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Bazzo

Podge_irl wrote: »

Brexit has happened. A fact that Johnson is more than happy to ignore in order to bring everything back to "remainer elites who want to stop Brexit" because that is all he has.

Yes it's happened but the exit terms and future relationship have not been settled at all, the people I'm talking about are happy to give the Tories free reign to do as they please with it just so they don't have to keep hearing about it. It's mental.

Podge_irl

Brexit has happened. A fact that Johnson is more than happy to ignore in order to bring everything back to "remainer elites who want to stop Brexit" because that is all he has.

Bazzo

The main issue I'm noticing is stubbornness among the electorate now. People who I know voted remain saying that the vote is done and Brexit has to go through now, and they want it done because they're sick of hearing about it.

It's completely bat**** and a point of view I can't wrap my head around but it's very widespread and how the Tories swept the election from what I can see with their moronic "get brexit done! Ignore everything else! Get brexit done!" Strategy. How people who, as I mentioned previously, would have voted remain actually trust them to do what they say after the last few years I will never understand.

Dave_The_Sheep

jacothelad wrote: »

We have a lying, cheating scum bag elected as P.M. by 105,000 Tory members ,...or less than one quarter of one percent of the the electorate. 99.78% of the electorate had no say in his election,

29.6% of the electorate shouldn't have voted Tory then. They knew what they were getting, and if they didn't, they weren't looking hard enough (and by hard enough, I mean at all). Ignorance is no excuse.

jacothelad

Thought for the day.

It really is a Boris in Blunderland world.

Useless knob boil, Quasibojo, hunch backed arsewipe and the cowardly criminal, crawling f&ckwits he surrounded himself with have made it clear that they have no interest in the future of people like me.

Johnson and Cummings both claim an expert knowledge of history. They should have learned that the days when the UK could "threaten" the rest of Europe with the consequences of failing to give the UK what it wanted are almost as far away as the Opium Wars. But then I think Johnson is incapable of remembering anything that needs more then 3 words.

If you had told Margaret Thatcher that her party would crash out of the worlds biggest free trade region over an argument about fish, cosy up to a crypto-fascist USA regime, allow Russia to trample all over the mechanism of government, then pick an avoidable fight with China, she might question the competency of those concerned, especially in the area of foreign diplomacy.

Then again, she wouldn't have given jobs to clowns like Johnson the cheat, Dominic Draab and the rest.

37% of the eligible electorate fell for the lies and misrepresentations of a rag-tag bunch of swivel-eyed loons, liars, chancers and shills for global tax-avoiders in a referendum that should never have been allowed to happen and which was carried out after the passing of a piece of immensely-flawed legislation.That it never specified that any change should be subject to an absolute majority of the electorate being in favour of rejecting the status quo was moronic and devastatingly stupid.

The referendum should have required 50%+ of the electorate to vote leave, not a simple majority. We have left the EU on the say of 37% ...or just above one third of the electorate. Almost two thirds did not vote to leave.

We have a nasty bastard Tory government filled with white collar crooks elected on 29.6% 0f the total electorate.

We have a lying, cheating scum bag elected as P.M. by 105,000 Tory members ,...or less than one quarter of one percent of the the electorate. 99.78% of the electorate had no say in his election,

If this is a 'representative' democracy, Boris Johnson has never lied, never cheated on his wife and children, never shagged a pole dancer, never gave her £100,000, never failed to use a condom, never spaffed £50,000,000 away on an invisible bridge, never wasted £900,000,000 on the wrong buses or millions on water cannon, is actually correct on Brexit and is a man of honour.....Which is it?

DGRulz

I've been saying this for weeks now. We didn't sacrifice any teenagers to the Leaving Cert Gods this year so we can't expect any sunshine.

Neil3030

Got 3 or 4 days last year so that will do us until 2024.

mfceiling

Anyone know what day summer is on this year?

Dunney848

Just bought a Dell Inspiron 7000, 17.3 Inch screen, i7 Processor, 16 GB of RAM and Solid State Storage or SSD. My old Dell was a cheapy for 400 8 years ago.

I started up for work the other morning and it started flicking the internet on and off rapidly. I only found that out when I contacted IT in my firm and they went through half a day trying to resolve.

