He had to contractually hand over the plan to the show runners when they ran out of finished books, what you see in the final seasons is what he wanted. Granted it has almost certainly been hamfistedly handled by the show runners but it was his ending.

I am still a big believer that the vitriol of the ending by the fans has played its part into George not finishing the books, and how hes slowly started talking about changing the ending. Personally idgaf if he does change it, he probably does as he will have to admit to changing it as Benioff and Weiss will certainly call him on it if he doesn’t as it massively impacted their careers.

Couple this with his slow pace of writing, huge number of distractions available to him, I am not surprised if he isn’t just running the clock down.

Spanish Punk

More than a few are temporarily embarrassed millionaires, some are unable to comprehend how tax brackets work, and some genuinely believe that the rich would flee if taxed to the same level as say the £100k to £150k bracket, and that this would be “a bad thing”.

Yeah I saw that and closed the window.

Their support for signal on their previous phone, my main use case to get one, was a bit spotty as well. If it does not work reliably then the phone is useless to me.

I do not trust them to support the phone properly which is a real problem if you are expecting me to pay for said support on subscription.

Wrong decisions are a part of football, however the big teams getting the majority of benefit from wrong decisions, especially when at home, has never really been addressed by any changes made to the rules including the introduction of VAR based on this.

There are outlier teams like Newcastle in the VAR beneficiaries list but a lot of the other clubs at the top are the ones you would expect.

Gamesmanship of managing the ref and knowing exactly how far to push things, when you can push things, etc. is a part of any sport, I do not want to see it go away.

Eliminating bias is the problem, its not helped when things like fixture lists are clearly manipulated as it just adds to the narrative.

I suspect his popularity with their glacticos is the real reason here. You can’t afford to lose the support of players like that as its cheaper to change the manager than a bunch of super expensive players.

I still think its the wrong decision but it would not be the first time the manager takes the fall than the superstar.

I cannot help but feel he got himself sacked on purpose, he has said stupid shit to the press before but this was another level. My guess is he knew a new manager would be coming in the summer and he decided to walk before then rather than deal with this mess anymore.

I think the good results when playing four at the back then switching to three and it not working again underline how little of a shit he gave at the end.

He clearly wants to be a manager and not a coach, and he is never getting that at any of the biggest clubs in Europe even outside of Uniteds messy and dysfunctional setup. His appalling results at United mean he would struggle to get an interview with them.

I cannot help but feel that the current league position of 6th is because other teams have been worse, last ten games they have three wins, two losses and the rest draws, hardly world beating stats.

I do not trust them either, not after this.

The apple silicon looks amazing, it would be my choice if I didn’t really dislike Tim Apple, and Apples excessive price gouging with storage and RAM pushing what would be a usable model for my requirements up significantly.

Equipping the base laptop with 256Gb of storage in the current year then charging how much to jump to even 512Gb, which is still pretty small amount, is a piss take.

They are are bad for RAM upgrade pricing, at least the base model has 16Gb. With both storage and RAM being soldered on, you are stuck either using external drives or cloud storage.

Second hand would be my pick, that way Apple do not see a penny of the money.

Omarchy

DHH is pretty fucking racist, white replacement theory is right up there with the worst of racist beliefs

I thought I might move there one day. That was then. Now, I wouldn’t dream of it. London is no longer the city I was infatuated with in the late '90s and early 2000s. Chiefly because it’s no longer full of native Brits. In 2000, more than sixty percent of the city were native Brits. By 2024, that had dropped to about a third.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

I picked up one of these off rhe back of this as it seemed fun, but damn that LEP cut through is impressive

Yeah I am pretty certain you are tbh, I think you mixing up uefi certificate updates with root kits that are part of the factory image or other installed bloatware from the manufacturer.

Now if you were talking about vpro or other low level management I could believe it, but thats intel and avoidable…

Really? Where you read that?

What I remember it was an app you could uninstall and then you had to clean up the certificate install. It was part of the factory image and would get installed as part of that. Lenovo provided instructions to remove it.

But again, I don’t use factory images or windows.

Yeah my countries market for used frameworks is tiny, I would be paying a significant premium if I could find one and likely getting one of the less desirable (to me) older models. I also really want a 16/15" device so its kind of limiting.

I dont use factory installed images from anybody, mostly because of this shit. I also dont use windows, not that I would trust a factory installed Linux either

I plan on going for a used Lenovo, something with as many generic, replaceable components as possible with as little soldered to the motherboard as I can get away with. I trust the workplace models to be more reliable and supportable long term than anybody else.

That way Lenovo do not see a penny of my money and I will only have a very very small upward impact on used prices due to the volumes of used Lenovos sold.

Its fairly typical of football fans to openly welcome new money into the club and then only realise afterwards that they are getting shafted, its refreshing that Strasbourg realised this from the beginning.

I wouldn’t buy a Dell because I wouldn’t trust the hardware, his position is just the icing. Whole reason I wanted the framework was because I wanted something to last a very long time, I simply do not trust Dell to provide support or parts long term.

The Tim Apple situation hurt, as I really liked the apple silicon for build quality and I had an old Intel Macbook that did indeed last a very long time (still boots even now). However their RAM/Storage pricing for what is an essential amount of storage for me mean even without Timmys boot licking making them a non starter.

I wont buy Nvidia because of their shitty Linux support, Huang being an absolute womble

Lenovo is about as good as you getting for a mainstream brand, and they are ultimately owned by the CCP so meh.

I think with Framework it particularly hurts as at least with Dell or Apple they are quite openly rimming Trump because it will give them competitive advantage and tax cuts while they never really pretended to be for the public good.

WTF do Framework get by supporting Hyperland or Omarchy? Its literary supporting your racist uncle who makes moonshine for half a dozen people when you set yourself up to be an ethical alternative whose current market is more likely to be ethical seeking. Imagine if Oxfam or Doctors without Borders started supporting Trump? World of difference from the NRA supporting Trump due to the starting position.

I am not expecting my single cancellation to make the slightest difference to their policy, they already made it clear that they are quite happy funding racists when multiple people have challenged them over it, and with one of their larger pots of cash they give out as well.

What I am getting out of is knowing I am not (indirectly) funding racists myself, rather than knowingly funding racists. I do not see it any different from buying products from Musk, if you did it ages ago then fine, but after, thats something else entirely.

I cancelled my framework 16 order because of their “big tent” policy meaning they give funding to Hyperland and Omarchy, I will not give my money to people who fund racists

Won’t be the only manager sacked this week