Whilst some of this was clearly poor decision making (going postal was most obviously wrecked by utterly changing spike's character), the choice of books maybe part of it. Ideally stop adapting discworld, but if you must, death books or witches books only, I suspect. Tiffany books might work?

Demanding it on device is a glorious accidental admission of utter cluelessness.

I may investigate. Was much more successful with getting riscos working on it, but there's a lot less that can do, and it stares the additional CPU cores in bemusement.

I tried setting it up on the raspi 400 during lockdown for the girls to do dance classes on zoom on the telly, and it was just comically bad to do "setup" stuff. It felt like trying to use an artic as a family car - it's just not designed for that use case.

Sounds like improvement, tho?

Says so much about Linux that this a bold step even for someone with your breadth of 'puter knowledge...

Whenever I see a minister (or backbench Labour MP) give some weak response, I just want to scream the following at them:

YOU ARE THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DAY WITH AN ENTIRE COMMS APPARATUS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS - USE THE BULLY PULPIT TO SAY “RACISM BAD.“ ALL DAY, EVERYDAY, ON EVERY AVAILABLE OUTLET

Do you get "Nottingham knockers" round there?

Trigger warning : FIERCENESS

That's a shame. Wonder if sufficiently good stagecraft etc would work round that, or are they doomed to have turn the trickery up to 11 to keep the kids engaged?

(I'm fine with the kids knowing, but it that means the trick isn't fun anymore... it's tricky. As it were)

I don't get why he's idolised. His "digital makeup" comments and related attitude Aren't Great to put it mildly.

I'm sure, and plenty of other places.

It's not like that everywhere, thankfully - but it being so variable by area doesn't make it any better...