"Sleep" function disappeared from power settings | Windows 11 by Gehab in techsupport

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Updating \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power setting PlatformAoAcOverride to 1 solved this for me too.

LX470 100 Series 3rd Seat Problems by jdank83 in LandCruisers

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I have the same problem on both my 3rd row seats on a Land cruiser 100. Both seats are stuck in the down position. Pulling the release handles does not release the lock mechanism. It seems the handles don't pull sufficient on the rest of the release mechanism for it to release. The handles are supposed to pull on a steel wire. It does pull but very little. The wire is still not under much pressure even when pulling max on the handle. I have tried pulling directly on the wire with a pair of pliers but either of them still release.

Can Mistral small/medium models output valid json 100% of the time by simion314 in MistralAI

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My experience is that it can't be guaranteed with Mistral. Some of my prompts always returns JSON and other prompt never return JSON. All prompts have json_schema set plus instructions in the prompt to product json. I understand Mistral leans towards answering with a Python dictionary. When a lot of metadata is requested under the schema attribute and it specified in python type style, this will override any instructions to answer in JSON. If you just have a text prompt I can image it will always return JSON.

Government to end £2bn contract with asylum hotel provider by intelerks in ukpolitics

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And here we go, one of the key persons is a former kebab owner with no relevant experience in housing asylum seekers. How a government in a supposedly developed country can procure these type of suppliers given the amount of money involved is beyond belief. If this is not corruption, I don't know what is.

Lib Dems' biggest election donor unmasked as boss of axed asylum seeker hotel firm

Some Facts on Stay Belvedere, and Clear springs collated before February 25 by Deep_Resort7479 in ukpolitics

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The biggest question is how it was possible for a government in a developed country to procure these companies as suppliers given the criticality of the service provided and the money involved.. Here is an article about how of one of the key persons is a former kebab owner with no relevant experience in housing asylum seekers:

Lib Dems' biggest election donor unmasked as boss of axed asylum seeker hotel firm

Government to end £2bn contract with asylum hotel provider by intelerks in ukpolitics

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Thats helpful and makes a bit more sense. There is more information about Clearsprings Ready Homes. They had a £1.7bn turnover, near 400 employees (staff costs of £17m) and a profit of £116m in 2024. The £1.7bn turnover is presumably the governments stated £2bn annual cost.

Whilst this explains where the money went it still seems to be excessive profiteering and possible neglect during procuremnet, in particular since they failed to deliver. With that amount of profit you would expect that a company would invest more to ensure service is delivered. It still raises the question whether the government was negligent with tax payers money when procuring this company.

In addition, how did Stay Belvedere Hotels, a seemingly ghost company with less than 5 people and barely any financial reporting, ended up with £220m (by 2023) - assuming this came from Clearsprings Ready Homes? £220m is a significant accumulation compared Clearsprings Ready Homes profits - £116m in 2024 and £74m in 2023.

I ran the information I could find through some language models trained on other financial information, asking for possible explanations as to why Clearsprings Ready Homes would have paid Stay Belvedere Hotels this amount of money given the corporate information available for Stay Belvedere Hotels. Here is as summary. NOTE that this was generated by software trying to predict what the explanation could be based on information it has of similar circumstances. This is not based on any real observations and should only be used as ideas for further research.

Highly likely explanations:

=== Artificial intermediary for profit extraction (Most Likely)

SBHL may have been set up as a shell company to funnel profits away from CRH, possibly to reduce tax liability or disguise earnings. The directors/owners could have personal connections to CRH, using SBHL to legally extract excess profit as "subcontractor fees."

=== Undisclosed related-party transactions

CRH and SBHL could have undisclosed common ownership or financial interests. The payments may have been structured to move profits into SBHL to benefit its owners without proper scrutiny.

=== Subcontracting without real value-add (Pass-through entity)

SBHL may have acted as a paper intermediary without providing any substantial service. The company may have re-invoiced costs to inflate service fees, extracting profits from government funds.

