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Yeah, I was going to say. Not pension, but I put money into two different blended portfolios (I didn't choose the contents, just the two choices from a list). I started it in Feb 2021 and the overall gain has been over 35%. I have no idea what the pension fund put their money into there, but it seems like some bad choices.

OP should check the options they have.

Yes, came to say the same. It's very easy to get a voip number in most countries. But many places that want to use it for ID purposes (finance etc including paypal) will know the voip allocations and block them.

I would very much agree here. I've (admittedly mostly server side) been using linux for around 30 years now. But I'm still dual booting on my desktop. There's just a few things that will still only work in Linux, and also if I break things I can go to windows if I need to do something "right now"

Dual boot gives you the option of, if you have the time trying to make something work in linux. But, if you don't have the time, just boot to windows and do it.

How I do things, is I have drives that are shared between both OS (I use btrfs since there is a windows driver and, so far (around 3 years) I've had no corruption problems. But you can share ntfs too and a boot drive for both. But, it's not a requirement.

Also yes, it is quite easy to break a linux install. It's not really because Linux is bad. It's just because you have so much choice in which drivers to use, which desktop environment (and even the components that make it up) that it's easy to accidentally select some combination that doesn't work and you end up with only a console to fix things from.

I like that the OP is choosing Mint. I've not used Mint, but from all I've seen it looks a real good option for someone starting into Linux from no experience.

/mnt/shared/Development or E:\Development depending on which operating system is running.

Not in home mainly because I use the same directory in windows and Linux.

Yeah, but that's just because "nobody wants to work"

I recently made a new linux install (to replace my constantly breaking, likely due to my own doing Manjaro install). I went with Cinnamon initially, but in order to try out Wayland, I moved to KDE plasma.

I'm on NVidia, with two different resolution screens. Which causes occasional problems. But overall it's fine.

That dystopian "future". It's the present, isn't it.

2.49 extra for assured personal rioter. Otherwise you'll get the standard service where your rioter may have another riot to attend to first.

Maybe someone can make an app, so I can have someone paid at an insultingly low hourly rate to go protest/riot in my place?

Well it seems it was more to do with sanctions, if the open letter from one of the chopped developers is to be believed. In which case, I think the right thing is to move the names to contributors (they did still contribute), remove them from maintainers (some maintainers are actually paid by the foundation, I mean not a lot, but some are paid).

I still find it all a little odd. But likely there was a bit of a prod from somewhere higher as to how sanctions should be followed.

Most nuclear enabled countries have nuclear subs. I believe here in the UK our entire nuclear deterrent is based on trident missiles fired from submarines.

It's going to be precisely the reason. If you have a dedicated wire, fibre or copper then the entire available bandwidth is available per connection (one caveat with copper is crosstalk but it is minimal and can be mitigated). With fibre the available bandwidth per strand is huge.

It's so fast that even where there's contention, it is rarely a problem that everyone sharing a part of the connection is downloading or uploading at once. So pretty much most of the times you test, you get the full speed.

With mobile data, the entire cell is sharing a small amount (in comparison) of spectrum. Unlike a wire, the entire spectrum cannot be used by a single tower, a pretty small number of channels are carved out for them. Also because the signals are travelling through the air, there is more of a problem of signal loss and interference to contend with, so the channels very rarely reach the maximum possible speed (forward error correction and reducing bits per symbol to reach a suitable signal to noise ratio both will reduce speed for example.

For upload (which isn't usually much of an issue) there's another problem of guard time between timeslots. When downloading, the cell transmitter transmits the whole time and shared the channel between all users (another thing that can slow things down) so there's no problem of needing a guard time. But when it's separate transmitters (phones) sending there's going to be a guard time between different handsets timeslot and the more active transmit stations there are (phones) the more these guard times add up to wasted bandwidth. Luckily most people are downloading far more than uploading, so it's less of an issue.

I think for these reasons caps are used to limit people from ALWAYS consuming data on the cell/mobile networks and instead using wifi wherever they can in order to keep it fast for those that do/need to.