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I can't find ROMs for any Infinix phone on the Lineage OS website.

The research was paid for by someone. It is not unheard of for a company to offer a grant under the condition that they get the results, say, six months before the rest of the world.

But I don't see why VLC shouldn't be able to run as root, if the user so desires.

For the reasons you described, I won't run VLC as root, and I don't think 99% of users would need to. But if someone wanted to do it, the software shouldn't stop them from doing it (beyond giving a warning and asking them to confirm).

They compete for oil buyers. And Russia is close to Iran. Pretty sure Saudi is acting out of self-interest here.

Any distro that can run Chromium / Chrome. And everything other than Teams will work even on Firefox.

any religious person could simply explain evolution away as the mechanism by which a god or gods created humanity

Many did, and this position is called Deism. In most versions, god(s) started the universe with initial conditions that would lead to the formation of intelligent life, and then withdrew.

1796. Anyway, the cowpox vaccine was an improvement on smallpox variolation, which was known to the Chinese at least by 1549.

What is the reason we don't run as root?

We are human and make mistakes. Not running as root means the computer will ask us to confirm when we are about to do something major (like a software update, or formatting a partition). This reduces the chance of making big mistakes. (But I don't see why VLC shouldn't be able to run as root, if the user so desires.)

Bold of you to assume voters care about consistency or policies. For many Tory upporters in the Home Counties, southeast, southwest and east London, voting Labour would be a bridge too far. But the Lib Dems might be an acceptable alternative. There's a reason the main left of centre party in these regions is the Lib Dems, and not Labour.

The Liberal Democrats are talking a lot about the blue wall.

These are traditional Conservative seats where they hope Tory voters have had enough of the present government, can’t bring themselves to vote Labour - and see the Lib Dems as an acceptable alternative.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c888523y90mo

That's a great wish list, but I'm not sure how many of those will happen. Increased NHS funding is sadly unlikely given your economy and xenophobia against immigrants. I'm hoping you get increased support for green energy, free school meals and rail nationalisation, and at least a modest raise in the minimum wage. Cheap, clean energy, educated and healthy children, and an affordable and reliable transport system can do so much for the economy.

as that's where they would go if LibDems disappeared.

Many of them, yes. But there's also a significant share who'll vote Lib Dem or Tory, but not Labour.

as that's where they would go if LibDems disappeared.

Many of them, yes. But there's also a significant share who'll vote Lib Dem or Tory, but not Labour.

It's a stupid system, but I don't expect the party that got 412 seats on a 34% voteshare to reform it.

Labour lost four seats to independents running against its inaction on Gaza.

To the left of the current Labour leadership, yes.

Among smaller parties, the Liberal Democrats have gained over 60 seats, and Reform, the Greens and Plaid Cymru have also gained seats. Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, now contesting as an independent, retained Islington North. Labour lost another three seats to independents who ran against its inaction on Palestine. The SNP and DUP suffered big losses, while Sinn Fein's fortunes seem to have remained unchanged.

Doesn't that already exist in parts of the US? I know the UK and Germany have it.

If I remember correctly, cricket fields don't have a fixed size. Also football is popular enough that people will understand what 'x football fields' is. But mostly we use square kilometres, hectares and so on.

The new law does grant draft immunity — for police officers, prosecutors, judges, lawmakers and senior government officials

The usual suspects. Angry old men sending naive young (wo)men to die.