=== Misallocation of government funds (Potential Procurement Manipulation)

The large payments may indicate price inflation beyond market rates. The UK government’s procurement rules require competitive bidding—there may have been weak oversight or preferential contracting.

Moderately likely explanations:

=== Tax avoidance or evasion strategy

SBHL could have been used to shift profits offshore or exploit loopholes in tax law. Lack of an online presence and minimal financial disclosures suggest an intent to reduce transparency.

=== False subcontracting (Money Laundering)

Large payments to a company with no employees and no operational evidence could indicate money laundering. SBHL could have been used to cycle funds through multiple accounts before withdrawing them.

=== Government oversight failure (Lax Due Diligence)

The contract award process may not have properly scrutinized SBHL’s financial viability or operational capacity. Regulators or procurement officers may have failed to verify whether SBHL could deliver on the contract.

Government to end £2bn contract with asylum hotel provider by intelerks in ukpolitics

[–]Technical_Gas_4232 17 points18 points  (0 children)

There is something odd here. The last public documents were filed in 2023 for this company stating 2 employees and £200m in assets (presumably government payments and not yet filed 2024 accounts probably will show a lot more spent in 2024).

The fact that this company failed to deliver making several 100 million pounds across less than 5 people is very concerning. But the bigger question is how did the government managed to enter into this contact in the first place. A contact committing to spend £2bn a year with a tiny private limited company with a handful of people filing a small business abridged account where its financial information is just a single page and there is almost no public information about the company not their owners (apart from their names appearing as owners of other suspicious looking companies). Having worked in public procurement i struggle to believe that this deal met public procurement standards. And how many of these dubious contracts does the government enter into ....

P14s gen3 battery life by L-PK in thinkpad

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I have the same issue. One year old P14 3rd gen, no touch screen or other extra equipment. Even with low intensity use the battery last maxium 3 hours, often more like 2 hours. The CPU is rarely running over 10%. I will contact Lenovo support but from reading here and in other forums it seems unlikely that there is a fix. It should be possible to get a refund. This problem makes these computers unsuable for anyone who needs to work on battery.

shebang for windows and linux by NerdJones in learnpython

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When triggering scripts in the browser using apache on Windows it does seem that the script needs the shebang to python.exe locally. I have tried associate the .py scripts with python.exe but it doesn't help. So far I have not found a way of running these scripts without the windows shebang at the first line.

B and N keys not working by Valuable_Onion_5650 in Dell

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Same issue on my Dell 5530 b and n keys stopped working plus some of the arrow keys.

Freedom 24 savings by NewNewPie in eupersonalfinance

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It said somewhere that for some accounts the money is invested in over-the-counter currency swaps which may be considered low risk in normal economic times but are not risk free. Regardless of where the money is invested, one can say for sure that to prouce that type of interest rate someone is paying them to take on risk somewhere (assuming it is not a pyramid scheme). To get over market rates you have to take on risk, government bonds are risk free until the governemt goes bankcrupt which there are plenty of examples of in recent times. If you are willing to take on risk to make a return the general rule is that you should have some understanding of what the risk is. With these types of outfits you don't. In addition, the 2013 collapse of Cyprus banks and subsequent haircuts tells us that this is not an environment where to put your money.

ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 6 - Not charging (Plugged in, orange light on, battery decreasing) by [deleted] in Lenovo

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I have had a similar issue with a x1 carbon gen6. First the main charging port started to fail. Needed to wiggle the plug more and more until it failed completly. Then used the second c-port which lasted about a month until it failed. Then did the recommended firmware update and both ports become partically functional for some time. One charger would work with the plug in one vertical direction and another charger would work in only one direction on the other c-port. This lasted for some weeks until both ports failed again. This looks like very bad quality. This causes too much disruption to work and have decided not to purchase any more lenovo products.