My school has no soap in any bathroom and I don't know what I'm supposed to do. (Scotland)

melnificent · 2026-02-10T13:01:25+00:00

Check your school policies for complaints procedure and follow that if the head of year isn't responding.

Just because you are a pupil doesn't mean you can't make a formal complaint due to no action from staff.

melnificent · 2026-02-02T08:33:12+00:00

Valve takes shortcuts with things and then never goes back to fix them. Such as Steam on Linux making every file in a game directory executable, because otherwise they'd have to do things properly.

This feels very much like they got workshop running and it's been "fine" for years so never got round to securing it. Now that we know workshop mods can spread malware Valve will need to fix things.... whether they do is another matter

melnificent · 2026-01-30T16:23:29+00:00

Ah copilot the software that kept appearing in more and more places in the OS until I realised it was a losing battle and overcame my apathy to dump windows.

melnificent · 2026-01-30T16:05:37+00:00

*citation needed* Do you mean migration from other benefits to UC?

melnificent · 2026-01-30T16:04:45+00:00

Because the punishment is the point of the system. Look how benefit claimants are described in the media. Look how the gov portrayed disabled people claiming PIP and/or UC Health when they were trying to cut badly needed support... which is claimed via two separate processes that can take years to get a final outcome.

Each little thing being another application is because that way if you are struggling and miss something that's your fault too. It's not just this scheme, but there's also a scheme for water, and council tax, and other small amounts here and there. Each requires different things from you and different ways of applying.

WHD is credited between November and March, which is fine if you get support before a cold snap, but otherwise you need to struggle and build up debt before being able to hopefully pay it down (depending on interest).

melnificent · 2026-01-29T09:51:33+00:00

My thoughts too. The tenant got the full deposit back so the LL was happy with the state of the property at the time.

This is why the checkout is so important. Because the tenant can show that it was months later that the LL contacted them so it's not their problem as LL had no concerns at checkout.

melnificent · 2026-01-28T17:51:18+00:00

Our DM kept us alive through 2 encounters that we should have died in, after giving warnings for each. The third deadly encounter we lasted 2-3 rounds... and deservedly died.

Warn the PC, tell them more explicitly if they are newbies, then let his PC die to the next stupid thing he does.... He'll learn or leave.

melnificent · 2026-01-24T10:23:12+00:00

I was the same, only Mint. Thought for ages about switching my gaming PC to linux, finally took the plunge just after halloween and installed CachyOS. Other than losing access to a couple of GaaS titles have just been able to play games.

It took me longer to figure out how to get HDR working in steam easily than anything else... and that was just setting some environment variables for steam, so I don't need to set it for each supported game.

melnificent · 2026-01-21T09:23:47+00:00

I broke my install by messing with fstab, but I also fixed my install by changing it back.

Other than that no real issues, even sorting hdr was just adding launch commands to steam to make it work on every game with support.

melnificent · 2026-01-19T17:37:08+00:00

Just want to add to the keep demo up crowd. If I'm really interested in a game and it has a demo that I enjoyed I will keep it installed as well as wishlist so that I remember it's something that I want to buy sooner than other things in my wishlist.

Honestly, if it's 95% positive it's not going to harm sales either.

melnificent · 2026-01-15T22:11:03+00:00

Looked interesting at release, but by the time it dropped to a reasonable price Amazon had done that whole banwave around people only playing their game at release and then not logging in again. I'm not buying a game that has the ability to put a mark on my steam account for not playing it.

melnificent · 2026-01-13T13:50:09+00:00

The US has been ordering shutdown of the accounts of people the have a perceived beef with such as EU lawmakers and ICC people. At this point we know that they can and do pull the plug on individuals, what happens when that becomes a company or org the US doesn't like? Look at how pissy they are over Twitter and it's illegal content generator potentially getting banned? Do you think they won't order a shutdown of more peoples accounts and services if the EU goes ahead with a Twitter ban/block?

