Tesla anything shouldn’t be allowed to operate in the UK (or anywhere in Europe for that matter).

Unfortunately true. It’s the uninformed (and who don’t care enough to get informed) that allow the violation of rights and privacy continue.

This is the way to go!

True. For me it hasn’t come up so far, possibly because my account is registered in a different country. It’s going to be a bit inconvenient but probably time to give them the finger and look elsewhere.

There are ways you can use a Spotify account registered in another country and you basically pay about £2 a month. I’m mainly into 80s and 90s music and used Spotify to discover music, and once I come across a song I like I add the album name to a list (i.e. note it down) and find the CD from a second hand shop or failing which obtain the FLAC files some other way. This way I now have an offline library that has most of the songs that I love. Spotify will be there as long as I can just pay £2-ish but the moment they try the age verification or raise prices, its bye-bye for them.

It is now. If someone just uses the browser, they wouldn’t really notice if it was Linux. Well, they’ll notice because it would be faster. I have my entire Steam and GOG library setup on Linux and every game I want to play regularly works just fine. Yes there are instances where I’d need to get on the terminal but that’s quite rare.

I have a non-uk account but at the first sight of age verification I will delete my account.

Try listning in on the local repeaters, and if they are active, getting a cheap HT or a mobile rig will let you keep in touch with other hams around you. Keep practising CW (I’m a fairly new ham and all my HF contacts has been on CW). You can use the IZ2UUF app for that. There is another app called Morse Chat which you can use to chat with others using CW and it’s fairly active. If going portable interests you, POTA and SOTA will be another activity you can lookup on. Have fun. 73!

I use my mag loop indoors. It’s a 40 to 17 meter band loop, but as you say its a pain to tune, even with the lovely built-in analyzer in the G90. I’ve set it at 7.028 (FISTS CW calling frequency) and I can move a bit up and down without messing up the SWR. I can make contacts around the UK and sometimes across to the continent.