Their underground 80s station was a regular listen for me about 10 years ago. Glad to see they’re still going!

That’s just not true, at least in the UK. Debit cards are the standard here, not credit, and they don’t have the same age restrictions.

Do You Dream in Colour? by Bill Nelson.

Great song, to be fair. My dad always insists that Gary Numan was a Bill Nelson ripoff with less talent. Personally, I think Bill has kind of a weak voice and was never destined for big success, but I do enjoy much of his work and Bebop Deluxe are hugely underrated.

Browsing the web without an ad blocker is an act of self-harm.

It’s all done on device and works even if you’re offline.

To use Live Translation, you need to download the language the other person is speaking and the language you’d like to translate it to. Once the language models have been downloaded, all processing takes place on your iPhone, where all of your conversation data remains private.

I’m also waiting for the full iFixit review, but teardowns from other channels are now being shared and so far it looks like it’s very solidly built and repair-friendly. None of the typical ‘cover everything in excessive glue and tape’ anti-repair shenanigans we’ve come to expect from Apple.

I don’t think it’s as good as Rollcage overall, but still worth playing.

Little-known recommendation if you enjoy Rollcage - check out Firebugs, also on PS1.

Same developer as Rollcage, but largely forgotten because it came out after PS2 had taken over.

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Sorry for your experience but I assure you we do have freezers. Freezers are in fact very common, just not in small apartments where space is at a premium.

Vast, American-style double-fronted fridge freezers are uncommon, but I’d venture a guess at most UK & Western European households having a freezer of some sort - either a tall fridge/freezer unit or two separate under-counter units.

Finally, a way to indulge in exhibitionism without having to leave the house!

You got a 2017 laptop with an A18 Pro chip? Wow that’s incredible!

That claim seems like it’d be trivial to fact check, and indeed does seem to be false.

Except for them to be directly comparable you’d also have to get a keyboard cover for the iPad, making it more expensive than the MacBook, and it’d still have one fewer USB port and no audio jack.

RTFA

In the past several months, many specialized download managers were created that completely bypassed the site, donation messages, and download protections. Some of these download managers locked certain features behind a paywall that required users to pay in order to gain access. The use of Myrient for commercial, for-profit purposes has always been strictly forbidden. Such egregious and abusive usage of the site cannot be tolerated anymore.

The headline blaming it all on AI seems misleading given the owner explicitly blames leechers in the community. Selfish chuds were routinely bypassing download limits and then had the gall to add their own paywalls without contributing anything back.

Safety. What else?

You can see a news report from when it came into force here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-60203081

The guidance is here: https://www.gov.scot/publications/fire-and-smoke-alarms-in-scottish-homes/pages/where-and-what-to-buy/

Which includes this part on batteries:

Replaceable batteries cannot be used because the sensors in the alarm degrade over time and so will not be able to detect heat or smoke. This is why the alarm has a limited lifespan.  Sealed, tamper-proof battery units must be used because they are safer than those which allow the user to change the batteries.

There have been several tragedies over the years where alarms failed because their batteries expired, or people have removed them. Any alarm you buy will have information on how long it lasts, which can be up to 10 years.

In fact, smoke alarms with user-replaceable batteries became illegal in Scotland a couple of years ago.

Still waiting to see if the same regulation gets applied across the entire UK, but anecdotally I’ve noticed it’s already much harder to find anything other than 10-year battery or hardwired models in my part of England.

Whenever I visit the Balkans I absolutely devour poppy seed rolls.

For the uninitiated, they’re not just bread rolls with poppy seeds on top; they’re cakes or pastries filled with a sweet poppy seed paste. It’s delicious but very hard to find outside Eastern Europe.

I can only speak for myself, but I enjoy having a regular supply of interesting problems to solve, and the daily routine keeps me grounded.