Re: UTM
I'm running ARM Debian 12 and Intel x64 Ubuntu for MSSQL Server on a 2020 MacBook Pro without issue. Yes the Ubuntu VM is slower than the Debian VM, but not to the point of being unusable.
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Snaps!
I understand the need for snaps, especially the software is provided by an independent software publisher, that needs independence from the host OS. When the software packages are published by the same people as the OS, then I see this as a problem that should be addressed.
As a long-time Ubuntu user and was key in deploying the OS at work, I evaluated 24.04 and found Ubuntu needing snaps. At home my desktop moved to Linux Mint and my virtual machines moved to Debian, a policy I would later consider for work.
We need to migrate Mum from Skype and have her trained in the new software. Wonderful! I’m 6,000 miles from her, and my sister is 12,000 miles from her.
My Mum technologically OK for someone who has been using the same software for 20 years, but in her late 80s doesn’t need this kind of negative experience.
Will no one think of wrinklies?
> They should learn a lesson in humility from King Canute
No need to look at history, just across the border to Hong Kong where our illustrious leaders are battling to prevent the Omicron version of Covid 19 from taking a hold. From where I sit and have been sitting since Jan 3rd, since we're not allowed to visit restaurants after 6pm or bars, gyms, theatres... it doesn't seem to be working.
Maybe a taste in China will change things, though I doubt it.
Only one car I've owned ever had a name, a 1991, Midnight Blue, Ford Scorpio Estate. It was named "The Hearse" by my work colleagues.
I wouldn't have used "Turbocharging", seems 1980s to me. "Enabling" might be better.
Also "achievement to achieve", doesn't read well either.
The code reviewer in me suggests...
"We seek to level up the NHS Digital Vision to synergise brand awareness and achieve a fusion of technology and people, enhancing our ability to achieve our aspirational missions and realise a global Britain as we build back better"
How, sending a "gun boat"?
The actual border between Lower Kowloon and the New Territories is Boundary Street. Short of building a wall (Think Berlin Wall) down it and cutting off over 50% of the people in HK, HM Government realized there was no way HK would work in that situation. There were enough problems with Chinese administered Kowloon City before it was demolished.
BTW, I live 250 metres south of Boundary Street.
"Attaching a tractor-fed Epson LX-80 dot matrix impact printer was the height of luxury (second only to plugging in a floppy disk drive)."
Me, me, me. You are my technology doppelganger, however, you missed a step. On BBC Micro, which it seems like you're alluding to, you needed a Disk Interface, preferable DFS 0.9 with an Intel 8271 floppy disk controller, then a disk drive could be attached.
Ahh just read your bio, "intern 2018". I suspect the venerable Beeb was long gone, I'll mumble to myself. Error excused.
The last Euro Star train from Waterloo to Paris was the 18:12. Hmm why is that significant, 1812 was the year Napolean was defeated by the Russians.
Thanks Wikipedia: