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Liftoff is so good, I don’t know what I’ll do if it stops working

Apologies if you’re asking for something different but I recently discovered https://annas-archive.org/ which is great for books.

Did you not switch to Nextcloud a while back?

It used to be quite a fun place, back before 2016… then it got flooded with extreme right wing people who didn’t stick to their containment boards.

Boards like /g/ (technology) had some good information.

It would be interesting to see post count excluding bots, to see if actual user post numbers are increasing

Not a bad idea, however I’ve had problems with some of the firmware (I think, maybe it’s the kernel) on external HDDs causing them to power off when not in use for long periods of time. For some reason it doesn’t happen with internal drives so it must be the enclosure or the way the system deals with the drive.

I’ve had the drive on my kodi box fail a couple of times now, it’s annoying. Torrenting probably puts a lot of wear on the drive though so it’s to be expected.

I have two old NUCs, one DN2820FYK with an Intel Celeron N2830, and another D54250WYKH with an Intel Haswell i5-4250U. The former can only take one drive but the latter can have an mSATA as well as a 2.5" SATA. I’d like to use the latter with root on the mSATA SSD and a 2TB HDD for media in the 2.5" SATA, but for some reason I get better video playback on the Celeron than the Haswell. Both are supposed to have hardware acceleration for h264 and the Haswell is a more powerful processor so I don’t understand it!

I can’t say I’ve heard of them. Are you in a rural or urban seat? I think labour have votes to spare in urban areas so it’s unlikely to be very successful but if you can get lots of people to vote like that in a rural seat you might be successful.

Personally I think what the UK needs is PR, and we’d probably need a big coalition of left and right to achieve it. Without PR a lot of the time the smaller parties achieve very little.

So who are you voting for?

This is such tenuous reasoning. Firstly I didn’t say “I support Starmer”, I commented on whether or not I thought his tactics would be effective in getting elected. I often comment on things the Tories do and say in the same way, and saying " I think X will work" is not an endorsement of X.

Secondly, even if I do intend to vote labour it doesn’t mean I’m endorsing 100% of everything the party/leader says. On an individual level you say don’t care about peoples views and only what they do / achieve so this attitude towards Labour seems completely bizarre to me?

The ‘perfection or bust’ attitude to political parties and leaders gets you another Tory government whereas the pragmatic option might actually get us some incremental improvement. Ironic that we’ve ended up here in a conversation that started as a discussion about left wing factionalism where you claimed it doesn’t exist.

Honestly, as a left wing person in the UK who made some reasonable points higher up the thread about actually achieving something that improves the lives of people now by being pragmatic, who are you going to vote for in the 2024 election?

Your reading comprehension is terrible

I’m not a transphobe and you have no information on which to base that assumption. If you call everyone a transphobe it ceases to have any meaning and you have nothing left for when someone is being actually transphobic.

I’m a different user to the guy you were originally having a conversation with.

No need to get so personal!

I agree with a lot of your points about pragmatism but there absolutely is factionalism on the left in the UK, unless (as it looks like you are doing) you say some of them are not actually leftist and therefore the remaining group is small enough that it’s not arguing with itself.

The right are also split but in normal times they are better at keeping the worst of it behind closed doors and rallying around the leader when the dust settles. Lack of message discipline is what kills the left at the ballot box. New Labour were good at it and they won; Starmer is trying to do the same - sensible tactic in my opinion.