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Found the American

“Later this year, the government’s generative AI chatbot – GOV.UK Chat – will be added for everyone to use”

Can it not? 🙄

I am very tempted by a Jolla phone. Years ago I had a Nokia N9, and apparently they’ve done a good job of keeping the platform alive. It does have a yearly subscription for the OS which is a bit strange, but if it means my phone would last 10 years not 5 then I can get behind that

Yes! And that’s amazingly similar to Harry (but also completely different) - Harry goes around the various offices on his swivel chair (backwards, because kicking off things is of course easier) and fires staples at malfunctioning robots

I bloody loved Harry The Handsome Executive. It was an Ambrosia Software shareware game from the 90s and was surprisingly underrated. Will probably run on Infinite Mac but it never got an OS X port or anything

I have an old iBook which it still runs great on

See also the Camelford disaster

I love when I get halfway through an old usenet thread before I realise the date the messages were posted

You’re not required to carry your driving license, though. You only need to present it at a police station within 7 days of being stopped if asked.

The way I could see this being useful would be a version of the driving license we already have, but with no entitlements to drive on the back for people who don’t. No other changes.

remove shoes, belt, put laptop/phone on the tray bins

Some airports are removing this requirement now, but there are usually signs

This reminds me of people who used Computer Modern to make it look like they had written their paper using LaTeX to get better marks. It usually worked

Macintosh Pus actually. At least I hope it’s a Plus. If they gutted a 128k or 512k that would be sad.