Because it’s the pro-business wing of the party. They did a hostile takeover from the left, shunned unions and funded by wealthy folk. It’s corruption of the party. Hence why they ditched Green New Deal and pushed back net zero targets. Return on investment.

A friend of mine has hundreds of hours on House Flipper. Definitely got their money’s worth.

A wee bit crispy. Worth covering with foil at first and regularly basting as Turkey can get a bit dry.

I found Samsung’s struggled after 1.5 years. I’m 3 years in on Pixel 6a. Less bloat really seems to help.

What phone would you recommend privacy wise?

I’m quite impressed you’ve been running Windows 10 on a HDD. It was dog slow for me, especially starting up and how I started using Linux.

Who cares about toxic LTT?

I have bought both Lenovo and Asus multiple times. I always felt I got more for my money with ASUS. Never used customer support though. In UK, we have a 1 year electronics warranty with retailer so can take straight back if any problems.

You’re welcome. Good luck :)

You shouldn’t need to constantly defend yourself. The most important persons opinion on you, is you. Who do you want to be, how do you want to act? If x decision happens, was it the best decision you could make at the time with the information you have? If so, good call. Even if in hindsight it was wrong, no one can see the future.

If you constantly have to defend yourself, do you have toxic people in your life? Is the criticism aimed at you for your benefit or theirs? If theirs, learn to take a step back.

Rather than defending yourself which drags you into the mud with them, deflect it away. “If you say so.” “I’m sorry you feel that way”. There is a book called When I Say No, I feel Guilty, and it’s great at teaching you practical ways to resist other manipulation etc.

Most importantly, if you wouldn’t change your decisions, take comfort and pride in them. If you make a mistake, don’t feel guilty, think how you’d do things differently next time. How you can learn from it. Guilt is wasted energy, redemption is much more positive way to channel things. “Well, I did this and maybe I wronged x, one thing I could do to improve things for person is this”.

I wish you luck on building yourself up, one step at a time. At your own time. Bad days happen and it’s OK, tomorrow is a new day. A new opportunity to change and improve things for your self.

How about family support and running on Linux. There is a reason steam is ahead, and it’s not first mover advantage. It’s superior features. The first isn’t even a complicated feature but is important.

Imagine the atrocities that could occur if Hamas got infant formula…

This is why you have requirements which are agreed upon and affect payment if not upheld. If you start being firmer, they might move quicker. 24 month lead team is bullshit.

Do they do testing? Is there no SLA on bug fixes and availability? That should be essential come renewal time.

I was glad when crypto hype died down and folk could buy graphics cards again.

Now this. They can fuck off.

Everyone turn your AI off in your search engine. Avoid AI, don’t encourage this shit. Bubble will pop quicker.

The years are on the first few, but not after? It would help with context to have years on each.

Gosh the LMG shills are nauseous.

“I’m not a fan, I just watch the occasional video but <insert excuses, growing pains etc.>”.

Proper fan girling, but at least fan girls have courage of conviction.

Maybe. I thought it was really cool in 2D. But tried the hype one when it became 3D. Was confused with the distinct lack of car focus. Got very bored, very quickly. Quite a meh game.

So the problem was the game, not the device…? The hardware was fine?

How did you learn about it?

Astroturfing is designed not to look like an ad. It’s supposed to look like grassroots support for a product. Legitimising it for the audience. Strategically, it’s effective. “Privacy market leader is bad for x, y and z, what do you think of competitor?”. It’s classic marketing of “here is problem, here is solution”. Just subtle.

Most people here are probably off gmail or close to it. Best way to make inroads is work your way into a niche which Proton, Tuta, Mailbox did to great effect. As I say, I don’t trash the tried and tested options including rival products of Proton. This is email though, usually you want to put data in hands of companies you trust. Its the reason folk running from google, yahoo, outlook. Being careful and skeptical is good.