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Judging from the facial sores in the mug shot, I'm guessing that the gentleman in question has a history of meth use.

I'm not familiar with the software situation there, but on the hardware side, if you don't mind permanently disabling it, you can probably just open it up, find the LED, and snip the lead that runs to it. Or, if you don't mind soldering, swapping in LEDs is possible. I once swapped an infrared LED in on a trackball that used a translucent ball and a red LED when I used the thing in a dark room.

Could be. Liz Truss said something similar, and she's also very much on the "loose" side of things

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/liz-truss-margaret-thatcher-similarities-b2159085.html

When Liz Truss was asked at the very first Conservative leadership hustings in Leeds which of the party’s past prime ministers she most admired, she had a very definite answer: Margaret Thatcher.

As Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies pointed out just last week, her plans to increase the national debt in order to lower taxes “could not be further from Thatcher who...took the very unpopular decision to raise taxes in 1981 to manage deficit and inflation”.

Rather, the economics expert said, such a policy had “clear echoes of Ted Heath in 1973”.

Conservative MP Robert Jenrick expressed a similar concern. “It is antithesis of Thatcherism,” he said, “to be going around making unfunded tax pledges merely to win a leadership contest.”

I haven't been using instant messaging programs much for some years, but checking https://old.reddit.com/r/xmpp/ I see:

https://www.glukhov.org/post/2025/09/xmpp-jabber-userbase-and-popularity/

This has an estimate of 13–20 million users globally for 2023, but warns that because many servers don't publish information about their userbase, there's necessarily uncertainty. According to it, Germany is the country with the largest userbase, followed by Russia, followed by the US.

kagis

"Uncle Bob's" bills that it's grown in Canada.

https://www.ontariopoppingcorn.com/

Organisers are reportedly blaming the mistake on a “printing error” and have since removed the chocolate from the bags

Wait a minute. So the organizers dick it up and get rewarded with a bunch of chocolate? This doesn't seem like proper incentivization.

EDIT: Also, based on recent polling, isn't Reform the largest opponent, not Labour?

An estimated 1.4 million adults in Britain have a gambling problem

Put more optimistically, that's 67.8 million Britons who don't have a gambling problem.

Takaichi, who says her hero is Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first female prime minister, offers a starker vision for change than Koizumi and is potentially more disruptive.

An advocate of late premier Shinzo Abe's "Abenomics" strategy to boost the economy with aggressive spending and easy monetary policy, she has previously criticised the Bank of Japan's interest rate increases.

I mean, I guess there's nothing necessarily wrong with both having Thatcher as your hero and adopting said policy, but Thatcher was a deficit hawk and advocated for tight fiscal policy, which is kind of the opposite of this.

jabber.org is a major server.

https://jabberworld.info/servers/

https://www.joe.co.uk/news/brits-in-disbelief-as-new-refillable-drinks-ban-implemented-across-uk-508201

An original consultation took place during 2018 as part of the previous government’s Child Obesity action, and legislation was finally passed in Parliament in December 2021.

The rules only came into force on Wednesday (1 October 2025).

The legislation was actually passed under the Johnson government:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Johnson_ministry

I suppose that Labour could have passed a law canceling implementation, though.

If you put sugar in granulated or powdered solid form into soda, it'll create a lot of convection points and the soda will rapidly foam up and lose a lot of its carbon dioxide.

You could use a sweet syrup instead.

From that thread:

https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1nzbt8b/reddit_has_banned_rlemmy/ni26gw0/

The sub creator got suspended. Checked the Wayback Machine on their profile reveals they are very vocal about certain political issues in Lebanon (in April 2025, last archive). There is a very high chance of something related to that.

Possibly not related to the fact that /r/Lemmy dealt with Lemmy.

EDIT: Someone in that thread also mentioned that /r/lemmy2 was created in response, so it'll be interesting to see what happens there. If it stays up, probably unrelated to the subreddit being about Lemmy.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Lemmy2/