@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Thanks. I navigated around the VM issues, just thought I'd let you know cos I guess plenty will use your guide and try it out on KVM and fall at the first hurdle. It's interesting you've moved to KDE. I quite like having a choice of X and Wayland. Also stripping out snapd is smart. 000
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Hey Josip. Great guide, really useful. Couple of things: 1. Disk setup doesn't work if you are trying this out on a VM like qemu/kvm with default settings. The only disk device you see is /dev/vda 2. Should swap size = ram size? Thanks :-) 100
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Brexit. The Greatest Act of Self Harm in Modern British Historylinkedin.comBREXIT: THE GREATEST ACT OF SELF-HARM IN MODERN BRITISH HISTORYNINE YEARS AGO THIS WEEK, THE UK VOTED TO LEAVE THE EU - THE FALLOUT HAS BEEN EVEN WORSE THAN I EXPECTED IT WOULD BE.. 020
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Ouch. The dotted line is Brexit. The Tories + Brexit absolutely rocketed immigration, and mostly from non EU countries. However the UK will now pay the price by letting in Reform MP's who will unleash their traitorous efforts to turn this country into 1930's Germany. Disaster. 041
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Girls & women should be very concerned about the risks they have to face on a daily basis, especially risks of sexual attack from men. However it should be clear that the risk from trans women is minuscule when compare to men. I don't believe this is a misogynistic view, its counting the numbers. 030
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 10/04/2025The McDonald Island penguins are considering their next strategic move in the tariff wars, having already successfully forced Trump into a humiliating 90 day climb down... 050
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Anyone else notice the use of a Tesla Model 3 in the 3rd episode on the new season of The Handmaid's Tale driving in Gilead's New Bethlehem town. I wonder if Commander Musk approves. 010
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 09/04/2025It clearly states the level of acceptable defects in food that can be sold in the US. So example here with mushrooms is 20 or more maggots per 100g is not acceptable...but 19 is ok. Yum. 020
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Sorry, the defect list applies to plant based agri...you are likely eating maggots with your mushrooms if you eat US food. 000
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Sorry, this isn't meat defects, this is levels of contamination allowed in plant based agri. So I guess if you are a US vegetarian you are probably eating a bunch of erm meat based protein by accident 000
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 04/04/2025If you wanted to short the stock market on a massive scale to make a fortune for billionaires on top of their existing fortunes, then you would do exactly what Trump has done this week. Who pays? The poor and hard working. 051
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Thanks. Makes perfect sense then, albeit, who'd pick a swazicar in the current climate. April>> sales will fall off a cliff I would imagine. 010
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 04/04/2025It just needs a lovely mushroom, maggot, mite and rot sauce to go with it...mmmmm 010
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Congrats to Germany, France and China for reducing their support for financing Musk's nazification of the USA. However no idea what is going on in the UK for February. Maybe a bunch of Reform UK voters got their annual bonuses. 132
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 04/04/2025I think American mushrooms is my favourite entry in the US FDA food standards doc. Not only will you be able to count the number of maggots in a tin of mushrooms on 4 hands, you'll be able to measure their length and fish around in the mite infested and rotten goo of mushroom yuckiness: 142
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Time to embrace the prospect of imported US food including maggots, rat poo, and a nice layer or yummy mold.... bsky.app/profile/adam... 061
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 04/04/2025For those contemplating the importing of chlorinated chicken from the US, please check out the US FDA acceptable food defect list: Insect filth Insect larvae Insect eggs Rodent filth Mammalian excreta Rot Mold Maggots US food standards are rancid.bit.lyFood Defect Levels HandbookLevels of natural or unavoidable defects in foods that present no health hazards for humans. 1316659
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Shouldn't really call it Whisky either. Denigrates the proper stuff made in Scotland and Ireland. 000
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Unfortunately you may find that depreciation accelerating even faster now. I'll bet the 2nd hand Tesla market will be swamped with people wanting to divest their losses. Anyway drive safe, or let your car drive safe. 110
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 13/03/2025I feel sorry for all those well meaning Tesla owners who thought buying an EV was helping the planet, when in fact they were just financing the Nazification of America. 17516
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Any chance you could interview Starmer and ask him how he is tackling the annual £50 Billion black hole left by Brexit? It makes the other black hole look titchy by comparison.... bsky.app/profile/adam... 051
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 13/03/2025For anyone who can't understand why Brexit has been so comprehensively damaging to the UK. Here are the numbers: 033
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Brexit benefits. And still the Brexit charlatans will keep telling you the lies. So many years on and not one. Not one Brexit benefit either enumerated or delivered. Just lost growth, lost exports, and a reduced standing in the world. A disaster delivered by grifters.independent.co.ukBritain ‘won’t hesitate to respond’ to Trump steel tariffs, minister warnsJonathan Reynolds says UK ‘rapidly negotiating’ agreement with Washington in bid to avoid growing trade war 065
