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Cake day: October 5th, 2023

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  • The only way for Labour to govern under first past the post is to appeal to the center.

    Unfortunately our country is disgustingly conservative and the right wing have always been far better organised, it probably helps they have the media on side.

    Starmer is actually doing a surprisingly ok job. The austerity he’s pushing is tedious as fuck but if he weren’t keeping an eye on economics we’d be drowning in hysteria about “magic money trees” and labour dragging the country in to debt.

    The employment rights bill will be an incredible improvement for working people. I wish it went a lot further but it’s a solid start.

    Unless labour support electoral reform we are doomed to an eternity of right wing government. Labour only got into power last year because reform split the vote, and very soon the reform and conservatives will merge together again.





  • Yep, I’m with you. Project Bluefin is exactly what I want from an OS. My previous Linux experiences had all been awful UX, having to diagnose obscure issues and copy pasting decipherable terminal commands. Until Bluefin, nothing ever worked straight out of the box.

    Bluefin’s main issue right now is a lack of good documentation. Like you, I’ve tried to get devcontainers working and they just don’t.


  • As others have said, not with Linux Mint.

    However if you were running an atomic distro such as Aurora, Bazzite, Project Bluefin, or Fedora Silverblue you can “rebase” from one to another.

    With an atomic distro all the system files are immutable, you can read them but only the OS can change them. As there’s a clear distinction from user files (anything in /var or /home) the OS can simply replace all the system components with a new distro and re-mount your files.




  • Schools are useless shit anyway you learn fuck all apart from how to speak, read, and argue and think

    But this is precisely a failure of education. We don’t pay teachers well so there’s no incentive for good ones to stay.

    Class sizes are too large so individuals can easily fall behind unnoticed. Or the opposite, talented kids get bored and aren’t challenged because the class can only move at the pace of the slowest individual.

    Too much of education is steeped in tradition and no attempts are made to make the syllabus relevant to the real world.

    Schooling isn’t tailored to the individual so you’re forced to learn the way your teacher dictates when an alternative approach may suit you better.






  • It’s also worth noting that it wouldn’t just be china profiting financially. It would create a dependence on china for an essential material.

    Given how rocky International relationships are at present we need to consider how we would manufacture weapons and vehicles should we find ourselves in a major conflict.

    If Europe is at war with russia it’s unlikely china would willingly provide the steel we need.