How can I help another?

Maybe that’s where you’re going wrong? Have you considered a relationship where you both help yourselves and are not dependent on each other?

I don’t get it :-( What’s in the Fremen’s speech bubbles?

This type of licensing is going to ruin has been ruining technology going forward since the 80s.

FTFY

from Russia

We don’t want no stinkin’ Russian swans, they can swan off back where they came from!

the whole “free house, free TV, front of the queue” stuff

I don’t know what you’re referring to here.

Am I reading too deep into it

Not sure about reading too deep but it does sound like you’re overthinking.

just shove the syringe in and tape over and see what happens?

“You can either try and possibly fail, or not try and definitely fail.”

Don’t get what’s happening - so he’s being chased by people smugglers in France? Or was he just attacked on the streets in paris unrelated?

Who knows. Shit article.

Still mystified by the silence from the media on why these people are trying to get to the UK. Four people and only one motivation is discussed: for the person to be with their brother. Pathetic reportage.

You plug it in when you aren’t using it

I would never leave a device on charge permanently. That would use excess electricity.

So to be clear about what this article is about: someone bought an x86 machine from China and installed Linux on it. Is that right?

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devout Christian

this might be a good opportunity to engage

Ha ha! The only time to ever engage with a devout Christian is never.

I’d also appreciate any general advice on how to proceed.

Don’t proceed. Give up on the idea that you’re ever going to get what you want from this relationship. Write it off. For your mental health.

As your read the extraordinarily ignorant comments by representatives of the UK government, just remember that the same extraordinary ignorance underpins everything the government does.

OP never questioned whether the friendship would be a success.

Them trying to make a friendship work

OP never questioned whether they could make a friendship work.

any less dumb

Ah I see, so it’s not a moral thing, just an I-don’t-like-it thing.

This really depends.

What does?

Depends

What does?

peoples individual/anecdotal experience is not what should drive lawmaking

Says who? Certainly not the people who make laws.

Typical advice

OP didn’t ask for advice.