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Annual climate stocktake shows weather records and extremes now the norm in UK Climate

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Royal Mail given go-ahead to scrap second-class post on Saturdays

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Public ownership of water in England and Wales is best way to improve industry, people’s commission finds

  • I thought the size of carry on luggage was checked at check in before boarding. It was the last time I flew.

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    Starmer outlines plan to shift NHS care from hospitals to new health centres

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    Home Assistant 2025.7: That's the question

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    Ofsted criticised over training manual linking autistic children to extremism

  • The new windowing system looks like a big improvement.

  • I think I remember running that on a Live CD that came with a Linux magazine.

    Bloody hell I’m old.

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    Apple introduces a delightful and elegant new software design

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    EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights

  • I would also recommend openSUSE Tumbleweed. I’m usually a Debian/Debian-based person but I’ve been running Tumbleweed on my desktop for a few years now and it’s been great.

    It has a few peculiarities like any distro but it’s been very stable, with few issues even with things like Nvidia drivers. Docs and community seem good too.

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    Jobcentres will no longer force people into ‘any job’ available, minister says

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    Thousands to get payouts over forced prepayment meter fitting

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    South Western first rail firm renationalised by Labour

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    Man arrested after fires at homes linked to PM

  • These Mavicas could become popular again now as retro tech. There’s a lo-fi aesthetic growing in photo and video that’s all about compression artefacts and old image sensors. Physical media and its inconveniences is also having a moment as a novelty and maybe even a broader movement.

  • I used to read them, they often had good in depth tutorials. The Format branding has been going for a long time, I can remember reading Amiga Format.

    There were a few other Linux magazines as well, Linux User, Linux Magazine, Linux Voice. I think there’s still a Raspberry Pi magazine as well which covers a lot of Linux stuff.

  • However, it is important to note that these digital IDs are not a replacement for the original physical ones. Furthermore, U.K. residents cannot use digital IDs at airports for travel.

    Additionally, Google states that it is also exploring certification with the U.K.’s Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology, which could enable residents to use their digital IDs for alcohol purchases and other purposes.

    So you can add your passport to Android but effectively not use it for anything? Does anywhere in the UK accept this Google system as ID?

    The article also mentions a partnership to add Railcards to it, but there is already a Railcard app for that, so I’m not sure what this actually for.

  • We already have a semi privatised identity system with the PASS card scheme for proof of age, its government backed but the actual physical and digital IDs are provided by various public and private groups.

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  • There are 4 bay units that would fit on a 10” inch shelf. I’ve seen some DIY projects too.

    Using SFF/mini PCs is also popular, there are models that can take multiple SATA/NVMe drives

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    Banding / Striping with SILK PLA Filament

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  • There are few if any 10” UPS units available anyway so weight is less of a worry. It’s one of the biggest weaknesses of the 10” system currently.

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    Warning RTS electricity meters in 300,000 homes could stop working

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    Ofcom announces new rules to keep children safe online

  • In the general population it does. Most people are not using an academic definition of AI, they are using a definition formed from popular science fiction.

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    Heat pumps to be sold ‘smart-ready’ in plans to save households money

  • Labour chose to take this particular stance today. There are many other approaches they could have taken, they could have also tried to dodge the matter and kick they can down the road, but instead "trans women are not women" is what they have chosen to actively embrace.

    (Further) pandering to the transphobic lobby is not necessary, and what's been said today is far beyond pandering.

  • They could have announced they would look to introduce new legislation to address this. They could have said just about anything instead of what's been said today.

    But they didn't, they are instead parroting the court ruling as if it's a final settlement on the issue as whole.

    There is no weaselling around these words, the only debate is whether it exposes cowardice or bigotry.

  • Even by the low standards I had for Labour's approach, this is depressing.

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    Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says

    3DPrinting @lemmy.world

    3D Print Anything Without Supports - Non-Planar Slicing & Core R-Theta Printer

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    ‘Honest folk are paying for this’: the fight against Britain’s billion-pound energy heist

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    A third of UK school staff report ‘physical underdevelopment’ in poor students

  • But Pokemon was a show about a fantasy world of made up animals with magic powers. 4Kids felt kids would be able to grasp that, but not rice balls.

    Kids could accept a weird yellow mouse that could shoot lightning bolts, they would have accepted some weird food they hadn't heard of either.

  • The platform owners don’t consider engagement to me be participation in meaningful discourse. Engagement to them just means staying on the platform while seeing ads.

    If bots keep people doing that those platforms will keep letting them in.

  • It's a feature that's often been requested, but hasn't appeared yet. The best option out of the box is creating non-Administrator users and then creating custom dashboards and panes per user with only the controls they need.

    But that doesn't stop a user from poking around still, because they can still access all devices and entities through features like the Logbook - which is always accessible because sidebar items can't be controller per user.

    There are some HACS bits that might be able to lock things down a bit further, like Kiosk and Guest modes.

    I've heard some people get round this by setting up inebriations with Apple/Google/Amazon ecosystem, only exposing the desired entities/devices, and then giving others access to those and keeping them out of Home Assistant altogether.

    It's a feature set I wish they would add/expand, I'm sure anyone with a home office and mischievous children would agree.

  • It’s something I often hear complaints about. Several of the Home Assistant users I know love the way it integrates all their smart devices together, but say they find making good dashboards difficult.

    Improvements like proper drag and drop and better auto categorisation and population will go a long way to help them. The old default dashboard that just lumped everything in one screen isn’t a great way to get started.

  • It looks good but an open world also doesn't feel like Mario Kart to me.

    Although at £75 I probably don't need to worry anyway, that's a stretch too far.