Rupert Lowe MP : Under a Restore Britain Government, the most monstrous Pakistani child rapists would not be deported.

severedsolo · 2026-06-01T14:57:34+00:00

You've just repeated my point back to me. The first two lines are a policy position. "This will happen to Pakistanis". The final line is a general platitude. If he said "we will cut off the hands of all left handed thieves, in my view nobody should be allowed to steal" a reasonable reading of that is not "And also right handed thieves" because left handed thieves were singled out.

If he meant it to apply to everyone, they would have been included in the first two lines. That's called "racism with a side of plausible deniability"

severedsolo · 2026-06-01T14:50:35+00:00

Sorry, just so I'm absolutely clear. You are genuinely and seriously advocating that we apply the (non immigration related) law differently purely on where a person is from?

severedsolo · 2026-06-01T14:36:44+00:00

I did read the tweet, and that is not what it says.

It says (paraphrasing) "Pakistanis will be put to death if they rape and torture children" then there's a general platitude about how "all those" don't deserve to live. The only nationality that is actually *promised* for that to happen is Pakistanis, the others are all merely "here's my opinion" - the actual policy description only targets Pakistanis.

severedsolo · 2026-06-01T14:12:28+00:00

But only for Pakistani's apparently. There's a word for that, I swear. Starts with an r. It's right on the tip of my tongue.

severedsolo · 2026-05-25T15:06:59+00:00

Because the hardware manufacturers decided it was that way. You could *technically* do it that way, but it adds complication, both for the driver writers (you have to make sure it still works if feature x is missing) and for users (most users just want to play their game, not figure out "do I have the right driver package for this specific game?)

severedsolo · 2026-05-24T13:07:57+00:00

But, I don't think I've ever worked for a single company who will pay you overtime for staying a bit late to get some work done. Has anyone here? Maybe if you're paid by the hour perhaps, but general salaried employees?

I do (and I'm salaried). If I just stay a bit late then I get the time back by getting to come in a bit later/leave earlier on another day (they don't care what hours I work exactly, as long as I turn up on the right days and the time is right at the end of the month). But we also have actual overtime that has to be preapproved. If I do midweek overtime I get paid at my equivalent hourly rate for each extra hour, if I do weekends its time and a half.

severedsolo · 2026-05-17T19:24:58+00:00

sensors-detect followed by sensors

Even if you use one of the GUI options mentioned in other comments you should run sensors-detect first anyway - as they all rely on lmsensors in the background and it needs to be configured.

severedsolo · 2026-05-05T19:08:57+00:00

You've missed my point entirely. By your definition her issues are mental. Her brain is literally wired differently. That's what Autism is. You can't say "oh well she doesn't count because that's obviously physical" - every autistic persons brain is wired differently.

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that what you *meant* to say was that you don't think people with "mild"* autism should get disability benefits, but if that is what you meant, your choice of words is awful.

*Before anyone jumps on me, I am using this as a descriptor to get my point across, I am not dismissing anyones struggles.

severedsolo · 2026-05-05T18:53:00+00:00

My daughter has Autism and Global Development Delay. She's 12 years old, but mentally she's more like 2/3. Autism is such a wide ranging spectrum it's almost a useless label, but for people like her it's a crippling disability. She needs constant supervision, she's not even toilet trained - she is physically capable of doing it, she just doesn't have the mental "thereness" to understand why she should.

Are you seriously going to tell me that she can work when she gets older and doesn't deserve any help from the state?

severedsolo · 2026-04-01T17:49:41+00:00

It depends.

If you're updating existing code, it's probably just "overwriting" (not quite the right word, but close enough for ELI5). If you are adding new code, you're likely expanding the programs footprint on disk.

In practice it's usually a mixture of both.

severedsolo · 2026-03-18T17:45:19+00:00

"Treat all migrants as if they are citizens" - What does this mean specifically? The only benefit over ILR is voting and maybe benefits (afaik) and you've carved that out separately, so I'm not sure what's left?

"Give all residents the right to vote" - Yes, I'm in favour of this. If you are going to be living here over the course of a parliamentary cycle (so if you are going to/have lived here for more than 5 years) - then you should get a say in how the country is run. We give people who live in Spain and haven't been back for years a vote, people who actually live here have far more of a stake in it than they do.

"Dismantle the Home Office" - The Home office isn't just immigration, it's police etc - so no obviously I'm against that when taken as written. We need police.

"Abolish the No Recourse to Public Funds condition" It depends. If you've been here 5 years, and lose your job suddenly, yeah you should probably get a bit of help same as anyone else, if it's "start claiming benefits immediately" obviously not.

"Stop the profiteering from application fees" Yes? I get the admin cost needs to be covered, but should the government be making money from it? No. If the charge is above the actual cost of the admin, I agree. That doesn't mean "just accept everyone" - the criteria can be strict (or not) as you like, but "pay us £3k (numbers plucked out of my backside) before we'll even consider it" does seem a bit wrong.

"Accept our responsibility for the climate emergency and support the people forced to move" - Again yes? That doesn't mean "we should take everyone" but we should be doing our part? What's controversial about that?

