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    14 days ago

    And 2 years of security updates.

    They type of person who owns a set of wired headphones or earphones for over a decade doesn’t replace their phone every 2 years.

    And these days you really shouldn’t try and keep a device on the internet without updates.

    It’s why the fair phone got rightly trashed when they ditched the headphone jack. Battery powered ear buds were completely against their demographics

    HMD make decent repairable phones with a headphone jack. They took the Nokia brand for a while but they’re now just HMD and they’re doing some cool modular stuff with cases too.






  • Yes, but your country being unable to have sensible judicial selection and poor judicial elections is not an argument for anywhere else.

    The US ranges from failure to bad.

    Other countries range from the good to the point other countries refuse to replace their own court system in order to continue using the good judiciary that’s trusted internationally.

    Using the US as an example to follow in this case is a bad idea. Even if removing selection from the US system would be an improvement, it isn’t relevant anywhere else.

    Especially when discussing an ideological law like making elections compulsory.





  • Well if that’s the meaning of "political you’re using then all judges are. That’s why I put it in quotes in my last reply, I assumed you meant partisan. Otherwise you’d have been making an irrelevant point.

    Unfortunately the US has a storied history of elected local judges allowing lynchings, for example, while the appointed federal courts passed civil rights so I won’t be taking notes.

    Of course the appointed judges and elected judges are now targeting women and minorities. So your appointment system is also broken.

    Again, not taking notes.


  • An attempt to be representative is not equal to being “political”.

    It’s actually a strength of the system that minorities get some representation rather than being always voted into zero representatives. And they still have to pass the standards to be considered as experts in the field.

    No system is perfect, but look at America. Small area elections for judges produce poor corrupt picks. Large area elections produce partisan fights with extremists campaigning against each other.

    There’s no country which is a good advert for directly electing judges.







  • The problem is artists often make their actual living doing basic boiler plate stuff that gets forgotten quickly.

    In graphics it’s Company logos, advertising, basic graphics for businesses.

    In writing it’s copy for websites, it’s short articles, it’s basic stuff.

    Very few artists want to do these things, they want to create the original work that might not make money at all. That work potentially being a winning lottery ticket but most often being an act of expressing themselves that doesn’t turn into a payday.

    Unfortunately AI is taking work away from artists. It can’t seem to make very good art yet but it can prevent artists who could make good art getting to the point of making it.

    It’s starving out the top end of the creative market by limiting the easy work artists could previously rely on to pay the bills whilst working on the big ideas.


  • Do you genuinely believe that?

    Hamas certainly deserves condemnation and are terrorists.

    But IDF members are posting drone executions of unarmed children on social media themselves.

    The IDF are just as complicit as Hamas in harm to civilians. The evidence is irrefutable.

    Terrorist like Hamas attack and capture civilians, claim credit and post to social media. The IDF are doing the same thing.

    If Hamas surrendered today I have no belief that the IDF will stop.

    We’ve seen frequently that over decades the IDF have killed Palestinians protesting peacefully, killed press present at protests, killing medics.

    Now they’re taking the opportunity to attack civilians in hospital, civilians queuing for aid, killing civilians with drones. Displacing and starving a whole population.

    These are war crimes.

    The individual soldiers are now criminals it doesn’t matter whether they follow orders or not. That precedent is already set at the Hague.

    The question is, if they’ve been following orders, how far up the ranks in the IDF are the war criminals?

    Assuming orders are being given and followed, what is the motivation for the orders?

    It looks like the definition for genocide is being met. An organised force, starving a population and culture, displacing a population and culture, removing and displacing orphaned children from that country.

    If you think Hamas are the cause of all of this I’ve got bad news for you. They’re only an excuse, the IDF has been waiting to do these things for a long time.

    The only question is how high the intent to do this has actually come from.



  • During setup there is a keyboard shortcut to get to command prompt.

    Then a command you can use.

    Then the machine restarts and you can setup without a Microsoft account.

    (For reference I’m on my dual booting Linux phase. I’d like to ditch it altogether but Wayland isn’t quite there yet and x never will be.)