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I bought a pc made by chillblast after being recommended them and was happy. It was ages ago though and they apparently were bought by someone else a couple of years ago so who knows. They say they've got loads of awards but also I can't seem to open their website on my phone without it crashing. So...
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If you’re not stuck to Windows you can get a reasonably cheap M1 Mac Mini used these days. Like £350-400 sort of price.
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May 7, 2023 12:30
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/06/tory-vice-chair-lee-anderson-says-anti-monarchists-should-leave-ukquote:The Conservative party’s deputy chair, Lee Anderson, has said that anti-monarchist campaigners should emigrate rather than use their right to free speech to protest against the coronation of Charles III. I think that poem needs an update, it's missing "republicans" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_... Wikipedia posted:A longer version by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, a charity established by the British government, is as follows:[4] So far we have:
new laws so people can be arrested for practically no reason if you don't support the monarchy, you should leave the country also feed your family on 30p a day. lol 
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May 7, 2023 12:39
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I'm trying to emigrate, Brexit made it so much loving harder!!
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May 7, 2023 12:53
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Desiderata posted:Some of this compulsion seems to be utility sure, but more about ease and certainly of providing self-conviction. You know the liberal consensus has been getting very comfortable dismissing the rising far right out of hand as racist. This is great as it lets said liberals reject the existence of the rise being a direct consequence of the negative outcomes of neoliberal dominance, outsourcing of Industry, globalisation etc (to be clear here - I personally I'm fine with dismissing the far right because they are racist) Yeah, I think they believe it because they desperately want to believe it on some level, and they have whole peer support groups who will help reinforce the idea whenever it comes up. There are plenty of examples of this on the internet, terfs, incels etc, why would it not happen in real life? It happens on the internet because it's quite easy to find your way into a place where insane ideas will be reinforced, and it's only when those ideas collide with reality that there is any dissonance, but what if you were powerful enough and privilged enough that you never had to seriously engage with anyone who disagrees with you? That kind of social isolation is endemic to how class works in this country, people can exist in their own islands of thought that they are so accustomed to and can live so much of their lives inside that they simply don't have to seriously engage with ideas outside it, it is very easy to believe things that are not true when the truth does not actually impact you because you are insulated from it.
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Clarence posted:Where do I buy a ready-built desktop PC in the UK these days? How much do you care about computer noise? Chillblast do a silent range, but it is not cheap.
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May 7, 2023 13:06
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Overclockers used to be run by an absolute piece of poo poo but he died so they’re probably alright now. I was under the impression the big special boy’s big special day was on Monday because my office is completely closed (which they only do for Xmas Day and Easter Sunday, not just regular bank holidays) but apparently it was yesterday and I completely missed the whole thing. No idea why we’re closed then but that’s a little win for the frontline people who’d have to work it otherwise.
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May 7, 2023 13:21
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Overclockers are pretty good on price but they don't have the best reputation for customer service. So for individual components I'd consider them, a whole PC? Id go with scan instead. Desiderata posted:
Hmm not so sure, I'm imagine some do, but the Fox lawsuit showed at least over the pond they are very happy to parrot things they think are stupid to stay relevant and keep their audience. See no reason our right wouldn't do the same.
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May 7, 2023 13:28
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Nettle Soup posted:I'm trying to emigrate, Brexit made it so much loving harder!! have you tried a small boat?
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May 7, 2023 13:37
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https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1655172977120428034?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q 'won't do my job as a legislator, too lazy'.
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May 7, 2023 13:43
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You can create new laws that supersede the old ones and provide meaningful protections David. It's called legislation. I think some people get paid to do that.
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May 7, 2023 13:46
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History Comes Inside! posted:Overclockers used to be run by an absolute piece of poo poo but he died so they’re probably alright now. No, they're run by a pack of the same. I got banned from their politics forum for not being pro-Brexit, while racist cunts get away with murder. Buy from Scan instead, as far as I know they're not fash.
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May 7, 2023 14:01
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I bought a prebuilt Scan PC from Amazon, was the cheapest for the spec anywhere and it's good, but wow they really cut back on everything not directly advertised, like 2.4g wifi and no bluetooth lol
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May 7, 2023 14:03
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I think Scan might be the way to go. Thanks all.
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May 7, 2023 14:10
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Convex posted:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/06/tory-vice-chair-lee-anderson-says-anti-monarchists-should-leave-uk I already emigrated but I still want to abolish the monarchy. What now?
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May 7, 2023 14:45
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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1655172977120428034?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q As close to admitting that the ratchet effect is real and good without literally saying it - "it would waste so much time undoing legislation passed by the previous government - time we could spend building on that legacy because we don't really disagree with it". jfc.
