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Uni staff told in video call 400 jobs could go to save £20m
  • More to the point, what's average salary at a university? That's 400 people on 50k a year (or something other, less equitable split).

    My local uni occasionally posts jobs - none of them were anything close to that rate of pay...

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    Bitcoin man sues Newport council over '£600m fortune lost in tip' - BBC News
  • Also that he thinks that it's anyone's fault but his for chucking it away. I know he says that an ex did it, but he left it in a drawer and forgot about it. If it was thrown by a partner surely they'd be liable (by his logic)?

    the law states that property deposited at landfill sites belonged to the local authority, and that its environmental permits forbade it from disrupting the area in pursuit of the hard drive.

    Also, this. He's just going to make noise and waste a lot of money here I fear.

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    Anon is an engineer
  • As originally conceived, the engineer's iron ring rubs against the drawings and paper upon which the Engineer writes and even in modern times, serves as a reminder when working on a computer.

    Think it's intended more for the design engineer than the construction engineer.

    But that said you can get some decent silicone rings that won't de-glove you if they get caught these days.

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    2025 is set to bring a ‘manager crash’ after all that burnout and lack of support adds up
  • I got offered low level management or redundancy.

    Took the "promotion", with a slight pay hike, and now I'm spending the extra money on counselling for stress and anxiety.

    All while watching the industry I work in spiral downwards after an artificial COVID years high.

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    China Is on a Quest for the Holy Grail of Meat. Let’s Hope It Succeeds.
  • I'm lacto-ovo veggie and the number of people who can't fathom that I don't eat meat (in the UK where it's really quite common) is mind boggling.

    "What, not even fish?" 🙄 No, mate, if it has a face I won't eat it, but thanks.

    People also tie flavours to specific foods. I have a friend who has a north African partner and they tell me often they'd go veggie if it weren't for their partners chicken "which is so much better than ours". No shit, he uses a fuck ton of spice and lemons. If you threw that on some veggies it would be a pretty close flavour experience. I get missing a texture (slow cooked beef? I miss that) but the flavour thing just doesn't add up to me.

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    Should one give money directly to homeless people?
  • The right answer is "yes". Some cash in the moment is a nice thing to do, and will alleviate an immediate want or need potentially.

    Donation to an organisation that will help the problem long term is a worthwhile thing to fund.

    Why not give a man a fish to eat while you're teaching them to fish for themselves, if you're in a position to do so?

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    How to set up laptop for corporate usage, so contents can be erased.
  • It smacks of elitism, that's all.

    The OS is simply a means to an end. If Linux offers a way to do what they want in a way that is less hassle, and it meets their needs, then that's a good thing.

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    Why car culture sucks
  • To get nice new/modern trains would involve widening our tracks and updating the infrastructure. Where I live in the (flat) country who gives a shit - it's all just land banking farms anyway, but near towns and cities it's going to involve a huge amount of, at best disruption and and worst the massive displacement of the population who have homes that back onto rail lines.

    Also we'd need all new bridges, tunnels, etc.

    And we're currently broke as fuck because all the rail operators have been siphoning profit to foreign governments shareholders since we privatised the fuck out of the country.

    There's not much that will kill you in the UK but there's a lot that will make you want to die.

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  • I have an old notebook which I've been toying with a few smaller distros on (typically easy to install, liveCD types), and while I enjoy the tinkering aspects of this, I had a thought that I've been mulling.

    In the past I've run distributions based on larger, better supported, systems (Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, etc.) and if or when they have folded, like crunchbang did, or PeppermintOS (however briefly), I just changed them out.

    However, if I were to go back to peppermintOS, say, would it be feasible to 'convert' the system to the parent distribution? So, could I force peppermintOS to 'become' Debian, for example? Or is this overly simplistic? It's a level of engagement with my operating systems that I just haven't had!

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