Sigh. Yet another thing that must be sacrificed on the altar of the almighty motor car.

I've never forgiven that arsehole for what he did to Andrew Sachs.

Renewables are already viable in the UK and making up an ever increasing percentage of electricity generation. Additionally, the time when it's windiest in the UK is also the time when electricity demand is at its highest.

Using coal for electricity in the UK is now rare. Coal only made up 1.5% of electricity generation in the UK in 2022. Just ten years ago coal generation was nearly half.

Similar to "He's one can short of a six pack"

Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing.

However, I'm sure the CAA will want words with the pilot for selecting a road rather than a field to do the forced landing.

I'm sure the courts would agree it's not theft, but it really is taking the piss: a typical UK home uses on the order of 10kWh per day - and an electric car can easily take 60kWh to charge. This isn't like charging a mobile phone which is basically noise - it can mean someone staying for 5 days can easily end up using twice what the reasonable expectation for electricity use was.

Having said that, if I were the owner of a holiday home, I'd probably install a proper electric car charger as a selling point and I'm sure it would be possible to set the daily rate for the property to cover the cost of charging a car.

Just to pay devil's advocate for a moment - but let's imagine the house has oil heating (heating oil is basically diesel). Ignoring the problems of unpaid duty, given that the heating oil is provided as part of the holiday home's services, would it be theft if a guest filled up their diesel car from the heating oil tank? If that would be theft, why would (at least in the holiday home owner's opinion) it be unreasonable to not treat charging an electric car off the house supply in the same way, as clearly just as the heating oil isn't intended to be put in guests cars, the electricity isn't, either?

What do you mean by "advanced Linux distro"?

If you mean starting at a minimal starting point and only installing what you need, then you may as well start off with a minimal Debian netinst, then add the stuff you want once you've got the minimal system installed.

Black cats are the best.

I always liked the way BoJo was sometimes called the "Poundshop Trump".

Then your (presumably Canada) country needs to start re-doing the cities so they aren't dependent on private cars. NL was also going that way in the 1970s until they changed direction. The best time to do it would have been back then, but the second best time to do it is start now.

The thing is if it were you or I being investigated, we'd have the RIP Act thrown at us with the threat of a custodial sentence, no doubt, for not revealing the password.