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Would 2nd this suggestion. It is also often possible to swap to using the arch repos after you've got the install setup and you are happy with it on these distros.

I use DDG but caveat emptor it's using Bing as a backend. I find it is very good at certain things google censors like finding streams of obscure films though.

Honestly sonically this one sounds very modern. Q-Tip production on this sounds like what Hitboy has been doing for the recent Nas albums. The older albums will sound dated.

Mr. Smith (1995) probably has the most recognisable hits on it in terms of diving into one of the earlier albums.

I still enjoy them on linux.

The UK has always had an outsized influence on popular culture worldwide. For example our musicians are overrepresented in terms of music charts in many other countries. There was a good Economist article about this a few years ago where they interviewed a die-hard Gorillaz fan who lived in rural Russia.

However, that 90s 'cool Britania' self confidence we had is definitely missing these days. We've retained a sense of British twee or fascination with the mundane though which I suspect is driving this modern interest. I don't think it's a coincidence that youtube/instagram shorts are preoccupied with the mundane - and we have heaps of that to offer up.

His back catalogue is great. He constantly reinvented his sound for new eras and innovated throughout his career.

Not really. I tell them it's like a Black Mirror episode and they give me a sympathetic grimace. Then we talk about something else.

She obviously left in the believe that her child couldn't be sentenced with her in absentia

Bright lights make your pupils shrink

I don't understand how this can happen through them losing £300 when the triple lock is set to increase by ~£700 this year.

Astonishing listening to the news coverage of that story where the anchors were reading some terminally online nonsense from the teleprompter about Discord "Thug Shakers"