yep, reddit was RIF as far as i’m concerned. if RIF is dead then so is reddit

Getting citizenship in a lot of countries is expensive.

My partners mother has lived in the UK since the late 80s, has been married to a british bloke for most of that time and has two kids that were born here by him.

Still only has indefinite leave to remain, no citizenship.

looks like it’ll be over £3000 if she wants to get it just for the application (i imagine it’d also be a good idea to instruct a solicitor). which, for a semi-retired carer that flies back to her home country for a month each year, is a lot of money

personally i find kate struggles with large files. KWrite is a better analog to notepad IMO

fr, i remember being mind blown when bitcoin hit £240.

If i had had some at that point i probs would have cashed out.

My old housemate lost like half a dozen btc in the Mt.Gox collapse

among the not tech inclined? not many i’d reckon

Everyone over the age of 45 and is not tech inclined

As someone in the tech industry i can say that now is a pretty terrible time to lose your job.

The market was booming during covid but is very dry right now. Many companies have had lots of layoff and the market is saturated with candidates

Russia have demonstrated the ability to carry out chemical weapons attacks on mainland UK soil.

if a full on exchange we would be out of air defence ammunition very quickly.

the british military slashed budgets considerably after 2008. we’ve maintained special forces and we decomissioned our last carrier before its replacement was ready. we’re back up to 2 carriers now but dont have enough planes to put on them.

we have virtually no stockpiles of artillery and our land forces are small.

you cant sell/buy a tool but i wonder if you can hire a contractor to build you one.

Theres quite a lot of humans on this planet. collectively we are capable of performing more than a single task y’know.

I’m not a climate scientist, but i am a programmer. i’d be much more useful on this sort of thing than trying to program my way out of climate change

My gripe is that i was on an ad free tier. They just changed it so that the tier that was previously add free now had ads.

If they had added an ad free tier below my tier i would probably still be a subscriber.

“you watch ads now, pay more or fuck off” didnt sit well with me so i fucked off

Libre office writer is a thing

WFH was a £6.6k tax free bonus a year for me.

I hope it never ends

GPU prices have come down havent they?

self checkout defo requires a lot less people than staffed checkouts.

The mic is always on for android phones anway, thats how it hears “Hey Google”

open the back of the TV, locate the arial on the board and scratch away the traces leading to it.