Mmm. I don’t think it’s quite as cut and dried as that. Support for Palestine & against the genocide is very high in the general populace. Yes the major parties in several of the European countries are on the wrong side of this, but most countries and most people aren’t. The UK & German governments are the only ones strongly supporting Israel. It’s understandable why the Germans are having trouble with finding a way to criticise them, but it is quite unclear to me how&why the UK is so enmired.

Because Labour, Reform & Tories are bought & sold by Israeli interests (and American) and the media are run by billionaires who are aligned with this fiasco

Also

https://kyivindependent.com/why-ukraine-keeps-striking-tuapse-and-russia-struggles-to-stop-it/

Given oil is its primary export

Thank you so much for the quick reply, I have somehow managed to totally break the installation altogether (it’s now bootlooping), so I’ll kill it recreate and try the above and report back.

Much appreciated

I think the point is the system is so corrupt the 1% will get enough warning lead time to get out and get to their bunker, or at least be well clear of the EMP zones. I.e hours not seconds.

It can be considered slightly inferior depending on your viewpoint. Debian tends to have older versions of software components than Ubuntu, and there’s some Ubuntu tools that are quite handy (the graphics driver management tool is one I believe).

So, in my understanding there are good reasons they don’t just pivot to Debian. I am not on the Mint team so you’d have to talk to them, but my recollection of a press realease or interview from a few years ago was that bringing all the ubuntu stuff into LMDE and maintaining it would be a massive effort

How much would it cost ? It could cost your liberty or even your life if you’re unlucky, there’s been a lot of tourists locked up for months before being deported, a few didn’t even make it back.

Might be a good World Cup to skip.

Referencing a paper that requires purchase isn’t terribly helpful as I’m sure you knew and deliberately chose to do.

From the blurb, I’d there’s more nuance than “China bad” - pretty all our major trading partners have issues, so unless you’re suggesting fortress Australia and cut off the world your comment is utter bullshit.

Buy batteries from where ever the hell we can get them, it makes us independent of fossil fuels which makes us more independent of world shenanigans like the orange one just pulled

LOL, yeah exactly

Why ?

LMDE exists as the DR plan for if Ubuntu loses the plot again and Mint can no longer rely on Ubuntu as the upstream. Yes it does create extra work, which is one of the reasons why LMDE releases tend to lag behind the primary Mint Cinnamon, but it’s worth it from the Mint perspective to have an alternative route immediately to hand.

You do realise that the Linux Kernel has Rust in it, right ?

You’ll need to go to BSD if you want to be Rust-less

https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-7-features-changes

" Linux 7.0 also declares the Rust for Linux effort as “here to stay”"

Welcome to the new planet, split 3 ways between 3 dictatorships.

It’s the world view that MAGA are working towards anyway.

Too bad Putain isn’t able to shoulder his third despite Krasnov’s best efforts

You’re in for a long wait, the Ford Mustang EV was decent and that’s about it.

I counted 8 not including flying cars and the “exploded view” SU7 - what article did you look at because it doesnt seem to be the linked AP news one

Desperate people were swayed by a propaganda campaign that spent decades telling them all their problems were because of the EU so the Tories weren’t held accountable for all the enshittifaction they did.

If Pauline Hanson had a tenth of the media support and corporate built propaganda (eg Cambridge analytica etc) she’d be PM already.

Hopefully Canada will do the smart thing

Nah we don’t know that either way on the available facts.

I had one outage which started on a Sunday and ran about 10-12hrs, 3 commercial VPNs were throttled down to 250Kb, but if you turned off the VPN or split tunneled full expected speed was reached (100Mb +). It wasn’t the VPN servers as disconnecting from wifi and going over 4G/5G worked normally.

The “outage” ended and hasn’t happened again. On the monday at least 2 of the commerical VPNs plus my work VPN were all working fine at the expected speeds and have been since. So we don’t know either way whether my work VPN was or was not affected as I didn’t think to test it.

Hypothesis 1 - I was sinbinned for too much torrent d/loading on sat night with a lock down against the VPN addresses that would have come up as the top couple of sources of large data requests (because obviously the tunnel IP address is what the ISP sees)

Hypothesis 2 - they trialled blocking popular 3rd party VPN services as you suggest (but 1 of the 3 is very obscure and def not main stream) and I was just one of those caught in it

Hypothesis 3 - Packet inspection captured torrenting activity and throttling was done because of that.

Clearly 3 is the worst scenario, 1 & 2 are quite probable - the govt is currently trying to create legislation to control VPN usage and as the largest(?) ISP Virgin would be an obvious candidate to do some tests on, and their service is so shite their customers are used to it getting shitty for random reasons.

Thanks for the input. I do a lot of remote work over a VPN for work (Azure one I assume as they’re an MS house, I’ve not checked), which they don’t block, but they also only blocked the always on VPNs myself and the rest of the household had in place for that 12 hour window on a Sunday. It is currently working fine for the personal VPNs. I didn’t think to test the work laptop given I’d tested 3 VPNs by that time, but I’ll try next time

Ahh. That’s bad. What exactly did they do that made it feel like a data collection scheme ?