I went on Grokipedia once, months after launch out of curiosity. I found an error in the first article I looked at (the city that I live in). It was in the first sentence of the first paragraph of the History section.

It conflated erroneously King William the Lion of Alba and King William the Conqueror of England. They weren't even alive in the same century.

I can absolutely follow the logic of how Grok would make the error. Both Kings, both William, both the first of their name in their respective kingdoms, both notable and significant in their own right, but definitely not the same person.

If this comes to anything I'm moving to somewhere in the EU and pursuing citizenship there. This is clearly not about protecting the children anymore (not that it ever was).

I was excited for 802.11ac (now Wifi 5) when it first launched and I adopted it early but I've never been sold on the need for Wifi 6 let alone 7 now.

Unlike other folk in this thread I do thankfully have a Gigabit class internet connection but I now own my own home and so have been able to do some very basic Ethernet runs which totally replaces WiFi for 90% of my usage. My Wireless AP just talks to my phone, Steam Deck and a couple smart home gubbins really.

The US uses a slightly different Octane rating system that averages slightly lower than the more common RON. The system they use averages RON with MON which is measured under different engine conditions. The pump is labeled with (R+M)/2 to indicate this in the image. According to Wikipedia, 88 is equivalent to 95 RON.

No idea why they feel the need to be different.

My understanding is that GrapheneOS chose it for specific hardware security requirements that no other family of devices meet (or met at the time) but I kinda agree that it always felt icky to me that Google was simultaneously the software vendor we're hiding from and the hardware manufacturer that we're supposed to buy from.

Because the Conservative party has been in power for over a decade.

The NHS is a relatively large expense for the taxpayer so it upsets the "MORE TAX BAD" crowd and the poor exploitation opportunities inherent in a newly private healthcare sector excite the rich arsehole that are likely to be Conservative party donors.

I don't think it's a risk in the short term because it would be general election suicide but it's been boiling away under the surface the entire time.

I'd guess it would be the owner of the billboard advertising the space. I've definitely seen that before, often accompanied by a "x thousand people see this every day!" type message.

After intending to for years, I've recently switched to DuckDuckGo after getting increasingly frustrated with Google's search results. This makes that decision feel all the more like the right one.

I find it hard to say this is deliberate on Google's part but at best it's yet another case of Google blatantly skipping over Firefox testing.

My local McDonald's burnt down when the ice machine caught fire

I suspect they might be talking about a DNS based ad blocking solution. Like Pi-Hole or AdGaurd DNS.

They work by blocking DNS requests made by ads so the content can never be accessed. They're theoretically more powerful than browser extensions as they have the opportunity to block ads anywhere.

(may be a bit of an off topic rant)

The cluster fuck that is the UK's measurement system can be easily summarised by looking at fueling a car.

You fill your car from a pump that sells you litres of fuel. Then your car reports its fuel economy in miles per gallon.

How the fuck am I supposed to relate the 40 litres of diesel that I just bought to the 35 MPG on my dashboard without a fucking calculator?

I fucking hate it here. It's the exact same British exceptionalism that brought us fucking Brexit.

I'll buy you a pint if you ever find your way to Scotland. Hope things go well for you during the move!

It's the fact that it's in near real time now, older techniques with older hardware would need much longer.

I receive the Scottish equivalent and the experience could not be more different than my friends description of his encounter with the PIP process. The Social Security Scotland staff that I interacted with throughout the process genuinely seemed to care about me. Someone came to my home to help me with my application and assisted me in writing it in such a way that I'd get as much help as possible.

I have another friend who works with Social Security Scotland and he says that going after fraud is such a tiny fraction of the work he does. I personally agree with that philosophy, its worth accepting that some small percentage of fraudsters will slip through the cracks to make the process as smooth and comfortable as possible for those that truly need it.

Not really answering the question but I've completely stopped buying anything that requires USB micro B. I can't fucking stand that connector. USB C costs a negligible amount more and I've yet to have a single port or cable fail irreparably after using it for the best part of a decade.

An actual answer to the question? I'm done with Microsoft and Nvidia. I'd love to add Google to the list but I'm still largely entrenched in their ecosystem.

I much prefer FSR as it's a more open system. DLSS only works on Nvidia because Nvidia wants it to only work on Nvidia. FSR might be a step behind tech wise but it's improving all the time.

I think it's easy to draw a comparison here with the G-Sync vs Freesync debate that has pretty much resulted in total victory for AMD. From my observations G-Sync clings to life in only the very highest end bleeding edge turbo gamer monitors.

More open and permissive standards hopefully win out in the end.

Aye exactly, Apple's marketing, which is often basically lying, has a lot to answer for in the prevelence of this idea. They'd have you believe that they're making chips with 14 billion percent more performance per watt and class beating performance. Whereas in reality they're very much going toe to toe with AMD and other high end ARM chip vendors

"Negative Fifteen" and "Negative Seventeen" also work in the same way

I realise that the overlap between Mastodon users and BBC Radio 3 listeners is likely me and me alone but I wish they'd add an account for it.

I suppose the reasoning behind it would be that 4 & 5 are the talk stations.

The 50+ y/o gay bus driver that is a regular at one of my local pubs has/had an account strictly for rage baiting those who he calls "MAGATs". I enjoy the enthusiasm but we live in Scotland so I'm not sure I'll be joining him.