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Half a billion cheap electrical items go to UK landfills in a year, research finds
  • Exactly. The fact that "disposable" vapes even exist is mind-boggling. And now they account for more than half of the electrical waste going to landfill. 🤦🏻‍♂️

    Why do they even exist? Can't they be banned?

    It's like buying a USB battery pack to recharge your phone - and then chucking it out after it's run out.

  • When an online game goes offline for maintenance, what are they doing?
  • They could be upgrading hosting infrastructure - sometimes this requires servers to be shut down or restarted. They might also be applying database changes such as migrating data from one server to another, or updating the structure of the database to improve performance or support new features.

    Honestly, there are quite a number of reasons for planned downtime.

    Unplanned downtime is a different story. Usually that's because something unexpected went wrong and there will be engineers trying to get things back up and running ASAP.

  • About Safari Extentions
  • Hello 👋🏻 fellow AdGuard user here. This extension never gets much mention – people seem to prefer AdBlock and uBlock Origin for whatever reason – but I'm very happy with AdGuard and have used it for years now.

    I don't have any issues reading articles online. I wonder if we're subscribed to different filter lists.

    I believe there's a filter called "anti-adblocker" or something – I would suggest you enable that if you don't already have it enabled. My understanding is that it'll block scripts that check if you have an adblocker – resulting in fewer of those "please disable your adblocker" banners.

  • "Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?

    I opened Spotify this morning to be greeted by a modal popup with a "sponsored recommendation".

    Why am I seeing ads if I'm already paying for the premium plan!? 😑

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    Cool YouTube cooking channels?
  • One really practical way to learn some new recipes is to use a recipe box service like HelloFresh or Gousto.

    They deliver a box with all the required ingredients and easy to follow recipe cards.

    For anything that you make & enjoy, you can keep the recipe card and cook it again using store bought ingredients.

    These recipe boxes regularly have deals and promotions (e.g. 60% off, refer a friend, etc.) so it doesn't have to be too expensive.

    Or if you don't want to order one at all, it's worth knowing that HelloFresh make all their recipes available online for free. So you can download and print off any that you like the sound of, without ever even ordering one of their boxes.

  • How would you feel about signing a smart contract? (details in description)
  • looking forward to finding a proper solution

    To the contrary, I think you have a solution in search of a problem.

    Your solution is smart contracts, and you're asking us if we agree that your cloud storage example would be a good use case for that solution.

  • Who else watched BBC News at 10 just to see who'd be presenting it?

    It seems like rumours and suspicions have solidified today. So I was genuinely interested to see who was presenting the 10 o'clock news this evening – and how the current BBC-related story was covered.

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    BBC star accused of paying teen for explicit photos

    www.bbc.co.uk BBC star accused of paying teen for explicit photos - report

    The Sun newspaper says an unnamed BBC presenter paid tens of thousands of pounds to the teenager.

    BBC star accused of paying teen for explicit photos - report

    > A BBC presenter has been accused of paying a teenager for sexually explicit photographs, beginning when they were 17, according to The Sun.

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