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localzuk

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All views my own. IT Manager in UK MAT.

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localzuk, to random
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Spent the last few days trying out Manjaro linux on my home gaming PC. Same conclusion as always - lacking in finish for gaming.

Specific issues - Wayland + Nvidia is still a "you have to do all this fiddling" mess to get it to work.

Tried it with X11 instead, but then half the stuff in Lutris doesn't work, and the response for others with similar issues is "all the devs use Wayland, so you're on your own".

Doesn't seem to matter how much time goes by, the Linux community stays the same.

localzuk, to random
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A government obsessed with other people's genitals.

This is designed just to wind up the anti-trans lot, so they'll vote Tory.

Gender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England | UK news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/06/gender-specific-toilets-to-be-required-in-non-residential-buildings-in-england

localzuk, to random
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Just saw a company advertising their compatible Nespresso pods.

Nothing strange there.

Except their unique selling point is that they aren't made of aluminium, as "aluminium takes 500 years to break down".

Instead? They're made of PLA. So are "compostable". But only industrially. So you can't stick them in your compost bin.

How ridiculous is that?

Aluminium is the perfect material to make pods from as... it can be recycled!

localzuk,
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What's with weird adverts for products lately?

Another advert "why use ponchos if they never work" with someone off screen clearly spraying the guy in the face. "All you need is our $coat".

Except, a poncho costs like £1. Their coat is, as you'd expect, very expensive.

Do they really think people who are using a £1 poncho are going to opt for their proper rain coat instead!?

localzuk, to random
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This is exactly why we need to be taxing them more. The super rich think they shouldn't ha e to pay their fair share. Yet their wealth wouldn't exist without the support of the country they live in.

Good riddance to spongers, IMO.

‘I am moving – that is it’: tycoon speaks out about the end of non-dom tax status | The super-rich | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/may/02/i-am-moving-tycoon-bassim-haidar-non-dom-tax-status-super-rich-exodus

localzuk, to linux
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Looking for a way to rip BluRay discs so I can stream the videos via Plex, on Manjaro Linux. Every site on the net points to MakeMKV, except the BETA key for that expired at the end of April, and the site hasn't been updated with a new one... So, anyone got any ideas?

localzuk,
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@visone Handbrake doesn't deal with drm.

localzuk, to random
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If Google are facilitating the IDF and it's actions in Gaza, then they are opening themselves up to serious charges regarding potentially aiding genocide, depending on the rulings of the ICC.

It doesn't seem wise, from a corporate responsibility point of view for Google to carry on with such a risk.

Not to mention, it doesn't fit with Google's supposed values.

Workers accuse Google of ‘tantrum’ after 50 fired over Israel contract protest | Google | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/27/google-project-nimbus-israel

localzuk, to random
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I wonder if anything will ever be done with the Signal Point/National Rail building in Swindon?

National Rail took back ownership of it 4 years ago, promising it would be refurbished. Yet here we are in Swindon, all still looking at a boarded up derelict building.

localzuk, to UKpolitics
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The most that's ever been spent on the NHS? Only if you ignore both inflation and population growth.

If they'd simply kept up with inflation, the budget would be £196bn this year.

The £165bn this year is worth £111bn in 2010, a 16% decrease. Record spending? Not even close.

And that's before the population is taken into account! Nearly a 10% increase in population...

Chris Philp defends government NHS record after Dan Poulter defects to Labour - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-68915259

localzuk,
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As an aside, what kind of interview is it where the "journalist" doesn't present these facts to the Minister? Where's the challenge to what the govt are saying?

Just seems like BBC is happy to act as a simple propaganda outlet.

localzuk, to random
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The importance of choosing hardware encoding when converting video files in Handbrake...

Software encoding - converting at about 41fps.
Hardware - averaging 458fps.

Both H.265 1080p.

localzuk, to random
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Recycling batteries isn't actually that easy, though. So many people will continue to be lazy and just bin them.

