Thankfully everywhere I’ve been today was still taking cards. I had to have an emergency rummage for some extra notes this morning just in case.

That’s one of the few things I miss about the COVID lockdowns. Far less people travelling meant a lot less noise and more clean air.

I’m not sure what it says about us when it takes a disaster to help the planet.

I’ve also been off today, but my plans nearly unraveled because all the trains were cancelled at my station.

Ticket office had all computers down with blue screens, it was chaos. I managed to work around it, but anyone trying to get to airports etc today for holidays are going to be really struggling.

Might seem easy to someone with a technical background. But the last thing businesses want to be doing is telling average end users to boot into safe mode and start deleting system files.

If that started happening en masse we would quickly end up with far more problems than we started with. Plenty of users would end up deleting system32 entirely or something else equally damaging.

There some low cost MVNOs that offer rolling plans. No frills but cheaper than major networks.

Giffgaff have recurring “goodybag” system that can be quite cheap. They keep costs low through things like having minimal customer support.

Depends on your computing platform.

I see another reply has already covered Linux.

On a Mac, press and hold a character key and a list of accent characters will appear. There are also dead key combinations using the option key to enter special characters directly.

Have you got any air quality sensors? Particulates, CO2, VOCs, CO, Radon, there’s a while bunch of sensors, and a variety of DIY projects to put them together.

It also has the practical benefit of maybe improving your health.

Seems a pointless endeavour. The open and enterprise sides are so deeply linked, it makes sense that they share a brand.

Separating them only weakens the broader SUSE ecosystem.

Except in England, where it is still largely grey and miserable. We are still patiently waiting for summer.

Antivax conspiracists have been in the Reform orbit for a while. As have the climate change denial folks (which is more or less Reform policy), most recently the “15 minute city” flavour.

I have a feeling the next branch might be the “cashless society” stuff that’s brewing.

Reform seems to be the natural party for cranks, more so than UKIP was.