Pork barrel? Nah it'll be the green chile barrel, and I'd be OK with that.

Maybe the could fund replacement emergency spare tires for all. After all you're not really meant to put 100k miles on one.

and countries are still maneuvering to gain the best position, and that includes the US.

Are they? The US isn't, it's bending to the whims of an angry, stupid, corrupt and senile old man bent on getting as rich as possible. Needlessly burning allies doesn't put the US in a good position.

meaning Russia and China's nuclear arsenal is effectively useless

Russia's nuclear arsenal is already very close to being effectively useless. Not a chance they've been doing good stockpile stewardship while the entire rest of the armed forces (and its tyres) rots into the ground.

And why would Trump/America care?

When America lost 3000 people on 9/11 and called for aid, Europe stood up.

The question was not why should America care, but why would America care.

There's a good chance they simply won't. America has not had a great record of being a reliable ally over the years.

Also profiting off of crime and fraud is morally questionable.

Unless all profits go to real charity, people that watch this support fraud.

That's like saying people that watch true crime shows about murder support murder.

The problem is UK energy policy. It is to build large amounts of intermittent power generation in places where there is no demand.

Not really, or rather only in as much as this is because we have other problems. The problem is a massive lack of investment in infrastructure (i.e. the grid), and absolutely zero long term planning. Sure there might be plans, but they'll change every 5 minutes anyway, just to ensure that no companies invest properly either.

The result is that the UK has to build a hugely expensive new transmission network from the wind farms off the north coast of Scotland to the Midlands and South.

It's called "investment". The reason the UK is such a shitshow in so many ways is we have the least investment of the G7. We are not going to get better by continuing to not invest in important infrastructure because it's too expensive.

the only solution is of course gas fired generation, but that is politically incorrect.

"politically correct" lol.

No, the problem is with like everything else we underinvest. We have a crappy, ageing grid which can't move electricity around the way we need. We keep trolling industries by making grand plans and cancelling them so no one can productively invest. The solution sure as shit isn't just using gas: that's why we've in the hole we're in now. Because gas is critical electricity prices are tied to the price of gas.

Having more gas isn't going to make the electricity prices less tied to gas.

The program also involves large amounts of solar. However, the UK is the second worst country in the world for solar power generation (the worst is Ireland).

Well apart from that not being 100% correct... so? Solar in a lot of places is just stupidly good. It's only a bad idea if it doesn't have sufficient ROI compared to other options.

doing what we've done for the last 30 years (that is, not investing in, well, anything and tying the price of electricity to gas) is not going to change where we are relative to the last 30 years.

What does that have to do with raspi,

Everything? This is, in case you didn't notice, an article about the raspberry pi.

where every other version they fuck up something basic like USB or power and then clearly don't do any testing before releasing it on the user base?

I mean... I've been using raspberry pis commercially for years now. Once it's been out for 10 minutes basically all the flaws and workarounds are documented and you can then just keep using the same thing until they stop making them which is usually ages. And then after, you can pick a long life stable model and keep using that for ages and it'll most likely just work.

Might have some warts, but they are a stable, known quantity.

Refurb? What are you talking about? You can buy a used dual-core NUC with 4GB/16GB for $50 any day of the week,

You're comparing a brand new device to a not even refurbished device? This is really moronic and you're being intentionally disingenuous at this point. You can buy used raspberry pis for £10. Like, yeah no shit that second hand stuff, especially random non refurbed second hand stuff that might be a lemon costs less than brand new things.

It's beyond inane to somehow make out that this is an option for a random NUC but somehow not a Pi, else why would you be comparing price wise to new pis?

You don't have to play any stupid games with bootloaders, you don't have to run special snowflake arm versions of anything, you just install and go.

I've literally never played any games with bootloaders, I have no idea what you are talking about. Dump the image to an SD card. Insert the SD card. Power on. That's it.

What's daft is your marriage to this straw man bullshit about refurbishing.

My bad I was assuming you weren't being a complete fucking tool. I am sorry and will not make that mistake next time.

You're not comparing a definitely working second hand thing to a new thing. You're comparing a random second hand thing that might not work to a new thing.

If you think a raspberry pi RAM upgrade is a basic computer upgrade, you have a better equipped home lab than I do.

Or if you don't want to fuck around with random refurbished shit and want a consistent, stable platform. Or if you want to use any of the huge number of hats available easily.

Not everyone needs the absolute maximum everything at all times and is prepared to sacrifice unlimited time to get it. In fact lot of people don't. And it doesn't even work: you an still buy pi 1's[*] for 20 quid. And the Zero 2W for 15. You won't get a refurbed PC for that, you'll get an ebay special you'll need to refurb yourself.

It's also kind of daft to compare a refurbished NUC to a new Pi. You can buy used Pi's cheaper too.

[*] But the pi 1 is sooo slooooww. See the first sentence of the paragraph.

Not sure I see the point of the pi any more. For roughly the same price you can now buy a used NUC

Bollocks you don't see the point.

You are claiming you do you really not see the point of buying predictable new $THING when random second hand refurbished $THING exists. Frankly I don't believe you.

FSF doesn't represent my interests in any serious way, I believe in open source,

OK, completely deluded then.

You have to be a massive shitheel to describe someone giving something away for free as a sociopath, simply because... ...frankly I don't even know why.

You think he should pander to you more deeply? You don't like that he will accept donation from other people (you have need donated)?

Apart from your incredibly stupid pseudo-medicalised language whining in what way is this person a sociopath?

The gift isn't completely free.

Yes it is completely free.

Many people object to the costs imposed on them by the GPL.

Slashdot car analogy time. If I give you a car for free any normal person would call that a free car even if you have to pay every time you refuel it.

It prevents actions they want to take from being legal.

That doesn't make it not free. If you use it, you pay them absolutely nothing and in fact you don't pay anyone anything at all.

That's free.

"The people who own these computers must also have the freedom to modify, repair, and upgrade them, without restrictions imposed by nonfree software limiting their potential."

No they don't, this is just the selfish narrative of sociopaths

Either you have a definition of "sociopath" that doesn't match any definition known to anyone else or you're completely unhinged.

The FSF is, was, and has always been people who want your work for free. It's not about what you get, it's about what they get.

Unhinged and frankly out of touch with reality.

The reason Linux exists as an OS is because of all the groundwork done by the FSF. They had an entire OS except for the kernel. How far do you think Linux would have got without gcc? You know that compiler which remains one of if not the best compiler out there.

The goal of the FSF is Free software (tm). That's what they support and have always supported. And that is a gift to the world completely for free.

You'll notice how the police basically do nothing to drivers who block pavements impeding pedestrians. They really do not generally care about such things. But if a pedestrian blocks something from a megacorp, well that's a different matter. Megacorps first, drivers second, and people using their legs will always come a distant third.