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Cake day: August 20th, 2023

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  • It’s difficult to get anything to work on android tv when you don’t sign and don’t enable all the google shit. Even then the privacy statement is still bend over or your tv doesn’t boot past this screen.

    The Apple TV much better.

    It may be better than current android tv because the shield is so old and not been updated in so long.

    Apple TV doesn’t have ads only what’s on when you have the app icon selected. Except inside apps that have ads.





  • It does track if you realise the category of phone does not have much demand. Foldables are a novelty that many people will be discouraged from buying due to issues (perceived and real).

    It’s a waste of money to improve these phones if the market isn’t there. It’s much better to focus on the markets you have a reasonable chance of growing sales in.

    I imagine all smart phone categories are fairly stagnant now. Phones have been more than good enough for many years now that replacing them is more about replacing worn out unsupported hardware rather than getting better performance and features.





  • Scottish water is owned by the Scottish Goverment. It provides additional funding to the Scottish Goverment, unlike the water companies in England that require subsidies. It does this while providing the highest quality water in the UK, at the cheapest price and with challenging geography. The Scottish Goverment aren’t doing anything special, they just understand monopoly services can be provided efficiently by the government. It’s complete feasible for the rest of the UK to do this.

    Privatisation is not and has never been about efficiency. It’s about extracting the common wealth of the nation. Highly efficient business vertically integrate. Like Starbucks makes their own cups and this allows them to operate at a higher profit margin. Apple designs their own packaging, processor’s and software as this allows them to operate at a higher profit margin. The same would be true for governments.

    The problem is we elect people that don’t believe Goverment can be run effectively and efficiently. We shouldn’t be suprised when these politicians don’t run the Goverment effectively and efficiently.








  • The headline suggests they didn’t, but they did protect jobs.

    The union stopped even more layoffs from happening. They stopped a 10% wage cut, and the jobs that are being cut won’t be immediately cut as planned.

    This provides employees more time and more salary to find a new role elsewhere. The unions had to accept the reality of the situation, they would all be out of work if the company folded. They did win much fairer treatment for the employees than they would have had otherwise. They also got more support from the goverment to keep the business running and keep factories open than the business could get alone.

    Unions work and this wasn’t an exception. In fact the union probably benefitted the shareholders as they produced an outcome that is more sustainable long term than the business leaders and shareholders would have chosen without the threat of strikes.