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What advice can you give to a beginner?

Don't provide services to others, including your own family, actually especially your own family, until you are quite comfortable with what is going on and what might be causing issues. Focus on helping yourself or keeping whatever other services you were using before just in case.

Trying to fix something at night, with a fuming partner who's already put up with a difficult to use service, because of your want for privacy even though they don't care care, whilst saying "it should work, I don't know what's wrong", is not a great place to be 😁.

Overall though, I found it so interesting that I am doing a part time degree in computer science in my 30s, purely to learn more (whilst being forced to do it to timelines and having paid for it).

I have a very comfortable and 'forget about it' setup my family are now using. Every now and then I add new services for myself, and if it works out, will give access to others to use, keep it just for me or just delete it and move on.

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Villager sentenced to 90 days in jail for tormenting bicyclists in her Mercedes - Villages-News.com

Im glad she was charged but nowhere near what it should've been for attempted murder. Fuck the wording. I'm fed up of this language for drivers.

"Villager" - a true local so we should feel for her.

"tormenting" - nothing serious like their lives were in danger, just a bit of bullying?!?

"aimed her speeding Mercedes" - the car was responsible obviously, not her who was just trying to adjust the aim of it without being able to control the speed?

"Vernon was at the wheel of her white Mercedes convertible" - again, the car was responsible, she was just at the wheel and therefore not responsible.

"Enountered" - the worst part in my mind. Imagine you're driving and shudder to think you might "encounter" other cars, pedestrians, cyclists, road signage, peoples houses, a stream / lake / river, a field, a tree, hedges, (I could carry on a long list). Obviously none of this could ever have entered her mind because she just came across them.

“at a seemingly high rate of speed in the opposite direction.” - can't even begin to try to understand this statement.

"Approaching at a high rate of speed" - she didn't quite get to a "high rate of speed" so yeah, she's fine right?

"Accelerate backward toward the pair" - again, can't understand how this would be normal!

This person was operating a machine that could easily kill, under a driving licence, and made several active changes to endanger the life of other people (who could've been walking, cycling or in another car - that bit doesn't matter!).

The sentence and repercussions should be a lot more but also fuck the wording of the report and spread this message that she was clearly trying to attempt fucking murder!

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Is sexual harrasment really this common on the tube they need so many ads about it?

I'd much rather see this than any of the commercial adverts.

It is useful information too. Most people won't interrupt or help, and partly because they are not sure how. I saw this recently and it did make me think, if I did see something happening I have a better idea of how I can help.

It also creates an environment where you cannot justify not acting because you don't think you can help, and that we as a society are saying it is not acceptable. If one person challenges harassment that would not have done so before seeing that, I'd count it as a success.

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Tell me what it means

A stack of 15 floppy disks for one program. Please insert the next disk to continue (I can't remember the exact wording). Command prompt to A:\ and having to see what the install program might be called. Bring amazed that CDs could autorun programs.

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‘Definitive proof’ of second Post Office IT scandal found in 30-year-old floppy disks

My parents had a Post Office which I effectively grew up in. I remember them having to report things on a desktop and loading these discs. I also remember when they got the Horizon system and how much trouble they were having trying to get it to work.

They moved to the city I was born and raised in just to buy the PO, and both worked full time in it. I feel so lucky they didn't get caught up in it all. I have asked if they paid anything they weren't sure about and they said there was nothing, although my mum paused before answering so think there might've been something.

It would have ruined our lives completely so all this scandal stuff really hits me hard. I couldn't even watch the Norman Bates show past 20 minutes as I just got so upset and angry. Fuck all the people involved (at every level) and hope they suffer for all time...

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I'm a US citizen, people in other countries, what do you think when you read stories like these about the US health care system?

Honestly, I am so glad my parents didn't move to the USA and moved to the UK instead. Me and my sister had several health issues including asthma, food allergies, broken bones playing sports, and as a result several hospital and doctor visits. Considering my parents were self employed shop keepers, I don't know if we'd be alive, let alone what sort of life we would have had. Then also having to pay for college would've been tricky. Having so few work holidays also completely sucks!

We are now both professionals with great jobs, paying lots of taxes and volunteer a lot to try to give back. Would that be possible in the USA - I honestly have no idea! Would we move to the USA - absolutely no way! We'd both actually earn lots more money in the USA in the same role but factoring in health and happiness, it's not worth it.

