Employment law differs outside the US.

Being forced to sign an indemnity clause of that type is illegal and/or unenforceable in most western countries, and discovery of IT records is quite sophisticated.

Having said that, your general thrust of “it is highly unlikely” is certainly true. Someone has to have some basis for starting a suit, fishing expeditions are rarely allowed.

75-100 years ago he was correct. Democrats & Republicans flipped

The greatest lie ever told about the NHS is that we need to pay more tax to fund it properly.

We don’t.

We need to unwind a web of outsourcing agreements that siphon money away from care provision and into the pockets of the 1%.

There’s enough money if you remove the grift

Edit typo

The C suite are rarely stupid enough to put that sort of thing in writing. It’s a conversation, no record.

Although the irony is with wfh that might be a vid conv that could get an AI auto transcript if they forget to turn it off

Iirc but cant be arsed to check, 3 models - base (rwd) mid range (awd) and premium (awd with a bigger battery)

Thank you so much for the quick reply, I have somehow managed to totally break the installation altogether (it’s now bootlooping), so I’ll kill it recreate and try the above and report back.

Much appreciated

It can be considered slightly inferior depending on your viewpoint. Debian tends to have older versions of software components than Ubuntu, and there’s some Ubuntu tools that are quite handy (the graphics driver management tool is one I believe).

So, in my understanding there are good reasons they don’t just pivot to Debian. I am not on the Mint team so you’d have to talk to them, but my recollection of a press realease or interview from a few years ago was that bringing all the ubuntu stuff into LMDE and maintaining it would be a massive effort

Mate, you’re all over the shop.

So to address the initial point, I’m now in the UK where roads are much narrower than Oz, and yes I’m driving in Oz every few years.

The basic issue is not that small cars aren’t available in Australia, it’s that no one buys them. A holden or ford ute, or a Volvo station wagon was a large car in the 80s, now the supersized Yank trucks (and the Jap ones made for the American market) are everywhere. A Toyota Hilux now is massively bigger than it was 25-30 years ago. If people didn’t buy them, they’d stop selling them. The traditional ute was selling at the same time as the 4wds that got bigger and bigger - and wiped out their market share even before the Libs killed the car industry.

So. You can buy small cars in Oz, and you can buy small EVs - it’s just that no one actually buys them.

BYD Atto is small even by Euro standards,

https://bydautomotive.com.au/atto-1

ditto the Fiat 500

https://www.fiat.com.au/fiat/500e-electric

There’s probably more I can’t be arsed looking up.

Bottom line your issue is with your fellow drivers buying tanks instead of smaller cars, they exist, and many are in fact sold to city buyers, both in dino juice and electric versions

LMDE exists as the DR plan for if Ubuntu loses the plot again and Mint can no longer rely on Ubuntu as the upstream. Yes it does create extra work, which is one of the reasons why LMDE releases tend to lag behind the primary Mint Cinnamon, but it’s worth it from the Mint perspective to have an alternative route immediately to hand.

You do realise that the Linux Kernel has Rust in it, right ?

You’ll need to go to BSD if you want to be Rust-less

https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-7-features-changes

" Linux 7.0 also declares the Rust for Linux effort as “here to stay”"

Well the wheels fall off, that’s not ideal. (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM)

Other than that it has poor battery size for the cost, slow charging, and poor efficiency (burns more kW per mile/km).

There are more criticisms, but they’re the big ones. It is just not a good EV.

And the wheels really did fall off initially, they had to do a recall. Was a design error.

Now recalls happen very often to all companies but for straight up safety issues they’re rare. They tend to be a lot smaller issues.

The thing with the wheels though is just indicative of how little care they took with it, Toyota are renowned for quality, sure they’re boring designs but they’re built to last right ? Well this one seems to be been designed by the work experience kid and a punishment detail who clearly didnt want to be on a BEV.

People won’t be reasoned out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.

In other words as things go to shit it won’t be the Fanta fascist’s fault, it will be immigrants or black people, or Demoncrats. They’ll never blame the pedo or themselves. Your way won’t work.

Errm read the article and don’t see any mention of Bambu - what did they do ?

At a 30 sec glance at your history and based on your reference to Renaults in Oz then first question - WTF - it’s 3am over there, go to bed !

Then 2nd question, what exactly are you lacking in the way of small car options ? Another 30 sec dig suggests Oz has any number of small BEVs available all of the usual culprits from China, Korea and Europe are available (as they are in most countries, Canada being 1 exception for a few more months, and obviously the US).

https://www.cars24.com.au/car-guide/best-selling-bev-models-australia-2025/

Nissan Leaf, MG4 and BMW iX1 are not exactly F150s - they’re all reasonable sized hatches.

Yes there are plenty of people driving large cars in Oz (I’m from there originally) and they’re now feeling the pain of the fuel prices, it will shape their behaviour, particularly the city folk driving Ford Rangers etc without ever taking them off road.

If I’ve guessed wrong on the country whatever. There’s very few countries outside of North America that don’t have small and medium BEVs easily available

nobody seems to be thinking about all electric small cars, or even normal width cars,

Hey ? There’s dozens, if not hundreds of them, Chinese, European, Korean…

at least where I live

Oh. In the USA huh ? Damn, shame about your govt blocking them all. Maybe you’ll change things up at the mid terms, good luck with it.

Yeah. Spot on. And the Busy Forks not only has an awful name, not only has awful styling, but it is an extraordinarily bad EV by any measure. E-waste indeed

Seems a fair conclusion, certainly it is warmer in London UK than London Ontario !

Good these are companies that fought the transition to EVs every step of the way. Toyota in particular. Which was ironic after releasing the Prius

And how do you know these are people you can trust ? What is their experience ?

You are asserting the reported first hand account is false or misleading based on unspecified inspecific alternative reports that you’re not sourcing.

There’s a word/acronym for that behaviour, it is called FUD.

As someone who has lived in both the US & China (i am from neither) you’re drinking too much Kool-Aid and not applying enough critical thinking

London (UK) has been successfully running BYD EV buses for years with no major issues. They’re cheaper than the diesels to run and quieter. Not sure why Canada had so much trouble.