The onus is currently on people to take the batteries somewhere to recycle. Which means they need to store them until they do.

So, instead of bin lorry fires, we'll have house fires instead. Realistically, councils should start collecting them with kerb-side recycling.

Bin fire in Cornwall after batteries not recycled - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-68899020.amp

localzuk,
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@amicklei the problem will be poorly made cells. A normal cell made by a good brand will likely not be any issue for anyone unless it gets pierced.

But cells used in cheap items, such as random power banks from no-brand Chinese firms, that use badly made cells are a risk. It's why we keep seeing things like escooter fires, as the manufacturers of cheap ones use bad quality cells.

Honestly, we should be tightening up import controls on them as well.

localzuk,
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@penguin42 exactly, it just moves the problem around. How long until we see a Tesco go up in flames because of a faulty cell in one of their recycling tubs?

isleofmandan, to random
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I am on a boat.
#IsleOfMan #ManxMan

The view from a front window of MV Manxman, leaving Douglas. Blue sky with white clouds. The north of the Isle of Man in view and calm sea.
The view from the stern of the Manxman. The Isle of Man in sunshine.

localzuk,
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@isleofmandan I'm looking forward to that when my parents move back and I come visit them.

ScottLucas, to Ukraine
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, Day 794: --- "You Are Deciding the Fate of the World"

https://eaworldview.com/2024/04/ukraine-war-zelenskiy-you-are-deciding-the-fate-of-the-world/

localzuk,
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@ScottLucas isn't it funny, Putin is busy stealing the assets of all sorts of western companies but whines like a baby when the west talks about handing over the sanction frozen Russian assets to Ukraine...

localzuk, to random
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Weasel worded nonsense. Elbit Systems UK, and its specific site in question, might not supply the IDF. But who owns Elbit Sustems UK? That'd be Elbit Systems, the Israeli company... Who do, in fact, proudly supply the IDF.

Somerset Council apologises to arms manufacturer Elbit Systems UK - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2len5jlzqpo.amp

Geri, to random
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Today we learnt at the that Angela van der Bogred authorised a drip drip drip feed of money to the widow of Martin Griffiths, a man who took his own life because a faulty computer system - Horizon- indicated that he had stolen thousands and thousands of pounds.

She paid off the widow in this way because she did not want her to speak out and spoil the brand of the Post Office.

How fucking awful.

localzuk,
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@Geri she's shameless. If there's not a criminal investigation into her, I'll be extremely annoyed.

localzuk,
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@Geri I hope so. There needs to be some of these post office execs going to jail.

LALegault, to random
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Support these protesting, do not self-deputize as arms of state violence, they are right.

localzuk,
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@Beachbum @LALegault is this where you redefine violence to include people being angry like those opposing the pro-palestine marches in London tried to?

The amount of violence from protest marches is so small as to not even feature in statistics. More violence happens in bars. Or at schools. Hell, I'd hazard that more violence happens in churches.

localzuk,
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@Beachbum @LALegault ah, I didn't realise you were the supreme court, and able to determine what was and wasn't free speech...

localzuk,
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@Beachbum @LALegault I have considerably more experience than most regarding free speech and trespass due to my own legal history.

We have the Human Rights Act, which is the law that protects our rights based on the European Convention on Human Rights.

Here, you cannot be trespassed from a public university simply for protesting. The courts have ruled on this a few times. Only if you engage in what we'd call "aggravated trespass" - where you disrupt legal activity with your actions.

localzuk,
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@Beachbum @LALegault regarding your constitution, yes, I have read it and have seen how often the Supreme Court upholds the right to free speech. It is considerably more protected there than here.

The weird issue I see is how your universities get funding from the federal government, have public spaces yet can act like entirely private entities...

SehrLesbisch, to random
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this pigeon has done more to support us during this move than my parents

closeup video of a pigeon sitting on my hand and eating out of sammy's paw

localzuk,
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@SehrLesbisch they're such pretty birds. I don't think people notice because they're so common.

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