When you hear "greatest country on earth" and "the American dream", I think anybody in Western countries really roll their eyes. It's not a utopia here in the UK but nobody claims it to be, and stories like this just prove we are better off here.

However, we know the people themselves are great and don't deserve this position. We feel sorry for you and wish part of your population would travel and see things for themselves to push for changes back home.

In the UK, we are terrified that we will end up in the same position as our out of touch political elite and ultra wealthy would love to copy this.

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Why is the right at war with cyclists? We’re not ‘wokerati’ – we’re just trying to get around | Zoe Williams

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I think one of the main points in the article is that there is no group of cyclists able to come together to lobby and tbh, I don't see how it's really possible. It's something I've been thinking for a while.

I am a cyclist and a driver. I am not personally in a lobbying group for either. However, like another poster said, oil companies and car manufacturers have the money and reasoning to come together to lobby on behalf of drivers regardless of my actual wishes but they've got lots of my money from having bought and maintained a car. Cyclist manufacturers aren't exactly large, have much money or are as combined into a few multinationals. There is no fuel industry either.

I don't really know any other cyclists like me who are more casual, and use it for local journeys. I want better segregated lanes, better and more secure parking (my bike got stolen recently), the police to actually care about bike thefts, and more considered routes/junctions. There are social groups of long distance weekend cyclists but tbh, they have completely different priorities and interests to me. Even when I used to commute my cycling habits were completely different so my requests would be different.

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What's the deal with Docker?

I have a reason I don't think is covered. A few programs I have come across that I want to try recommend docker and some only provide instructions for docker. They can spend less time trying to help you with dependencies and installations knowing they've included everything you need in the docker file. I don't have a background in Linux or programming so unless they tell you exactly how to install something, I can struggle. Their installation page is then just the docker compose file with a note on the environment variables you can change.

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Uttar Pradesh's 'No Helmet, No Fuel' policy begins in Lucknow to encourage road safety

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Im curious about your argument because this would justify not putting any rules at any time. No cigarettes for under age in shops (might attack a shop keeper), no alcohol in pubs (might attack a bartender), no fines for speeding (might attack cameras or police), no parking restrictions (might attack ticket wardens), etc.

Maybe the threat of fines are not enough to change this behaviour (which I can understand in India after spending a lot of time there) so they are trying a novel approach. One thing Indian police will take more seriously is attacking a worker for applying the rules compared to risking your own life.

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Will I ever be seen as truly British?

I am born and raised in England to Indian parents so always had some internal tension. Sometimes, I don't understand my patents culture and sometimes I don't understand English culture. However, I've realised I am who I am, and can take the best bits from both. There are some bits I don't like so I'm the better for being / having that mix. I married an Irish person who moved over several years ago. Irish used to be the "other" and were screwed over, but now are sometimes considered "white", so just shows the target moves.

There has always been racism in British society and unfortunately I have felt it pick up since the Brexit vote and Trump's election (I think it empowered them). However, it is from a small minority of people. In some areas it comes from ignorance, which I can kind of forgive. Others will always see us as outsiders with our foreign names (and my brown skin) no matter what we do. I just think, screw them. I mean, can they trace themselves back before the Normans, the Romans or the Vikings etc? Where do you draw the line exactly?!? England has always been a mix of people and culture so they're the ones missing out. I'm happy driving my Korean car to a German store to buy ingredients for a Thai green curry. Oh, I'll grab a French pastry for breakfast, Chilean wine for the weekend and well, you get the idea! Let's make the most of this multicultural place and ideas, and who cares about bigots who you can guarantee, like a cheeky korma and Belgian beer...

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Hey UK and France... Canada here. Just wondering... You still have our backs eh?

From the UK and personally, 100% yes but not sure I feel the rest of the population would agree. I mean, a lot of us turned our backs on the EU and there's a lot of cross over with US right wing nutters.

However, I would believe that when push comes to shove, we would be generally willing to defend Canada, Australia and NZ over anyone else, and then European countries at the next level. The reaction in support for Ukraine was pretty universal here and there are still lots of donations and support that is not shared with any African, Asian or Central/South American countries having similar problems.

Basically, you're white so yes you can count on us!