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Music (mainly prog rock) and veggie loving, geeky cat butler living in Hertfordshire UK. A lover of all things LOTR (since I first read it over 50 years ago) scifi and what have you. Ex soldier (Royal Artillery) and other trades ;-)

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Or indeed any day at all ;-)

baggins,
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George Galloway is only interested in himself. When this current fad gets flushed down the toilet, he’ll find another bandwagon to jump on.

Galloway's Workers Party to stand candidates everywhere in challenge to Labour (morningstaronline.co.uk)

“Unveiling the largest left-of-Labour electoral challenge in history, Mr Galloway, who returned to the Commons in the Rochdale by-election in February, said the party was speaking to three Labour MPs about their possible defection.”...

baggins,
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The only thing that George Galloway is concerned with is his self promotion.

baggins,
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I’m on the insider build and haven’t seen any of this. If I do then I’m off. That’s a red line as far as I’m concerned.

I’ll load up EndeavourOS (it’s already on my laptop) and they can shove it. Pity as it was genuinely getting good. So many things that worked seamlessly and effortlessly compared to some of the Linux stuff.

But I’ll not have ads in my OS.

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Yes and it was a pile of steaming hotspur.

talesofaprinny, to linux

Impressions after a week using KDE Neon: Amazing

It's been fairly stable as I would expect from an LTS. There's LOT of hiccups with whatever is happening in the tray area (power and battery sometimes doesn't work).

Language is pretty screwed up. I speak both English/Spanish in a Spanish location. Installer chooses half spanish and english in the /etc/locale, and has issues changing it in the frontend.

Overall nothing I can't fix as I put stability overall

@kde

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Had issues with it. I seem to remember it not waking from sleep or similar.

I’m sticking with EndeavourOS and Plasma ;-)

baggins,
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I wonder if we could send him there. If it’s as great as he says, he might even stay.

baggins,
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Yes. My wife is almost certainly eligible for PIP. The process is so complex and intrusive that she gave up and didn’t bother pushing it.

A work colleague whose wife is quite severely disabled claimed but was rejected. He appealed and was awarded the highest rate.

I’m trying to convince my wife to claim again. It would make a considerable rise in our standard of living.

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She’s just following orders, a bit like the guards at Auschwitz.

baggins,
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Child workers or child care workers?

It sounds pretty scummy whatever one it is.

baggins,
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Exactly. God’s chosen people often turn out to be just as shitty as the ‘bad’ guys.

They all use religion as an excuse for their shitty behaviour. I still don’t understand because it’s the same God.

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I don’t buy it at all. I think religion is a cancer that the human race needs to eradicate as soon as possible.

The fact that they call themselves God’s chosen people should ensure they have standards far and above everyone else.

They are just as shitty as the ‘bad guys’.

baggins,
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Not soon enough!

Probably later this year, this should give you an idea of what happens.

www.bbc.com/news/uk-politic

baggins,
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What if you were conscripted into the medical corps? Or if you were military veterinary staff?

Not all military personnel serve on the front line.

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Good luck with that. Meanwhile MPs are sending dick picks on WhatsApp.

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and the West is “on the cusp” of conflict.> Partly because the orange idiot sucked up to them.

I know it’s not a black and white case but he certainly didn’t help, and still isn’t.

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This.

Cue cries of ‘But bacun!’

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Have to play devil’s advocate here. I totally agree that naming your chatbot Aryan is a bit of a giveaway, but does it say that exactly anywhere? All I can see is Arya. That is a legitimate name, even more popular since Game of Thrones. This crap is bad enough without making false claims about it. We’d be quick enough to call the other side out when they made a false claim. We shouldn’t adopt their practices. We’re supposed to be better than that.

baggins,
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Thanks - and it’s no doubt intended and they might has well named it Fuhrer, but we need to stay better than them.

baggins,
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How do I do that in Beehaw please, or do you just mean blocking them on mastodon itself? Thanks!

baggins,
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Ah right. OK - many thanks 😊

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That’ll be why I don’t see them! Excellent. Many thanks.

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Non gamer alert!

Started watching and have only see one and a bit episodes so far. I fell asleep so will have to go back to episode one and catch up.

Bearing in mind I know pretty much zip about the Fallout universe other than when I’ve seen it mentioned online, it looks pretty good from here - there’s definitely a lot going on and it’ll take a couple of watches before all the little details are picked up.

Seems to me to be a fun programme that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Hope it continues.

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Yes, they had a million and one things designed to catch your head, knee, elbow, eye etc. What that diagram doesn’t make clear is the bench seat running down the centre for the operators and Command Post Officer (CPO) to sit on. Underneath that were the batteries for FACE, 8 (or possibly 6) great big 12v 100ah lead acid things. Space was at a premium. In this pic I’m sitting with my back to the teleprinter and Bob Cooper was sitting on the commanders seat - it used to drop down and become a seat for a signaller :-) This would have been taken about 1983/4 https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/2efa6209-1f32-49f8-abb2-dabda1bb9ce8.webp

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