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> So how then do you know that Spain will veto a Scottish application to rejoin? It is what I suspect after living in Spain as an Expat near Gibraltar for 3-4 years. I wasn't aware…

The article is over 2 years old and Alfonso Dastis isn't the current foreign minister. In any event Scottish Independence isn't going to happen anytime soon with Boris Johnson shut…

> Scotland is hosting a climate summit, and chooses to market a climate achievement. If it wasn't "in vogue" they the SNP wouldn't be doing it. As I previously said (which you have…

> I don't understand why anyone still buys anything at Amazon. It is cheaper than almost every other computer store in the UK for the same parts, deliver next day and they don't te…

The SNP were saying that Scotland could go independent on their Oil price not long ago. The SNP will say anything essentially to virtue signal against Westminster. This appears to …

That is more true of old x86 hardware and older micro-computers (Amigas, Ataris etc). The SGI machines are difficult to get hold of in the UK to begin with plus they are as other s…

It is a different story in the UK. I would probably just get one if I was in the US.

This reply is total buzzword salad. > I've watched with great interest over time how Microsoft has evolved from closed source to open source. IMHO, Much of their motivation derives…

Been wanting one of these machines for years, but they are sooo pricey it is insane. Mainline Linux support will be good, but I tbh I would be running IRIX as intended.

Most of the CO2 is produced in China and India so I doubt the conversation in the USA will be even relevant.

I would like to know Why I should contribute to Open Source when Microsoft is a massive company that has plenty of resources to fix its own bugs. Sure if you are at Uni, Just start…

I am from the UK. But the last movie I watched in the Cinema was in 2014. It is expensive and unnecessary. I bought in the new year a 60inch 4k HDR TV for less than £400 from toshi…

I've been doing .NET dev for the last decade. I have no idea how to get the whole browser part of the toolchain working with Visual Studio. I just don't bother. The client side deb…

That is interesting. I assumed that innerHTML must have been wrong because textContent works in all the browsers I have tried it on whereas innerHTML doesn't work. A cursory search…

This is a shame in some ways. Internet explorer was always very strict on how it works. Anything before 8 was a challenge due to some atrocious bugs. This had it problems but it re…

Most of the interesting sub-reddits have been shutdown or are in quarantine for having "wrong think", though hardcore pornography, discussions about disgusting and dangerous sexual…

So why is it almost every-time I here it mentioned in regards to this topic it is by those who act pious and pompous as a way of shutting down legitimate criticism?

Toxicity seems to be a code word for "the plebs are saying things that I don't approve of".

> I do, however, think that you're underestimating how much bad will Microsoft is building with its userbase these days. Sure, I don't think we're headed for 20-30%, but I do think…

> I read your comment. I just think that a large number of Linux sales is seen as a large 'pie'. I can't imagine that if there are 20-30% Linux sales that many will be thinking "We…

It like you didn't read my comment. If I could count on customers or Valve just fixing it with a wrapper for me, why bother making a Linux version at all? You wouldn't.

> Dual boot is too much of a mess for me, I have a separate Windows laptop which I barely use otherwise (it does have a few Windows-only games), it's a bit of an hassle too. I don'…

That isn't true. Windows does provide something that other platforms don't. The APIs and program compatibility are supported forever in Windows. I can run the original Quake and DO…

> There would be little incentive to port games to Linux without an existing gamer pool which can buy them, and there would be no gamer pool without an initial range of games... Th…

I was asking her why she thought that. Not what other people thought.