I use Rainy Days for the radar, and - since I’m in the UK - the Met Office weather app, which has a Next Rain widget.

“customers weren’t willing to pay for the added cost of cleaner fossil fuels.” says CEO of company that made $36 billion in profits last year.

This one is ok

Novel - Corey’s The Mercy of Gods

Movies - Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Dune, part 2, Mickey 17 (this one particularly since it isn’t part of an existing franchise or a remake or whatever).

TV - Severance season 2, Netflix’s 3 Body Problem, Strange New Worlds season 3 if it drops in 2024.

This article is from 2009, of course.

Been using QBittorrent for longer than I can remember now. It certainly does everything I have ever wanted from it.

Whilst I am sympathetic to the overall aim of this, things like this:

She would have expected people to name figures such as Quintus Lollius Urbicus, who became governor of Roman Britain

…do stand out as being a a bit unrealisitic. I mean, how many governors of Roman Britain of any race or nationality can the typical Briton actually name? I’d be surprised if it was more than 1 and probably less than that.

And if the expectation is that anyone would know of this guy only because his chief contribution to history is “being black” then I am not sure what we are gaining here.

Although I am required to use windows machines for work normally and, since we dont have access to firefox, i normally use edge there, there are occasions on which I find it convenient to hop into a similar setup on my home linux machine to get to my work account. I will use edge for that - as well as outlook online etc.

For a work browser, I find it pretty useful. There is no way that I would want to use if for general purposes though.

Ep 1 & 2 were disappointingly mediocre, IMHO. Ep3 was significantly better and Ep4 was as well, so I hope that this indicates that everyone is back in the saddle now and the trend will continue.