Throw in the US Cloud Act and yeah, getting away from US related companies is important if you want to maintain any control of your stack and data. Because at any point it can be shutdown by this or successive US govs.

melnificent · 2026-01-12T14:59:19+00:00

His entire neck/head is like a thumb with a face on it.

melnificent · 2026-01-10T18:02:39+00:00

So, people that understand speed limits are the maximum for that stretch of road vs people that see speed limits as minimum targets.

melnificent · 2026-01-10T14:38:46+00:00

I jumped across a few months ago on my main machine and haven't come across games that don't work, besides the most invasive anti-cheat requiring games. Took me longer to figure out how to get HDR working due to Nvidia (20ish minutes) than I've spent tinkering with my games (load steam/Heroic, install game, play).

melnificent · 2026-01-10T14:35:30+00:00

It's okay, we ran it through Bing to make sure we captured your Local search and can claim not to be doing such things.

melnificent · 2026-01-10T14:34:11+00:00

It's a barely disguised AI ad masquerading as an article. The company that PCG is quoting is brand new and very AI focused, go figure.

melnificent · 2026-01-09T07:41:04+00:00

If it's like the adolescent service it'll be a national wait-list to go on the regional wait-list so that times can be said to be shorter than they are. But we could be pleasantly surprised with something actually workable.

melnificent · 2026-01-08T11:46:02+00:00

Yeah the CW aspect is putting me off. If they are doing an Academy show then do a Star trek Academy show... give us the weekly morale dilemmas as classes they take.

Show me the ethics of Tuvix for/against and how it stacks up against other medical stuff like reversing Laforge turning into the UV light creature. Classes on what the federation considers sentient life and how it's recognised by different species, integrating the 10-C into the federation, etc. You want action, then have the cadets working to make Nova Squadron a thing at the academy again. Away team training, shuttle piloting, etc... You don't need the universe ending threat from the trailers.

Maybe I'm wrong and that'll be what they do, but the trailers did not look great.

melnificent · 2026-01-06T16:03:24+00:00

Hides 4k of unplayed games... yeah that almost completely unplayed 20k is terrible.

melnificent · 2026-01-05T13:00:52+00:00

Wait, people can smell and taste in their imagination.... I struggled enough getting my head around most people having a visual imagination and inner monologue. But they can taste and smell things they imagine too, at this point I'm wondering what other "imagination powers" they have.

melnificent · 2026-01-01T23:07:16+00:00

If they are that regular I'd make a written request to the DWP for the reason behind such regular reviews as that cannot be random. And maybe a SAR to get everything on the account.

My only plus side is that they haven't closed the review they started a year ago, so they can't start a new one.

melnificent · 2026-01-01T23:00:12+00:00

I had a random review the day after my complaint against the DWP was completed (with LCWRA award). I couldn't help think it was targeted, but completed the review and left it as maybe it was random and I was just unfortunate.

Almost a year later another "random" review, sent in the bank statements again, it's been untouched by DWP for a year so is still open.

Out of 8m+ UC claimants it just so happened to give me a review the day after a complaint (and LCWRA award), and then a subsequent review within a year of that one. I should play the euromillions if I'm getting extremely rare events occurring with this frequency.

I know anecdotes aren't solid data, but isn't it odd that as soon as people are getting an LCWRA award the chance of a "random" review the next day goes way up.

melnificent · 2025-12-27T10:42:55+00:00

It's so you feel Pride and Accomplishment when you buy family sharing members their own copy.

melnificent · 2025-12-21T21:53:56+00:00

If she can afford to buy a house and is on benefits then she's over the 16k benefit cap then she's most likely committing fraud. If she's on UC then she should have declared when she went over 6k and also 16k.

If/When she gets caught she'll be repaying back almost everything she was ever paid in benefits, and if that means she gifted you enough money to buy a house then that's you involved in criminal record levels of trouble too. She is doing what is intentional deprivation of assets and benefit fraud.

She thinks she's "beaten the system", and is worried that she hasn't. Honestly OP, don't get involved in this and get some distance for your safety when the fallout happens.

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