yes.. like most end users?

This ^

You can also enjoy your vacation instead :)

Very nice!

Personally, I find myself working on multiple tasks/projects across a day and the easiest way to decompartmentalize it all in my head is to move tabs related to a project into it's own group, that way I can click around Project A, Project B et cetera

Very useful, I've always had it in my shell along with an alias to rip MP3s from an given url using "yt-dlp.exe -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality \ URL"

A good read!

I like that all the sites linked in the banner, no longer exist! https://www.mcmordie.co.uk/public/apeople.shtml

There are plenty of links on other pages that lead to functional websites of various vintages (the keyword being vintage). Just go to https://www.mcmordie.co.uk/ and start exploring.

I particularly liked the tiling background, which may well have been created using Texture Garden https://texturegarden.com/ by Tim Tyler (of Repton fame, for the BBC Micro fans)

Do you mean in a sense that you'd like to see such service provided as a necessity service and owned publically? I'm not sure I understand the private equity part.

Private Equity is well known for exploiting markets for profits without regard for much else.

They will do things like enter a niche market, buy up all mom & pop shops (or in the case of ISP, even replace an existing monopoly), then once they own the entire niche, commercialize the niche and extract as much money out of the niche as humanly possible (usually at the expense of customer experience, quality of product, etc)

Private equity is almost by definition profit driven. There's a high likelihood that they're using the low introductory cost to build out a network before jacking prices up and up in a bid to become the new monopoly.

Private equity typically starts with rhetoric along the lines of, “Look at how much good we’re doing!” and then will ultimately end up a race to the bottom.

They don’t expect financial sustainability with reasonable returns, they expect significant profits over that and the product is typically gutted in this race to the bottom.

Private equity isn't in it to help people.

Everyone believes this weird narrative that the only thing PE does is buy successful businesses, load them with debt and then cause them to shutdown.

The reality is that PE does not buy successful businesses; they are already struggling. No one else will touch it. Thus, when it comes time to recoup the investment, there is normally a sense of enshittification, which is reality was either already destined to happen, or the business would just close anyway.

I mean, I'm sure there are some very nice, friendly, competent private equity firms, but certainly the classic view of how private equity works is taking a thing, raising prices and cutting costs until (ideally, from their pov) they reach some sort of maximum profitability point or (often) it just collapses.

You can understand why this might not be behaviour you'd want of your ISP.

Not to be glib, but private equity loves to enshittify for profit. It's really bad in combination with necessary services.

See also: dental, medical, veterinary

Nanny-state? You must appreciate the e/waste caused by these though, no?

And it's not an outright ban of vaping - it just disposable vapes, you can still buy a vape setup (and rightly so)

Feels a bit unfair to compare art to bikes.

Genres in music aren't just about splitting hairs—they're about expression, identity, and connection. Just like how "gravel bikepacking bike" tells you what experience someone is after, music genres help people find the sound they're seeking. Yeah, sometimes labels do get excessive, but they help us share and understand each other better.