I was eagerly anticipating "I'm looking for a gift for my aunt".

One of the first lessons from my instructor was to push the gear stick from the right with your palm for 1/2, top for 3/4, and left for anything else.

That way, there is less chance of shifting from one section to another. Useful when you car sometimes needs a downshift on the motorway, and 4th is adjacent to R.

There is a bit of a chain of trust, however. Instance fills with spam bots? Defed.
Spam bots start making their own instances? Go to whitelists.

And as henfredemars says, because there is no financial incentive to grow the userbase, instances can slow things right down if the spam starts.

Did your pfp get deleted, or would you like one to be made?
@wren@feddit.uk has a flair for MS Paint, and would probably be keen to make you one!

So that's why people have started modifying their cars to have the indicators always-on!

No plug! It was just a PCI card with breakout cables. (Which I should definitely track down soon!)

I still have my PCI 0404 somewhere. I should really work out where, before it gets accidentally binned!

This is good feedback, the Mint team could definitely streamline things, maybe even with a "help pick".

Because it's not immediately apparent which to use (Cinnamon/MATE/Xfce).
I'm not sure how the resolve the mirror issue, sadly.
The cost of serving the data directly would be very high, but doing so would avoid scaring people. Unfortunately, it's hard for them to 100% guarantee every mirror is safe (even though they are!), which means they have to leave instructions on how to verify.

Selling pre-loaded USB sticks would be very cool, but people would have to be interested enough to spend £20.

It makes me sad when every year, an exemption is justified to continue using them.

Please try to calm down a bit mate.

We can appreciate your frustration: It is not a fun situation when the main options for the government both support the horrible things happening in the Middle East.

I can promise you, we don't enjoy it either. People choose to vote tactically to put the most pressure on the lesser of two evils, and avoid an even more questionable result (CON+REF+DUP coalition, anyone?)

Hopefully, one day we can see AV coming into practice. And we can see MPs better representing the votes of the nation.

And until then, we can continue to put pressure on bad situations, via the small parties, via protest. But not by cutting off our noses to spite our faces.

Please be civil with people on feddit.uk. Shouting is not civil.

It definitely threw me the first time I was out of the house.
I decided the best solution was just to limit alerts to non-sensitive things.
While I'm generally very big on privacy, I really don't give a monkeys if Apple/Google is relaying a message that says "Cat in garden!"

What is it you're expecting to find at the bottom of this hole you're digging?

Does he also do that thing where people buy out a company using debt loaded onto the company they're buying?

And a very important section, that does not surprise me at all:

The low success rate of applications has been put down, in part, to an increasingly number of speculative applications being submitted. Industry reports show a rise in so called “phantom projects” in these cases, developers submit multiple applications for many sites, with the expectation being that very few will connect. These speculative and duplicate applications have seen the connections queue grow, increasing the work needed to progress projects.

It becomes a sad self-fulfilling prophecy. Applications take a long time to process, so companies fling lots in parallel, then only use the first to get through.
Which means that applications take even longer to get through.

This is now complete. Things seem a little snappier...Though that may be because everyone is disconnected! Various bits of generic software have also been patched to latest.

Mike Ashley didn't actually want a game shop, he wanted people spending £70 on each football/COD release, then buying that season's team strip on the way out of the shop.

I will hold my hands up: I went from "we should do this soon" to "oh, that's not too horrible" to "ok, let's do it" in the space of about 30 minutes.

Really, I should have stickies the post for an hour or so!

Emperor is talking about some cool custom error pages, which much improve things going forward.

The newer versions are slower, though I don't know exactly how much by.
I could definitely feel it when going between 19.4 and 19.5 mid upgrade (unless the quick switch caused the slowness!)

We're now federating more (as the newer version supports more things between instances)

We're also caching and resizing images too, so the server load is roughly 3 times higher.
(This may not continue).

We may do a restart once we're confident that things are stable. As it's possible that a little weirdness crept in!

Thanks for the post, it persuaded me to get off my bottom and add another one to the list.

I have a suspicion that it's the classic IT issue "it was configured, but never actually did anything previously".