I like to think a list like this is highlighting that you can enjoy being british without being one of the wankers you mentioned.
The less good ones of these are more wanker-lite.
It's only Virgin Media to my knowledge who does this.
Most of the other providers are happy for you to use anything that works properly for VDSL or FTTP.
Most FTTP providers fit an ONT that puts the connection back into an RJ45 ethernet connector.
Then you connect to the provider using PPPOE. Anything past the ONT, you can do whatever you like.
I think it's time for me to get into the soundproofing and triple glazing business.
It's got rack ears!
A dark gritty reboot, complete with "BWAAAAAHM" noise in the trailers and TV spots?
I see no downside: If they crash and burn, it's free black pudding!
Is that why you're banned from John Lewis?
I can't say for 4K, but for standard and 3D bluray, the PS3 is a pretty cracking all-rounder.
You can get a slim easily for under £100 second hand now.
Making it harder to traverse
Have you ever actually walked down oxford street?
The pavements are normally crammed, and there are 3 million cars a minute fighting for the road space.
Adding 5x as much space for pedestrians is a fantastic idea.
It'll be a tiny, tiny minority of people not visiting OS because they can't park/taxi/bus to the shop front, and a huge number of people going there because it's a nice experience with no traffic.
So it's correct to say Trump Tooted?
Oh damn, I'd missed that the PS5 Pro was mechless.
I guess once you get into £700 games consoles, the argument of "it's the same price as a decent bluray player" goes out the window.
And now everyone is locked into the PS store, unless they buy an external drive.
Hello from sunny England! How was your morning?
We have a few updates on how things are running, and things coming down the pipe.
Migration to the new server
We are pleased to announce that this is now complete.
As always, if there are any other issues noted, drop us a line.
Either in this community, on the matrix channel, or by messaging myself or Emperor.
I would also like to take this chance to thank flamingos-cant for their hard work behind the scenes!
Financials and donations
We know people have been keen to support the community for a while, and we're pleased to announce...that we're aiming to announce it later this week.
We did not want to remove Tom's link until he was able to pull the plug on the old server. That is now done.
We'll go into more detail later this week, but we're looking to offer both regular and one-off contributions, and lots of clarity as to how the money is used.
More moderators
We are keen for popular communities to have more than one moderator.
This is absolutely not a requirement.
Mods, if you would like new people, pop a post on the community, or message us for ideas.
Community members, if you think you could help, message the community mods.
Slurs and profanity
The best part of any moderators day: Wading through reported and unreported posts, then trying to work out what is and isn't ok.
Especially since certain words are and aren't acceptable depending on context, or intent of the poster.
We're considering a 3 tier system. Yes, Maybe, No.
Yes: Probably 99% of the English language.
Also includes non-discriminatory expletives.
Things you might say after banging your shin.
The slur filter will not limit these words, and we will not be using autodetection.
Maybe: Words that are maybe OK, depending on context/intent.
The slur filter will not block these words, but use of a word will trigger a flag for review of the post/account.
No: Slur filter will just remove.
We'll discuss this further in the future, if you would like to chat about it here, try to keep it to one thread :)
A few upgrades behind the scenes
We'll be scheduling some downtime in the near future to upgrade the picture serving system, hopefully adding a few extra interfaces (old.feddit.uk, anyone?)
As always, any questions, suggestions, pop them in a reply to this post.
Cheers, GreatAlbatross.
The main contributor continued writing it on a full novel scale at https://deathworlders.com/ .
However...Imho after about 40 chapters, it really loses it's way (bar a couple of cool minor plots). And the author goes a bit right wing rhetoric/muscleporn-y.