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You have to read the analysis below as well as look at the charts. From the articles I linked > As a further way of characterising countries, we include a second measure based on t…

> politicians sometimes lie…? Most people are quite aware that politicians lie. It is a common trope in movies, tv and media generally. Politicians are quite disliked in the UK gen…

I am not pretending anything. I've showed some actual evidence to back to back up my view point. Moreover, time after time the British public are surveyed about their views on immi…

I know. I felt like it needed to be pointed out that even on parties that are seen to be more centre-left/left that there is good portion of voters that are opposition to immigrati…

Well there is no evidence to back that up. In fact there is plenty that indicates the opposite. https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/uk... There is in the sect…

> Plus it was never about immigration, It was partly about immigration. According to these surveys 43% of people that voted leave think immigration should be reduced. https://publi…

> Didn't they get more independence with Brexit? We didn't leave the EHCR. So there is an argument that we don't have full control of our laws. IANAL and won't pretend to know the …

> we need subsidies to make the poor more efficient at using the power they can afford. They already have grants and subsidies that people can apply for. https://www.gov.uk/governm…

I don’t use Ubuntu personally, but there should be a newer LTS out. If you are using a nvidia card it might be worth checking if you are using Wayland or X11, Nvidia and X11 typica…

> Agreed but on the other side it makes the manufacturing more complex - another plastic part and screws as well as the time needed compared to just gluing in the battery. > > I su…

Generally most of the Linux's have rough edges on the desktop experience. I am using Debian 13 (Current Testing) and while it is pretty decent these days there are lots of annoyanc…

OpenBSD and Linux work well on it. OpenBSD as much as I like it has too many usability issues on Desktop IME, you might find it absolutely fine. If you are using Linux make sure yo…

It not that easy with their glued in batteries on some Macbook Pros. You have to essentially use alcohol to remove the glue to replace the battery. Absolute PITA. They could have u…

Contrary to popular belief the Dell and Thinkpads are really reliable as long as you buy their business laptops. The consumer laptops are often not great, but the business ones are…

I did look at getting a 1080p screen for it. I am pretty sure I could fit one but the price was prohibitive.

Any older business class laptop really. I have an two older Laptops. One is a Dell 6410. The former has Debian on it with Gnome and I've stuck 8Gb of ram on the machine, slapped in…

A lot of people don't realise that monetary inflation is a tax on everybody and affect the poorest the most.

The "Adrian's Digital Basement 2" Channel took a "Plus+ Hardcard" drive and found something similar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzMoEwTTFJs

The pdf version of the book is free. You can read find out yourself :) https://cdn.mises.org/Anatomy%20of%20the%20State_3.pdf

I've found the vast majority of my issues with JavaScript is the modern tooling itself. I really like the new language improvements over the ES5 e.g. not having to worry about scop…

Most of the people that seem to be influential seem to be either Paleo-cons, Rothbardians and people that are believers in the Austrian School of Economics. I am not an ancap becau…

I would suggest you read “Anatomy of the State” by Murray Rothbard. I don’t want to sound rude but your comment is what people say when they haven’t read anything about it. I used …

What is important that it works for you. I think it is good that more users can solve their own problems.

> I never see regulatory bodies demand money or powers. It happens quite often after a big failure. I've worked in government myself as a contractor and seen huge amounts of waste …

As I said there was issue where one screen wouldn’t be accelerated. This was on both Debian and Fedora this was around 2020. I started using Debian around 10 I think.