The article site itself is a good example of what’s wrong with the internet.

The guardian used a “pay or ok” model for cookie acceptance.

Archive link to avoid that nonsense: https://archive.ph/pHNdt

Sure, might be a good pilot scheme for work that is societally enriching, but not necessarily profitable.

I’ll put this thought out here for anyone saying “they voted for Brexit”.

Given the age divide on that vote, most folks who voted for it are enjoying retirement, or are just plain dead.

Brexit is a root cause, however simple corporate greed and mismanagement are also a huge factor of the UK’s dysfunction. Keep in mind, most of our large companies are owned by the US or countries in Europe (so the profits vanish overseas); a lot of our housing acts as an investment for the wealthy of other nations (driving the cost of living crisis); we’ve also got the “north/south” divide, where all the wealth and investment stats in and around London.

We’re also exiting over a decade under a party who see poverty as a moral failing, and voted in a party that lacks the balls to make the changes needed to begin reversing these issues.

So, all things said, there’s a lot more at play than just the act of national self harm that was Brexit.

I wonder if there will be a bus promising an extra £350 million a year for the NHS if Trump colonised Greenland?

Scary thought, given how badly Starmer is doing, Farage might gain an even louder voice…

Windows on an external drive isn’t officially supported if I remember right. Your screenshot seems to support that.

Honestly, I’d be leery of installing an OS on an external drive as they tend not to age well with heavy use.

Are you trying to necro a laptop with a dead drive? If so, depending on the model, it might just be worth replacing the internal drive so then you can go ahead with your dual boot plan.

Also, quick tip, install windows, then disable fast startup in windows, then disable safeboot in your bios. Otherwise, when it comes time to install mint, you might hit issues with windows saying “NO, MY DRIVE”.

If you install mint and get no grub screen, just boot mint with your live usb and look up repairing grub - should be nice and easy.

Sounds to me like the UK should just drop all the agreements it made to avoid tariffs and give trumpler a solid kick in the balls.

Fish eye is another

Edit: as are both the guy’s eyes

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It’s risk vs harm:

Men suffer from higher risk (non-consensual alimony, scams, and catfishing (etc) are all too damn common) but lower harm (these are all nasty, but manageable if you look after yourself and follow basic safety).

Women suffer from lower risk (violent men are not as common as the media makes out) but much higher harm (sorry but dead or trapped in physical abuse trumps the lot, not much you can do to protect against these).

Psychology says the women are going to be a lot more cautious (we fear big losses with low odds more than small losses with high odds).

Gents, just take it on the nose that cautious ladies are playing a smart numbers game. Ladies, make sure to make it up to the gents later on in the relationship (we love chocolates too, especially the “sorry I suspected you of murder” kind).

One of those little truisms folks forget is that optimising software takes a LOT longer than making something that just works.

3 terminal apps that got me hooked:

mednafen (emulating a PS1 on a net potato with 2gb of ram and an atom processor at a playable framerate was just magic to me)

moc (epically minimal music player that just feels right)

nano (I wrote a series of short stories using it while listening to music on moc, honestly the most zen-like experience I’ve ever had)

Bonus: radion (an online radio player mostly written in bash I discovered in the early days of Lemmy)

Too much time this year has been lost fixing random cups issues for people. Too much damn time!

Clearly they gave every last fuck they could about that code.

DRM - the bane of good user experience.

GOG nailed it - no DRM, low prices, convenience.

If most book publishers released their texts with new features (e.g. linking references, or adding additional notes to proofs/solutions) they’d get their sales. Instead they just slap DRM on and…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkWQvzrv6gI

Fair play to you - it just comes off that way.

Each post that hits my feed makes me think “wow, sexism is alive and well”. Glad to hear it isn’t just all rage bait.

Eh, I only ever see that community when a bait post makes it to the front page.

Honestly, I just assumed it was a really elaborate troll group and didn’t bother engaging.

You know, there’s a fun observation to be made here: for every perversion you ban, the more niche ones move further up the view list. In essence, short of a complete porn ban (which is their final goal), they’re likely to make the problem worse.

In terms of boys learning violence from this kind of porn - surely the online safety act is doing that right? Of course not; that act has failed gloriously and this proposed change evidences that.

The real solution they should be considering is strong messages about “safe, sane, consensual”. Stick it up on posters, make it a mandatory banner on porn sites (who would complain, really), even take that shit into schools (it’s good practice even for vanilla). The real issue isn’t the acts themselves, it’s the way we talk about them, or more don’t!

Reply to edited chart - violence against adult was not as common. Violence against other kids however…

Also, 1995–2002 was peak chav ;)

I’m not from the USA so I don’t really have a clear idea on what a redneck is.

However, going from media representations (dodgy ground) I’d say no. There isn’t the strong streak of racism, and the demographic is uniquely young for chavs (since most grow out of it).