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  • British prisoners could be sent to Estonian jails in bid to ease overcrowding

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  • Were the best at, exporting actors with crappy opinions to the US.

    Bit slow on politicians but Farage and Subak will get there.

  • Volkswagen may shut German car plants due to impact of Chinese EVs

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  • Yep tuis is the history of cars.

    The UK was the leader in the 50s. Changed to US cars in the 70s. Due to better (more reliable) byild quality and cheaper build standards. Then to japan again more reliable and cheaper.

    China is on cheaper and reliability is catching up. Given priority changes and tech changes. Its ti be wxpected.

  • How to cut your energy bills by 30 per cent with a heat pump

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  • As someone fitting solar to a small boat.

    Both is an option. IE have a water tank that can heat water on lower power slowly. Making use of reusable energy. And a heat bump to efficiently use it. (Not really doable on a small boat)

    And fit gas (i use electric) instant water heaters at the taps. I have it set up that I can turn it on and often use if when connected to shore power in winter.

    But use a tank heated by a solar dump when possible.

    Given how cheap solar panels are now. (£69 for 410w panal plus shipping) if your able to fit stuff yourself. It is worth the effort.

  • [Decision Reversed] Labor's decision not to include sexuality and gender identity in the next census has drawn dissent from six of its MPs - ABC News

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  • Sorta suprised its only 6.

    Given its clearly a polutical hot potato. Thanks to tories intentionaly using it to divide and anger some voters.

    I cant help but wonder about motives.

    The most non negative reason i can think of for MPs not to be bothered. Is fear that thos is more common amonst younger folks who grew up with the idea more acceptable.

    As those folks are also more likely to be living at home with family. There is a reasonbly high chance the data would be inaccurate depending on views of head of household.

    IE any subject that is politically sensitive would need indevidual secret collection of data. As not everyone would be comfortable discussing it with family members.

    ???

  • Thames Water says it needs 59% bill rise to survive

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  • Cool. Hands up anyone who care if they die.

    OK tax anyone with there hand up.

  • Thames Water says it needs 59% bill rise to survive

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  • Yeah but wait till they collasps.

    Otherwise they will claim they have value. And I do not trust the gov not to agree,

  • When is “Recyclable” Not Really Recyclable? When the Plastics Industry Gets to Define What the Word Means.

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  • 6even when recycled the whole process increases the amount of plastics in the air.

    And plastic in general is always going to eventually end up in the enviroment. There is only so many times you can heat and melt plastic before its bonds start to collasps.

    Right from day one recycling was a plastics industries attempt to green wash and delay shut down/ replacement.

    Many better options exist. The only issue is production cost. And that will not improve while corperations continue to use plastic as the cheap solution.

    The industry knew what they were doing when they claimed plastic could be recycled. And need to suffer for the lie that it was a solution to the harm their product dose.

  • Russia calls Ukrainian drone attack on Kursk plant ‘act of nuclear terrorism’

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  • Parts of a drone 100m from the plant.

    In no way provides proof of an attack aimed to damage the plant.

    Unless you are trying to claim russia walked in without firing a weapon. Atm you do not have the info to make that comparison.

    Taking posesston requires survailance and potential removal of guarding forces. Drone can be used for both.

  • A Chinese actor was enslaved in a compound running online scams

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  • Of course the police suck in every country, too.

    Yep. But in some nations we know they would respond to mass slavery in their jurisdiction.

    By raiding and mowing down all in the building with machine guns?

  • “Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update

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  • Because some users are putting that data on Linux. So they want Linux to be killed.

    They can't change grub. But they sure as hell can convince micro$org to search for and nuke it.

    Of course no idea if this happened. Just answering why they would might want to.

  • 3D Scanning advice for noob

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  • Ibdont. My brother dose.

    So im going to give meshroom a try with my android phone.

    If that dont work ill get my brother to come up to the boat.

  • 3D Scanning advice for noob

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  • Wow tjeubare cheap now.

    Ill gove that a try

  • 3D Scanning advice for noob

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  • Ive used it alot. But far feom expertly

    But not seen that. Likely cos I have never looked :)

    Ill have a look at it. Thanks.

  • The US says it now supports a more ambitious plastics treaty. Industry groups are furious.

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  • Industry groups are furious.

    Likely the best sign it's the right thing to do.

    Until the cost of using plastic matches the cost of removing it from our environment. No one is truly going to provide the support needed to bring the cost of safer replacements down to a point where industry will care.

    Just like all damage to the environment. Until world governments are willing to agree to make those profiting pay all current and future costs of clean-up. Capitalism will never accept its role n the task.

    Remove carrots and start some application of fucking big sticks.

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  • Cool. At the time, it was one of the best. Although, I also liked sun-os.

    I also worked with VMS a lot after uni. Hated using it. But had to respect the ideals behind it.

    But watching the growth of Linux has been fantastic. In 2024. It does seem to have out evolved all the others. ( Evolved, defined as developed the ability to survive by becoming so freaking useful. )

    I am starting to think it is time for a micro kernel version, though.

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  • Was a few years later for me.

    Not DMU by any chance?

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  • Late 1990s my uni had unix workstations HPUX.

    So all projects etc were expected to be done on those. Linux at the time was the easy way to do it from home.

    By the time I left uni in 98. I was so used to it windows was a pain in the butt.

    For most of the time since I have been almost 100% linux. With just a dual boot to sort some hardware/firmware crap.

    Ham radio to this day. Many products can only do updates with windows.

  • Golden age of English universities could be over, says head of watchdog

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  • Yep that was the point I was making.

    I'd add fees need reducing or removing. Not entirely for the unis. More for the value to our nation. Fees leave in debt students who find it harder so avoid future academic progression.

    This leaves the nation with only the children of more wealthy parents moving into advanced education. Removing a huge potential from lower classes.

    This of course removes potential for invention and discovery within the UK.

  • Golden age of English universities could be over, says head of watchdog

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  • Yep but those increases in UK student fees rarely resulted in increases to uni funding. As it was matched with government funding drops/ Ala austerity.