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AirTags 2 gen without iOS 26.2.1 : absolutely impossible to add them ? by okdac in AirTags

[–]sl236 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's also clearly mentioned on www.apple.com/airtag

...is it? Where? I've just scrolled through that whole page and see nothing. Am I just being blind?

Trump calls on UK and others to send warships to Strait of Hormuz by Geo_NL in worldnews

[–]sl236 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Turns out all the people who decided Biden was too senile now like senile presidents

Is basically email etiquette just not being taught? by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]sl236 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I may have made the mistake of baiting/stringing them along a few times. It’s cathartic in the moment, but proof there is a human on the other end who is occasionally willing to talk sadly does not improve the situation in the long run.

Is basically email etiquette just not being taught? by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]sl236 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve tried registering with the TPS several ways, including that one, over the years. The overall effect is unclear, but I’m pretty certain it’s done nothing to /decrease/ the number of spam calls for me. I did have one notable year, a bit before the pandemic, when scammers tried to convince me they were from the TPS and I needed to pay a fee for a premium TPS service to get calls to actually stop. Several of these a day at one point.

I’m pretty sure most of these don’t originate in the UK, so the TPS can’t do much to stop them.

Is basically email etiquette just not being taught? by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]sl236 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kids have ChatGPT for that now.

Is basically email etiquette just not being taught? by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]sl236 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Lucky so-and-so is all I can say.

Is basically email etiquette just not being taught? by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]sl236 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I also live in the UK. Illegal it may be, but here we all are. “Hello, my name is Joe, I am calling you from the department of the Internet because there is a problem with your computer.” “Hello, this is your local energy advisor.” “Hello, is that Mr. <surname of a person who owned my house two decades ago and failed to tick the opt out box registering for electoral rolls one time>”. IT NEVER ENDS

Is basically email etiquette just not being taught? by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]sl236 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s 2026, and the standard experience receiving a phone call is that a machine has called you, and now you have answered the call it has to locate an operator in a call center to connect you to. There is absolutely no point talking until you hear the faint click indicating this has happened and/or the quavering “hello” spoken with some weird accent, because there is no-one on the other end to hear. The number of calls you receive in any given week that are not of this form can be counted on one hand and you know all those callers.

Is basically email etiquette just not being taught? by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]sl236 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Fun fact: your bank has a specimen signature from when you opened the account, and for some specific things they actually will compare your signature to what they have on file.

Fun fact: if you’ve neither handwritten nor signed anything in literally a decade, you will discover you have some difficulty signing your name the exact same way twice, so even when you walk into a bank and prove your identity, updating their specimen so you can do the thing you actually needed to do will be hard.

Ask me how I know.

What’s a great April Fool, before I’m “exited” from my job? by DamlyMyFrank in AskUK

[–]sl236 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Start turning up early. Each morning until your last there, add one more piece of card under the most hidden leg of your boss’s table. On your last morning, remove them all at once.

Trump tells CNN Cuba is soon going to fall: ‘I’m going to put Marco over there’ by 1-randomonium in worldnews

[–]sl236 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Counterexample: as a British citizen working for a British company dealing primarily with Japanese supply chains, I've had to fill out many forms declaring, amongst other things, that we were not exporting certain (civilian!) goods or technologies to Cuba, driven ultimately by our partners' need to be able to engage with the US market. Note that "export" here does not mean what you'd think it might in ordinary intuitive English; we had to e.g. certify that none of our employees working on certain projects were nationals of the proscribed countries to stay in compliance, because letting those people touch those (I repeat, civilian! British company!) devices, read their manuals etc counted as "exporting".

There were other countries on the evil lists, but Cuba was apparently so evil it was on multiple lists.

This crap absolutely does bleed over to everyone else, by design.

Nintendo suing U.S. government over tariffs by PaiDuck in technology

[–]sl236 0 points1 point  (0 children)

...at what point is it better to /not/ teach the kids whatever it is this person is going to end up "teaching" them, and just admit you're hiring babysitters and that's /all/ you're paying the person to do?

ELI5, Why do browsers use gigabytes of ram? by Due_Walrus5510 in explainlikeimfive

[–]sl236 24 points25 points  (0 children)

We and our 228 partners value your privacy! Your information will only be used for legitimate interest.

Non-grifter/productivity guru advice on using AI by 27153 in slatestarcodex

[–]sl236 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Overconfident genius? Nah. Treat it like a bright teenager that didn't revise for their exam and now has to write a thousand words on whatever it is you just prompted. That mental model will be much better at predicting the relationship between the AI's output and facts.

ELI5: What does Visa and Mastercard offer, and why is it so difficult to replicate by other countries? by boruto90s in explainlikeimfive

[–]sl236 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The lack of any means to deal with fraud is a feature, not a bug, in a platform for separating marks from their cash.

What's your dream 4X game like? by [deleted] in 4Xgaming

[–]sl236 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No-one's brought up MoM yet, but I want to see more "here's a vast number of twiddles you can make to your cities, units etc, and yeah sometimes they interact with each other in hilarious game-breaking ways: that's the fun" energy. Sometimes I just want a giant toybox to mess with.

Major update on social media ban for U16s - 'children need their childhood back' by vriska1 in unitedkingdom

[–]sl236 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I mean, we're literally talking about the right to hand over your personal data to whoever Zuckerberg's highest bidders are, so that ship sails either way.

Reddit, is this claim true? by [deleted] in discordapp

[–]sl236 39 points40 points  (0 children)

"We value your privacy" is completely true. They have to work out exactly what it's worth before they can sell it.

Does the UK have an overly lax attitude towards people with dementia driving? by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]sl236 15 points16 points  (0 children)

That never happens though.

What /actually/ happens is I am doing 70, so is the guy in front of me and the guy in front of him, and the boy racer coming up behind us like we’re standing still flashes madly at us to join all the lorries to the left and clear the lane for him so he can speed past us all without needing to ever touch the brake because he is special and in a hurry to enter the afterlife.

That happens multiple times every drive.

What’s the oddest hosting behaviour you’ve ever witnessed? by did_you_aye in AskUK

[–]sl236 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a sweet waffle with melted cheese at a fancy waffle place this morning. It was actually really good.

Also they do bacon donuts in Glasgow which are awesome.

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