Sounds like that plot line in the TV show Silicon Valley

Starlink, sadly, is essential for many rural communities. But yeah, everytime we sign up one of our properties at work to one it always feels like a Faustian pact.

Work-wise fairly awful. Dodgy software and shitty MS updates resulted in hundreds of users having debilitatingly slow logins, and as the IT department we had to respond rapidly, which we do anyway, but we were also hounded by angry managers. Fortunately we’re on it today and all has gone well. Plus there was the sweet salvation of beer and family boardgames over the weekend.

Same! Back in the day my new flatmate, who was recently divorced, called me from work to say the delivery guy would be arriving with a new TV for the flat. I ended up having to help him lift it up 4 flights of stairs. It weighed an absolute tonne and my body ached for days. I didn’t complain though as he paid for it :-)

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It’s like their trying to please the right-wing and the reform idiots who will always hate them anyway. Totally tone deaf.

In Glasgow if you have 2 guys go for a blue-collar job, where one is Celtic and one is Rangers, then who gets the position would be 100% determined by the team the boss follows, regardless of legislation.

I bought a ‘rechargeable’ one that was basically a disposable with a USB-C charge port on the end. The initial charge seemed to last for the duration of the vape…

Just pleased that he’s not on the tele anymore. His patter was dreadful.