some sort of union perhaps…

one that perhaps spans the continant of europe…

i wonder what we’d call it

I had my phone taking photos in HEIC for a couple months. i ended up switching back to .JPG because both signal and whatsapp stuggled with it

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.

i think that will end up pushing discourse on your site towards negativity

unfortunately a lot of the bigger alternatives are just filled with right wing nutters. although hopefully apps like grayjay will make it easier for less political minded people find a home on other platforms

This was over a year ago now Jerboa may well be in a better state now. I can’t remember specific bugs but they were frequent and serious enough to frustrate me, a professional software tester, enough to move to a different app.

I started on jerboa, but ended up moving to connect because of the bugs.

One of the reasons i use Mega to sync my keepass db across devices where it’s needed. They have version control, so if it gets corrupted then i can restore from a previous version

I’ve not had any of these issues with VSCode and i do use it just for the seamless Remote Development over SSH abilities.

The learning curve for it is a lot less than Vim even if Vim is likely a much more powerful tool imo

It is however in the schengen area. so regulatory alignment on a lot of issues is still required as if they were members