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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • Top tip: Provided you’ve not received a PCN from the council… do not pay, and do not contact the company EVER, not even to contest the PCN.

    These parking charges are a civil matter, not criminal, and essentially the parking operator is claiming you broke a contract with them, which you had agreed to when you parked your car.

    If you refuse to pay they can take you to court but are unlikely to, and they can only claim the reasonable damages of you breaking the contract.

    You will likely receive threatening letters from the parking operator up until you actually go to court.

    Any threats of bailiffs is total BS. Only the court can send bailiffs and only if you don’t pay what the court has demanded.

    As the article says, these companies make their money by people paying uncontested fines.

    (IANAL)








  • In the interests of discussion…

    I read the article and it doesn’t seem that unreasonable that they pulled the documentary while they investigate the production company.

    For example, if I was watching a documentary on Gaza and there was some close connection to the IDF and the production company, I would probably want that investigated too, as the documentary could be misrepresentative.

    I hope that the BBC investigates and that the documentary is found to be accurate or as unbiased as possible, or whatever criteria they are looking to satisfy.

    The more documentaries exposing the suffering in Gaza the better!










  • So just to help a little bit without getting too technical…

    df -h is your friend to find out which physical drive or partition relates to which directory (called the “mount point”)

    If you want, you can set up each drive/partition to be mounted a bit Windows-esque.

    For example:

    • Drive 1, partition 1 will almost certainly be root /
    • But drive 1, partition 2 can be mounted to: /mnt/d/
    • And then drive 1, partition 3 can be mounted to: /mnt/e/

    And so on.

    You’ll need to look up fstab to understand how to do that.

    I understand it’s tricky to get your head around initially as I felt exactly the same coming from Windows to Linux.

    Once you get your head around partitions being able to be mounted anywhere, it actually becomes really handy