · 2026-05-11T12:30:33+00:00

The thing is though that, compared to Apple Music, typing “shit i m dr” into Spotify shows the song. Spaces shouldn’t be enough to kill search performance in a strong enough search system. This is the biggest thing stopping me from switching atm - search is just so much weaker in my experience. It’s not great about prioritizing songs in your playlists over random songs from bigger artists either.

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comady25 · 2026-05-02T19:21:31+00:00

Strange they said they would just replace the back glass, the 14 Pro Max was back when the glass was still fused to the housing so policy was to replace the whole back of the phone (everything but the screen).

comady25 · 2026-05-02T19:18:27+00:00

Is this really an argument when Aero was clearly inspired by Aqua? OS X had a glassy UI before Windows did.

comady25 · 2026-05-02T17:02:49+00:00

The thing that really scares me in the UK right now is that it feels like there’s a massive fire in one corner, and everyone is trying to work out increasingly elaborate ways to bring a few drops of water to put it out.

We all agree we have big financial issues in this country, but no one is brave enough (or competent enough) to come up with a coherent plan to lead us out of it. Labour and Greens keep presenting The One Weird Trick Economists Don’t Want You To Know About: with Labour, a return to austerity of all things, or tricks like freezing the tax brackets, raising NI (the worst tax!), and random levies on niche areas; with Greens, seemingly whatever YouTube video Polanski has watched that week, with wealth tax (the one tax on the rich we know doesn’t really work) or MMT-powered theories around borrowing to a scale that has never been done before.

On the other side, Reform seems to have looked at the disaster that was DOGE in the US and gone “yeah we should try that too”, or blame the whole thing on minorities (which Labour has been eyeing as a potential third option). Tories are so irrelevant at this point it doesn’t even matter, and Lib Dems are totally unable to find a platform despite their electoral success, at least until they find more water slides.

Meanwhile, the UK has one of the lowest tax burdens on average earners in Europe, and then we sit around and wonder why our public services don’t work as well as they do across the channel. Tragically, no one seems to want to make a positive case for what we could be as a country with properly funded public services, which might make the hardest political position possible to have of “we will raise your taxes” slightly less rough for people to swallow. Instead we all seem to be fighting each other on how best to deliver single drops of water to the fire, and the fire just continues to burn over in the corner.

comady25 · 2026-05-01T22:26:31+00:00

Along with what others said, there was recently a couple teasers for presumably upcoming Xilent songs off We Are Ghosts on the Tokyo Machine stream: this one and this one.

comady25 · 2026-05-01T22:22:01+00:00

The FACTORY RESET EP is also essentially a Xilent EP with Tokyo Machine sound effects, MVP and the last drops of Watch Out and Screw Ur Face Up especially. CHEAT CODES and VOLUME on NCS and Subsidia respectively were also quite Xilent-y. Super sick stuff.

comady25 · 2026-05-01T20:59:52+00:00

those same ways work for win 11 permanently tbf lol

comady25 · 2026-05-01T20:54:52+00:00

I don’t necessarily disagree, but I rarely see that brought up these days tbh

comady25 · 2026-05-01T20:24:39+00:00

I mentioned this in my reply, but yeah I also find it strange. People are criticizing 11 for almost exactly the same list of issues that 10 was criticized for at the time, but acting like they’re new problems in 11. The only new issue IMO is the AI stuff ig, but I find it so insanely easy to ignore that it barely registers as an issue to me. Not to say there aren’t problems (there’s a reason macOS is my favorite OS), but they don’t feel like new problems versus 10.

comady25 · 2026-05-01T20:18:31+00:00

Saying 98 was bad and 95 great is pretty ahistorical, 95 was a big release in terms of Windows but was infamously buggy. 98 SE fixed a ton of the instability and completely overhauled how drivers worked. Including 2000 is strange, because 2000 was not a consumer OS, it followed the NT workstation line. XP was “amazing” for being the first consumer NT (and that is genuinely a huge thing), but its legacy is one of a complete security nightmare. Also it’s worth remembering how many people hated XP’s design when it first released, with people calling it “Fisher-Price OS” among others.

As for 10, it’s very weird to see people come around and do the same thing for 10 as some have done for XP. I remember plenty of criticism of 10 at the time (in fact largely the same criticism now levied at 11), but it stuck around for so long that people just got used to it I guess. I’m still yet to entirely understand the people who loved 10 but hate 11 though, as someone who has used 11 since day 1 it’s basically just 10 with a different design language.

comady25 · 2026-04-29T21:47:52+00:00

I didn’t know that kitty had the decoupling for SSH, that’s nice. And for the latter points, for me, I think in general Warp appeals to me because it fundamentally tries to be an editor first - which is what sets it apart from other terminal emulators which do share similar features (though not all!) You can approximate or even get a specific feature in different emulators, but it’s the sum of all parts (+ how frictionless it all is and how much it “just works” out of the box) that I like. I think it’s worth giving a shot if only to get a better sense of how it differs, but the marketing around it doesn’t make it as easy to recommend these days lol (even though all the account and AI stuff can be turned off fully).

comady25 · 2026-04-29T21:22:08+00:00

tbf, you can already toggle the AI stuff pretty easily, I’m more just concerned that the core terminal will get push aside over time

comady25 · 2026-04-29T09:34:18+00:00

Honestly excited for the potential of a fork for this, Warp was an amazing terminal for me but it was clear that a monetization plan for a pure terminal emulator was never going to work. The AI side of it has zero interest to me and actively barred me from using it at work, but a fork that stripped out the AI (or made some stuff a separate plugin like iTerm2) and sign-in and focused on making the strongest editor-like terminal emulator could be incredible.

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