I think their decision was influenced by the most recent budget. With business costs rising due to the national insurance increase, banks are anticipating that inflation will fall less quickly, as costs could be passed on to consumers. This is compounded by government spending increasing which also has the potential to have an inflationary effect.

Given this background it is not inconceivable that BoE might need to raise interest rates again and this means the banks need to keep their fixed rates high to cover the risk of people locking in rates that turn out to be too low.

They get all the patches and minor upgrades in a timely fashion, similar to other distros. The major version updates do not come as readily though.

Have got Debian on an old thinkpad too because it is too under resourced to compile everything. I think Debian is amazing for a solid, reliable distro if you have weak hardware.

I use Gentoo and I love it. The installation process is a bit more complex than Arch but it doesn’t have to be if you choose the precompiled kernel.

The package management is extremely flexible and the community are great. I have a morning routine where I log onto my gentoo desktop before work and update everything; would compare it to raking one of those miniature buddhist sand gardens. Very theraputic!

I guess a silver lining here is that he must be good at negotiating if he managed to free that monster.

Yeah the Manjaro devs have a long history of gaffes not to mention the infamous one with PGP keys requiring users to reset their system clock

He’s a weirdo on mastodon too tbh. Very keen on blocking, no real interactions aside from self promotion.

Typically I don’t use a DE. I’ll go for dmenu + dwm usually if I only want a WM. I find the default bindings and behaviour for the tiling is the most ergonomic when comparing it to other WMs like i3.

When I do have to get a DE setup then I’ll use XFCE because I like how it stays out of the way and I find it easy to customise.

Don’t have a horse in the race really but I particularly dislike Jenrick so would have rather seen Badenoch vs Cleverly

They better have cross operating system multiplayer working this time! Friends and I went straight back to Civ5 when we found that we couldn’t even host LAN between linux and macOS

I remember being stubborn and trying to setup eduroam at my uni library using only wpa_supplicant for a whole day. Hugely frustrating. Gave up and installed NetworkManager and it just fucking worked… my tech minimalism phase was extremely counterproductive lol

I know some who have managed to hold down successful careers despite their habit. I wonder how many hidden “functional” users there are

The phrase “absolutely decimated” annoys me since to decimate has a really exact definition of shedding 10% of something

Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is probably what I’ll remember her best for

I have a gentoo desktop but for a convenient middle ground just put Debian on my laptop. It’s stable, things just work out of the box, maintainers/devs are competent, they haven’t drunk the snap/flatpack kool-aid…

Switching to Testing is always an option but I’ve not found the need to do that yet when I can install programs from a deb package or just compile from source and install it in ~/.bin in my home directory.

Yeah the spectator are probably the most right-wing publication in the UK with wide readership. They have a lot of edgy columnists like this dude. They are probably somewhere between the tories and reform in terms of the right wing scale.

Edit: My boomer parents actually got me a subscription to it for a year, a few years back as a birthday present. I’d say like half of the political coverage was palletable and pretty good on the whole; half was swivel-eyed right wing garbage. The arts coverage was susprisingly good.

Personally? I’m a Lib Dem member but I care about civil liberties a lot. Probably obligated to say Ed Davey but he’s a bit too wet for me.

Yep that’s what the spectator is like. I still think their general point is interesting.

I’m not sure how my thousands of hours of JRPGs can contribute to the nation but if they figure it out I can give it a bash

I believe if the instance is still up then it will still work up until a daily limit is reached. Most of them appear to be broken because the limit is fairly low.