I miss Maplin, I still use stuff I bought from there
I'm not sure if he's claiming that Brexit is the reason for EU troubles, but I dunno because I haven't listened to the full interview (which is here, but I think you need to be in the UK to listen to it)
Maybe he's referring to the political troubles in Germany and France - the governments of both countries have collapsed recently
Someone could create an instance if they wanted right? The code is on GitHub
Maybe there's more to it though, I dunno.
People thought the first Trump presidency was a politically divided time, but maybe we're now entering an even more divided time, given that social media is now fragmenting along political lines, more prominently than it did before.
Someone said to me once "if you really wanted to do X, you would have done it".
Your post reminded me of that, because many people might really want to be rich, but they don't become rich because it's a difficult thing to achieve. So maybe wanting something isn't enough. Maybe you need luck or other advantages on your side too.
The last time house prices were this expensive relative to average earnings was in the year 1876, nearly 150 years ago.
I don't think age makes people conservative, I think power makes people conservative. If you accumulate wealth and power then you may become conservative in order to protect your wealth from taxes.
Just as others in this thread have said, it's the "fuck you, I got mine" attitude.
And there's the soldered RAM and storage, and glued-in or screwed-in battery...
Personally I would like to be able to talk to people with different views, in a civil manner. But Lemmy.ml doesn't seem to want that. If you post something that they don't like (even if it's a very moderate view and is expressed in a completely civil way) then they ban you. They seem to really hate moderate people.
Ethernet is obviously better but running ethernet around your home can be a pain in the arse