I was always taught what a lot of people here say, that the potato blight was a natural disaster, but the British government took it as an "opportunity" and purposely did not do enough to help.

In my personal opinion, I think that few people would have died if the British government stepped up, not the many millions that died as a result of their inaction. As an English person, I'm not proud of what our government did to Ireland over the years. Ireland is a beautiful country with great people, and it took a long time even to get the relationship between the UK and Ireland to where it is now.

I don't really take any special care, just put it in the washing machine every now and again.

I find it less distracting then music or podcasts.

At least with Sains', if you ask the security guard near the door he'll unlock one for you anyway :)

I walked Hadrian's Wall a few years ago in a very hot (for the UK) summer, and there were very few places some days to get shade and have a rest.

The tree provided lovely shade and lots of people chose to sit there to relax, cool down, and have a drink.

Recently though, I had to reinstall Windows to do something, and I could not find a way to create a local account at all. AFAIK they removed the option now, or made it much harder to find.

> With the glasses I can work all day, then play video games, watch movies etc without feeling anything.

So it's not just working. It's working, then playing video games and watching movies. They also say they have to take breaks much more often when they don't wear them, which implies they don't take a break as many breaks when they are wearing them.

I have quite bad wrist pain when I use a PC, and I'm a developer. I feel like it's like me taking ibuprofen to dampen the pain rather than taking regular breaks from my PC.

Sometimes your body is trying to tell you something and IMO it's good to listen.

If something is causing some physical pain in your eyes, why wouldn't your solution be to get off the computer and give your eyes a rest?

I still find it very odd that people have problems with projects using open source projects as the licence allows.

The reason for that is it's search actually works, it displays live traffic info, and they have a simple easy-to-read privacy policy: https://www.magicearth.com/privacy/

Would it be better open source? Yeah, for sure. However, as far as I can tell, they abide by all the licencing terms for OSM, etc.