Effectively already started to happen. Restrictions on use and higher tax and other charges for older cars designed to “encourage” people to buy newer ones, nearly all of which are in some way connected.
The UK government set a target for numbers of smart meters to be installed. It didn’t say that they needed to be working as smart meters. Nobody should be surprised by this.
There's a thing called leasehold whereby you own the building and lease the land usually for 99 years after which it returns to the freeholder. It's one of the reasons that the US embassy in London moved from Mayfair to Nine Elms. It was the only US embassy in the world that the US government didn't own, the freehold belongs to the Grosvenor family (i.e. Lord Grosvenor). When the US tried to buy the freehold the Grosvenor family refused but agreed to a 999 year lease in exchange for the return of 12000 acres of Florida that was confiscated from them after the Revolutionary War - yes, they've been landowners for a very long time!
I think the US made sure to buy the freehold of the new site at Nine Elms (they sold the remainder of the 999 year lease in Mayfair for an undisclosed sum) 😀
"Ofcom also states that sites must not provide information about or links to Virtual Private Network (VPN) providers." That's every other YouTuber fucked then.
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.
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.
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😀
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I did say /minimum/ 😀