I still use it for the same reasons you mentioned. Also small businesses since they don’t have to deal with card processing fees then (generally ask what they prefer) plus “other accounting measures”.

Same as why I’ve always hated voicemails. Just send me a text.

It’s actually quite a hard problem for OSM community to solve since you need quite detailed data (stuff like road surface, width etc) and possibly traffic data. Even then, that doesn’t tell you everything like whether it’s a “nice place” to cycle or is dangerous. There are people trying to work on it but it is a hard problem. One can hope it gets solved.

Simon Clark does a good video that reinforces this point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3AnLL2vR9I

Bait headline and the BBC practically copied and pasted The Times article.

Quite the switch over. Nice work.

Reminds me of this related article about why unions have a tricky time supporting migrant workers. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/an-indictment-of-the-trade-union-movement-why-no-one-is-organising-seasonal-workers/

tl;dr seasonal workers don’t become members and so the union can’t/won’t support them.

Clannad, more specifically Clannad After Story.

Not quite sure what a “new VPN architecture” means. As long as it’s not new protocols, security is not something you should usually re-invent yourself. Hopefully these new aspects are open source too.

Hate the stuff.

I tried suggesting to school staff I knew, was shot down. Fear of change and general no care attitude etc etc. I’m sure each school has different reasons.

There was a “the Onion” headline for this kind of criticism: https://theonion.com/protesters-urged-not-to-give-trump-administration-pretext-for-what-it-already-doing/

LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump administration any pretext for what they’re already doing and will keep doing no matter what. “Angelenos—don’t engage in violence and give the administration an excuse to inflict all the damage they have been inflicting carte blanche for months on end,” said Bass, adding that Trump and his team are just looking for a reason to respond with violence, as they would have done whether or not any of this happened

Time for another public app to not be open source and cost millions of £s in development again I imagine.

Civilians dying are already causing all my mission outcomes to be quite cash-stripped.

This website can sometimes help with working out whether something works without Google Play Services https://plexus.techlore.tech/ | https://github.com/techlore/Plexus-app?tab=readme-ov-file

I wonder if part of this is because they want to use NHS numbers for children in schools as a consistant identifier. I wouldn’t be shocked if that was part of the reasoning.

That’s where a good bus network would help and infrastructure built less around cars would make shorter distances more likely for other means like cycling/walking.