I like to think a list like this is highlighting that you can enjoy being british without being one of the wankers you mentioned.
The less good ones of these are more wanker-lite.
I like to think a list like this is highlighting that you can enjoy being british without being one of the wankers you mentioned.
The less good ones of these are more wanker-lite.
It’s only Virgin Media to my knowledge who does this.
Most of the other providers are happy for you to use anything that works properly for VDSL or FTTP.
Most FTTP providers fit an ONT that puts the connection back into an RJ45 ethernet connector.
Then you connect to the provider using PPPOE. Anything past the ONT, you can do whatever you like.
I think it’s time for me to get into the soundproofing and triple glazing business.
I see no downside: If they crash and burn, it’s free black pudding!
Don’t worry, we’re quite good at censorship here too 😇
(Actually the policy is that genuinely awful content gets removed, other things get left so that the community can respond/vote up/vote down)
My hope is that the reform is in the form of more early intervention at a community level (which is kinda what we had before the Great Gutting over the last decade).
Though going by the mood in this thread, I should be emigrating to Sweden…
This would be great news. Imho, council run buses are a great public good.
When you have a large town/city, it’s really important to have a way to get around that’s not expensive.
You only have to visit somewhere with a properly run network to see the difference.
As a municipally owned bus service, the council says Reading Buses can invest an additional £3m a year in the bus network, around 12-15% of its annual turnover, because it does not pay out dividends to private shareholders.
Money from commuter services also subsidises smaller less well-used routes.
Edit: Another place it helps councils: Old people bus passes.
In June 2023 the LGA said there was a £452 million gap in the funding councils receive from government compared to the actual number of ENCTS journeys made in 2022. This meant that councils were having to plug the financial gap from their “own stretched budgets”, which was “completely unsustainable
So a LA owned bus company with lower fares means the council doesn’t end up making up the shortfall between what the government pays for free journeys and what the bus company decides to charge.
Because there won’t be any more after you state-own it all, right?
Right?
ML summary:
Jas Athwal, the Labour Party MP for Ilford South, is a landlord with properties that tenants say have poor living conditions.
In the selection process for the Ilford South seat, Athwal won a higher percentage of votes from the party’s online “Anonyvoter” system compared to in-person votes, despite his opponent Sam Tarry winning more of the in-person votes.
There are concerns about a lack of transparency and potential for fraud in the Anonyvoter system, which has also been used in other Labour candidate selection processes with similar results favoring more centrist candidates.
Former Labour MPs Sam Tarry and Beth Winter have raised legal concerns about the use of Anonyvoter, and several Labour-affiliated unions have expressed doubts about the system.
That’s the gist to be honest.
RTB gives people the right after a certain amount of time, but lack of funding meant that councils weren’t able to replace the stock.
The discount is up to 70% too. So while each person who can exercise RTB gets an impressive leg up into the housing market, it’s contributed to even longer waiting lists for council housing.
It also creates a bit of an ethical dilemma if you are in council housing.
As if you start doing better financially, and are able to afford regular accommodation, you have an incentive to hold until you can RTB instead. (Though there are apparently now re-assessments at tenancy renewal time)
Really, the answer is way, way, way more council housing. But the money just isn’t available.
You can block or disrupt communications with LEO.
But you’d need the blessing of the country’s government to pump out that much interference continuously.
I wouldn’t lump Corbyn and Dahl together.
Dahl was a beloved children’s author, but he really did make some shit takes.
Finally, a local WEEE company gets to make a few hundred bucks selling off the glorified VOC sensors at the end.
Friends had to replace a gas heater for their water radiator system and were told that there wasn’t a heat pump unit hot enough for the retrofit.
This generally means that they’d need to upgrade their radiators to accommodate a heat pump at normal temperatures.
And so long as the heat pump and radiators are appropriately sized to dump heat into the house, that shouldn’t matter.
The main issue is people with badly designed heating systems running at 70 degrees flow temperature.
When you swap over to a heat pump, the flow temperature is only supposed to be 40.
So you either need to get more water in the loop (bigger radiators) or less heat leaving the building (better insulation). And an understanding that the heat pump is supposed to heat gradually.
As for the installation cowboys…yea, it’s an absolute farce. £2k unit somehow costing £20k to install.
Oh no! If they continue down this path, nobody will want to privatise anything!
Piston aircraft still use it. Which makes it doubly annoying when some tit in a cesna decides to circle around town at 1000’.
Not just making a noise, also cropdusting with TEL.
I unblock ads on AVForums. And honestly, the ads are either really well targeted (because I’m probably going to buy that amplifier eventually), or random ebay stuff.
If they started serving up the generic “reduce belly fat in 2 seconds with this simple trick” with some AI generated picture, I’d re-evaluate very quicly.
I look at the fees charged nowadays, and I’m convinced that if I had just finished my A-levels, I’d just go and train as a paramedic.
You still get a degree, except as it’s also an apprenticeship you get paid.
And I also fear overburdened professionals not having time to second guess ML hallucinations.