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  • Attacks on Ukraine Draft Officers Soar as War Fatigue Deepens

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  • If by "NATO ideals", you mean some idea of western imperialism, then no. If instead you mean defending myself and my allies from completely unwarranted attacks in direct violation of previous agreements from a nation that will obviously abuse them if allowed to, then yeah.

  • Attacks on Ukraine Draft Officers Soar as War Fatigue Deepens

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  • I won't fault anyone who refuses to fight and possibly die for nation state business. I think it's admirable that some of them are willing to defend their homeland from an encroaching tyrant, but I won't expect it of anyone. I think we should all have the right to pacifism, so long as we are willing to accept the consequences of living in a world that does not share that ideal.

  • Attacks on Ukraine Draft Officers Soar as War Fatigue Deepens

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  • Who said anything about mercenaries? This is all about drafted soldiers for the Ukrainian military. If Russia was trying to conquer my country and I wanted to get involved, no, I would not fight as a mercenary.

  • Attacks on Ukraine Draft Officers Soar as War Fatigue Deepens

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  • Am I "too woke" for thinking the upcoming Michael Jackson biopic is disgusting?

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  • That's the thing, though, we really don't know that he did. He did some stuff people think is pretty suspicious, but there are genuine credibility issues with the accusers. It's not impossible that there's truth to the allegations, but from what I've seen, it's more likely that greedy people took advantage of that suspicious behavior to milk him for money.

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    Is This the End of the Road for the Heritage Foundation?

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  • My understanding is that the victory was too decisive to really argue over. He can't really cry foul or cheating effectively since it was his damn government running them. He just... Doesn't really have a good way to fight it. Rather than looking like a petulant toddler *cough*Trump*cough*, he bowed out and accepted defeat.

  • Reuse old server for a youth center

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  • If you want to use it for fun, someone suggested a Luanti server, and you can also find a lot of really easy to set up game servers using a tool like LinuxGSM. Most games they support require very minimal configuration if any.

    If you want to use it for something educational, depending on the age range of the kids, you might be able to use it to teach computing skills. For example, you could set it up as a pubnix/tilde where kids can get shell access, basically a remote connection to the command line, and you or someone can set up some services for them. Pubnixes tend to provide things like chat over IRC, something like a forum maybe over something a lot like Usenet, a webserver where users can host their own webpage they had to design themselves, less commonly but good for the kids would be voice chat with something like Mumble, they often have an array of programming tools, collaborative tools like calendars or something akin to Google Docs... It could be a good place for technically inclined kids to learn about computers, servers, Linux, programming, basic web development, etc. All the services could be kept internal to keep strangers away from the kids, maybe remote access strictly through accounts only given in person to members. If you're interested in something like that, I might be able to help. Feel free to DM me or check out the Tildeverse to get an idea of what sort of things tildes and pubnixes offer their users.

  • Federal Bill Would Bring OS-Level Age Verification to the Entire U.S.

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  • Don't worry, with all these data centers going up, they'll have enough hardware power to track the rest of us, too, not just the women.

  • Microsoft reveals major price increase for all Surface PCs as RAM crisis continues

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  • I never really had any issues with mine. I did have it die after about two years when it just stopped charging and/or turning on, never was quite sure where the issue was. But I bought it refurbished and on a steep discount, so I felt I got my money's worth out of it at least and that that was just an inherent risk of cheap refurbished tech. My only real complaint was that it managed the battery really poorly when I tried to put Linux on it, but it ended up being useful to keep one Windows machine around for the occasional one off use, so even that worked out for me in the long run. As someone who'd prefer to run Linux on everything I can, I have to admit I had like zero problems with it until it died.

    But if I had to use one with Windows 11 on it, I'd rather learn to live on my smartphone.

  • Microsoft reveals major price increase for all Surface PCs as RAM crisis continues

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  • I used one in school a couple years ago, and I can't deny it was pretty great for it. I like to handwrite my notes, and any math-heavy assignments are way easier to just handwrite, so I used it so all my notes and homework and textbooks could be saved digitally and automatically get backed up to cloud storage. I still use it occasionally as a super light and portable laptop occasionally, but I use a desktop far more often these days.

  • Great job

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  • Yeah, WoW after the first couple expansions helped me realize that some of the difficulties and obstacles in MMOs are important because that's what pushes you into the social side of things, and if you're not interacting with the social side, you're just playing a really grindy RPG.

  • Great job

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  • Nah, the only legit EQ I ever played was a bit of 2 when that was still relatively new, and it seemed interesting, but my friends ended up pulling me in a different direction.

  • Great job

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  • Man, you got me thinking about trying Project Quarm again. I've only ever played a tiny bit on private servers, but it seemed fun, and I want to give it a better shot.

  • Remember, living wages is less expensive than this!

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  • They'll cover what it cost to make, not what they could have sold it for, so all the profit they expected is gone. And their operations may be massively disrupted in the area around the warehouse.

  • North America contains some of the longest continuous deciduous forest records on the planet.

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  • The decrees are basically glorified memos. They hold little to no legal weight in and of themselves, except that they direct the agencies that work under the president's control, so it's less legally binding document and more written order from your boss. The problem is that he writes ones directing them to do illegal shit, and they just do it because they know Trump and the rest of the Republicans spent decades packing the courts to protect them when this day came, and if they packed the courts, they're sure as hell not gonna ruin all that work by properly using their congressional powers.

  • North America contains some of the longest continuous deciduous forest records on the planet.

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  • He is de facto incredibly powerful, but he is de jure not. He's only capable of doing those things because the checks and balances failed through the coordinated efforts of hundreds of Republican congressmen. Every heinous act that goes unchecked bears the implicit seal of approval of the entire Republican party. He could do many of the things you claim he's powerless to do, too, but he doesn't want to, and all the mechanisms meant to force him to have failed.

  • North America contains some of the longest continuous deciduous forest records on the planet.

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  • To be fair, in many ways the president doesn't have the power. But Republicans in congress are complicit, so when he does incredibly illegal, batshit crazy stuff, none of the mechanisms to keep him in check function. Him being president is a big problem, but the real problem here is the complete abdication of responsibility by those meant to check him.

  • Denuvo has been broken, company promises countermeasures against new DRM bypasses — zero-day game releases become norm as security concerns mount over hypervisor-based bypass

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  • GOG is strictly anti-DRM, so you'll never get Denuvo-enable games there. You miiiiiight get them after Denuvo gets pulled out since that often happens after... 6 months? A year or two? But the sort of publisher that wants Denuvo included is probably the same kind to refuse a totally DRM-free release.

  • Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN

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  • I would think there'd be some very minor bleeds at a minimum. Like the fan churns the air, and that definitely turns a lot of its energy into heat, but someone of that energy is spent on actual movement, not simply heating air particles. But without more precise figures for that, "well over 90%", or whatever my exact wording was, is true and precise enough to make my point. I could have looked up a more precise figure, but it wouldn't have significantly impacted the very rough math that was only intended to approximate the truth well enough to illustrate the point.