It’s different again here in the north-east. Every chip shop is either named after the owner or founder, the name of whom is almost always English; or it’s called what it is or named after where it is (e.g. The <location> Chippy). Nowhere is combined, but the Indian and Chinese places usually do pizza, chips, chicken nuggets, and that sort of thing as well as whichever cuisine they specialise in.

Every Indian takeaway I know of is run by Indian people, but only a few Chinese takeaways are run by Chinese people around where I live.

There are ways. Privacy Guides has a page on it. I also use NextDNS, which has a blocklist for iDevices, so Apple can’t track me (afaik).

I’d rather have an Android, though. Either DivestOS or /e/. I’m just waiting for my iPhone to burn out first.

OS: Five different Linux distributions and a BSD

Phone: iPhone (hardened; trackers blocked w. NextDNS)

Browser: Mullvad Browser

Search engine: Self-hosted SearXNG

Location: Only for mapping software

Cookies: Notices blocked by uBO, cleared on restart

Send optional data to Microsoft: Who?

Looks like it is. I had noticed a few Mastodon and Misskey instances blocking poa.st, but I didn’t realise it was the same as poast.org.

Good thing there are other instances now!

My HP’s hinge broke, too. I had to pack the entire back of the case with putty in order to fix it, and it’s still not quite right.

I know. I’ve worked with it myself, and I once accidentally inhaled a small volume of it.

A-Level chemistry, innit.

HCl‽ Jaysus…

I like the Gormanian and Holocene calendars; but I use the Gregorian for compatibility with the rest of humanity.

Also, as I live in Britain, I use an unholy mixture of metric, imperial, and archaic measurements.

Length of an object? Centimetres. Height of a human? Feet and inches. Mass of flour? Grams. Mass of a human? Stones, pounds, and ounces. Distance by car? Miles. Distance on foot? Kilometres. Volume of a soft drink? Litres or millilitres. Volume of beer or milk? Pints. Volume of non-dairy milk? Also litres and millilitres.

Honestly no

Europe/London, BST, UTC+01:00

Do you use a different calendar system, by any chance?

Yes, but one would assume I meant the 19th of the current month of the current year.

Also “They said the 19th June 2024” doesn’t work so great as a title.

It was two days ago.

19th June

American flag checks out.