u/ledow

Same.

I work in IT and my home IT is way more independent and resilient than anything I deal with in work.

Hell, the other day I installed a Shopping List app that plugs into NextCloud because, when I had to reset my phone and needed a new one, my shopping lists wouldn't come over from the paid-for app I was using ("Just go to your old phone and export..." ... great... except you can't if that phone is reset/dead!). So I went and found my own solution, that talks only to my servers, which keeps the data under my control, and lets me move and restore it as I need to.

I do host my own email and websites, but on a dedicated server that I rent and have full control over. I have the complete setup for that documented so, if it ever goes wrong, I can switch it out for any other server in a second, even one hosted at home. It's just better for email servers to be on non-ISP-customer ranges. I have actually changed server 3 times (to cheaper/better servers), so I know it works.

I'm reliant on NOTHING at home. All-Linux machines (since Windows 11, I've never been ALL Linux before, I always had some Windows) including primary gaming laptop and all my Raspberry Pi, NAS and other servers. I have all the original installers and software and configs backed up.

If the Internet is down, everything carries on working, except my remote access to the network. The external server still deals with email/websites etc. and then catches back up later if it needs to. If my external server is down, everything in my home carries on working.

But in work? I have 147 integrations into Azure alone. No idea what we'd do when that stops working.

So you're telling me that there are people out there who have to food-shop every 2-3 days because they literally don't have that much food in the house, without which they wouldn't have enough to eat, and at the same time those same people could just walk to a shop and buy 3 days of food and keep it in their cupboard without touching it without going hungry in the meantime?

Really?

Honestly, that's a Venn diagram with zero fucking intersection.

You've either got food for the week in your cupboard, or you can't afford to have a stock of food for a week in your cupboard.

No.

Pay your stupidity tax promptly, please, when that ticket drops into your letterbox.

If you can't control your vehicle sufficient to keep to a huge signposted number, or decide that you just couldn't give a shit, then I'm not sure you should be driving at all.

Also - it's a specific offence to warn other drivers of a police speed trap in the UK, e.g. flashing headlights, etc.

Tomorrow, the Mexicans are bringing mirrors.

"Do you hate the RNLI, then, Nigel? What about the St John's Ambulance? The Citizen's Advice Bureau? The Air Ambulance? Do you hate them all? Do you want to shut them all down with lawsuits? Because they do the thing that they've done for 100+ years which is the literal reason for their existence? Can you say that in a public soundbite so we can distribute that to your voters? I'm sure they'd love to hear that."

Yeah, that's no secret.

Yes, but more people died than those serving. Civilians, children, etc.

The UK population dropped by 3m in the first half of the war. Some of that will be people fleeing the UK (e.g. to return to Germany or other countries) but a lot of that was deaths.