I get all my stuff second hand anyway. But just checked and Kobo Elipsa 2E is £349 and Remarkable 2 is £389 so it’s not that different really. Not that I’m paying that amount for either.

I guess it all depends on what you get out of it though. I use my Remarkable every day so am seriously considering a second hand Paper Pro Move 2 when they come through into the market. Spend your money where you spend your time and all that

I use mine as a PDF reader and for note taking. I also bounce long form articles to read as it’s easier on the eyes and less distracting.

I’m not that fussed about ebooks as I’d rather just get the book. It works for me.

It isn’t open source though and the software is extremely limited. I think as a design choice. YMMV

To a large proportion of the country he is. Maybe with a Manc accent with makes him look slightly less professional.

I’m really sorry. The country as a whole does not vote decidedly left leaning people in.

The preference is Competent Centre Right > Competent Centre Left > Far Right > Far Left in that order.

Burnham vs Farage. Farage wins. Starmer vs Farage. Starmer wins. Pick your poison.

The real threat to Labour is the Conservative Party getting its shit together. And reputation washing Farage into a Competent Centre Right leader.

I always remember that when given a choice between Boris and Corbyn the country manifestly chose Boris.

Burnham can’t win in the UK. He just can’t. Sorry.

There’s enough difference between Starmer and Farage for me. If you want to pitch a different party to the public go do so. That’s what Farage has done to the conservatives so it can be done. Stop trying to take Labour down from within.

I know you’ll hate this. But I don’t get why you want to be part of a party if your aim is to take its leader down. And potentially take the party down at the next election. The first it’s won in decades

Just go join another party. Burnham isn’t going to win a general election. Leave Labour in the hands of those who can win elections so we don’t suffer endless Tory and Reform rule.

It is beyond ridiculous that house building in London. Fucking London. Isn’t profitable

It’s not as if the left was doing brilliantly during the Kinnock years. Or the Corbyn era.

Only if you live in reality and not inside your own head.

Underrated comment.

We don’t need a referendum though. It can be via next parliament after a vote by the public on Labour vs Reform manifesto

Maybe there could be a VPN service that doesn’t require age verification but doesn’t provide access to porn or social media?

There is probably a solution. But on balance I’d rather kids didn’t get access to porn and social media. And if that means age verification for VPN I’m comfortable with that. Unless somebody can come up with a better solution

The British will never ever ever accept ID cards.

You’re right. Parliament also has a bar where they serve alcohol.

They’re not banning VPNs. They’re attempting to limit use to adults.

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wheeeeeeee there goes Beyond Good and Evil 2 for another decade :-(

edit: maybe not. Ubisoft Montpelier isn’t amongst the cull list. I live to hope another day

Kids growing up being able to see porn on demand is also a horrible idea. Arguably a more horrible idea.

The onus is on us to provide a solution to that if we want to remove ID checks from websites that serve adult material. Which currently is porn but could be easily expanded to social media.

He’s America First

I’d be happy to take the hit to get my wider family off of Facebook and X.

Although I feel this site has a more sensible algorithm that doesn’t reward brigading. I think some tighter regulation is possible in the digital sphere

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html

I wouldn’t get too excited as there’s 40 Reform councillors in Derbyshire:

https://democracy.derbyshire.gov.uk/mgMemberIndex.aspx?VW=TABLE&PIC=1&FN=WARD

The FT was warning that pensions would switch out of U.S when divestment occurred.

It’s not an emotional FU to America or a Buy European statement from Sweden. It’s that the American market is unpredictable and pensions are risk averse (customers tend to want stability rather than big returns). Be interesting to find out where the money went.

Im for it myself. Honestly wouldn’t mind a ban on algorithmic based news given the state that America is in.

I’m starting to see social media as smoking. It’s bad for you. Give up