I think their decision was influenced by the most recent budget. With business costs rising due to the national insurance increase, banks are anticipating that inflation will fall less quickly, as costs could be passed on to consumers. This is compounded by government spending increasing which also has the potential to have an inflationary effect.

Given this background it is not inconceivable that BoE might need to raise interest rates again and this means the banks need to keep their fixed rates high to cover the risk of people locking in rates that turn out to be too low.

Gameboy color dinosaur JRPG / metroidvania that seemingly no one else has ever played. Called Dinosaur’us. I had to google the name there and it turns out there is a wikipedia page so it’s not totally obscure - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur’us

I loved this game as a kid! There are surprisingly few good dinosaur games (although admittedly a lot of good dragon ones).

Edit: only ever released in the UK - that explains a lot of why it was so obscure. The ROM is on emulator sites though if you are curious.

You put more effort into this post than M$ did to their product

They get all the patches and minor upgrades in a timely fashion, similar to other distros. The major version updates do not come as readily though.

Do Facebook have a streaming service now?

Nice write-up btw

PS3 is probably the last gen to support a lot of local coop games

Have got Debian on an old thinkpad too because it is too under resourced to compile everything. I think Debian is amazing for a solid, reliable distro if you have weak hardware.

I use Gentoo and I love it. The installation process is a bit more complex than Arch but it doesn’t have to be if you choose the precompiled kernel.

The package management is extremely flexible and the community are great. I have a morning routine where I log onto my gentoo desktop before work and update everything; would compare it to raking one of those miniature buddhist sand gardens. Very theraputic!

Yeah pretty much agree, would just say “drugs” as a catch-all here.

Had to scroll quite far down to find a non-wholesome answer! Everyone else is enjoying being a parent or whatever.

I think he’s just good at self-promotion through coming out with these provocative - and completely arbitrary - takes to stay in the media.

31, assume the same

This kind of thing is infuriating. Especially when the actual etymology of “blacklist” is a 17th century play where a list of nobles scheming against the British monarchy is described as a blacklist.

Yeah the Manjaro devs have a long history of gaffes not to mention the infamous one with PGP keys requiring users to reset their system clock

Persona 3 OST for me

A lot of what makes Hereditary so good is the references to earlier films like Rosemary’s Baby. Horror is a genre that is in a constant dialogue with itself, and often horror films either subvert or adhere to what has come before.

Still Wakes The Deep was a fun Lovecraftian horror from this year. Unique setting on a North Sea oil rig with an authentic Scottish cast. Also didn’t overstay its welcome at roughly 4 hours length; I believe it’s on GamePass.

He’s a weirdo on mastodon too tbh. Very keen on blocking, no real interactions aside from self promotion.

Typically I don’t use a DE. I’ll go for dmenu + dwm usually if I only want a WM. I find the default bindings and behaviour for the tiling is the most ergonomic when comparing it to other WMs like i3.

When I do have to get a DE setup then I’ll use XFCE because I like how it stays out of the way and I find it easy to customise.

Hey wait a minute I resemble this strawman

Personally quite like reading things in other languages, just like a paragraph or so, and then checking my comprehension afterwards with an online translator. Only really partially works for Western European languages though!