Ahh gotcha. I hadn’t read it that way but yes, I can see your point

While I’m strongly in favour of Ukraine getting all the weapons and much more help, looking to Australia to do more is a bit unrealistic.

Australia has a massive problem with China’s money buying influence right on its doorstep, island nations on their doorstep are being wooed with money to corrupt leaders and infrastructure projects with hidden shackles. It doesn’t have the deep pockets of the US or Germany, and it has both a massive naval area to protect, as well as the expectation of assisting defence of allied micro nations.

As an analogy it would be like asking Poland to send assistance to Taiwan at a time that Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary and the Baltics were being wooed (with an implied threat under the covers) by Russia.

Yes, China is helping Russia threaten them, but sending assistance to Taiwan won’t fix the problem

Now turn it around, substitute Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, PNG for Czechia etc and reverse the roles of China & Russia

I’m glad Australia is doing some, but given they’re not a major military power nor manufacturer, places like South Korea would be a better place to leverage

the name of this former prime minister

I thought it was already released as being Netenyahu ?

Yes unfortunately that’s not true. Several reddit threads have suggested it is chatGPT fantasy, but regardless of the source, here is:

The actual regs in question https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/53/2024-12-28

Ycombinator analysing it (and saying it’s not an issue) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44765939

Xiaomi saying it’s fine (their article was apparently the source of the misinfo) https://xiaomitime.com/dont-panic-eu-isnt-ending-bootloader-unlocks-soon-59697/

GrapheneOS saying it’s not an issue https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114981731913328733 https://xcancel.com/GrapheneOS/status/1951434556957138962 and https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24601-eu-is-banning-bootloaders-unlock/10

Less reliable sources reporting on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sPFj9EP7YE https://biggo.com/news/202508021532_EU_Radio_Equipment_Directive_Misunderstood https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/new-eu-regulatory-what-are-the-consequences-for-jolla-and-sailfish/24015/10

Can you point me to this regulation ? First I’ve heard of it.

Umm I think it is Google who are trying to kill access to FOSS. How can you blame the EU for that ?

Google aren’t seriously trying to blame someone else for their own choices now are they ?

That’s a weird headline.

Firstly a Pole can’t confidently state whether Russia will or won’t do something, it’s not in their control. Secondly the gap is exactly where everyone has expected Russia to play shenanigans for decades.

So yeah, “Polish General expects Russia to escalate their provocations around the Sulwaki Gap” would be a better headline

The p tapes were p for pedo not p for urine

The full list of employers caught is on the press release linked above - maybe your employer wasn’t there ? There’s also a link for working out if you’re being gypped and what to do (if you’re not on the list)

Comrade ! I have bad news ! The great Soviet Republic has fallen ! Communism is over, welcome to 1990.

Yes I know you’re joking but it’s incredible the number of people who don’t get that Russia pivoted from authoritarian pseudo-communism to straight up fascism via oligarchic anarchy 30 years ago. The only kinda sorta commies left are in Central/South America

Unlikely if you’re running Mint, it doesn’t install snap by default or even offer it as an option. And before you ask, no I don’t recommend you install it.

You’ll have either a native or flatpack install of steam

Highly unlikely - Mint has Snap not installed by default (it undoes the Ubuntu shenanigans), and while it can be installed and configured it’s pretty unlikely a raw beginner did so.

The genocide was the reason, not the tool used to create the genocide.

So just because they’ve put the tool down doesn’t mean those murdered women and children are magically alive again. Not to mention the foreign doctors, journalists and aid workers killed.

The boycott should proceed, Israel needs to be shown in every possible way, small and large, that genocide is not accepted.

KDE is not a Mint supported DE and the KDE files are not in the Mint repos.

This can be made to work if you’re experienced but is definitely not a good idea for beginners. It will eventually break, and dependency hell is a thing.

For a KDE option suitable fir beginners, Fedora offers KDE as does Ubuntu, or there’s KDE Neon

I sincerely hope so

Lol. It is unfortunately true

Was also reported in the times who are no longer the bastion of credibility they once were but are definitely more reliable than the star

If the German car companies hadn’t stuck their head in the sand and refused to plan for EVs until 3minutes to midnight they wouldn’t have a problem. I have ZERO sympathy for them. Hell they actively tried to subvert the transition for a number of years (along with Toyota)

Firstly food regulation including provenance, naming and packaging is very much at the core of the EU - if it wasn’t the EU would already have a free trade deal with Australia (it’s literally the only sticking point).

Secondly a parliament with hundreds of representatives can in fact (metaphorically) “walk and chew gum” at the same time. There is absolutely no reason there can’t be (and in fact there are) multiple committees looking at all sorts of things simultaneously.

I wish I could say that they’re doing something about the rise of fascism (they’re not afaict) but the presence or absence of the food regulation committee won’t change that. They are at least bolstering European defences and increasing spending, I suspect we both would like them to be doing more and faster, but they are in fact working on it as well

What arguments did you hear before?

The voices in his head were arguing with each other