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frazorth

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  • Re-Testing Windows vs Linux in 2025 - AMD & Nvidia Gaming Benchmarks

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  • And Gnome is probably not for you.

    They make a desktop which is opinionated, and in some ways pushes things forwards. For example it is nice to not have to always deal with the awful Start button metaphor.

    On the others it can be a constraint. Only wanting to support the modern icon tray lead to years of having to use an extension for all the software that didn't.

    And that's fine. That's why we have KDE and XFCE.

    I personally much prefer the Gnome flow which gets out my way, and find KDE to feel much more archaic. I don't want docks and bars, I don't want the desktop to be more than a place to hold my applications.

  • Google, Qualcomm will support 8 years of Android updates with latest chips

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  • The only solution is mainline support.

    If it's not mainline then there isn't effective support.

  • Re-Testing Windows vs Linux in 2025 - AMD & Nvidia Gaming Benchmarks

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  • What do you mean "centered"? The top bar is top, and the clock is centered.

  • Who will be the next James Bond? Amazon's tough 007 decision

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  • Not entirely unknown, but I would like it to be Rahul Kohli. Unfortunately I wouldn't be surprised if he is too old now.

  • Retail giant Monsoon's CEO calls on UK to scrap tax loopholes benefitting Shein

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  • I'm not saying I agree with this, but just to explain what is happening.

    Companies pay tax on profits. The idea being that if I make metal widget that I sell for £1 then just flat taxing me at (for example) 20% would mean I owe 20p tax.

    Now if I bought the metal from my widget from a Sunderland refinery, and they charged me 50p for the metal to make the widget then my £1 widget is actually only worth 50p, and that 20p tax starts looking fairly high. If I paid someone 30p to sell it for me then that 20p tax puts the widget down to worthless and I'll not bother making it, depriving the taxman his 20p.

    The plan therefore is to tax profits. After paying the refinery, my 50p profit is taxed at the 20% making it less likely that I'll get in a position where I don't make it, unless it really is unprofitable.

    The issue with this is that if I owned the refinery as well then there's nothing to stop me selling the metal at £1 so effective profits are £0, or negative with employee costs. Tax obligations £0. Now move the refinery to a tax haven, or sell at cost it to my "warehouse supplier" based in the Caymans who then sell it to the widget factory for the maximum amount means I've exported all my profits. The product doesn't ever have to go near the Caymans.

    This is what I understand Starbucks does, with their Swiss division selling the beans at outrageous prices to make the coffee shops a loss.

    What's the solution? I assume taxing takings but that could destroy small businesses who have been doing this correctly or business that runs on fine margins.

  • Too many young people find doing a day's work 'stressful', says Liz Kendall

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  • Millenials complained about it a lot, to the point where millennial is short hand for "lazy" for a lot of older generations.

    Gen X made films mocking company culture and shitty work environments.

    The youth today aren't the first to complain, they aren't the first to be called lazy, and they won't be the last. Fuck the older folks who call any of them lazy.

  • Too many young people find doing a day's work 'stressful', says Liz Kendall

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  • Gen Z are lazy and don't want to work.

    Millennials are lazy and don't want to work.

    Gen X are lazy and don't want to work.

    Boomers are lazy and don't want to work.

    Only one of these groups were hippies and were work shy, as a generation. 🤷

  • Tesla's sales plummet across Europe

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  • Ha, you think that the backups even arrive to replace/repair? They'll break down in transit!

  • Tesla's sales plummet across Europe

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  • That would be amazing. Cybertruck cops? They'll be letting everyone go when the trucks breaks down.

  • As Labour touts more brutal cuts to benefits, how is this different from life under the Tories? | Frances Ryan

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  • God, listening to folks bitching about LibDems because they were the scapegoat for the Tories decades ago is just saddening.

    They have literally been the only party that have offered actual change to our voting system. Sometimes I dream of what a different state we would be in if that referendum had passed.

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  • Thats fine if it works for you.

    My comment on all of this was purely that Bitwarden password was a single point of failure. Now we can shift that single point of failure somewhere else!

    I'm not sure what the solution is.

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  • Find a new single point of failure?

  • Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them?

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  • And we have that too.

    We are talking about standard sockets, they all have off switches on the socket.

  • Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them?

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  • You have a switch for your electrical sockets by your door? What a weird place to put them all.

    We have our light switches by the door. Much more useful.

  • Netflix does it again. Record subscriber gains.

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  • I would kill for an all in one, "single pane of glass" way to browse

    We used to have one, and it was great.

    RIP Boxee.

  • Apple deadnamed the Gulf of America and conservatives are triggered

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  • Go on, I dare you 🤣

  • Apple deadnamed the Gulf of America and conservatives are triggered

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  • "British" isn't a thing?

    Not really, no.

    A Scott wouldn't because it would associate them with England, a Welshman wouldn't, because it would associate them with England.

    And I wouldn't, because someone might think I'm Welsh or Scottish. 🤷

  • BDSM

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  • Windows ME.

  • UK pay growth rises despite firms cutting jobs after budget

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  • Which average?

    Medium, mean or mode?

    If the "average" increases because the CEO fired people, cut wages, and gave themselves a bonus, then it is a stat that people shouldn't care about.