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Personally when I lived in The Netherlands I was quite partial towards lots of mayo on my patates (chunky chips, only far more than merely just larger) rather than pindakaas saus, but patates are a hole different class than English-style chips (which is the same style as in most of Europe) which do gain from drizzling them with vinegar to offset the absorbed fat.

They're like an origami figure folded wrongly that causes any properly folded origami figures to become misfolded when it comes in contact with them.

Oh, from my own experience with upper class Englishmen (granted, only a handful) when living in Britain, Sunak isn't really a "proper" upper class person in their eyes, especially for those who are Old Wealth as he's both not White and his wealth doesn't go back enough generations - it's pretty hard to get accepted into the English upper class circles even if you did attend one of the posher Public Schools and even when inside there are different "classes" of people.

Very wealthy people really are a petty as the rest, and though most are pragmatic in their choice of actions when their economic interests are at stake, they'll definitelly follow their own petty impulses when such interest are not really at stake.

I mean, the various very public actions from Elon Musk, from his "pedophile" accusation to the rescuer that refused his wild-ass submarine scheme to rescue the boys in Thailand to his Nazi Salute, show him as a prime example of how the very wealthy can act driven by internal impulses even in ways that go against their best interests.

You see, almost all of the very Wealthy are were they are due to "popping out of the right vagina", not due to superior behaviour, and this is pretty much "100% of them" when it comes to Old Wealth, so don't presume they'll act driven by rationality alone - if the stakes for their own interests aren't high enough they'll follow things like their supremacist beliefs just like the "riff-raff", and really the main difference from the English wealthy when they do this to for example the American wealthy, is that they'll coach the whole thing in some posh "rationale" rather than be open about their Racial Preferences or the appeal of Supremacism for them (it makes sense that somebody who was born to Wealth will be attracted to the idea that some people are born inherently superior to others and hence are more successful, as that implies that their inherent superiority is the reason for their wealth)

The actual driver for an HID USB device, even on WIndows, is still just a few KB.

Worse, the default driver for HID devices like mice, keyboards, joysticks, gamepads and so on is part of Windows since Windows 7 and all you had to do was give it an INF file that really just associated USB hardware devices that sent the PC a specific identifier (made up of a VID and a PID value) on USB protocol initialization, with that built-in driver - and that file is maybe 100 bytes. Even better, that INF file is not even needed anymore since Windows 10.

A driver for a mouse (pretty much the simplest Human Interface Device there is) that in addition to the normal mouse thing also supports setting the RGB color of some lights is stupidly simple because the needed functionality is already in the protocol.

Remember, modern digital electronics still uses really tiny processors sometimes with less than 32KB flash memory (and way less than that in RAM) only they're microcontrollers rather than microprocessors now, hence the protocols are designed so that they can be handled by processing hardware with little memory (after all, many USB Hosts aren't PCs but instead are things like USB HUDs which have microcontrollers not microprocessors)

I have no doubt in my mind whatsoever that almost the entirety of that 1GB is bloatware.

Or you can use qbittorrent-nox which is a server-only package of qbittorrent and just interact with it via its the web interface from your favorite browser.

Mind you, I only know this by chance because I explicitly want to run qbittorrent as a service on an always on machine which is not supposed to be used with keyboard and mouse.

Well, just think "How would I do this cheaply and get away with it" for a good enough "Engineering" approach for this case.

The really expert "Engineering" stuff related to things like maintenability, reliability, robustness and so on (which I myself am not qualified to talk about, as even though I have an EE degree, that's not actually the domain of Engineering I ended up working in so I haven't accumulated the professional experience that teaches one to take such higher level considerations into one's designs), isn't, IMHO, really necessary to understand to explain why those designing circuits commercially would chose the commonly available and cheaper components if they can.

I think the profound contrast between the reaction from the British "Authorities" to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and to the Israeli Genocide in Gaza, disproves the idea that it's all about money, especially given that there was a lot more money being made from Russia than can be made from Israel.

I mean, a musician is right now being investigated by the British Police for shouting his desire for death to the invader, genocidal army that's purposefully mass murdering children - that of Israel - whilst nobody in Britain was ever investigated by police for wanting the death of members of the invading Russian army in Ukraine, even though the latter is barelly targetting civilians and never explicitly children (unlike the former).

Racism, extreme and profound Racism even, is the most reasonable explanation for such a massive disconnect in their reaction to those two different aggressors in proportion to the crimes they're committing, more so given that a money reason would yield an unbalanced reaction in the very opposite direction.

Exactly.

The problem is those countries were the 19th century colonialist mindset isn "something we fortunately left behind" but instead is alive and well.

They'll formally apologize, as talk is cheap, and then do nothing further.

And no, I'm not at all kidding or exaggerating: this is THE most common strategy in British Political and Social Elite circles for getting rid of such "problems" when denying it doesn't work.

Deny it, deny it was a problem, deny it was systemic, apologize and claim it was too long ago and it's pointless to do anything about it now, is a well travelled multi-step strategy in British politics (THE main strategy, even) to avoid actual consequences for their actions or lack of action.

Certainly the posh ones will tell you they value your input as you scream from the pain due the knife they plunged into your back.

And the elites over there still think Genocide is absolutely fine as long as its Whites doing it to non-Whites, hence their support for Israel and its Genocide.

Britain is maybe the best example there is of an European country which culturally didn't evolve much from 19th century thinking, at various levels (their political system, too, is an earlier, partial form of Democracy easily subverted).

Plenty of people over there do have a XXI century mindset, but those aren't the ones with actual Power.

Kamikaze Trumpism!