Sure, but that applies to the UK too. London has a higher cost of living than Los Angeles; averages being averages, this is weighed against lots of cheaper places to live (with massive unemployment and stagnated economics).
Cost of living in the UK is about 12% lower than the US, including housing costs. But the average salary is about half of the US salary. So you can see that that doesn't really cover it.
Source: https://livingcost.org/cost/united-kingdom/united-states
Just looked on that link for the UK. The average is listed as £63k, which is $85k.
So you're not exactly disproving the point that that type of high salary is a US thing.
Sure, but the specs aren't directly comparable.
They also still manufacture the RPi 4, which starts at £33- which is £23 in 2012 money.
but they're not cheap any more
People say this, but they really are still cheap.
The original Raspberry Pi Model B launched for £22 in 2012. The entry level Raspberry Pi 5 is £46, but adjusted for inflation that's only £32 in 2012 money. So only £10 more expensive in real terms.
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is only £14.40, which is only £10 in 2012 money. Compare this to the original Raspberry Pi Model A, which launched for £16.
People look at the headline cost of the high end RPi 5s (£115 for the 16GB model, £76 for the 8GB), but fail to recognise that there was nothing comparable to these in the Raspberry Pi lineup before, and these are not the only models in the Raspberry Pi lineup now.
Ask a non-protesting friend or family member to take it with them about their daily routine?
I'm sure my mum would be happy to look after my phone for a day if it meant getting one over on the authorities. And if anyone asks, I'm just a good son who likes to hang out with his mum.
I was really impressed by how lightweight and gorgeous it is.
Maybe a controversial opinion here, but the one thing that everyone says about it is that it looks gorgeous, and I really don't see it. Never have.
Even back when I first tried it out, maybe 15 years ago, I thought it looked strangely retro. Nowadays, compared to the eye candy that is completely standard in GNOME, KDE, MacOS, Windows etc., it looks incredibly dated.
It's all hard edges, low res icons, ugly fonts, and eccentric design choices. Yeah, it can make window elements transparent, but you can't dine out on that one trick for ever.
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New direct bus from Edinburgh to Heathrow Airport launches next week
(www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com)
Happy Father's Day, gang! Hope it's all been pleasant!
Same went for their rivals, Poundworld and 99p Stores, both of which have already long since bitten the dust.
Meanwhile their rivals that don't bother with the fixed price gimmick (B&M, Home Bargains, Poundstretcher) seem to be doing better.
Poundland is never as cheap as you think it will be, anyway, even when they do stick to under £1. They just sell smaller packages of products than other shops; it's not like they're selling anything at a loss.
Tunnocks tea cakes are ordinary biscuits with an extraordinary amount of marshmallow.
In theory it really shouldn't matter. You choose your instance, and it's up to the instance admins to make decisions about backend software choices. It's possible that we'll get to a place there it's possible for admins to migrate a server from Lemmy to Piefed or back again without loss of content, in which case all the user would see about it would be a change of default interface.
I'm on Feddit.uk, which has several different web interfaces to choose from, and I mostly browse using a mobile app (Boost). It really makes basically no difference to me whether it's running Lemmy or Piefed.
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Kenya tells tea factories to cut ties with Rainforest Alliance due to costs
(www.theguardian.com)
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Almost a fifth of England’s rural bus services have vanished in the past five years
(www.theguardian.com)
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A great prize, but a great risk: why we all need the nationalised South Western Railway to work
(www.theguardian.com)
I made kedgeree for dinner yesterday. Hadn't made it for a long while, and forgot how much I enjoyed it. Such an easy cook, too. Thought I'd share my recipe here.
For anyone who doesn't know, kedgeree is an old Anglo-Indian rice dish featuring smoked fish. Traditionally smoked haddock (although not in this one). You see variations which are either pilaf-style (rice cooked in spiced broth) or fried rice style; this one's the latter.
Ingredients:
- 350g basmati rice
- 1 onion
- 4 garlic cloves
- 2-3 tsp curry powder
- 150ml full fat milk (or oat milk)
- Bunch of flat leaf parsley
- 300g smoked kipper fillets (cooked)
- 4 eggs
Method:
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Cook the basmati rice before you start the rest. The rest of the recipe works best if the rice is cold out of the fridge, so do it in advance (or use leftovers).
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Dice and fry the onion in ample oil until soft, followed by the garlic. Then add the curry powder and the milk, and simmer until you have a fairly thick curry paste.
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Meanwhile, boil the eggs for 7 minutes (for a nice runny yolk), and if necessary cook the kippers however you like (grilled is fine); I tend to use pre-cooked tinned fish because I'm very lazy.
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Add the cold rice to the pan with the curry paste, mix so that it's all well coated, and then stir fry until the rice is hot through and the rice takes on a nice fried rice texture.
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Flake the fish and stir through the rice, stir frying a little to heat it through.
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Roughly chop the parsley and stir it through and take it off the heat.
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Serve with the boiled eggs sliced in half or quarters artistically balanced on top.
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Worth noting that these were changes implemented by the previous Tory government. The new Labour government was more or less happy to leave it to ride, but now it's been successfully challenged in court they're happy to let it fall by the wayside.