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  • Never heard of Ben the tech guy, but that’s an unofficial repo.

    The correct installation method is to make from source, as directed on the official forum. Should take about 2 minutes if you’re not familiar with building from source.

    MakeMKV is not FOSS and never claimed to be.

  • You’re unfortunately very mistaken there. That fundamental was shattered in 1993 when social care was separated from the NHS (free at point of use) and instead given to local government (means tested pricing at point of use). Ever in search of savings for their limited budgets, local governments promptly privatised and outsourced their services. We went from 65% of care home spaces being publicly funded at the end of the 1970s to 6% a decade ago. At-home care went from being 95% publicly funded in 1993 to 11% in 2012.

    This sector of healthcare is beyond breaking point, with over 100,000 unfilled staff vacancies in care homes alone. This creates a backlog as NHS hospitals can’t discharge patients who need residential care that doesn’t exist.

    If you’re expecting a free-at-point-of-use care home later in life, think again. That is gone. Unless you have a large accumulation of savings to burn through things don’t look rosy.

  • The NHS has already largely been privatised. GPs were always private contractors but now GP groups have been increasingly bought by US companies, with the largest GP group in England, The Practice (half a million patients), being completely US owned

    NHS Logistics was privatised 2006-2019 (part of DHL, later Unipart) before becoming a government owned company.

    NHS internal operation capacity has essentially frozen since 2014, with the increase coming from the private sector. Over a third of “NHS” hip and knee operations, 60% of cataract operations, and a fifth of operations overall are contracted out to private companies.

    In terms of “internal” structure the service has been broken up into more than 500 legally distinct “Public Benefit Corporations” who can set up commercial subsidiaries and bid for provision contracts between themselves, as well as entering into commercial partnership with foreign companies such as the Mayo Clinic’s involvement in Oxford’s NHS provider.

    Social care has been almost totally privatised at this point.

    The current health secretary, Wes Streeting, is in favour of increased private involvement in the NHS so expect the trend to continue.

  • OK, but F1 isn’t like that. Toto was Bottas’ agent both at Mercedes and Sauber, and Bottas was happy with his services. There have been many similar examples. Hell, people who cheated at teams ended up poacher-turned-gamekeeper.

    The thing is that it’s largely self-policing. The teams aren’t shy about causing a riot if they feel wronged (or if they merely think they can gain a small advantage from the fuss). If the teams are willing to accept Susie, then she’ll be fine. And the indications are that the paddock holds her in very high regard.

  • Not meaningfully. There’s a revolving door between the FIA, FOM and the teams anyway, and FIA President isn’t supposed to get involved much in F1 either.

    Wolff and her husband are currently pursuing legal action in France against the FIA for a previous conflict of interest investigation in 2023, which was quickly dropped after every team principal except Horner signed a letter of support for her, and it was criticised as a malicious act taken by MBS who was in a dispute with Toto Wolff.

  • British Steel got itself into a mess. It decided not to invest in the equipment needed to make high-quality steel, so we get that from the Dutch. That leaves mid-grade steel but the Chinese happily crank that out by the shipload at a lower price.

    So you buy British if you don’t need quality, and you aren’t buying in quantity. And they wonder why they’re going under.