Rookeh

joined 2 years ago
[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago

The PM is the head of government and is ultimately responsible and accountable for its actions and policies. They are also the head of their political party and thus will have a say on what policies are brought to the table (although they do still need to be voted on in the houses).

Our PM is not technically the head of state (that's the King, from whose power the government derives its authority), however for all intents and purposes they may as well be.

So yes, his resignation will have an impact.

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I like my geese free and thriving

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 5 points 4 weeks ago

YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago

You really gonna do the Blades dirty like that?!

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

the 1900s

Now listen here you little shit

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

I'm not sure if this is triggering either thalassophobia or submechanophobia but either way thanks I hate it

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Same, I set it up a few years ago and both me and my partner have been using it since then with no issues at all, it's completely replaced Google Photos for us.

We've also set up immich-frame and repurposed an old Google Nest hub to use as a digital photo frame.

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This might not actually be the first one, but one of the earliest games I definitely remember actually buying with my own money was Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix 2. I would have been around 7 or so.

Definitely worth it, great game and the demos on the CD introduced me to Transport Tycoon, and the XCom and Worms franchises - and things kind of snowballed from there!

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

Cable wasn't as much as a thing over here except in specific areas, but if you were flush you might have satellite TV. Nothing so bourgeois for me though!

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I was born in 89, so remember a good portion of the 90s. It was a much simpler time but obviously we tend to romanticise the fun memories and quietly ignore how vastly more inconvenient daily life was.

Mobile phones were not really a thing yet so getting in touch with your friends required a combination of patience and sheer luck.

The internet was a different place entirely and was experienced in 30 minute chunks of time, just long enough to download a song or two before being kicked off for tying up the landline.

Daily entertainment was 4, maybe 5 analogue TV channels, plus a collection of VHS tapes which are all degrading by being rewatched constantly.

Every piece of life admin that you would normally do online today was instead done with pen and paper.

Honestly, I'm amazed we ever got anything done.

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