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If the US gets a new president in 2029, I'll be devastated if they don't take the opportunity to do a major speach or something against the backdrop of a half derelict East Wing - it would be iconic.

I'm not sure these overlapping dots necessary represent the data so well... e.g. it gives the impression that London has only had about three terrorism incidents...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_London

Nice - thanks for this

Not my experience. I've had my X1C for a year now and have not had to 'dial in' a single thing.

Most of my prints are functional items in PETG of various colous. Some PLA for cosmetic parts. And I did some things in TPU earlier in the year. Probably been through like 10kg of filament on it.

Can't think of a single serios print failure that wasn't human error - e.g. forgot to clean the bed, didn't support it properly.

My one gripe is that when changing PETG reels, it doesn't always manage to wipe the nozzle very well leaving a few rogue stringy bits that usually just pull off.

And obviously I don't love the closed-wall software situation, but their software is pretty good.

• In 2015, UK consumers spent approximately £1.5 billion on physical entertainment media, including DVDs, Blu-rays, and CDs.

• By 2025, that figure has plummeted to under £400 million, with DVDs and Blu-rays now representing less than 10% of total video spend.

• In 2015, streaming was growing but still secondary. Netflix had around 5 million UK subscribers, and Spotify Premium was under 2 million.

• By 2025, streaming dominates:

  • Over 90% of UK households subscribe to at least one video streaming service
  • Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, and Apple TV+ collectively exceed 40 million UK subscriptions
  • Music streaming accounts for over 85% of music revenue, with Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music leading

2015: Physical Media ~£1.5 billion, Streaming ~£500 million 2025: Physical Media <£400 million, Streaming >£2.5 billion https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/multi-sector/media-nations/2025/media-nations-2025-uk-report.pdf
https://www.deloitte.com/uk/en/Industries/tmt/research/digital-consumer-trends.html

Sorry, I oversimplified, I can't use my router with Sky. 😞

Even having switched it over to open-source FW and having dug around inside it over SSH, I couldn't find a way to get my Nighthawk R7800 to do the Option 61 thing.

It's not a particular great router, but it otherwise does everything I need it to do and is all setup, so still I figured I'd put up with the white box for a year and then switch again... That was probably nearly two years ago now 😅

We were with Virgin for over a decade. The quality of the fibre service was very good. Probably had about 3-4 brief outages in that entire time. Left because I got fed up with the mid-contract price increases that the government specifically tried to outlaw and then they found a way around it again (it's not a change of contract if we say in the contract we're going to change the contract...).

So I rage quit and went with Sky Fibre a year ago, which is BT Fibre and is also very good. Sky were about the only BT Fibre provider when I looked that at least waited until the end of the contract before cranking the price up.

Downside with BT is they force you to use their massive white router, which shouldn't be necessary.

I don't think I've ever had particularly good customer service from either, but if you get something that is Virgin or BT Fibre to Premises then it should be good quality and hopefully you won't need customer service too much.

FYI Ian Watkins was Welsh and was sentenced in Cardiff in 2013; the death penalty was effectively abolished in the UK in 1965.

I feel like a separate breakdown per lead source would be interesting - was one source complete junk?

For me in the UK:

• BBC News is okay, but it can sometimes tie itself in knots trying to be it's definition of "unbiased" and gets slated by both the left and right for it. There was a specific controversy recently where they were accused of bowing to the government.

• I like The Guardian. It's left-leaning in it's opinions, but not to the extent of overly spinning the truth.

• In the last few days I've actually been trying out Al Jazeera. Early days, but I've been very impressed by how 'dry' their articles are - very matter-of-fact without spin, unlike the usual Western style.

As someone with a number of friends, family and colleagues on the spectrum, and a wife who works in SEN, I would say the best source of knowledge would be to seek out people with first hand experience to talk to.

There are books with people's lived experiences that might be helpful too - I'm actually currently reading "Secrets of the Autistic Millionaire" by David Plumber.

Finally, sounds silly, but there are some fairly meme-y groups on here that can still offer insight, e.g. autisticandadhd@lemmy.world

...but beware of older literature... We understand a lot more now than we did even 10-20 years ago.