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Comment Re:This Is How It Starts (Score 1) 106

systemd legitimately CAUSES a lot of problems in Linux.

If you have on-site name servers, every time you upgrade, name serving ceases to work, so you cant login to the non-working machines to fix them!

And a load of other problems.

Systemd is the software equivalent of plague, and belongs in hell!

Comment Re:Buy full price, then (Score 1) 86

if you lease a car from a dealer, you can still chose to fill it with gas from any provider>

Shhh... you will give them ideas!

Here in the UK, we do not have locking. I bought a Samsung phone on contract, and shortly after bought an Oppo phone. I swapped the sim cards between them because it suits my use patterns better. No problems here. In the past, I have sometimes swapped phones with my partner, both keeping our sims, because one of us wants an upgrade when the other is due for one, but is happy with their old phone.

The only thing I can see sim locking do is lose sales in these scenarios.

Comment Re: Or, hear me out... (Score 1) 98

no way should movies be altered to deal with idiots who can't bother to watch what they are watching.

Making movies that people don't watch might initially appear stupid, but the more discerning of us realize that if the viewers can't be bothered to watch, then the movie is probably repetative garbage already, and making it more repetative is probably not going to help.

Some movies should never be released. Probably quite a lot of them.

Comment Re:Paying interest rates exceeding 16% ... (Score 1) 309

AI is not correct. (Some people call it "slop" - Google may or may not be your friend)

Yesterday (11 January 2026) I was watching music videos at a relative's house (not an English language channel) and the Amex advert across the bottom clearly described a card as 98% APR.

Comment Paying interest rates exceeding 16% ... (Score 0, Flamebait) 309

... is a sign of insanity.

Paying over 18% virtually guarantees bankruptsy.

However, Trump is right that a cap is needed, as the banks, left to their own devices, intentionally bankrupt people to steal their houses, and people that the banks will not lend to at 10% because they have above 50% probability of defaulting, will probably borrow at 28% and go broke.

Meanwhile Amex are advertising cards at 98%.

Presumably the people taking these cards did not pass maths in school.
(Poverty is God's punishment for not passing maths in school).

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