Presumably Valve’s lawyers can make this case, so I guess we’ll see if the judge is receptive to it.

It takes more than a few weeks to undo 14 years of damage. Negotiations have started for limited regulation alignment with the EU, the response to the race riots was decent, legislation is starting to go through.

Hold them to account, but I would recommend being fair about it.

Even if this manages to pass, it’d only apply to those currently in or candidating for the Senedd. This wouldn’t affect the UK government (and thus Farage) at all, even if he were attempting to get re-elected.

If he has said otherwise I’m open to being corrected, of course.

I went back to double-check what I’d heard from the horse’s mouth. I misunderstood the first time (they had just finished talking about Rwanda). This was in relation to third country processing of migrants.

Labour are promising the biggest expansion of workers’ rights in decades and the most ambitious environmental policies

You made me interested in what exactly they’re promising, so I tracked down their manifesto.

The fines on river and ocean polluting sounds long overdue. Hardly revolutionary (every EU country does this) but it’s definitely needed from some headlines I’ve read. There’s also some stuff there about taxing oil and gas companies. That’s honestly a good thing! Wouldn’t exactly call that incredibly ambitious though.

EDIT: My eyes completely glossed over the “Clean Power by 2030” investment plan somehow. That sounds pretty great, and definitely counts as ambitious. My napkin math says 95 GW of electricity could power about 18 million homes, which according to this is more than half of UK homes. Pretty ambitious.

I couldn’t find anything in there about workers’ rights though. Maybe I missed something?

EDIT2: Why wasn’t Starmer mentioning any of this in the debate, I wonder?

Fair enough. So if I understand you correctly, this isn’t really about Labor having any positive policies, but more that they won’t actively make things much worse.

Btw, on the Rwanda plan, didn’t Starmer say in the debate he’d do that if it complied with international law? EDIT: I’m wrong, he said he’d do third country processing of migrants if it complied with international law.

Not British, but interested in your opinions: isn’t Labor almost as bad as the Tories these days? I watched the Sunak - Starmer debate, and they seemed to just be angrily agreeing with eachother on every point that mattered. There was a lot of “Yes, we should do that, but your track record shows you’re not serious about [policy]!”

So on the gaming front, pretty much any mainstream Linux distro would work for that. Proton is pretty damn stable and great on any distro that supports Steam. If you like Bazzite though, you do you.

For pen testing, must-have skills are nmap, bash, sqlmap, wireshark and the burp suite. If you know how to use all those, you’ve got basic coverage of most common attack vectors (password cracking is also covered by bash, there’s 101 different password cracking algorithms in various CLI spps).

I’m a lazy ass who doesn’t care much about customization, hopefully someone else can help you with that :))

A quick Google shows that someone got sharex working on Linux: https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX/issues/6531

Might take some effort and learning bash and WINE + winetricks to get that running, but hey, you’re gonna need to do that anyways for the pentest stuff :)

If you want something useful, maybe some more info on what you use your computer for? Advice for a glorified web terminal would be “Click the Firefox icon”. Advice for learning bash would be a massive rabbithole.

App suggestions are also very dependent on what you use your computer for.

The best use case for purchasing FOSS software is contractor work, specific modules for existing platforms and/or FOSS projects. I’ve done that myself in the past. The client pays for the custom software, it’s written, and then they gets to do absolutely whatever they want with it. If the client wants to publish it, they’re well within their rights. Most of the time it’s too entangled with their internal company workflow to be useful to anyone else though.