Linux Mint isn’t a bleeding edge distro like Arch, CachyOS and other current flavours of the month which means it’s more mature which make it both more stable and less likely to randomly come across issues that can cause it to break quite badly. It also has decently put together things like an “app store”. There is also a massive online community for support. For someone coming from Windows with no Linux experience it makes it easier to get to grips with and less likely something bad will happen that would put them off.

They can’t afford to move to those places. My 3 bed house in a rural market town that is worth £150k would be worth three times what it is elsewhere where there’s more industry and jobs.

Nokia and Blackberry anyone? Or how about any of the massive social networks that have been and gone? The downfall of a product or a company used by tens of millions of people is usually caused from within.

Has it? Let’s remind everyone what we were told in the months running up to the 2016 Referendum would happen by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer just following a vote to leave:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36355564

Leaving the European Union would tip the UK into a year-long recession, with up to 820,000 jobs lost within two years, Chancellor George Osborne says.

In the best scenario where we agree a bi-lateral trade deal: sterling would fall by 12%, unemployment would rise by 520,000, average wages would fall by 2.8% and house prices would be hit by 10%.

In a worst case scenario: after two years GDP would be 6% lower, up to 820,000 jobs could go, take-home pay would fall by 4%, house prices would fall by 18% and the pound would be 15% lower.

A recession never happened. We ended up with record employment, record growth, unemployment so low we effectively had full employment, house prices continued to grow, inflation stayed below the Bank of England’s target.

The news coverage here had a bit with a local resident, native Nothern Irish, stood outside the shell of his burned out home he’d lived in for 13 years, losing everything. He’d seen them trying to set fire to the car parked outside, gone out and told them that it would set his house on fire and they didn’t give a shit and just carried on.

It’s got absolutely nothing to do with this stabbing, immigration or anything and is just yet another example of arseholes in both Northern Ireland and Ireland who will use any excuse to go and riot just for the sake of it. If it wasn’t this they’d be coming up with some other bullshit excuse for doing it. They’ve been like that since the IRA ceasefire and troubles ended and they could no longer use sectarianism as an excuse. It’s literally bred into some of them over there and perpetuated from generation to generation.

No they’re not in the thick of attempting it now. Putin is in the thick of attempting to rebuild the Soviet Empire and failing miserably now 5 years into his 3 day “special military operation”.

United Kingdom actually. May I suggest you go look at a map of where all the undersea cables go?

It doesn’t need to as Ireland has a defence pact with the United Kingdom. The UK protects both Ireland’s airspace and waters due to how close it is to our own. Due to the size of Ireland it would never be able to field a military large enough to be of any use operating on it’s own.

The mobile phone network I use, Smarty, hasn’t raised it’s prices for at least the 4 years I’ve been with them.

Once again for the stupid…IT IS OPTIONAL. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PUT ANYTHING IN THERE NOR DOES ANYTHING YOU PUT IN ANY OF THOSE FIELDS HAVE TO BE THE TRUTH.