For telecom, at least, governments have legislated against Huawei equipment, Nokia is going strong from a European side

Depends on the tax - I pay my vehicle tax through the gov.uk website!

With CC or bank transfer?

By credit card, it's quite useful for the reward points - I'm fairly sure it was MC and Visa only (no AMEX) last time I did it, though that may change with this new payment provider

Paying UK corporation tax can be done with a personal credit card.

Isn’t it illegal to pay a corporate entities tax with a personal card?

If it isnt it would be one hell if a headache with reimbursement and the accounting and reporting around it.

I imagine it is a bit of a headache, but it is an available option you can choose.

Has to be a personal debit (not credit) card - https://www.gov.uk/pay-corporation-tax/debit-or-credit-card

A lot of the app compatibility issues on current machines are down to Qualcomm's poor drivers - the actual core bits are mostly okay.

That's what makes domains true FQDNs :)

I read an interesting blog article on this a while back: https://lacot.org/blog/2024/10/29/the-trailing-dot-in-domain...

This is an interesting rabbit hole I wasn't prepared to jump in. Thanks for sharing the article, the world does work in strange coincidences indeed.

Have given a glance through it but I am also bookmarking to read it later once I get more free. Thanks for sharing it!

From the article:

> Wait, what? I can put a dot at the end of my domain names?

This was exactly how I felt at that moment :) The article has started pretty nicely.

I agree, I quite liked Ostriv (I tend to play a fair few city builders) - definitely felt a lot more 'in-depth' on certain parts than, say, Foundation (which has more systems, but less detail)

The Defunctland video on the history of the Fast Pass is also definitely worth a watch!

The part where he runs a massive simulation is very much up the typical HN-user's street

Amazon doing dodgy things with PC parts is why I will no longer purchase them from there - I'll happily take the extra £10-20 hit to buy it from another "proper" retailer (ie, Scan or Overclockers here in the UK), knowing that issues can be resolved more easily

I've used basically every Windows on Arm machine - I actually quite like my X Elite ThinkPad T14s Gen6, compared the the X13s - feels like they got everything right, that the X13s got wrong

The very first they got wrong is how hard it is to buy Dell XPS with Linux on most European countries.

Naturally nowhere to be found on PC stores, and online I never found it on sale in the Dell store.

Why would you want to do that anyway?

Because that is how normies buy computers, duh?

Go into store, get to talk with a "genie", whatever upsells to meet their KPIs, and leave with another computer that counts to the world market share in desktop units.

Which for all practical purposes means Windows, macOS, Chromebooks, iPad Pro or Android tablets with keyboard for Dex, HyperOS, HarmonyOS NEXT , and zero GNU/Linux devices.

Why would normies want to buy a Linux laptop?

Year of Desktop Linux beyond 3% after 30 years.

I've also had no issues with IPv6 on my Mikrotik router (RB5009) - I did have to set the MTU to 1280 because of some poor IPv6 implementations elsewhere for a stable connection, though.

There was a talk on this at Blendercon last year!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVn8wQ3tKxA