Me too! But only on one arm.

Thanks, mild localised hypermobility.

They do in Scarborough, I'd wager it's similar in Hull also.

The right answer is "yes". Some cash in the moment is a nice thing to do, and will alleviate an immediate want or need potentially.

Donation to an organisation that will help the problem long term is a worthwhile thing to fund.

Why not give a man a fish to eat while you're teaching them to fish for themselves, if you're in a position to do so?

It smacks of elitism, that's all.

The OS is simply a means to an end. If Linux offers a way to do what they want in a way that is less hassle, and it meets their needs, then that's a good thing.

To get nice new/modern trains would involve widening our tracks and updating the infrastructure. Where I live in the (flat) country who gives a shit - it's all just ~~land banking~~ farms anyway, but near towns and cities it's going to involve a huge amount of, at best disruption and and worst the massive displacement of the population who have homes that back onto rail lines.

Also we'd need all new bridges, tunnels, etc.

And we're currently broke as fuck because all the rail operators have been siphoning profit to ~~foreign governments~~ shareholders since we privatised the fuck out of the country.

There's not much that will kill you in the UK but there's a lot that will make you want to die.

My great uncle left a load of masonic stuff but my dad returned it to his lodge before I could have a rummage through it.

My parents are religious and took a dim view of it.

Some of that stuff was pretty cool - it was a part of my great uncles life I would have loved to asked him about and I didn't find out about it until he passed. Sad stuff.

young women are taking up sex work for financial stability when they shouldn't have to.

This is true, and depressing.

But I think Kate Nash and Lilley Allen pros have other options to raise cash here - I doubt OF is a last resort for them. It is, however, a headline grabber for the British gutter press and will generate a lot of cover for two artists who really don't have a huge amount of space in the public consciousness these days.

For what it's worth, there are also some sex workers who do it because a)they enjoy it and b)it's a faster way to make money than other avenues available to them. Nash and Allen both seem to fallm under this bracket.

Not really - there's plenty of use cases where running memory intensive stuff like that isn't an issue and running a small footprint distro makes more sense than, say, a maximalist, fully featured desktop distro.

I'm not trying to run a media centre or play games on my 11 year old MacBook!

Point taken!

I don't think the lite distros are to blame for performance drops in that case, are they? Unless it's down to a lack of system optimisation.

So if there's additional repositories does that mean that there is likely to be core functionality which would be broken if it stops being maintained?