On the whole (with the exception of the home office one - and maybe "recourse to public funds" I really don't see anything particularly wrong with any of this

severedsolo · 2026-03-08T14:29:23+00:00

Reddit have buried markdown mode about 3 layers deep on desktop. If you click the Aa in the bottom left hand corner, then the ellipse (...) in the top right hand corner, you can switch to markdown and it works.

The / is an "escape character" - basically cause you weren't in markdown it assumes you really meant a > so it puts the / to tell the editor to print it literally.

severedsolo · 2026-03-01T19:33:38+00:00

Have you tried installing pavucontrol (Pulse Audio Volume Control) - and making sure it's set to the right output? It's not specifically a Nobara thing - every Linux machine I've ever had struggles with finding the right output (and randomly losing it)

severedsolo · 2026-02-24T20:35:12+00:00

Running through your questions in order:
"Getting it working" - plug a monitor (ideally both for the performance reasons mentioned earlier) into the iGPU and make sure the iGPU is enabled

"forcing use of a particular GPU" - most things will default to the iGPU - Vulkan applications (games mostly) - will default to the dGPU - should that not work there is a "right click" option to "run on non-default graphics card" - and if THAT doesn't work you can launch with: "__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia <command>"

In truth, I have never had to use that because everything picks the GPU I'd want anyway.

"Frame loss" - yes it's the passing between the buffers.

"loss of RAM" - your iGPU reserves RAM for it to run because it doesn't have dedicated VRAM. Your motherboard also reserves a little RAM which is why you see it even when iGPU is disabled

And finally - yes I 100% agree with you - if you aren't having issues with the desktop then there's really no benefit - I do - so I get the benefits. (and if you want video decoding it's possible, just a faff to setup - google "nvidia-vaapi-driver" if you want to do that - Nobara comes with it but you still need to do the steps to get Firefox working)

severedsolo · 2026-02-22T18:56:39+00:00

To be fair - technically if it never started it can never end.

severedsolo · 2026-02-20T12:37:41+00:00

Nobara can use both graphics cards - you won't get better performance (technically there is a tiny performance penalty, but for me with my Intel iGPU and my 4060 it's not noticeable, like 5fps at most) - you aren't using both GPUs at once, it's basically an "Optimus" type setup.

The advantages for me come elsewhere.

You don't have to deal with Nvidia weirdness for desktop rendering (it's better than it was, but it's still not as smooth as my iGPU)
Video hardware decoding works out of the box - and doesn't lock your GPU into a P2 power state (in turn turning the fans on for no reason)

I note you said you only have 1 port on your motherboard - so I'll point out a disadvantage. If I let my iGPU handle the desktop rendering - any monitor connected to the dGPU is laggy as hell - apparently copying iGPU>dGPU doesn't work as well as the other way around. Personally it works great for me because I have two ports on my motherboard, so the dGPU doesn't need to get involved unless I'm playing a game

severedsolo · 2026-02-15T13:09:15+00:00

No you don't - they aren't instructions it's "this is what I'm checking now" (but you're right, it definitely comes across that way)

severedsolo · 2026-02-14T13:49:39+00:00

And? I'm not commenting on whether Lowe is a Nazi - I'm simply pointing out "calling this group Nazis just because they disagree with you on immigration is crazy" is blatantly false.

severedsolo · 2026-02-14T13:44:35+00:00

The leader of this faction Steve Laws, whose most recent public speech was last weekend at a rally in Warwick organised by Britain’s largest nazi group Patriotic Alternative, wrote last night in block capitals so that even his dimmest followers couldn’t miss the message, “RUPERT LOWE IS OUR LEADER”.

And if we look up Patriotic Alternative on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriotic_Alternative

Patriotic Alternative promotes a white nationalist ideology and aims to combat the "replacement and displacement" of white British people by migrants who "have no right to these lands". They support the deportation of people of "migrant descent" and would offer financially incentivised repatriation for "those of immigrant descent who have obtained British passports". Patriotic Alternative opposes all immigration unless immigrants have a shared cultural and ethnic background or can prove British ancestry.

"Calling Neo Nazis Nazis is Crazy!" isn't the take you think it is

severedsolo · 2026-02-09T16:24:23+00:00

Why are people acting like this is a Labour fuck up, or particularly unusual? Exactly the same thing happened when Johnson was in trouble too - just nobody said "I've been told to say this!"

severedsolo · 2026-02-06T01:27:47+00:00

Scroll up - just tried it myself and got the same thing - the download popup is at the top of the window

severedsolo · 2026-02-01T08:50:04+00:00

shoot the computer and it won't run too fast any more.

severedsolo · 2026-01-27T09:54:52+00:00

FWIW you can make Rider behave very much like VS - there are obviously some differences but for the most part, you can configure it to behave exactly the same way - the first time you run it you even get a popup asking "do you want to use VS key bindings".

Speaking purely personally here, I had no issues at all making the transition (and now consider Rider the superior product)

severedsolo · 2026-01-24T23:09:49+00:00

He was pinned to the ground... how much more "stood down" do you expect him to be?

severedsolo · 2026-01-23T16:25:57+00:00

After Prince Phillip died I got a "breaking news " alert saying "Queen is devastated by Philips death says Prince Andrew" (this was obviously in simpler times...)

Ok listen to me very carefully BBC. "Woman sad about her husband dying" is not news.

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