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@richardisaguy @Tea sometimes they just come free with stuff. We got given two Google ones when my husband bought a Pixel phone. We were going to sell them on but we never got round to it. You can physically turn off the microphone part though (at least it tells you it’s turned off so fingers crossed) so we use the one with a screen as a digital photo frame (and a speaker) and the other one as just a speaker.

@SouthEndSunset @silence7 supposedly Joe Rogan is the most popular here, too. This article claims to have the top 25. I’d say there are a few more lefties higher up in here https://www.edisonresearch.com/the-top-25-podcasts-in-the-uk-for-q4-2024/

@person1 textbooks! And now ebooks and e-learning platforms. Look at this extract as an example of y, or analyse it to find examples of x, or watch this performance of a scene from a play as a good example of z.

@person1 I work in publishing for schools and it is *so* difficult/expensive to publish support for literature or media. Fair use & fair dealing laws can only get you so far. Great Gatsby finally coming out of copyright was a big moment. But the reason it’s come out is of course because it’s not actually recent literature any more.

@person1 imagine if we applied normal copyright to Disney

@sporkler @jsomae has he formally passed any security checks yet?

@Lost_My_Mind maybe it’s because a lot of our McDonald’s are in central locations where a lot of people live and there’s no parking, so it would be pretty absurd to only allow delivery? Or maybe it’s a competition thing. All the coffee chains do it, and it got really popular over lockdown. The queues in coffee chains can take ages while they’re making drinks for deliveries and pickups - it’s really annoying, but at least it gives another advantage to the independents.

@Lost_My_Mind @return2ozma you can in the UK. Maybe not globally? https://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/good-to-know/in-our-restaurants/my-mcdonalds-app.html

![Screenshot from the FAQ of the UK McDonalds app page: Ordering

• Browse our menu. Add to your order, choose your portion size and customise individual items.
• If you want to use one of the deals available on McDonald’s app makes sure you select the one you want from the deals page. You must add it to your order. If you don’t add the deal to your order you will pay full price for the item. Once complete choose which payment card you’d like to use when you arrive at the restaurant.
• Confirm your order and make your way to the restaurant.
• Confirm that you’ve arrived with the phone used to place the order.
• Choose the collection method you’d like to use.](https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/157/322/341/795/138/original/13bca148d1d222e2.png)

@HenriVolney well yeah, there are *brands* but I don’t think there are any geographical designations to compete with eg champagne, other than bourbon.

@veroxii @neo2478 right, and in terms of PDO there’s not much Europe could retaliate with. What is there? Bourbon and Tennessee Whiskey? I think those are the only geographical indicators they have. But Cory Doctorow came up with some good ideas. The EU has already brought in alternative app stores but I’m sure there are some other tech & IP considerations https://www.pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/

@9488fcea02a9 @ForgottenFlux I remember reading a whole article about how Samsung now just shoves a hi-res picture of the moon on top of pictures you take with the moon in so it looks like it takes impressive photos. Not sure if the scandal meant they removed that “feature” or not

@tree_frog @RememberTheApollo_ high on their own supply, though. A lot of government regulation is there to make sure the plebs feel just happy *enough* that they don’t rise up. I’m not advocating anything, just to be clear, but if people have nothing to lose then they start… trying stuff. Wasn’t the final straw that started the French Revolution the price of bread?

@alexcleac @Blaze (well, *was*). I think it’s American now

@alexcleac @Blaze and Umbro is British

@Fredthefishlord @QuarkVsOdo all his companies basically exist to siphon off government funding that should be going to something more worthy. In the case of SpaceX, look what’s happening to NASA now. And with the Hyperloop, he openly said he promoted that to take attention and money to prevent the development of high speed rail

@EncryptKeeper @OhVenus_Baby I have very much embraced the swearing method to get rid of 50% of my Google result screen being taken up by an untrustworthy statement. Just a waste of space and scrolling time.

@Gigameister @Novocirab I am on both but have basically left Bluesky for here. It was too stressful there… And I can follow Lemmy conversations

@F04118F @Blaze unrelated to toothbrushes but we have a L’Or coffee machine made by Philips (so, full Dutch I think) and so far it’s been great, if de-Nestleing Nespresso is important to anyone

@BaroqueInMind @bleistift2 pacifist because the org literally exists to stop everyone in it blowing each other up though

@caos @vesi *waving from mastodon*