Wasn’t there a viral Reddit post for a similar issue where someone recommended sucking on the left earbud and it worked?

I’d be interested to know exactly when this was published. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a satirical take on a shortage of switchboard operators in Hungary at the time.

FYI you can access and download iCloud photos on a computer, which might help your wife transfer them without using her phone.

Which? argues that a customer who would have theoretically paid £1.99 for the service but was not able to do so because the actual £2.99 price was unaffordable suffered a £1 loss, even though the customer paid nothing.

Maybe you have to be a lawyer to understand this, because to me it sounds like complete nonsense.

People actually pay attention to spell components? I’ve been playing D&D for 20 years and literally every campaign I’ve ever played in just ignored them.

They don’t - this is about a deadline for the employer to voluntarily recognise the union as the entity representing their workers.

If that doesn’t happen, as may be the case here, the union can go to the NLRB to hold a ballot and, eventually, force the company to recognise them.

Basically, they gave WotC the easy option first but they ignored it.

Ah, one of the dozen people who actually liked the original Steam controller! A rare sight indeed.

Kind of funny to see how much longer the original German is to express the same dialogue, even accounting for the difference in font size.

For extra context: szünet is Hungarian for intermission

Ah, I didn’t consider that! It’s not a thing in the UK.

You mean if there was enough traffic ahead of you at the lights that by the time you reached them they’d gone red again? In that scenario you still pulled forwards and then had to stop again, so I’d consider it two stops.

It’s only one stop if you stopped once and then didn’t move at all between one red light and the next (in which case either the entire queue is blocked from entering the junction, or you’re doing something wrong).

Americans have a bizarre fixation with ‘perfect’ teeth. The ultra-white, ultra-straight look is uncanny to me.

Not these days. Apple hasn’t launched a new product with the ‘i’ prefix since Steve Jobs was around.

There may be occasional inaccuracies

I’ll say. Tried a handful of things I’m actually familiar with and it was full of mistakes and hallucinated ‘facts’.

Typical AI slop - looks good at a distance but crumbles under the merest scrutiny.

I’m willing to bet it’s people seeing an ‘AI bad’ headline, upvoting, and moving on without reading.

I don’t like AI either but the hivemind on the fediverse is just as bad as back on Reddit sometimes.

Likening Sony’s latest crappy video game DRM to the abhorrent cruelty of the US medical insurance system is kind of distasteful IMO. There are no lives at risk here, just angry gamers.

I’m not certain. That might fall under falsely implying endorsement, which is one of the few exceptions.

Fun fact: there’s no general concept of image/likeness rights in the UK, and photographers own the full copyright of any photos they take.

There are other laws that come into play if you were in a private place or if your likeness is used to falsely imply endorsement, but otherwise if someone takes your photo in public they can do whatever they want with it.

(Obvious disclaimer that I’m not a lawyer but the above is my understanding of the law.)

Exactly. If Epic released a $99 controller that required EGS running to work people would be up in arms.

No, the users are definitely also criminals.