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Know before you buy: starting today, EU’s new labels shake up the smartphone market in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
[–] Patch@feddit.uk 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

What do they actually mean by "model identifier"? Serial number? IMEI?

Summer Sale 2025 on GOG! Let's buy some european games! in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
[–] Patch@feddit.uk 5 points 3 days ago

Europe is less a place than it is a state of mind.

Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Patch@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago

Arianespace has fallen behind, but they're not out of the picture. They're still by far the largest competitor to SpaceX, and they're aiming for their 7th generation Ariane to be a reusable design.

Arianespace is an Airbus and Safran subsidiary, so it's not like they don't have the engineering oomph behind them.

Temperatures surpass 29C as UK heads for heatwave in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] Patch@feddit.uk 5 points 3 days ago

Yeah, but it's a dry heat.

Government 'quietly drops' fight for tougher anti-protest laws used to arrest climate activist Greta Thunberg in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] Patch@feddit.uk 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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.

Matrix.org is Introducing Premium Accounts in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Patch@feddit.uk 1 points 6 days ago

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).

Matrix.org is Introducing Premium Accounts in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Patch@feddit.uk 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

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

Matrix.org is Introducing Premium Accounts in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Patch@feddit.uk 4 points 6 days ago (4 children)

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.

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New Wiltshire train operator makes launch plans progress (www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk)
Must fight temptation to buy an overpriced raspberry pi in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] Patch@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

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.

Must fight temptation to buy an overpriced raspberry pi in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] Patch@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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.

How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Patch@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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.

why didnt Enlightenment desktop recieve much adoption in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] Patch@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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)
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Government commits £2.5bn for new Oxford–Cambridge railway line (eastangliabylines.co.uk)
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Wiltshire and Bath Metro system plans get key backing (www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk)
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London Northwestern Railway launches new fleet of five-car trains (www.railadvent.co.uk)
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Eurostar plans direct trains from London to Frankfurt and Geneva (www.bbc.co.uk)
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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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Lettuce and mushroom saag [OC] (feddit.uk)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Patch@feddit.uk to c/recipes@feddit.uk
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Alright, alright, I know what you're thinking. But honestly this works much better than it really has any right to.

Tonight's dinner was driven by a combination of those three most important factors: a need to eat at least some vegetables, a head of lettuce in the fridge that is in dire need of using up before it goes off, and having forgotten to buy any other ingredients for dinner.

Lettuce actually works surprisingly well when cooked. It loses most of that "lettucy" flavour, but retains a good crunch through much more cooking than you'd expect.

Ingredients:

  • 1 head romaine lettuce
  • 150g frozen spinach
  • 1 large onion
  • 285g tin of sliced mushrooms
  • 2 tsp garlic puree / 2 garlic cloves, crushed
  • 1 tsp tomato puree
  • 2 tsp curry powder
  • Dried chilli flakes (to preference)
  • 1 tsp Maggi liquid seasoning
  • 1 tbsp full fat milk
  • Butter for frying
  • Salt

  1. Slice the onion into half rings and stir fry with the sliced mushrooms in the butter over a medium heat until the onions are soft.

  2. Add the curry powder, garlic and tomato and fry another couple of minutes.

  3. Shred and add lettuce and the chilli flakes and fry for 5 minutes.

  4. Thaw and chop the spinach leaves and then add that to the pan, frying for another 5 minutes.

  5. Mix in the milk, the liquid seasoning, and salt to taste.

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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)
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Kedgeree [OC] (feddit.uk)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Patch@feddit.uk to c/recipes@feddit.uk
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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:

  1. 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).

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Flake the fish and stir through the rice, stir frying a little to heat it through.

  6. Roughly chop the parsley and stir it through and take it off the heat.

  7. Serve with the boiled eggs sliced in half or quarters artistically balanced on top.

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Profit at UK's most famous tea brand jumps to almost £100m (www.business-live.co.uk)
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