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Soaring rents and evictions fuel a 14% rise in homelessness across England, with over 354,000 people—including 161,500 children—affected, says Shelter. London sees one in 47 homeless, while national solutions demand urgent investment in affordable housing.theguardian.comShelter condemns ‘shocking’ 14% rise in homelessness across EnglandCharity says soaring private rents, rising evictions and lack of affordable social housing are to blame 040
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Trump only has 4 years, assuming he doesn't turn the US into a dictatorship (which given the Jan 6th stuff is entirely possible). But in those 4 years he and his cronies will asset strip everything. He's a convicted rapist and a crook. Think he won't burn the US for his own ends? Good luck. 000
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 10/12/2024You mean the same "leaders" who initiated Brexit, have also successfully implemented the most destructive act of self harm on our country? Erm no. 010
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 10/12/2024They have zero hope of economic growth unless we rejoin the EU 000
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Eight years ago, still not one single benefit, but a cost that has set the UK back by a generation. History will not be kind to the architects of Brexit who have betrayed our country and will always be judged as traitors. 616369
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024In fact that geo data is not the problem. My guess is they generate the country based on the IP address of the signee, who could be using a VPN in the UK. The real problem is that any disposable email can be used and its trivial to write a bot to automate 1000's of fake signees as per this example: 021
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Sorry for being a pendent, but Mary and Joseph were Jewish and Christmas was invented by the Romans in 336 AD. It might have to be "The Tishri Tory" 220
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024No wait. They may be onto something. I've always had a concern our numbering system is flawed. I suggest we use letter instead. It worked for the Romans. 000
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024I've made a formal request to the Rwanda ambassador to UK on Twatter: x.com/Adam_Smith_P...x.comx.com 011
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Just checking if the EU failed yet. Nope. 0124
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024I have a practical and cost effective solution. We try the last 5 Prime Ministers and then imprison them. We could even build them a special prison...in Rwanda.telegraph.co.ukEye-watering security bill for protecting eight ex-prime ministers ‘unsustainable’Tory turmoil in recent years has led to unprecedented number of surviving former heads of government 294
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024I'm convinced with CPTPP we can get the UK’s 57th largest trading partner up to at least 56th position. lol 010
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024What's the analysis here: UK electorate is around 50M, so only 6% of voters signed the petition. Of course not all 2.9M were UK residents, or genuine real people signing up. However it doessuggest that up to 6% of the UK population, are extremely susceptible to being conned by right wing liars. 020
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024I know. Going back to the original question, has anyone worked out any specific gains from CPTPP? I always thought tariff free whisky to Malaysia was an interesting one as they are 65% Muslim. 110
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024...however also extremely dangerous. See USA for details. 010
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024With Farage / Reform endlessly stoking up the immigration issue, how far along the 10 steps to genocide are we willing to allow these fascist shysters go? For a moment, just consider yourself in 1930's Germany, where one noisy fascist managed to win a minority in the Reichstag. 044
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024We just have to hope this is the majority view of decent people. He is correct, and the path to full out Nazism is paved with shills like Farage who say its not until its too late. 1122
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Agreed, though customs unions and single market with your closest geographical neighbours does. 140
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Please remind us of the Titanic UK incremental benefit of CPTPP membership.... 130
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Not an easy course to plot. Stand by hard left principles and never win a GE and allow hard right politics to wreck the country, or position himself centre right, win a GE and make a start to rebuild. Of course EU membership is a massive problem for him. UK won't grow unless we rejoin. 110
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Starmer is undoubtedly an order of magnitude more decent & competent than any Tory PM in the last 15 years However he must rue the day he wrote his 6 tests for a successful Brexit And still in 2024, not 1 single Brexit benefit has been either defined or delivered. It's been a catastrophic disaster 173
@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Unfortunately you don't have the correct buzzwords for this post: WEF BILL GATES CHEMTRAILS UFO / ALIENS ..there you go 010
Reposted by @Adam_Smith_PHD@Adam_Smith_PHD @adam-smith-phd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024It's that time of year when we remember when Iain Dale beat up an OAP and received a police caution. No doubt Mr Dale will block me for posting this, which is also a timely reminder that he also has no backbone. Also: NO NUKES !!!!youtu.beIain Dale Receives Police Caution After Protester ScuffleYouTube video by Sky News 054