Good. Clearly there’s foreign interference in our politics, and we need to uncover it and decide what we’re going to do about it.
There was that report into russian interference a while back, but:
Once again dominated by stardew valley for me
Increasing throughput and reducing cleaning time are both good things, though.
Increased throughput means less queuing and being able to quickly relieve yourself. In a shared toilet, this would benefit men and women alike.
Making cleaning quicker and easier means it’ll happen more and be less disruptive when it does happen.
It feels like it never quite decided on what it wanted to be.
Wow, I feel the absolute opposite. Of all the UXes I have ever used, Gnome feels the most like they have a vision they’re committed to.
Not everyone likes it, and I get it’s very different to the WinUX that most others have settled on, but they absolutely have a vision, and they execute on that vision.
Extensions break with every update.
Sort of.
When a new Gnome version comes out, Gnome’s default behaviour is to mark extensions as unsupported. But in reality unless you’re upgrading to the first Beta releases, you’re unlikely to run into that, as extension developers will have marked their extensions as compatible long before the new Gnome version has hit stable and distros start pushing it.
You can disable the check if you like, but hypothetically that could lead to issues (say, if Gnome radically changes the calendar applet, and then you force enable an extension that tweaks the old applet). Gnome, probably wisely, goes with the more stable option.
If you just use the stable branch, you’re unlikely to ever get broken extensions.
It absolutely did not start here only after Brexit, and it’s absolutely not alien to Britain.
God forbid the state rail company uses state branding.
Blame the HDMI consortium. Bastards.
That said, I’m not sure why it’d be a deal-breaker. In 2026 this will be a low-end PC. It’s using a 2 year old laptop GPU that Valve has dumped more power into.
Because TV OEMs are the ones in the HDMI consortium.
I’m staggered to see some people actually accepting that this really happened on Lemmy. Usually it’s a bit of a forbidden topic.
There’s a strong tankie presence on this platform and on this community.
The idea that China, and oftentimes even Russia, do anything wrong is often met with scepticism and aggression.
I’m surprised anybody thought it could be.
Guys, it is literally just a small form factor PC (with a couple of console QoL additions like waking from controller support and HDMI CEC). It’s an open platform.
If Valve sold it at a loss, offices and governments would buy them up and reimage them with Windows.
Sony and MS can only get away with making a loss because the closed platform guarantees they make money back on game sales.
Part of the reason the PS3 got more locked down after release is that governments, researchers, and companies openly talked about buying them and running custom software on it, because the hardware was so subsidised.
That said, this is a low end device for 2026, make no mistakes of that. If Valve want to, they can sell this for $500. Perhaps even lower if they’re fine with razor thin margins.
Remember that this thing’s price needs to be justifiable not only now, but also in 2 years or so when vastly more powerful consoles come out.
A really nice move.
This legislation also looks at limiting ticket fees retailers can charge.
I’m sure people will complain because it won’t be 100% effective and that therefore makes this useless, but that’s daft, using that logic we shouldn’t bother with any laws, as they can all be broken. We shouldn’t just do nothing because a solution isn’t flawless.
In the background, the CMA is also currently investigating Ticketmaster for their surge pricing shenanigans. Fingers crossed they rule in a way that puts people first (and if they don’t, politicians update the law with surge pricing algorithms in mind).
Good moves are being made here.
Why would the government bail them out?
The government doesn’t bail out retailers. Does Woolworths, Netto, and Wilko not ring a bell?
E: you’re American, so they probably genuinely don’t ring a bell.
The activists brought it up in their defence, though?
Indeed. Unfortunately in the age of abundant air travel and being able to do basically everything online, including remaining in contact with people, it’s not hard to just move out of the UK if you’re super wealthy.
We absolutely can and should tax assets that can’t be moved out of the UK, though, like land. A multi-millionaire can move all kinds of things out of the country, but they cannot take their land with them. Land value would of course go down or stagnate, but I don’t personally see that as a bad thing.
That said, even if you took all billionaire wealth in the UK (while somehow simultaneously preventing a crash in the value of those assets), it’d last months. It wouldn’t be a permanent solution. State spending is £1.2 trillion, a small amount of billionaires aren’t going to plug the gap for long.
There’s no simple solution to the financial situation this country is in.
E: I guess people don’t want solutions, they just want someone who agrees with them.
No? And there’s not one English water firm, there’s a whole bunch of them.
We know policies from their manifesto, and we can look at our dropping fossil fuel usage.
What exactly is this government doing to assist fossil fuels? I can’t think of a single thing.
Hasn’t really went well for them, considering:
Womp womp
I’m so happy with the Northumberland line (although I wish it extended further north). So yes, absolutely.
We need proper infrastructure. Rail, bike lanes, road improvements, energy grid improvements, more reservoirs. Everything that has been left to crumble.
It’s ruinously expensive, and they government will (and is!) taking flak for spending, but it’s even more expensive in the long run to do nothing.
Flood protections in this country simply aren’t prepared for the regular extreme weather events we’re now experiencing.
Yes, it was Boris Johnson who buried the report as much as possible.