It is for the UK but no doubt m'learned friends in the US can command even higher fees.

Try grabbing a KC for five days, civil/commercial with all the trimmings. That will set you back £105,000.

Obviously the impoverished KC won't pocket all that lolly. There is VAT to pay and staff costs and stuff.

A KC is one of these: https://kcappointments.org/ for obvious reasons they used to known as QCs

I have two members of staff who have asked me to migrate them over. I just need to get "drive mappings" stable and it looks like SMB over QUIC might do the trick.

Canonical show no signs of going evil empire and even if they did there are plenty of options, starting with Debian!

RIP

I've lost count of how many interfaces I've had to fenangle to get a job done. For 20 odd years I rocked Gentoo as my daily driver but my lap can't take the heat any more. Wifey gets Arch and I've settled on Ubuntu for a simple life.

Embarrassingly enough, I had to get a "child" to explain to me how to get a wine dispenser to work, recently 8)

I was shown it at school, using microscope glass slides that we waved over a Bunsen burner running cold, to coat with soot. We then carefully etched parallel lines with a compass by hand. Our (~17 y/o) efforts were a bit random but we did get some smudgy banding results on the screen.

This is a single system effort and at 5MB RAM is rather tiddly and surely counts as minimal overhead. It could probably send the metrics to Prom. or make them available for scraping with minimal extra effort but I think that should be left as an exercise for the interested reader.

The thing about gathering metrics is you have to be careful that the gathering/processing system doesn't drown out the thing you are measuring!

I switch off reasoning by default and for starters I ran 3.8 the same way as 3.6 on vllm on a DGX Spark box. Open web UI prompted.

My word! It looks rather decent. Much better than previous efforts.

A smaller version of these things: https://sandtoft.org/wp/

(My eyes are bent, my back is dim etc) I recall going to a few gigs back in the day. Iron Maiden headlining, with I think Anthrax. Wembley Arena (London, UK), 1989ish. That costed us £16 a head - I remember that price well, it was pretty cheap for the time. Guns n Roses, Wembley Stadium (the old one), 1990ish was about £25-30 - not too sure.

Beer at the time was crossing the £2 a pint mark in London. Seems my memory isn't too bad (1) bear in mind that London is a lot more expensive than the rest of the country.

Nowadays a pint in London will need at least a tenner and a gig in London will require waving a tearful farewell to a vital organ or a mortgage or both.

I doubt that general disposable income has risen five fold over the last 30 years.

Now, as to your assertion of "not being bored at home anymore". ... ... can't be arsed.

(1) https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/time...

"This is not a New Zealand quirk. It is the local edge of a global collapse. Pitchfork, the most influential music publication in the world, was folded into GQ in 2024 and its editor-in-chief was laid off. Local music press has been gutted in the US, the UK and Australia. New Zealand just got there first and hardest, because we were small to begin with."

Aotearoa (NZ) has fired up the four way flashers. We ignore it at our peril.

ENT: Ear, Nose and Throat - a medical specialism.

My earliest memories are from around 18 months. I used to have very bad earache whenever I had a cold or influenza. My mother told me that I used to burst into tears, unprovoked or without any of the usual baby related reasons and eventually around age five or six I was diagnosed with "glue ear".

The way it was explained to me was: my eustacian tubes were too narrow. Speaking to children: "Your ears, nose and throat are all linked together and the tubes that link your ears to the rest of you are too small and get blocked easily".

I had surgery to insert "grommets" into my eustacian tubes. This was done twice. Grommets are tiny plastic, hollow tubes. From memory: about 3mm long and 3mm outer diameter but that is from a long time ago.

Now here is where it gets complicated! My dad was in the British army (so was my mum but that's another story). This means we moved house every two years or so. I can fix dates quite well.

The first operation was performed in Rinteln, West Germany at a British Forces hospital. We were stationed in Paderborn so it would be around 1976. I had a second set inserted in Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester (UK) in 1977 or perhaps early 1978.

I know that the second set of grommets were removed by a doctor (I think an ENT specialist) but I can't remember if the first set were removed in Manchester and replaced by the second pair at the same time.

I recall that the doctor used a black, plastic, bell shaped thing that fitted over my ear and wiggled some sort of hooked, metal probe within my ear to pull out the grommets. It was quite painful.

Even after the operations, I still got earache whenever I had a cold up until around age 20-25. That age range is a bit hard to pin down. I'll also note that when we were stationed in Cyprus in 1986-7ish, a lot of swimming and diving helped clear the tubes!

One of the nasty side effects of glue ear is that you have trouble with pressure changes. Airliners and swimming are the bane of your life.

There are some notes. Hope it helps.

What a wonderful world we have created where the fix for a 1GB RAM guzzler reduces it to a mere 130MB.

Now I could start off with my old ZX80 or even my C64 (which is doing fine, thanks, and sports a USB "drive" next to its Quickshot II) but I think my first 80486 is a realistic comparison.

That ran at 25MHz, had a maths co-pro in it had 4MB RAM, a 20MB IDE HDD and I think the Orchid graphics card had 0.5MB RAM. The monitor was of course a 14" CRT VGA. OK so late 1980s!

However, that thing could run Win 3.1 and Word 2 and I think I managed to wedge a dodgy copy of Quark Express on it. I could play F117 and other games on it.

Oh well, lets see what this Linux box has on it:

/usr/bin/inxi - 1.4MB

    $ inxi -w Yeovil,UK
    Weather:
      Report: temperature: 16.05 C (61 F) conditions: scattered clouds
      Locale: Yeovil, UK current time: Mon 10 Aug 2026 01:16:05 BST
        Source: OpenWeatherMap.org

I know what a variety of tinnitus is like (I've never known anything else) and I'm sure that other varieties can be horrendous. In my case time does not help.

Perhaps we ought to insist on a tinnitus spectrum, with multiple dimensions and some TLAs. I don't think that advice from a single data point is very helpful, or being charitable: annecdata. I'm glad it disappeared for OP.

Tinnitus ranges from, say, me (I'll live) through yourself (fuck! but I'll live) to committing suicide in despair at the extreme end.

By saying "my server is now ..." implies a change of server platform to a phone but not where it came from.

Your offering: "my phone is a server now" implies a change of phone usage but does not indicate where the server came from.

The article itself tells all.

Qwen3.6-27B-FP8 currently espouses (see below), which is not too bad. The directions are a bit mad but the mileage is about right and there is a helicopter manufacturer here and a RNAS (navy not airforce) museum nearby at Yeovilton. Cosford is in Shropshire which is not a million miles away.

I'm not sure what 盆地的 means but the river Yeo is correct ... OK ... "basin like" - again not bad, even if Chinese is not the first language here. The model understands that Yeovil is named after (or vice versa or at least is associated with) a river

Yeovil is the current form of Gifle (Saxon) which I thought meant "bend in a river" but WP is currently saying "fork in a river". My source is a local museum. There is a fork but was it there 2000 odd years ago? My hydrology skills say ... possibly

---------------------------------------------------- Q: where is yeovil:

Yeovil is a town in Somerset, in the South West of England.

It is located roughly:

    25 miles (40 km) south-west of Exeter
    60 miles (100 km) west of Bristol
    140 miles (225 km) west-south-west of London

... why on earth is the offering a "page" ie emulating a printed page? In portrait!

I'll accept that most people are not fixated about grammar, punctuation or basic decency: that's fine.

However a "page" in portrait that looks awful on a landscape screen is unpleasant. You can easily request my viewing parameters and adjust accordingly. It's even worse when you are dispensing advice about www page layouts.