@fu @Coskii @True If there is, then I am also unaware of it.

@Coskii @True “home taping is killing music”. They’ve been on the same short sighted, cutting their nose off to spite their face, thing for decades.

Every study shows that piracy increases demand for “legitimate” consumption too, but they will literally drive themselves into bankruptcy rather than have one single pirated copy in existence. Muppets.

@return2ozma @davel And variously previously one-to-one, Orange, and T-Mobile.

@aniki As I said, I did the comparisons fully expecting to get a NUC. The Mac was cheaper at the performance point.

As for US prices, not especially relevant to me. Import taxes are a thing.

@Skwiggs Few months. I was using an old laptop with Debian before but Friendica was cooking it, literally.

The M2 Mini doesn’t break a sweat. It just takes the load and gets on with it.

@ninjan friendica can get quite heavyweight.

@aniki because it was the cheapest machine available for the performance I wanted in a useful form factor.

@deleted I couldn’t find one with equivalent performance to the M2 for less money.

I am not purchasing in dollars.

@TCB13 I was surprised as well.

@BornDeranged I’m running everything in containers. Not got anything which cares which architecture the server is. Data is data.

@Skunk Nice. I’m happy with the M2 running MacOS and just spinning up Linux VMs in UTM as needed. It seems to handle them without breaking a sweat and, for self hosted stuff, having the VM bridged to a VLAN tagged interface gives me that extra reassurance without having to have the whole machine on that interface.

If the baddies compromise the Friendica server, I can just Remote Desktop into the Mac and nuke the VM. Bye bye.

@BornDeranged Honestly, moving stuff to the cloud is trivial. Everything is in containers and I can just setup the nginx reverse proxy that’s also running on the VLAN to redirect to the cloud. Job done.

@glowie As a fellow self hoster (this is a Linux VM on a VLAN hosted on a a Mac Mini under my TV), it’s a nice feeling, isn’t it?

@glowie oh, “urge”. Well that’s alright then. As long as someone is, you know, urging.

@yesman oh good, extend working hours into your sleep. Truly this is the torment nexus timeline.

@misk There is only one Gwynne Shotwell.

@denast Tailscale

@Thrashy @thehatfox As long as it doesn’t get the bloody Tories reelected.

@CosmicCleric I can believe I want a fucking pony. Doesn’t make it so.

Imperial Spain has a long history of being told to go fuck itself by people it tried to conquer. It also, along with Britain, has a shameful history of stealing bits of land from people unable to defend themselves. One such example is, oh, Argentina, a settler colonial state established by the Spanish at the expense of the people already living there.

The Falkands, on the other hand, were populated by penguins, and penguin shit before the current settlement was established. They are a rare example of the British Empire having actual clean hands in the establishment of a colony.

Now the descendants of the people who nicked Patagonia from its original inhabitants want to play continuity Hapsburg shit. “Oh, that’s 500 km from us, we want it”. Paris is less than that distance from London. What do you think the Louvre would have to say if the British Museum demanded the Mona Lisa?

Yeah. Thought so. Regardless, if Argentina want to get the same response (being told to fuck off by people with bigger guns) the way mummy and daddy have been for centuries, fine. Come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough (hint, you aren’t.)

@CosmicCleric territorial waters is 12 nautical miles, mate, not that that matters because there are plenty of instances where countries are much closer than that and the median line becomes the boundary.

Regardless, “we’re the nearest continental landmass, but it’s still a really fucking long way” is not, and never has been, a valid excuse to fucking invade somewhere.

As for the history, they were either discovered by the British or the Dutch, uninhabited. The only people to have ever lived there that weren’t part of a temporary garrison are the ancestors or the current population. It’s their home, and Argentina’s only interaction with the place is as a failing state engaging in a war of conquest.

Also they’ve got, like, five rowing boats, a Cessna, and a guy with an air rifle, so it’s kinda moot.