I love Cold War era “throwing technology at the wall to see what sticks” projects. So many ideas were tried and often the ideas themselves weren’t bad but something else was a limiting factor (e.g. our level of material science technology at the time). Even so, they’d often get a lot further than one could reasonably expect, which is rather cool.

That crust looks divine.

I’m reminded of Louise Belcher describing safety tape:

Gene: Are we safe here? Louise: Of course! It’s safety tape. They can’t just call it that if it’s (screaming as the mechanical shark smashes through the safety tape)

It’s the same reason I look both ways before crossing the street even if it’s a one-way street - just because something isn’t allowed doesn’t actually stop it from happening.

Here you go: “Students in England now graduate with average debt of £53,000, data shows” https://piefed.social/post/961417 https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jun/20/students-in-england-graduate-average-debt-increase

Uncensored.

Work wanted me to go to the US for a thing and thankfully I had family reasons for being able to say no. I’m not setting foot in that country in a long time.

I was a young teen when it happened and it just seemed ridiculous that anyone would be naïve enough to fall for the extremely obvious lies.

It wasn’t okay the first time around either. Anyone credulous enough to believe that obvious bullshit shouldn’t have been allowed to form legal contracts for their own safety.

Rough price on these things?

The whole point of that site is to compare sizes of cars. Plug in whatever you want to compare: https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/mazda-mx-5-1989-roadster-vs-ford-f-250-2023-4-door-pickup-crew-cab/

…fuckin’ why?

Without proper consequences their behaviour will continue.

Sounds like an improvement.

It turns out that maybe having a gentlemen’s agreement for how things should work was a bad idea.

Mmmmm compiz. Wobbly windows, spinny cube virtual desktops, take me home!

I assume it was made to upsell people to better CPUs. Celerons have always been awful.

That said, if Win7 came preinstalled then we’re talking about different eras of Celeron, at least, I cannot imagine it would be as mediocre as a low-mid AMD CPU from 2004!

I always think of an ex of mine defending criticism of her craptop. “It was good for its time!” No, no it wasn’t. It was built around a Celeron. It was built to be trash. It was ewaste with extra steps.

Uni isn’t free in much of the UK, so… lots of people?

I don’t understand what point you’re trying to make. I know it’s about the UK…?

Whilst the Celeron was indeed utter cack, 2 GB has me making four Yorkshiremen-style “2GB? Luxury!” style comments.

I used to run Ubuntu on my Acer Aspire 1362 WMLi back in 2005. I had 512 MB of RAM and a 2800+ Sempron processor.

That said, looking at this:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/1351vs710/Mobile-AMD-Sempron-2800+-vs-Intel-Celeron-M-1.60GHz

My old Sempron was a better CPU than that piece of junk Celeron you’ve got there. Giving it 2GB of RAM is hilarious!

Seems like an awful lot of debt to go into for something that’s really not that valuable. If the certificate is the goal then a masters or PhD will end up being what’s needed and faking your way through undergrad won’t do much good.