I was going to put Bedfordshire in brackets next to that, but I forgot. I knew it could cause confusion!

• !imaginaryfairies@lemmings.world
• !yoursinclair@retrolemmy.com
• !britishcomedy@feddit.uk
• !beds@feddit.uk
• !raining@sh.itjust.works

I think the rest of my communities haven’t seen activity lately, so I’ll have to post in them first!

They were good before (and please correct me if I’ve got this wrong) EB bought them and did a “reverse takeover”. Since that point they’ve been going downhill.

I don’t think I’ve ever used Dear to start an email; always Hi for as long as I remember.

I don’t like To, it always seems like a command rather than a greeting. I write it on cards and stuff but it always leaves a niggling feeling of wrongness.

If it calls for 200g of aubergine, then you can weigh that at the shop… It’s more convenient at that end, and you can get the right amount.

Depends what it is. In this instance I was buying cups of fruit, how many cups are there to a punnet? I already have the weight on the packaging, so if I know the weight I need it’s much easier.

I’m amazed they are that uncommon. Here (UK) you can walk into a supermarket and pick them up for less than £20.

Some good answers here, thanks everyone, I’ve learnt some stuff today. 🙂

Not quite the same as Stones and Kilogrammes are both units of weight. Using cups is like weighing somebody using those luggage size baskets in the airport.

Yeah, that’s the sort of thing which worries me. I suppose if it’s a recipe which doesn’t need precise measurements it doesn’t matter.

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There’s also some sort of soft blocking option, which largely hides the instance AIUI but still gives the ability to follow users. This seems like a better option rather than completely defederating.

If Meta want to scrape your data they can do that anyway. All defederation does is stops you looking at their stuff (which, as you say, can be blocked at the user level anyway)

Postmarks? https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/08/with-postmarks-social-bookmarking-is-back-but-this-time-its-built-on-the-fediverse/

I never stopped bookmarking. Type a word and usually the browser will find that long lost page from the bookmarks.

They need to be trained on the film “Wargames”. Or forced to pay Noughts & Crosses against themselves.

I don’t know. Mastodon already supports audio posts, how does that federate? Why can’t Threads do the same thing?

I find this very useful to read paywalled articles that Google has managed to index!

OK, I see why they might want to get rid of it.

I got free electricity for quite a few hours on Sunday night and Monday morning due to this wind.

Apologies. This is a new series from the guy behind the Digitiser teletext gaming magazine. It’s very much in the style of the magazine, and contains segments about retro games alongside other nonsense. If you know and liked Digitiser them you’ll probably enjoy the humour in this.

I had to buy an adapter. I much prefer wired earphones, as somebody else commented, it’s much easier to switch wired ones between devices. With wireless you also have the issue of disconnecting them if you want audio through the phone speaker. I hate Bluetooth anyway.

I also prefer the earphones which sit just in the ear, rather than the current style of ones that need to be forced inside. I don’t think you can get wireless earphones like that, probably because they would be lost easily. I like proper headphones too (so that’s an option for wireless), but they are quite bulky so not always convenient.