Not music videos.

I don't mean in terms of how the platform operates, I mean the people.

I was in a computer shop a couple of weeks ago and it seems the windows handheld makers are doing the same shit they have on their laptops - it was filled with pre-installed bloat, including some shit Norton antivirus 1 year subscription.

Something you never see reviews mention, which is crazy.

The fact that it's mostly like Reddit and people mostly act like redditors.

There's not really a way around it though.

Trump told nephew to let his disabled son die

That's awful

then move to Florida

Christ, it gets worse

Hamilton being above the McLarens is kinda crazy.

Actually, given McLaren's strategy calls recently, maybe it isn't actually that crazy...

You probably think you do that. But this is the same kind of take as people who say "advertising doesn't work on me"

You're probably not the exception to human psychology.

You can find it by using a search engine of your choice. But here's a snippet from one I found in like 5 seconds:

In the SEO company's analysis, they took a look at some of the most viewed videos on YouTube currently and found some similarities between them within their categories. The company sourced YouTube API data in July to conduct the study and analyze the most popular content on the site.

On average, thumbnails that feature stills from the video or images get 1.7 million views, compared to thumbnails with animation, which average 1.4 million views. Seventy-two percent of the most popular thumbnails include a face and get 921,000 more views, on average, than thumbnails without faces.

Believe it or not, YouTube thumbnails have faces because humans like faces. As I stated. It's not some global anti-capitalist cabal conspiring to earn less profit by purposely crafting thumbnails that people don't like.

People are drawn to faces. This is an established scientific fact that I laid out in my very first comment. You aren't special. It applies to you too.

Now, do you have any data on people disliking seeing faces in media?

Even if she was nude, plenty of places don't have a law against public nudity.

Look who it is, the person that thinks there's a global conspiracy to make less money, solely in to put faces everywhere despite people supposedly hating it.

You're right. They do it for no reason, people hate it, and it costs them views, pretty much all creators just really want to put their faces on thumbnails.

Oh he's certainly one of the best ever. I'd never dispute that. I can't really name anybody else on the grid capable of seriously going against Lewis over the course of a season.

But the Red Bull has went from the most dominant car ever to second best, with the Mercedes in a not too far behind 3rd (certainly good enough to compete depending on the track)

Max has stated that the car now needs his complete concentration otherwise it's easy to lose control, whereas last season and early this season it was on rails and just did what you wanted it to do.

I think that if he was tired (and I know I would be if I stayed up doing competitive sim-racing past 2 in the morning!), it'd be a lot more noticeable in his current car than in last year's (or early season this year's) car, because he has to be more "on the limit", so-to-speak, in order to get a good result.

Incredible that his first 104 races were all wins

In fact there was a lot of news about people being better off out of work rather than in work.

That doesn't really line up with new Labour achieving (at the time) record levels of employment, nor does it line up with the data on the amount of people claiming sickness absence: source (ONS)

As you can see, it fell from a rate of 3% in 1997 to 2.2% in 2010. It never increased under Labour.

Now, in fairness, it did drop to 1.8% for the Tories, but once COVID hit, the backlogs created for the NHS (in significant part due to the deterioration of the NHS), we have been unable to bounce back quickly.

The data also shows 184 million days were lost in 1997, which labour got down to 132 million in 2010. It remained stagnant under the Tories, then ramped up after Covid.

Seems to me like Labour were massively successful in reducing sickness leave.

In fact there was a lot of news about people being better off out of work rather than in work.

So coming back to this, tbh (to me) that sounds like it could be the usual bashing of benefits "scroungers". The data doesn't back it up, people just thought Labour's generous benefits was making everyone be lazy, facts be damned.

Feels like a Thick of It plotline lol

Is it? I'd say we don't really know.

Yeah he did a couple where he won easily the day after. But he was also in literally the most dominant F1 car of all time at that point. He barely had to push at all.

Perez sailed to 2nd in the WDC in that car. A man regularly outqualified by Logan Sargent now...

The most recent time he didn't have that advantage. He was irritated (to put it mildly lmao), error prone, and dangerous. Then the way he went on after the race was completely unhinged.

Lapses of concentration and irritability are pretty synonymous with lack of good sleep. I don't think it's that unreasonable to ask "was he tired?" considering he was up awake and actively competing well past 2 in the morning. Max is human, and that sounds like something that would make almost anybody tired the next day.

They aren't, no. But SUSE has continued working with MS, and many of the people that were there are still there.

Perhaps their close relationship is an irrational thing to point at in the current year. Perhaps it isn't. I don't really know tbh.

But it's certainly something some people are still a bit iffy about. And I'm sure some people will still be similarly iffy about RedHat in 10 years too for their recent licencing controversy.

I'd disagree with that, mostly.

The media codecs is bloody annoying, yes. Sure it's only a command or two, but it really should just be a tickbox in the installer like it is on, say, Ubuntu. So big agreement there.

As for the Flatpak repo, Fedora switched to Flathub as the default a while ago. IIRC it only doesn't if you choose to have no non-foss software during the installation (in which case of course you'd expect to not get full Flathub access!)

I think Fedora is an overall pretty great distro for beginners aside from their media codecs bone-headedness and their god-awful installer (which is getting replaced).

SUSE also has multiple controversial pacts with Microsoft, and has for a long time. Such as the Novell-Microsoft agreement.

There was a time when it looked possible that MS was going to sue lots of Linux projects, and SUSE immediately jumped into a cosy relationship with MS so that if it did happen, they'd be shielded. This was interpreted as a fuck you to other FOSS projects by much of the community. (Was a long time ago though)

I've seen it a handful of times and find it pretty wild. It's certainly not some widespread thing.

I do agree with the point, though.