My money would be Elon, via IVF

He had to contractually hand over the plan to the show runners when they ran out of finished books, what you see in the final seasons is what he wanted. Granted it has almost certainly been hamfistedly handled by the show runners but it was his ending.

I am still a big believer that the vitriol of the ending by the fans has played its part into George not finishing the books, and how hes slowly started talking about changing the ending. Personally idgaf if he does change it, he probably does as he will have to admit to changing it as Benioff and Weiss will certainly call him on it if he doesn’t as it massively impacted their careers.

Couple this with his slow pace of writing, huge number of distractions available to him, I am not surprised if he isn’t just running the clock down.

Spanish Punk

More than a few are temporarily embarrassed millionaires, some are unable to comprehend how tax brackets work, and some genuinely believe that the rich would flee if taxed to the same level as say the £100k to £150k bracket, and that this would be “a bad thing”.

Yeah I saw that and closed the window.

Their support for signal on their previous phone, my main use case to get one, was a bit spotty as well. If it does not work reliably then the phone is useless to me.

I do not trust them to support the phone properly which is a real problem if you are expecting me to pay for said support on subscription.

I do not trust them either, not after this.

The apple silicon looks amazing, it would be my choice if I didn’t really dislike Tim Apple, and Apples excessive price gouging with storage and RAM pushing what would be a usable model for my requirements up significantly.

Equipping the base laptop with 256Gb of storage in the current year then charging how much to jump to even 512Gb, which is still pretty small amount, is a piss take.

They are are bad for RAM upgrade pricing, at least the base model has 16Gb. With both storage and RAM being soldered on, you are stuck either using external drives or cloud storage.

Second hand would be my pick, that way Apple do not see a penny of the money.

Omarchy

DHH is pretty fucking racist, white replacement theory is right up there with the worst of racist beliefs

I thought I might move there one day. That was then. Now, I wouldn’t dream of it. London is no longer the city I was infatuated with in the late '90s and early 2000s. Chiefly because it’s no longer full of native Brits. In 2000, more than sixty percent of the city were native Brits. By 2024, that had dropped to about a third.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

I picked up one of these off rhe back of this as it seemed fun, but damn that LEP cut through is impressive

Yeah I am pretty certain you are tbh, I think you mixing up uefi certificate updates with root kits that are part of the factory image or other installed bloatware from the manufacturer.

Now if you were talking about vpro or other low level management I could believe it, but thats intel and avoidable…

Really? Where you read that?

What I remember it was an app you could uninstall and then you had to clean up the certificate install. It was part of the factory image and would get installed as part of that. Lenovo provided instructions to remove it.

But again, I don’t use factory images or windows.

Yeah my countries market for used frameworks is tiny, I would be paying a significant premium if I could find one and likely getting one of the less desirable (to me) older models. I also really want a 16/15" device so its kind of limiting.

I dont use factory installed images from anybody, mostly because of this shit. I also dont use windows, not that I would trust a factory installed Linux either

I plan on going for a used Lenovo, something with as many generic, replaceable components as possible with as little soldered to the motherboard as I can get away with. I trust the workplace models to be more reliable and supportable long term than anybody else.

That way Lenovo do not see a penny of my money and I will only have a very very small upward impact on used prices due to the volumes of used Lenovos sold.

I wouldn’t buy a Dell because I wouldn’t trust the hardware, his position is just the icing. Whole reason I wanted the framework was because I wanted something to last a very long time, I simply do not trust Dell to provide support or parts long term.

The Tim Apple situation hurt, as I really liked the apple silicon for build quality and I had an old Intel Macbook that did indeed last a very long time (still boots even now). However their RAM/Storage pricing for what is an essential amount of storage for me mean even without Timmys boot licking making them a non starter.

I wont buy Nvidia because of their shitty Linux support, Huang being an absolute womble

Lenovo is about as good as you getting for a mainstream brand, and they are ultimately owned by the CCP so meh.

I think with Framework it particularly hurts as at least with Dell or Apple they are quite openly rimming Trump because it will give them competitive advantage and tax cuts while they never really pretended to be for the public good.

WTF do Framework get by supporting Hyperland or Omarchy? Its literary supporting your racist uncle who makes moonshine for half a dozen people when you set yourself up to be an ethical alternative whose current market is more likely to be ethical seeking. Imagine if Oxfam or Doctors without Borders started supporting Trump? World of difference from the NRA supporting Trump due to the starting position.

I am not expecting my single cancellation to make the slightest difference to their policy, they already made it clear that they are quite happy funding racists when multiple people have challenged them over it, and with one of their larger pots of cash they give out as well.

What I am getting out of is knowing I am not (indirectly) funding racists myself, rather than knowingly funding racists. I do not see it any different from buying products from Musk, if you did it ages ago then fine, but after, thats something else entirely.

I cancelled my framework 16 order because of their “big tent” policy meaning they give funding to Hyperland and Omarchy, I will not give my money to people who fund racists

There used to be a cap on uni places, Blair removed that cap. Polys converted in 92 under the Tories.

In theory, there could be more students applying than the cap, and in theory you could end up getting grades another year would have let you get in but not get in year you applied.

I say in theory as you would have had to have pretty fucking awful grades to not get in, I know of people getting in with a mix of Es and Ns during the pre Blair era, and no it wasnt a “soft” course or on a foundation year either.

Obviously I am ignoring subjects like Medicine that still had a cap even after Blairs meddling and have always been extremely tough to get in even with fantastic grades.

The biggest issue he caused by just removing the cap entirely was not ensuring a long lasting funding model, you cannot double the number of students and not cause runway increases in costs that ultimately have to be footed by the tax payer.

The fact that you can and should enter a sequence of buttons to get a QR code to verify if your casio is in fact a casio is wild

At home I currently used a DF83 with the SSP HU Burrs for espresso, a Timemore 78 for pour over. For travel I have a 1Zpresso J-Ultra for espresso and a ZP6 for pour over. In the past I have owned a Niche Zero, Eureka Mignon Brew Pro, Quamar M80 E.

Burr size ignoring the changes it makes to burr geometry has little baring on what you get out of the cup, espresso or pour over. The burrs themselves? Potentially massive differences, but their are caveats.

Water, then beans are the two most important ingredients to your coffee. Sure, a great grinder will get more out of bad beans than a bad grinder, but it cannot cover up that they were bad beans to begin with, they cant invent flavor for you, only reveal it. And no amount of great beans and grinder will fix nasty tasting water.

Also if you only really drink dark roast and not medium to light roast, coupled with a preference for an espresso with a ton of body, then ultra low fine production grinder/burr sets aren’t going to be giving you what you want and will make your espresso feel too much like thin tea.

Having said all that, the particle distribution of a grinders output is something thats been measured many times. Its quantifiable that a better quality grinder, something with a proper pre breaker like a Zernos auger, and just all round high quality will produce a lower distribution of grind sizes. It is going to provide a more consistent cup of espresso than my DF83, but then its £2.5k for the same setup, when I swapped my Niche for the DF83 and the DF83 was light years better than the Niche for clarity.

May be they couldn’t have kids because, i don’t know, being entirely different species, so they adopted.