Windows 10. My PC doesn’t have TPM and I’m not buying new hardware to accommodate Microsoft’s nonsense so that’s that. Plus I only keep Windows around as a dual-boot option for like 2 things that don’t run on Linux anyway, so it’ll get phased out eventually.

I also noticed how one of the immediate talking points was that Labour’s popularity might look bigger than it is, because of lower voter turnout.

So I need to bring my ID to vote, but don’t need to provide any personal information at all (or apparently even confirm that I really exist) to run as an MP?

The Long Dark came out in 2017 and the story mode still isn’t finished yet, so I dunno if they’re the ones to be pontificating about being slow with the content lol.

I mean it’s a great game, but yeah it’s been a minute.

The thing I’m currently most worried about for the next election is a Conservative-Reform coalition that just squeaks past the post and puts Farage in the Deputy PM spot. There are a lot of ifs-and-buts to that (IE the Tories and reform would have to bury the hatchet, Labour would have to pretty massively fuck up to get people interested in the Tories again after just five years etc.) but stranger things have happened.

A friend of mine who was learning English said that translating song lyrics from her native language into English really helped, 'cause you have to kind of get the meaning across and not just a literal translation of the words. Dunno if it works for everyone but she swore by it!

It’s probably just the Sealion making an appearance.

I don’t think it’d even need a hacker. If previous performance is anything to go by, either an MP will leave it on a train or they’ll just sell it to some corporation eventually.

Fuck off, Tony

There is SoloKey, which is an open-source version of YubiKey. Although full disclosure, I haven’t actually tried it myself so I can’t really vouch for it personally.

Also Gen X UK person here, I remember in the 90s when that hurricane made it over from the US, and we had no power for 9 days.

My dad went full survivalist, we ate nothing but baked beans cooked on a camping stove, and he got this portable black and white TV from somewhere that we could watch for an hour a day because it ran off a car battery lol.

I fired off the dirtiest vote today. I’m not a huge fan of Starmer but I hate the Tories much more, and they recently changed the rules so if you’ve been abroad for more than 15 years you’re allowed to vote again.

So I sent a 100% tactical fuck-you vote from overseas via proxy, motivated by nothing more than wanting to join in kicking the shit out of the Tories while they’re already down.

Greasy as hell but I regret nothing lol

Yeah I don’t really like it either, but TBH things are so bad that just destroying the Tories is good enough for me this time around.

Hopefully they’ll be radioactively unelectable for a really long time, and we can push it in a better direction over the next couple of elections.

Bernie will be 87 in 2028.

Oh.

Disco Elysium is 90% off. $54.49 $4.54 (that’s in Canadian, not sure about the US price exactly.)

I honestly couldn’t even tell you what it’s about, but it’s one of my favourite games ever. You can die from reading a book that’s too sad and if you do it right, you can smell communism.

On the stream of the debate I was watching, when they took a break they showed clips from previous debates and the difference was kind of mind-blowing.

I honestly kind of think that even a mid-level candidate who didn’t make it like Romney or Kerry probably could have mopped the floor with either one of them.

Also as a side note, how lucky is Donald Trump? Just a whole life of being handed infinite money no matter how many times he fucked up a business, a bewildering assortment of crimes with essentially no hard consequences, and two presidential runs against pretty much the only two people he has any chance of beating in a debate.

He’s had a life of almost non-stop softballs. It’s kind of wild really.

I have a Firefox plugin called Tranquility Reader, which basically strips out all the ads and bullshit and gives you the article as just plain text on a white background. It also has the option to save the page as a pdf, so if I want to read something later I just do that.

Could they not just image search American manhole covers?

Non-American here!

I’ve visited America a bunch of times and I really like it as a place, they have amazing scenery pretty much everywhere you look, and just about every individual American I’ve met has been really nice.

BUT…

I’d never want to live there. Their healthcare system is insane (sorry Americans but it is) and politically as a nation they’re pretty bonkers. Guns, religion, general sort of global belligerence etc.

Also as an aside, San Francisco is genuinely one of the strangest places I’ve ever been to. I dunno if I was just there at a weird time, but it seemed like every single person there was either a millionaire or homeless. Absolutely nothing in between.