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We really do excel at money laundering. Go UK !

£70 on a £100 ticket? Yeah no wonder! They're too poor after paying £100 for a checked bag

Or long haul premium economy which is just absurdly priced now, often 100-200% more than economy.

> We used to be special.

Oh. Do expand.

Definitely easier and less cognitive overhead when wanting it just open an inch or two!

Rather than remembering the exact right amount of pressure for that mode on the switch

Nobody should have to learn anything for themselves, paying with your time is grossly unjust, the world owes them a hassle free operating system

People simply can't have the same expectations of hardware as with Windows. You must select your hardware for Linux support.

They make heroic efforts in supporting a variety of hardware but if you have the choice it's better to use hardware with better support.

There are vendors like System76 and Dell who offer Linux support

Ubuntu has a certified hardware list:

https://ubuntu.com/certified

I'm confused that people think it normal to go to Apple to get an Apple device to run Apple OS, but the idea of going to a Linux vendor to get a Linux laptop to run Linux is a weird idea.

All in agreement behind closed doors with the EU bureaucrats

Not really. If citizens see "fines" and think "whew, they got their just deserts", it's almost worse than no fines.

But the EU is frequently performative, so it doesn't surprise me. It wouldn't surprise me if they agreed in advance with the EU the fines, behind some closed doors.

Nothing less than a billion these days even registers

I'm glad we over here have decent public transport, large non-Uber taxi companies, excellent pre-prepared food in supermarkets with high food standards, sidewalks ...

If Uber banned me it would be the mildest of inconveniences. Every airport has an established taxi company (sure, wouldn't be as cheap but I wouldn't be stood up for 45 minutes to 1 hour at night) and some form of public transport. Each city and town still has established taxi companies. Many takeaways still take orders directly.

The answer isn't to try to make a crappy capitalistic company less crappy by slapping their wrists, it's to provide competition and use it

Locking the SIM is considered part of the feature on GrapheneOS AIUI

> if we can understand one another, what's the problem?

The accent is just being used a heuristic of where you're from, which is the actual judgement. Posh = not from round here.

Northerners are famously insular and protective of their communities (I love them for it but I think it can go a bit far sometimes)

Because Jesse Armstrong co created Peep Show too

Politicians are landlords and home owners

Careful about cheap. Housebuilders were happy to just use plasterboard to separate dwellings in a flat complex for example (or it at least sounds like it. There is zero soundproofing - every sniff, tap, movement etc can be heard)

10 year mortgages are available too from Nationwide et al

Which group lives in cities where their vote counts far less than a vote in the countryside

It's easier just to never believe a company whenever they say "unlimited". It almost always goes away. And never ever truly unlimited as they all have a legal caveat to terminate your services for whatever reason whenever they like

> Mandatory biometrics are pure insanity.

Yup someone tell the US government, because visitors can't enter the US without giving biometrics

This will definitely just apply to social media and the situation won't be abused by other companies even if they have no legal requirement, absolutely not, no sir.

It won't happen. The police are using it in meatspace. It will become the norm all over the UK.

ARR is an industry standard! It's an important metric! Our investors are only interested in that figure!

Quick, look over there!

Rclone is a great tool but it is not really a complete backup tool. Ie no snapshots.

You can use it to sync local snapshots or to a destination that does snapshots for example

Borg/restic are more complete solutions

There are good options. Borg, rsync.net with zfs send/recv. Storage boxes from Hetzner

Hard to make a particular recommendation as backing up to the cloud is a popular option but depends on your upload speed and rate of data change. And depends how much you're willing to spend for what tradeoff

I "could" care less about verbal flubs ;)

Let David Mitchell explain, in a totally non sarcastic way https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw

I also had an urge to make my belly move in and out in a way that made a funny noise come out my mouth!

I feel most people have absolutely no idea that the US had its very large boot in the UK's face with our face in the mud for much of the post WW2 period, and still has. We had to dance exactly to their tune.

It annoys me no end to read so many comments to the effect of "why didn't they just pull themselves up by their bootstraps?". Not that I'm saying there were not any economic failures by various British governments over the years.

Honestly, so many Americans have no idea about their country's foreign policy. I guess you have to be on the receiving end of their short stick to understand

And Chrome has an insanely dominant position now. Devs need Chrome, not the other way around

Thanks for the comprehensive reply! I gave it a go today with a USB stick. Just have to test a restore now :)

Great thanks for linking! I'm sleep deprived and was being lazy.

Awesome to read the support chat from nationwide saying it's explicitly supported. I figured as it works so well.

They're a very decent building society/bank if anyone is looking for a new one!

> [backup]...which uses the device-to-device mode

That's a very recent feature, isn't it?

> They can explicitly exclude data from device-to-device backups

Curious how many apps abuse that for purposes beyond the original intention? The big/popular apps etc? Ie what will be the real world experience despite this new feature