Hopfgeist

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[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

It is up to Ukraine, but I think a few points remain extremely important:

  • Any gain that Russia can retain from its aggression vindicates their invasion. And they will do it again. To the Russian government, personnel losses are irrelvant.
  • Any peace that does not include Ukraine in a strong alliance (read: full NATO membership) will allow Russia to rebuild military strength and attack again to finish what they started
  • Any deal that Russia signs is not worth the paper, as we have seen with the wanton violation of the Budapest Memorandum, in which Russia agrees to respect the borders of Ukraine as defined in the Helsinki Accords, and not to use force or threat of force against any signatory state (which included Ukraine).
  • From which follows: only a strong Ukraine, backed by credible assurances of defense by all of NATO will keep Russia from attacking again. Not a written deal alone.
[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you want a proper server, it seems that Asrock Rack is the only manufacturer of AM4-socket-based server mainboards. Unlike desktop/gamer boards, these are designed for parallel airflow, typically from front to back in a 19" rack. These also come with IPMI remote maintenance, so can be operated headless in a remote location.

I have considered one of these for a while, such as the X570D4U, which also supports up to 128 GB of ECC RAM. Depending on what you want, this may be overkill, though.

(This was my favourite, because it has two M.2 slots, but there are others with only a single slot, since you said you only need one.)

Unlike gamer or other boards, these have no fancy black vanity covers and often won't allow overclocking, but are typically very well designed and rock solid for unattended 24/7 operation.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like how the members are all captioned as "A Princely Warrior".

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Thanks. The point in my eyes is, if you massacre, (or slaughter) people that implies that they were innocent, which would make the act evil. And I'd hate for the legitimate attacks on the aggressor to be seen as evil. Because they are not. Just my opinion.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Thanks. I thought I heard Nasdarovye, which I knew in the context of "Cheers!" when drinking, I guess that's the "good health!" part.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there a transcript/translation available?

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

That's a very narrow-minded view. I thought the same thing when the iPad was new. But I changed my mind.

Sitting on the sofa and watching movies or reading news is a good application, a laptop is too clunky for that, and a phone screen is too small.

Also use as an air-navigation device (not only) light aircraft, and replacement for paper charts in airline operations. There are many legitimate uses where tablets are exactly what you want. If it's not for you, fine.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Please don't call it massacre. That word is only used for the indiscriminate mass-killing of uninvolved civilians. These are combatants attacking a free country, they had it coming. So while bloody, it somehow puts it on a level with the atrocities committed by Hamas four weeks ago, and it definitely is not the same. Put another way, a massacre is never justified; attacking anyone who invaded your country, is.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Nice, one less to worry about. The Su-25 is not a fighter, though, but a ground attack aircraft, similar in role to the US A-10. Even more important to retire those.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Russian economy is beginning to ~~bugle~~ buckle under the pressure.

Otherwise that would be interesting to hear:

bugle, verb: 1. to sound a bugle; 2. to utter the characteristic rutting call of the bull elk

Joking aside, the Russian economy is effectively now a pure war economy. About 40% of government spending in 2023 was military. Not much else you can do, then. Economic growth, infrastructure, social security, whatever else the government spends money, is subordinate to the war efforts.

It is clear that that is what Ukraine currently has to do unless it wants to stop existing (with military spending having reached 44% of GPD, although most of it hasn't been paid for by Ukraine), but for Russia it is just absolutely bonkers.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Augmented GPS can offer much better resolution, reliably on the order of a few Decimetres, if you have a reference receiver/transmitter with precisely known location nearby. GPS has very clever tricks up its sleeve if you know how to use them (which I assume the AFU do).

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Bullets are deflected along surprisingly sharp bends in a barrel (or any other pipe), so it would be sufficient to hit the tank gun muzzle roughly from the front, and it would probably hit a loaded projectile.

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