The trick is to buy reasonably open devices, then provide the smarts yourself.
If it can talk to / be configured by HomeAssistant, and doesn’t require internet to work, it’ll probably be fine.

I bought it, played a little, but was working 60 hour weeks.
Housemate starting playing on my savegame, so when I next got back to it, I had no idea what was going on.
Haven’t gone back to it since, though I have nearly finished IV a few times now.

Turkey’s main source of renewable power is Atatürk spinning in his grave.

I just run mine without ever connecting it to the internet.
I run an Apple TV (shock, walled garden!), as it is the only device I’ve seen that consistently matches frame rates properly on the output.

This is why I often refer to 4K as UHD: The WCG and HDR being available to consumers is far more impactful than end users having a few more pixels.

(Also because I’m a snarky pedant, and consumer 4K UHD is only 3840 wide, while DCI4K is actually 4096)

Reminds me of the time the dregs of Portsmouth went hunting a Paediatrician.

In that case, the NHS (assuming they don’t have a separate agreement) will have to reduce the amount of it they dispense.
Our health spending is pretty much capped each year: If the price of a drug rises, then the impact/£ ratio will eventually shift that money towards treating something else.

I had a really chatty test, it was great.
It doesn’t sound like a bad idea. Some people would prefer a more human experience test, and others would prefer a more “exam conditions” formal one.

Or in true shit company fashion, promise to follow the rules, not follow them, then sue/petition the various bodies that they can’t make money unless the rules are removed.

Not at all surprised.
A Large, even with the DFS-style half-price offer, is £12.50 for a 13.5".
And they’ve apparently started charging £3.50 for delivery.

Meanwhile, my local pizza place is £14 for a 18".

I found it was well worth ripping to flac securely using EAC (no idea what the modern setup is).
As then I knew I had a perfect copy to make whatever MP3 I wanted in the future from.

Nowadays, I convert everything to V0 for portable use, but who knows what the future may hold.

I’m returning to car boot sales to buy cubic meters of CDs.
That, and BandCamp.

Making the job uncomfortable won’t help make the police more reasonable.
It’ll just drive reasonable people away, while not affecting people joining just to have power.

Same way people moving to the UK are referred to as migrants, but people leaving the UK call themselves ex-pats.

Crap idea? Check.
Unpopular with everyone? Check.
Lumbered on the current government by the previous, so hard to reverse quickly? Check.
The conservatives (and Labour’s lack of action) just handed reform a beautiful less-racist onramp.

“Tonight, I attempt to access some pornography.”
3 minute shot of Clarkson angling a camera at his visibly fed-up face

The worst part about privatisation is the level of “who, me?” that happens.
Huge corp doing bad? Fining an entire org takes forever (if it even gets there), and every shitty cog just does their small bit of arseholery, while pretending they’re not the problem.
And the C-levels mostly walk away with a slap on the wrist, if any.
A revolving door of executives, making small parts of the awful changes each.

😬

Doing a few things well, rather than microwaving everything Sysco can load into the freezer would be nice too.

One of my locals does chips, and hotdogs, in an air fryer. That’s it. But they’re amazing chips and hotdogs.

IIRC, isn’t one of the conditions from last year that universal service obligation must be fulfilled for 5 years?
Which, really doesn’t feel like that long.