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Been using Synology for more than 10 years. Very used to DSM and my default would have been to continue. The drive policy was a calculated insult to customers. I don't buy the argu…

Really? I have taken chickens to the vet twice (in 8 years). First was one taken by a fox. My wife chased the fox and he dropped the chicken (she was too heavy for him). She had a …

Your apparent implication that the EU is coercive is false. Very simply, if you want to do business in the EU you have to comply with the mandated market standards. No hammers are …

NI is recognised as a "contingent" part of the UK. (contingent because as a gerrymandered legacy colony imposed on the Irish people it is a disputed territory). There certainly is …

Utter claptrap. The UK govt announced its intention to abrogate the withdrawal agreement. The EU did not renege upon the agreement -- which specifically includes terms about the EU…

Personal communication from someone in the know in NUI.

What's overlooked by many commenting on this is that cooperation with UK science will not revert to pre-Brexit levels. EU scientists do not have freedom of movement to the UK, nor …

Nonsense. There is no pretense that GB and NI are in different countries. They are in different trade zones. As for "our" country, here's your reminder that all of Ireland was coer…

This will be a significant boost to London, already home to vast amounts of money laundering via real estate, all facilitated by well established networks involving thousands of mi…

This is arrant nonsense. EU countries are NOT busy dominating each other nor are they engaged in colonialism, unless you think the Brussels Effect is about colonialism instead of t…

In fact, VAT is what facilitates the operation of the EU single market. Meanwhile, in the US: https://fsi.stanford.edu/events/why-europe%E2%80%99s-single-...

Indeed. The Commission is appointed by the Council (member state govt heads of state) and appointments are ratified by the European Parliament. Same as with the executive in the US…

Your use of the term "unelected bureaucrats" as a delegitimizing pejorative is risible. Do yourself a favour and read Michael Lewis's The Fifth Risk. The EU's civil servants are, b…

Cinnamon works for me. KDE was buggy, unreliable and annoying when I tried it--admittedly some time ago. And the fetish for naming everything with an initial letter K: kindergarten…

MyLifeOrganized ; it's the last Windows app I use (on Linux with WINE and Android)

Did you miss the bit where given a choice most people opted out of surveillance? No concern at all about the adverse effects on democracies of the misuse of data?