Starting on the 20th of June 2025, the EU is enforcing a minimum of 5 years of updates on all smartphone/tablets sold after they are withdrawn from the market.
I.e. if a model is sold for 2 years, it must receive software support for 7 years.
Even if you’re outside of the EU, you’ll benefit from this. Since the OEMs have to do it anyway, they’ll likely push the updates to all markets and market it as if they’re being nice.
In that case I’m sorry you failed to make the link.
Because – as I said – they are saying one thing and doing another.
From one side of their mouth they’re saying nothing has changed, from the other they are using this as vindication for new anti-trans moves.
Now that I’ve again answered you, for the final time, are you going to address what I’ve been saying?
It feels like you’re just arguing in bad faith for the sake of arguing, and I can’t be bothered with that.
I notice you’ve completely failed to address my main point - that the woman in the article said exactly what you said at the start of your comment. (Which undermines your main point.)
I know what she said, and it doesn’t undermine my point.
She is acting as if nothing has changed, when something has changed: the actions of the EHRC.
The law hasn’t changed, but the EHRC is dubiously using the SC’s verdict to push for anti-trans measures in gov departments.
Why are you still not addressing that?
I’m glad to hear that.
Um, ok? I’m glad you’re glad.
Now are you going to address what I said or not?
Yes, I did read the article. I notice you’ve completely failed to address my main point - that the EHRC is purposely pushing anti-trans advice to government bodies and dubiously using the SC’s verdict as vindication to do so, despite the SC’s verdict not actually changing anything.
I know it wasn’t the head of the EHRC that spoke in this instance, but she is the one who runs the EHRC and what they do/say. She sets the culture. She’s the boss.
This commissioner is talking in this way (“accept it and get on with it, trans people!”) because it’s the message that comes from the top.
Like, it’s not a sheer coincidence that this spokesperson’s professional view aligns with her boss’s. One caused the other.
Unsurprising. Lobbying plus a fear of driving up food price inflation was always going to dampen the likelihood of the government increasing prices on unhealthy foods by way of banning promotions and the like.
I’m very disappointed in the scrapping of the proposed advertising changes though. Making unhealthy food adverts less visible to children was a great policy idea.
Great news.
Although I’m still miffed dualling the A1 has been scrapped again.
The supreme court were very clear that their ruling was not a reduction in trans rights, but a clarification of existing legislation.
It’s pretty clear that the EHRC is purposely misrepresenting the SC’s conclusion, and pushing dubious recommendations to government departments.
She’s a TERF that the Tories put in place (Boris Johnson, 2020). It’s utterly absurd that the head of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission is against equality.
Her contract ends in November this year. I hope she’s swapped with someone more appropriate for the role.
You’d still be let out after your normal sentence, nobody that sets the laws is advocating keeping them there forever.
To be clear, I disagree with it, it seems crazy to me.
I’m just pointing out that this reporting is saying something very different to all other reporting I’ve seen on this topic. I’ve not seen anywhere else report it as being forced.
This is the first I’ve heard of it being mandatory. All other reporting I’ve seen is prisoners being able to opt in, for a reduced sentence.
Nationalising now would cost hundreds of billions.
Or, if you went down the banana republic route of forcibly nationalising without any compensation, and ignored the laws that currently prevent that, investment into the UK would plummet.
Investment in the UK already took a big hit from Brexit, we don’t need to make it worse.
The government is already the operator of last resort for the water companies. That means if the companies go bust any nobody steps in to buy them, the government takes over automatically.
I think the government should state they won’t be bailing out these water companies if they fail. That’s how it should be for any private investment.
When Thames and others go bust, the government steps in and takes over automatically as Operator Of Last Resort, theoretically with a tremendously lower cost to public finances.
Not from the government they haven’t.
They aren’t allowed to raise their prices.
They can’t be raised to cover it.
For Linux folks, it’s also available on FlatHub.
I’ve installed it on my steam deck and mapped the triggers to the left and right… uh… flappy things?
It works really well, and whenever people see it they’re like whoaaaaa I remember that!!
You don’t take on an Englishman at a football ground, they get all kinds of attack and defensive buffs
Yes. One of the only benefits of FPTP is that for most of its history it has stopped tiny, insane, extreme, populist parties getting a foothold, and instead encouraged relative stability. For all the issues we have, the UK has been a phenomenally stable democracy over the years.
That is no longer a protection against Reform, as they’ve broken past the “not being popular enough to gain any traction under FPTP barrier”.
Set fire to his house, a flat “linked” to him (family member perhaps?), and his old car.
We live in an unhealthy democracy when people are being this extremist and violent over a political figure so bland he makes Gordon Brown look fun and care-free.
Nonce? I think if Starmer was a paedophile our press would be having a field day.
People will bitch and moan and scream about this, but it’s free and Gnome doesn’t have the money to pay for it elsewhere.
It’s a real problem in the FOSS world. Users don’t want to pay, but they’re very happy to demand features or for the devs/organisation to be run in a certain way or for them to spend a shit load on XYZ, all in order to be ideologically pure.
This is the real world. Unfortunately given their lack of capital, Gnome needs freebies for this, and AWS was offering.