[-] snaprails@feddit.uk 9 points 11 months ago

Excuse me but the correct SI units for length and area are double-decker buses and Waleses respectively ☺️

[-] snaprails@feddit.uk 15 points 11 months ago

Who knows? Some people would crawl up their own colon if they could.

[-] snaprails@feddit.uk 6 points 11 months ago

Do NOT open the "is this a sandwich" argument! 😱 😀

[-] snaprails@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago
[-] snaprails@feddit.uk -2 points 11 months ago

Oh what a surprise, the 5th columnist has revealed his true colours as a Thatcherite Quisling. “Across Britain, there are people who feel disillusioned, frustrated, angry, worried. Many of them have always voted Conservative but feel that their party has left them,"?

And across Britain, there are people who feel disillusioned, frustrated, angry, worried. Many of them have always voted Labour but feel that their party has left them,

In the words of the song, "never trust a Tory or a Tory in disguise."

[-] snaprails@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago

They ran the train but lockdown started the next day so my 8 day trip was off. Then they said you couldn't get a refund on advanced tickets but could rebook later (at extra cost) up to a certain date but who knew when lockdown would end? I wouldn't have been able to get more leave anyway. Then they said a few days later that advance ticket refund would be given but when I applied they said "Too late, it's after the date you were due to travel". Every other company I'd booked with gave refunds even those bookings that were non-refundable. It looks like Caledonian Sleeper's days might be numbered anyway. Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.

[-] snaprails@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago

Caledonian Sleeper who carefully wriggled out of paying a refund on a booking cancelled by the March 2020 C***d lockdown.

[-] snaprails@feddit.uk 4 points 11 months ago

It wouldn't surprise me if Sunak had slipped them a backhander so he could be like Thatcher.

[-] snaprails@feddit.uk 5 points 11 months ago

It's fine, Xmas is still over a month away. Better get the sprouts on now though.

[-] snaprails@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Tech journo and one-time Cixen*

https://www.theregister.com/Author/Liam-Proven/ Liam is an EMEA-based Register journalist covering free-and-open-source software (FOSS), operating systems, and cloud developments. Prior to joining our publisher, he has had decades of experience in the worlds of IT and publishing, with roles ranging from tech support and IT manager to teacher, technical writer, and software director.

(*Cix, probably the original UK based social media platform :-) https://forums.cixonline.com/ )

[-] snaprails@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

For no better reason than that Liam Proven mentioned it on Mastodon recently and I had an old laptop lying about that met the fairly lowly spec (4gb RAM, 15GB free space, 64 bit processor) and I was bored ☺️ It easily installed on a Packard Bell eadynote TJ65, team smoothly, and send to be a nice useable basic system. For which I've no real use already having a Xubuntu desktop & laptop, and a MacBook Pro😀

[-] snaprails@feddit.uk 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Welcome to the top of the slippery slope. Won't be long before you're digging out an old laptop to install Ghost BSD 😀

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