I had been wanting to get one for day trading so am smitten with the new purchase. €1,670 it cost. Have bought Altec Lansing surround sound for when I watch French rugby on Canal on IPTV this season

stephen_n

thomond2006 wrote: »

What's the benefit for a manufacturer to solder it?

Forces you to upgrade at source, rather than having to option to buy cheaper ram at later stage.

awec

thomond2006 wrote: »

What's the benefit for a manufacturer to solder it?

Saves space and weight and they can place it anywhere on the board, they don't have to have it in an accessible location.

It's also less likely to cause problems.

Most people will never upgrade RAM on a laptop.

Neil3030

System 76 seem to offer a fairly affordable alternative option, for an absolute beast of a machine:

~$2500 for:

17 inch screen
i7 10th gen 5.1Gz (8 core)
64GB dual channel DDR4 3200Mhz
1 TB NVMe

thomond2006

What's the benefit for a manufacturer to solder it?

Podge_irl

stephen_n wrote: »

That’s the most annoying bollox from manufacturers.

Its ridiculous - there is no justifiable reason for it. Though messing around with the interior of laptops is no fun anyway.

My computer started randomly turning itself off every 2 minutes yesterday. Cue taking every single component out of it and putting it back in (a hard turning it off and on) and its back up and running.

Squidgy Black

stephen_n wrote: »

That’s the most annoying bollox from manufacturers.

Yup it's absolutely ridiculous. But it's one of the trade-offs for the whole race to the thinnest form factor shíte (which I've also never really understood). And it means they get to also charge outrageous prices to bump up the ram.

stephen_n

Squidgy Black wrote: »

Pretty much the exact same function wise, just a later gen processor but shouldn't be much in the difference.

Just make sure to max out RAM on the config you buy, or at least get as much as you can because it's soldered so no upgrading.

That’s the most annoying bollox from manufacturers.

Squidgy Black

Neil3030 wrote: »

Thanks for all the feedback. One review says the gen 7 is basically the gen 8, so save the few quid and go with the former. Would people agree?

Pretty much the exact same function wise, just a later gen processor but shouldn't be much in the difference.

Just make sure to max out RAM on the config you buy, or at least get as much as you can because it's soldered so no upgrading.

Neil3030

Thanks for all the feedback. One review says the gen 7 is basically the gen 8, so save the few quid and go with the former. Would people agree?

Neil3030

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Depends what the use case is really!

Primarily programming, data analysis etc.

kuang1

I had a dream last night and this ad was on TV in the dream.
Can't get it out of my head since.
This is a cathartic post.

https://youtu.be/wYj5o4kQsXs

awec

I had one of the earlier generations of the X1, it was great except for this absolutely stupid touchbar they replaced the function keys with. It was absolutely rubbish cause it never had the keys you want and you had to cycle through the options.

I think they removed it again though.

Squidgy Black

Neil3030 wrote: »

My evening googling is settling on a lenovo x1 carbon gen 8.

We've been looking at trying to swing a couple of them as dev laptops in my place, lovely pieces of kit (not aesthetically though)

[Deleted User]

I was gonna suggest lenovo too but haven't bought a laptop in ages so wasn't sure. My work laptop is lenovo running Linux. Lenovo are the opposite of apple in my mind. Ugly and functional.

mfceiling

Neil3030 wrote: »

My evening googling is settling on a lenovo x1 carbon gen 8.

Former Former

Neil3030 wrote: »

My evening googling is settling on a lenovo x1 carbon gen 8.

I have one from work, lovely piece of kit.

irishbucsfan

Depends what the use case is really!

Stheno

My personal laptop is a Lenovo, albeit windows based.

It's decent enough

Neil3030

My evening googling is settling on a lenovo x1 carbon gen 8.

Neil3030

Tech experts - what company would provide the most bang for my buck with a linux-based notebook/laptop?

I primarily need RAM and processing speed/power. Graphics and HD capacity is less important.

It can be a hideous lump of a thing if needed; I'm wfh using an external monitor.

irishbucsfan

I was going to make a joke about pegylated interfering but it read too much like Venjur