I’m not sure if it works the same way, but Google Wallet uses a virtual card number as well as needing the phone unlocked. There a layer of obfuscation over using a contactless card, that I like.

+1 for NetSurf, I wrote the Amiga GUI for that.

Yeah, you need a sudo in front of it otherwise it won’t work.

Maybe the Android Authority one mentioned as the source in the article? https://www.androidauthority.com/android-17-app-lock-notifications-rumor-3630983/

I think it’s the same issue when watching any content from abroad. You need a broadcaster or streamer that operates in your country to pick up the rights.

When we were in the EU there was some discussion about using subscriptions from other EU countries, although I don’t remember how much that extended to BBC content. Not that it’s relevant now anyway.

PS you could DX it OTA from the North coast.

Try aidungeon - it does exactly this.

I’ve been using it recently for generating alt text for images (my bots on Mastodon and Aunty Madge on !yoursinclair@retrolemmy.com specifically). It’s pretty good at that, although does sometimes give weirdly wrong details - especially the TED Music Bot, if it gets the usual +4 startup screen it says it’s +4 on key F1, instead of 3-plus-1, and tells me the wrong colours for the text and background (I think it may be getting it confused with the C64, bit the colours are right there on the image!). It’s infinitely preferable to having no alt text, which would be the alternative.

The other thing it’s really good at is summarising articles.

I’ve also used it when I’ve had an error in my code I can’t track down, or a bracket missing that I can’t figure out. It quite often gives nonsense but I’ve had some success. Usually a normal web search is perfectly adequate though!

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Press Enter.

I see from your photo that it’s a Lenovo - pressing Enter to interrupt normal startup will give you a menu which then lets you get into the BIOS.

If it doesn’t go past the “press Enter” point you might need to remove the HDD (or whatever storage it has) and try again. Reconnect once you’ve changed the settings back.

Yes, you need to copy the Lemmy link (original link), I think it is a colourful Fediverse icon on the default UI.

Search for that URL on Mastodon and it should appear.

You might not see all the comments though, depends if they have federated (you can search for them as above).

That’s to guarantee you have to try plugging the USB cable in in all four available orientations before it fits.

Not sure, could be “and, um, yeah” when my sentence trails off because I’ve forgotten what I was talking about halfway through the sentence.

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You’ve sold me on Autumn. I was going to go for Spring.

Winter is next (cosy days indoors, potentially snow, and when it is sunny it’s lovely because it’s still cold)

Summer bottom of the heap. Can’t be doing with the heat.

I’ve been using Bookwyrm since I learnt about it - not long after I joined Mastodon. Migrated my GoodReads history over. @chris@wyrms.de if you want to follow!

I don’t think there’s space - there’s IQ above where the E would go.

Just thought of another one. I have an old Amiga 1200 which doesn’t get powered up much but I accidentally dropped it in a move. Since then it’s been prone to randomly crashing. Opened it up, nothing appeared to be dislodged. Somehow discovered that if I prop it up at an angle it doesn’t crash any more.

Think I’ve done this one too! Desperately trying to rescue some data off a hard drive which just went click click click. Freeze it, try again, works for a few minutes until it warms back up and click click click…

Individually press all the Shift, Alt and Ctrl keys.

This was back in the Windows 95 days and persisted for quite a few versions. The symptoms were that when typing you’d get accented or no characters, basically Windows thought one of the keys was held down. It happened more often than you’d think.

Looks like a V.

There’s an L next to a triple the other side - ALE could go there.