Damn, that’s disappointing at a quick scan. Will read in properly and fact check later. Thanks.

Got any stats on coal increasing to share ? Last I saw they were decomming significant quantities of coal stations

They have also been installing solar powerplants at a lightning rate. They installed more solar in 2023 than the US has in total according to an article I read a few months ago.

It’s not about saving the planet though, they import the bulk of their fossil fuels, moving to renewables reduces their fuel import dependency

Most common reason is running out of disk space. Boot from USB and have a check as to whether the update filled up the disk

My motherboard which is only a few years old (2ish?) has serial port pin outs.

Am lawyer, “beyond reasonable doubt” is for criminal charges. “Balance of probabilities” is for civil cases ie where jail is not a penalty option.

Defamation is civil.

You don’t need to give the VM network access to download the software if you have a linux host. You can directly mount a virtual box drive from the host, copy the file(s) onto the drive and then unmount it and start the VM as per normal.

Search for qemu-nbd iirc (network block device) - I have the how to details saved on my host (ie not on me) so ping me if you want them. Note it’s a qemu app that works for vbox

Given the entire governance structure of the BBC and many of the senior managers have been stacked with Tory cronies over the last decade I don’t think that’s still true.

Much better

At that age cpu it’s almost certainly a hard drive not ssd.

My guess is 1-2 days. 4gb RAM is going to thrash like hell

Could be worth asking on selfhosted (how do I link a sub on lemmy ?) They probably have more relevant experience at this sort of thing.

Edit

Does this work ?

https://lemmy.world/c/selfhosted

This post crashes me if I scroll down

Thank you

What is the difference between type 1 & 2 please ?

There’s a simple reason the assets haven’t been seized, we have a legal system in Western Europe. There needs to be a legal basis for seizure of assets and a legal process that allows the on-payment to Ukraine.

It is blatantly fair and just that the assets should be handed to Ukraine, but if we don’t carefully follow our legal principals principles then courts will unfortunately overturn the attempt.

It’s easy to say “Russia has broken international law” it’s a tougher task proving it and working it through the courts then paying those damages to Ukraine. It needs to be done though.

The only alternative to legal judgement and payment via that judgement is for laws mandating the asset seizure to be passed by the governments of the countries where the assets are held.

The problem with that route is many constitutions forbid or severely restrict the ability of a government to seize assets.

Those restrictions are there for a reason, it curbs the ability of nascent dictators (Orban et al) to seize private property on a whim or to punish enemies

TL;DR freezing assets has a clear and well established precedent which thus has been done. Seizing assets however, while ever we have rule of law is rightly constrained

Back in a hospital bed again so continuing a theme and am now doing tgeb"Witches" sequence. This is:

“Equal Rites”, “Wyrd sisters”, " Witches abroad “, " Lords & Ladies”, “Maskerade” and “Carpe Jugulum”

I’ve just finished Wyrd sisters, I’ll do a summary when I’ve finished the sequence

Because it’s part of ongoing verbal attacks by Israel at Ireland. This isn’t an isolated incident it’s part of a much wider whole.

Having been sick and in and out of hospital for the last month I’ve churned through a few.

I’ve re-read the City Watch sequence from Pratchett’s Discworld. Which is “Guards Guards”, " Men at arms", “Feet of Clay”, " Jingo" , “The fifth elephant” “Night watch”, " Thud" and “Snuff”

I don’t think I can say anything more perceptive than a thousand reviews have but it was wonderful watching both the development of the main character (Sam Vimes) and the author himself. There’s about 20 years and probably 40-50 books between Guards which was about his 4th book, and Snuff which was released in 2011 while still at his peak and before Alzheimers claimed him.

His writing style becomes more assured but also more incisive, more cutting, and to some extent his anger at the injustices in our world that he satirises in the discworld domain becomes more forceful, more pointed.

Sam Vimes progresses through a beautifully relatable growth cycle but remains a deeply flawed real character. Never a perfectly buffed and grommed character he does strive to be the best he can be.

Highly recommended.

If you’ve never read Terry Pratchett he’s a satirist and humourist. He uses the device of a fantasy world to reflect the issues of our world back to us in a form that allows him to skewer the hypocrisies and mental double think we allow ourselves. All his books are onions. At the first layer is a light read any teenager can get a giggle out of, but there’s always more layers: puns and plays on words, references to “roundworld” (our existence) and philosphical analysis.

And there is also an unknown amount you can subtract from that demand which is the massive electric pumps that pump fuel into those ICE cars and between tanks in the petrol stations and from the depots into tankers that will no longer be needed.

It’s a great book but Heinlein is generally considered right wing not left I thought ?

According to wiki while he started off leftish he was quite conservative/libertarian by the time of “moon is a harsh mistress”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein

"yet Heinlein became a hero to libertarians: Milton Friedman praised Heinlein’s 1966 novel The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, which chronicled an anti-statist rebellion on a lunar colony, as a “wonderful” book and commended Heinlein "

https://gizmodo.com/how-robert-heinlein-went-from-socialist-to-libertarian-1588357827

Edit to add

Having read the gizmodo article again it seems a more complicated shift than a simplistic left youth, right in middle age and for most of his books. Seems to have a complex view point although “starship troopers” is certainly a right wing oriented novel.

Thanks for triggering further investigation. Interesting