Recent content by onomatopoeia

Yes. on credit cards. Debit cards always used to be a flat fee of about 40p irrespective of the transaction size, which is why it was possible to use them for things like car purchases where dealers didn't want to lose around 2% of many thousands but were happy to lose a few pence. The 5% fees...

I don't have Virgin, but my Sky box states a date when a recording will be deleted in some cases, but not all. Sometimes 30 days, sometimes a year. I suspect this is due to licensing requiements for the content and further I suspect VM do the same even if they don't state the date the licence...

VSCode for me nowadays, transitioned away from pspad and notepad++.

Ours has a £10 minimum. I used to add prawn crackers to my order to reach £10 but in the last couple of years now comfortably exceed it without them.

Collapse of society resulting in loss of the electricity grid to power the card terminals. I think we'll have more to worry about than being unable to buy hot dogs during an NFL game at that point though.

£25 this month, £300 last month (on a 25k holding) Over the nine months I've had that level of PBs the return works out at 4.9%. It was much lower when I had £24 in individual paper bonds that were bought for me as a baby, £0 won over more than 50 years (I still have those bonds, gave them the...

Now that the ice cream van, chip shop and kebab van take contactless, I don't carry cash at all. Think I've spent less than £100 in cash since the start of the pandemic. 12 years since I wrote a cheque. I've also got multiple contactless cards so if one throws a wobbler for any reason, I have...

If refs would call "use it" more quickly at breakdowns (a lot more quickly) and actually enforce the five seconds rather than giving at least eight before thinking about penalising the scrum half, that would have a dramatic effect on the size of the forwards, as they will have to lose weight as...

You could look into zerotier, which is something on my list of stuff to experiment with. I run an openvpn server in a debian virtual machine at home and use the openvpn client on my windows laptop for remote access

Auto-enrolment is defined contribution, so not on the same terms as public sector pensions which are defined benefit (aka "final salary"). I was specifically arguing for a DB scheme run by the state which anyone could pay into (like they have in France), not the current DC scheme. SERPS was...

Government departments generally require you to tell them on change of address, so a notice of intended prosecution for speeding doesn't fail because you didn't update the V5C when you moved. Further, per the Interpretation Act 1978 section 7, anything posted is deemed received in "the normal...

England turned up yesterday, haven't seen them play like that since the world cup semi final. They always compete hard but it really felt like they were throwing everything into it. I wasn't expecting anyone to beat Ireland this year as they've been like a juggernaut in recent internationals...

We need a state second pension scheme on similar terms to public sector pensions, that anyone in employment can pay in to. So if you pay 9% of your salary in (have it deducted at source) the state notionally contributes a proportionate amount to a defined benefit scheme that provides benefits...

Evri is very dependent on the local delivery agent due to the way they are set up. We have a good one round my way, but plenty of places don't.

I run my own mail server (postfix + courier) in a debian VM on the R730 server which is a yard or so from my left foot at the moment, It is configured to relay outgoing mail through my ISP's customer facing smarthost and I have set up an appropriate SPF record, so have no deliverability problems.