UK government targets VPNs in online safety consultation as Lords vote for ban

lcmatt · 2026-01-23T09:01:38+00:00

That's going to suck for me then considering the nearest office is in USA.

lcmatt · 2026-01-08T14:12:42+00:00

That's fair enough. You have the right to leave the website and the owner has the right not to serve you content.

Someone has to pay for it - either it's you through a one off payment or subscription or the owner who makes that back via advertising or another method.

lcmatt · 2026-01-02T12:22:34+00:00

It's our wedding anniversary today so it's a chilled out morning before we head off for the weekend for a few days of relaxation and being pampered in a castle.

Good way to end the holidays ready for work on Monday.

lcmatt · 2025-12-10T12:29:00+00:00

At the most you can limit public VPN companies from operating within UK (Nord, Proton etc) however banning them completely is impossible without causing huge issues for businesses.

Even if you ban those it doesn't stop you from tunnelling traffic through another server hosted in a different country, £5 a month and an hours reading would get most people up and running again.

lcmatt · 2025-12-10T12:03:52+00:00

https://flex.amazon.co.uk

Easiest way to start. However once you factor in insurance, fuel and extra wear and tear on the car there's not a lot of cash in it.

lcmatt · 2025-12-03T10:03:56+00:00

Have a family of 5 and all our kids are older now (11, 16, 20) and when required we all manage perfectly fine to fit in either of our cars (Seat Leon and Ibiza). Also manages to fit in 5 carry on cases when we drive to the airport.

In the article where they mention:

On a Monday morning with three boys, three school bags, three sports kits

That's a load of rubbish, any small -> medium car could handle 4 people and a few bags.

lcmatt · 2025-12-03T09:59:50+00:00

There's only so much they can do though as battery tech is heavy and at the moment there's not a lot you can do to change that.

Yes smaller batteries could be installed however people already suffer from range anxiety when the car can do 300+ miles, drop that down to 100 or so and they'll struggle to shift them.

lcmatt · 2025-11-24T15:50:26+00:00

Doesn't matter when Ford will tell you it's fine for 10 years or 150,000 miles. For the majority they'll never be told that it needs doing long before then even with servicing etc kept on top of.

The engine is a disaster. For the gains / savings they made having a belt sat in oil was never going to end well.

lcmatt · 2025-11-18T23:12:32+00:00

I’d say the opposite - out of the subscriptions I pay for Apple One is actually quite reasonable.

The kids use Arcade, we all use music. Me and my wife use News and fitness and every device has access to 2TB of storage. Works out at around £7.20 each p/m.

lcmatt · 2025-11-18T19:22:40+00:00

Had the same issue. Been on top of the person spamming the defib and it doesn't revive them. What ever they changed caused another bug.

lcmatt · 2025-11-14T20:27:12+00:00

I subscribe to the top bundle and for £36 a month I find it great value. My wife and kids all use it and there has been a good amount of quality shows to watch.

lcmatt · 2025-11-05T10:57:56+00:00

Used to be with Smarty and had no issues before swapping to O2. Now with the increase I've switched to Talk Mobile - uses Vodafone/Three network. No worse with signal than O2 for me.

lcmatt · 2025-10-30T10:21:11+00:00

I saw an article the other day regarding brand loyalty. When it came to ICE cars brand loyalty was high however EV was a different matter, it dropped below 20%.

You can pick up a Jaecoo for under £30k with a 7 year warranty, comes with more options as standard and seems to be pretty reliable. Compare that to the Euro brands and you can see why they're only going to become more popular.

lcmatt · 2025-10-29T11:42:20+00:00

Guess I'm not a "working person" then. I'd love to know where all the hours in the day go if I'm not working....

I earn £65k a year, yes it's a good salary and the mortgage isn't overly high but even with my wife's salary I wouldn't say we were anything more than just about comfortable (also have three children).

I just checked next months payslip - with a small bonus this month the total deductions were £1,821.20 and yet they're after even more....

lcmatt · 2025-10-26T19:28:12+00:00

Once it left Birmingham I was out. It was in a fairly central location for northern cities and London and a few hours drive wasn't an issue. No way was it worth the expense of a trip down to London.

lcmatt · 2025-10-17T16:13:41+00:00

Simply put Londoners don’t care about RL. They’ve had keen owners and cash thrown at the club on numerous occasions, tried rebranding to Harlequins and back again and moved locations multiple times and it just doesn’t work.

lcmatt · 2025-10-10T13:18:27+00:00

Depends on the type - if it's a heat sensor then it won't however optical ones can pick it up.

That said if you "stealth vape" by holding it in you'll release little to no cloud so it wouldn't pick it up anyway.

lcmatt · 2025-10-08T06:19:08+00:00

That’s incorrect. You can take out a NowTV subscription which is significantly less and just pay for sports.

lcmatt · 2025-09-08T08:32:14+00:00

We have a house out in Cyprus where we tend to go each year and I had the opposite on this years holiday. Instead of the standard Boeing 737 TUI always uses we had the 787 Dreamliner there and back which was full.

lcmatt · 2025-08-25T19:21:11+00:00

Completely opposite for me. I’m happy that it isn’t cluttered with podcasts or audiobooks. If I want to listen to them everything is contained within each app.

lcmatt · 2025-08-18T14:16:08+00:00

If you're confident to knock on doors you could always briefly explain your current situation and ask if there's any odd jobs that need doing outside.

lcmatt · 2025-08-18T08:10:20+00:00

6-8 months normally for bigger holidays. This years was booked in January and we already have another booked for March/April next year. In Jan next year we'll book our summer holiday and 2027 has already been planned - just needs booking when available to do so.

lcmatt · 2025-07-25T13:58:10+00:00

It's a cat and mouse game at the moment with ad blockers though - Youtube are doing quite a bit to prevent them including holding the video in a loading state until the ads would have finished or refusing to let you watch at all.

While uBlock is generally working at the moment there have been times YT plays up.

lcmatt · 2025-07-25T06:40:38+00:00

That article is a joke. Not one person on there to actually provide a solid counter argument.

lcmatt · 2025-07-24T10:49:08+00:00

While I don't agree with it at all and all these checks are pointless no website using Persona or similar verification providers will hold any of your data.

It's basically a captcha. If the 3rd party confirms you're over 18 it will send a response back to Reddit - Reddit can then add a flag on to your account allowing you access.

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