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May 7, 2023 14:53
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May 7, 2023 14:57
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Need time to write things for the New York Times.
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May 7, 2023 15:07
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https://twitter.com/richfelgate/status/1655199742031167488 https://twitter.com/richfelgate/status/1655199745952849923
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May 7, 2023 15:16
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At the time I was at a Pizza Express with woke king.
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May 7, 2023 15:18
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During the great graphics card shortage a couple years ago rather than build my own I went with a prebuilt PC from Palicomp, worked out great, nothing broke on me.
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May 7, 2023 15:45
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Please do all you can to prevent a Labour government, christ almighty.
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May 7, 2023 15:47
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BalloonFish posted:As close to admitting that the ratchet effect is real and good without literally saying it - "it would waste so much time undoing legislation passed by the previous government - time we could spend building on that legacy because we don't really disagree with it". jfc. The New Labour years were always terrible for civil liberties - time to get back to that I guess.
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May 7, 2023 15:49
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Desiderata posted:The New Labour years were always terrible for civil liberties - time to get back to that I guess.
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To confirm, the original guy at Overclockers was a hardcore BNP supporter and so you were directly financing the BNP by buying from there. Not the case anymore tho and guilt by association is bollocks. That said, newegg and scan.co.uk are both good for ready-builts. e: oh duh and ebuyer
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May 7, 2023 16:10
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Convex posted:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/06/tory-vice-chair-lee-anderson-says-anti-monarchists-should-leave-uk "If you don't like it, leave  " is such a poo poo line of argument but it's really riling me up. We shouldn't have any legislative branch of government, by that argument. Don't like migrants coming here? There's the door.
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It's also not an epic own when half of Scotland can just say "we're trying, but you won't let us" in response.Tesseraction posted:To confirm, the original guy at Overclockers was a hardcore BNP supporter and so you were directly financing the BNP by buying from there. Obviously there is a pipeline, and plenty of Farages and such, but "I need the government to aggressively advance the interests of my ethnic group" is odd for a small business PC tech guy of that era.
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May 7, 2023 17:01
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Guavanaut posted:It's weird, before Brexit/Trump/Gamergate most PC tech guys tended to be libertarian/above it all types, not authoritarian nationalists. He was a bigoted prick all the way back to the early/mid 00s, he’d post all kinds of awful racist and homophobic poo poo openly on their public discussion forums.
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I always did wonder why their old logo looked a bit like something off of a 2000s BNP pamphlet (or a 2020s Labour pamphlet). It's more that racist tech sector small business guys back then were far more likely to be "the government needs to get out of the way and let the best succeed, if that means that certain groups end up at the bottom guess that just means that they're naturally worse" cunts rather than "we need an authoritarian government to protect the white race from my imaginary enemies" cunts. So like more 00s UKIP than 00s BNP.
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Guavanaut posted:I always did wonder why their old logo looked a bit like something off of a 2000s BNP pamphlet (or a 2020s Labour pamphlet). Yeah that was basically the way you can tell the BNP era from the modern era of ownership.
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May 7, 2023 17:26
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Some strange happenings in Omagh https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/07/man-forced-to-drive-car-with-suspicious-object-to-police-station-in-northern-ireland Man forced to drive car with suspicious object to police station in Northern Ireland Masked gang hijacked driver at gunpoint and made him drive with the device to Omagh police station I read the headline and thought it was about police cutbacks before the subheading bothered to mention the armed hijackers
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May 7, 2023 17:36
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May 7, 2023 17:47
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Bad Ham.
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MFW when the billionaire head of a hereditary crime family of inbred Germans built on slavery and oppression isn’t right wing enough for me
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May 7, 2023 17:57
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It's like comment or commentariat, except "Is this from the letters page of the Viz or the Express."
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May 7, 2023 18:00
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I didn't go this time but I went a few weeks ago, doesn't surprise me that the Met have an idea about how the protest will be best controlled that involves the fash being on one side of the road and everyone else being on the other, and aren't interested in letting something like "teachers don't want a bunch of fascists scaling the walls of a school at the weekend" complicate that.
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May 7, 2023 18:21
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I know Twitter is dying but bullying flatulent blue tick media Turds like Matthew Stadlen is still an honest pleasure
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Owen Jones is going to end up joining the Greens, isn't he https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1654749474814566401?t=l07qJVjugiKmoifHTjSwlA&s=19
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Bobby Deluxe posted:It's like comment or commentariat, except "Is this from the letters page of the Viz or the Express." Exactly my thoughts. Would hugely appreciate people posting the best of Viz letterbocks https://twitter.com/vizcomic/status/472078865993838592?s=20 Also Lee Anderson obviously a loving bell end, I don't like the king and I'm from here so why don't you loving emigrate you bell end.
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