So almost any town?

That sounds like where I grew up, small town and nearest cities were over an hour by bus. Never had an issue without a car, most shopping is just food so easy enough to walk or cycle to the local Tesco.

Most weeks the only time I would leave the town was when walking the dog. Until I got a job in the next town over, which was only 6 miles away, easy distance to cycle. Moved since then, now its quicker to cycle to the next town over than get the bus or drive. Google says its up to an hour to drive there in the morning, cycling you can just go past all the cars that aren’t moving anywhere.

You know I only ever get more glad that I didn’t learn to drive and went with cycling instead. It started due to not being able to afford it, now I won’t own their shit and I will be happy.

Tbh the tories were almost onto something with workfare but they were needlessly cruel with it. All they had to do was give a living wage out of it rather than barely over £1/hour to work at Argos and it would have been kinda ok.

Unemployment benefits are so low you would only have to do a single shift a week if that is what you wanted to pay them. It would essentially be a guarantee of a minimum amount of work and income regardless of circumstance, and you could cut most job centre staff to pay for it. I am sure local councils could find useful things for an already paid for labour force and it would be more useful to the community than subsidising Argos.

My dream is more like buying some woodland and living there in a cabin. I can afford it until the council evict me and seize my land for living on it without their permission.

Wouldn’t 4G make more sense for most rural locations, its not like its a single house with nothing for 1000 miles in all directions

Certainly could, depends what exactly you want to run and the specs of the machine of course. Something to keep in mind though is if its very old it may cost more in electricity than a fairly cheap new machine. But really it depends on your use case.

A lot of self hosted things have fairly low requirements but not all of them.

Seen a few YouTube channels now that just print out AI generated content. Usually audio only with a generated picture on screen. Vast amounts could be made so cheaply like that, Google is going to have fun storing all that when each only gets like 25 views. I think at some point they are going to have to delete stuff.

Well I didn’t vote for this. Voted green as there isn’t a workers party here.

More a combination of train/bike. Almost everywhere I cycle to can’t be driven to.

If spez was on fire I would only piss on him when he was in the burns unit after.

The scrumpy and mead I have already made vs the scrumpy and mead I could make.

Just add a 6th finger to all images. Shame that joke made more sense a few years ago.

Pretty sure the 3rd hobbit film had to make up most of it, if that counts?

I mean you could say the same thing for ICE/EVs, neither are taking you somewhere that doesn’t have roads.

I guess I don’t mind if I can self host the server. If I can’t I have no interest in touching it.

My bike is fine for 99% of trips. For the other 1% I can get a train

Luigi, because Bernie was our compromise.

Option 3 (High risk): Take as much as you can, deliberately sabotage things on your way out as relations deteriorate.

We covered how taxes are calculated at school, it isn’t very complicated. Yet SO MANY people insist they end up getting paid more it made me question myself for a while.

Although sometimes the removal of certain benefits does mean people can be worse off for £1 extra. Which if anything is just a sign that the benefits were poorly thought out and should taper off instead of being a hard limit.