Did the most damage… But I’m not sure he’s villainous. Just competently dangerous. Happy to be corrected but I thought tmjr was trying to improve the world. He just got massively unlucky… Multiple times.

20+ years in industry as a UNIX and Linux admin. Informed but potentially biased.

Linux admins have tended in my career to be more expensive. They tend to be more week rounded as engineers. Linux by it’s nature, especially in the past, required you to be a DBA, network admin, server admin, developer all in one. They can often fix problems quicker than the support engineer elsewhere can read the ticket.

That means you pay more per engineer, MBAs don’t like this. This is a critical problem. You pay less overall in staff costs because you need less staff, MBAs don’t understand this. MBAs like support contracts so they can offset blame.

A small, concise, tight nit, well payed admin team who have ownership and care about a product will be cheaper, and have more uptime than the alternatives. But they’ll also be obstinate, high payed, entitled and ready to jump ship if you mistreat them. That means you need actual diplomacy and social skills to manage them well.

A small tight nit team with product ownership will need a kick up the arse at times to change “what ain’t broke”. So when product requirements need a radically different solution that can take time to change.

There is a reason that industry breaking startups in the early 2000s had their corporate backbones on Linux.

This. So much of this.

I see the same with any federated platform. People are excited to explain how complicated and clever and different services and integrations and… Shut the fuck up.

App, sign-up, post, like, subscribe. Done.

People will learn the rest if it is important enough to them to master

Constrained supply

But there are empty properties now. There is supply. House prices are too high for all of the property to be affordable. That is because property as an appreciating investment is valuable. You can only live in one house, to buy multiple properties and have that appreciated investment, you are a landlord.

Low interest rates

allow you to buy a property. They allow people investing in housing to buy many. It results in the above.

Banks pushing bigger mortgages

Sure

Help to buy

Allows affordable housing to become an investment. See my first point.

Rich people were losing to much money

Yep, some of those people were landlords who were finding city prices dropping.

Clearly landlord culture isn’t the “only” problem. But fuck me it’s a big part of the issue.

Ban landlord culture and property prices drop.

Kinda sucks for those already with a mortgage. Defending rental culture because someone might lose out now only guarantees that an ever increasing majority lose out in the future.

I make nearly incomprehensible screeches … is that a word

No (or at least it depends on your definition of a word). For being added to the Cambridge dictionary, it is not in general or widespread usage. Your random screech is not historically or socially worthy of being documented. It likely has no suitable examples for coinage. You screech has no linguistic staying power, it wont be used by you and others in a few years time.

English does not have an academy. It does not have a rulebook that defines exactly what it is. Unlike languages like French (as an example … with all of the social linguistics that comes with that). The dictionary is a record of how the language is being used by a notable proportion of the population.

Skibidi is one of 6000 words being added, this year alone.

tradwife is a shortform, it’s not a word

There are lots of shortform, abbreviations and colloquialisms in the dictionary. If they are individually used/cited as words on their own basis then they can be listed in the dictionary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY

In short … America (and largely europe) no longer makes dies for things. We’ve even exported the knowledge of the die making process.

“Made in America” “Made in the UK” “Made in France” all mean largely the same thing. Imported materials, imported dies, imported components assembled in “<x>”

Which flag do we use for English?

I won’t allow the stars and stripes

cough Vietnam cough

America should really be the country that knows it’s massive superpower isn’t enough against an unwilling guerilla

Manure or rock, sure. I get that.

Plywood or sheet rock, standard sizes of sheet rock here in the UK for in a panel van and I have no worries about them getting wet out damaged en route.

Given the length limit of a truck bed, I can get much bigger things in a van then I could a truck.

Given your opinions are on the reasonable side of truck owners

What advantage does a truck have over a panel van for work use?

Yes I’m European. Yes I actually want a truck for some unknown social reason. But every time I look at trucks I think the beds are either too small or I think my shit is going to get wet back there. An enclosed panel van has a bigger converted storage area.

Excuse me sir, we appear to have a different definition of “winning”.

He’s making a lot of noise about Zelensky not going to the polls. So …

War, he’s talking about taking America to war so strongly they can’t have an election.

I know trump doesn’t know world history.

But helping Russia and asking Lithuania for help are mutually exclusive options.

Needs v wants

Needs: healthcare, utilities, public transport, even a minimal but quality food source. Even to the point of utilitarian but working phones/devices. State ownership where profits are minimal but go back into the state. The services aren’t necessarily free, but are run without massive shareholder payouts.

Wants: upgrades and luxuries. iPhones, treat foods, nice cars, silk bedding and those ridiculous marshmallow shoes everyone loves. Regulated but free market.

Now all your basic needs are covered by the community together. You could probably live a simple life with very little income. If you want luxury or fancy, feel free to work too get it.

I’m not saying we should…

But negative tariffs on eggs coming out of the USA and ridiculous tariffs on eggs going into the USA would tickle my funny bone

Well done sir. Well done.

If we ever meet in a pub I owe you a pint

You’ve started on a completely false assumption.

TBH some of the best art, music and creativity in games comes from small indie studios and developers. Who put creativity and skill into their project. They make it good by actually making it all. Games with a unique style and fun ideas come from small indie studios who need supporting.

AI is a shortcut to stealing others work by proxy. It creates content that is non-novel by its very design and by the very limitations of the tool.

artists, programmers and musicians that can lovingly hand craft the loot boxes

What are you on about? It’s the companies churning out loot box after loot box that are programmatically producing them. You’re actively invalidating your own point in your rant.

At this point, reading your comment again. I’m really hoping I just missed some dry sarcasm.

I’m experienced in the field of cyber security

So… go lookup the CVEs. Go have a look at what the actual threats against the old device are. What’s the method of attack and do you care.

If you decide you’re happy with the device. Then remember to keep going back and seeing if any new attacks against the device exist.

Whatever happens, we’re not protected against 0day attacks (by their very nature).

I guess there is some reason to worry about “unknown” attacks against the device. But like 0day’s, there’s probably unknown attacks against patched devices as well.

Remove the romance element from it.

If the bottle spins, someone has to spend time in your company doing something you enjoy. You and your friends all agree. The bottle lands on you, and suddenly whatever it was you enjoy is not just “unenjoyable” but is actively repulsive to the other people. Ironically, I’d expect people to be repulsed by having to do half my hobbies, so this isn’t a perfect reframing.

Apologies if I’m not being sensitive to your thought patterns. But there must be a way of reframing this that you can see why someone would be upset that their “friends” find them actively repulsive to even be around.