That is a problem we regularly encounter in the UK. When we visit there, we also shop for unique British food, and boy, is this expensive without the cards.

Luckily, we’ve got smart friends who have basically made a wallet card for about every UK chain. Saves about 20-40% when we go shopping.

That is part of the problem, yes.

People that dumb should have neither dogs nor kids.

And let me tell you how this works with cars. With planes it is the same, except that the savings are even better.

A real rich person owns no cars. He owns a car sales company. That company has a few select cars, which the rich person can “test drive” whenever they like. If the prime time of a car is over, the car is sold and a new one is bought. The car sales company pays for everything: purchase, insurance, taxes, fuel, cleaning, etc. Of course, this company does not make any profits. On the contrary. So the rich person pays for these losses, and those payments are tax deductable.

Leave it alive, you can download any of their instructions from there.

As a long-term AFOL, it pains me to say, but BlueBricks has surpassed LEGO by far in price (not a miracle!) and design, and they are rather close in quality - mainly because Billund seems to be rather neglecting on the quality front in recent years.

Ever tried to apply for a visa waiver for the UK (ETA Electronic Travel Authorization)? They have the most fucked up app for that. You have to take a selfie, and it tells you “No, bad, try again”. And then you have to click through several pages of what to do and not to do again (all had been painfully followed in every attempt).

And why any of the dozen+ pictures was bad was the apps well kept secret. Finally, one had been accepted, without any discernible difference to the previous attempts.

The fun part: The delays and interruptions are still way shorter and less annoying that being forcefed two minutes of unskippable ads for some irrelevant junk or service.

All while claiming they did “nothing” when they f-ed up themselves.

Around '98, a tech support guy got a call that their application didn’t work anymore. He tried to troubleshoot, but the system was a mess. “Did you change anything since yesterday?” - “No, we didn’t!”.

What they did do, though, was running the Win98 update the day before. Which, at one point, after doing lots of things, complained that it could not continue for some reason, and offered to “undo” the changes…

He says a lot of meaningless junk all day. The BBC basically compressed the message to the core. Nobody can really deny that he incided this criminal and law overthrowing mob.

I’ve got a DELL server that I used as home server, but it was too loud. But it worked well, even at an advanced age. I moved the disks to a normal desktop machine (not DELL) that is much, much quieter.

I’m non-native (native German, learned English in school). Nearly everything I read or write is English, though, and I’ve probably read more English books than most of the native speakers.

I use Kubuntu for that. Works good, is reliable, and uses Plasma instead of Gnome. The KDE Plasma environment is way easier to “get” for people coming from Windows than Gnome.

So it is oficially a shitphone.

Apt update and upgrade happen automatically.

Time to go to the farm shop and get a bottle from the vending machine!

The “best content” being ip-located ads, probably.

Linux server administration tool, web interface based. Makes managing servers way easier.

I just repurposed one of our older PCs for that task. Slap Ubuntu on it, install webmin, and you’re set up.

One of my schoolmate was a serious asshole. Our guesses for his future were either he’d be a lawyer, or he’ll make a career in the FDP (a more money for the rich kind of political party here, with a “liberal” label).

I was not surprised to learn that he is lawyer, working for exactly that party.

Dr. Who: “Hold my beer”