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A strong worded letter of condemnation.
And I don’t have a solution to what the best actions in this war are.
Here's the answer: For NATO to establish immediate and total superiority in Ukrainian air space and not wait until Ukrainians are trained, establish a DMZ on Russian and Belarusian territory around Ukraine.
I think that neither side should be ‘allowed’ to attack another country
And neither is. Russia broke several international laws, including the Budapest Memorandum which it signed on its own free will. Ukraine is not attacking, it's defending. Ukraine did not target anything that isn't directly connected to Russia's war effort. Military installations, military equipment factories, supply hubs, enlistment offices, and such are legitimate targets to defend itself. It's like kicking the knife out of the hands of a robber.
And I would prefer a more de-escalating attitude from the green party member Baerbock.
Which kind of deescalation? The Georgia 2008 kind? The Crimea 2014 kind? The Hitler Appeasement kind?
Putin is not my hero.
"Attacking russians (troops and inadvertently civilians) on russian soil… Why is that still considered defense?" You literally asked why attacking Russian troops is considered defense.
Attacking russians (troops and inadvertently civilians) on russian soil… Why is that still considered defense?
As long as attacks on Ukraine are launched from Russian soil, it's legitimate target. Don't like it? Ask your hero Putin to leave Ukraine alone, pay reparations, and accept a DMZ around Ukraine on Russian territory.
Lenovo makes great computers.
Used to. No longer.
No big software project can ever be fully free of bugs. Apparently it's not all jank all the time.
The plus side of this is that there's not the Android situation where you just won't get OS updates at some point. The downside is that the 1GHz Intel CPU is trash.
And this is why I choose Debian…
You mean the distribution where Canonical has in the past outright bought votes to align Debian closer to Ubuntu? If you think I'm making shit up, look up the fiasco that led to the insanely protracted (roughly a year) very public debate about making Upstart the default init system. Here's a tldr from a German IT website:
Besides SysV Init, which is currently used by Debian, there is Systemd, which is mainly developed by Red Hat, Canonical's own Upstart, and OpenRC, which is developed by Gentoo. Only Systemd and Upstart are believed to have a chance. It is unlikely that SysV Init will remain, OpenRC cannot keep up with Upstart or Systemd in terms of technology and innovation. More and more Linux distributions are turning to Systemd, while Upstart is currently used exclusively by Canonical, after Red Hat used it for RHEL 6 and Fedora 9, but is relying on Systemd for RHEL 7.
The two committee members who have already made their opinions known are former Canonical employee Ian Jackson and Russ Allbery. While Jackson favors Upstart, Allbery is clearly in favor of Systemd. Two other members, Colin Watson and Steve Langasek, both employed by Canonical, will probably only support Upstart. The other members are Don Armstrong, Andreas Barth and Keith Packard, newly elected to the committee, as well as chairman Bdale Garbee.
Original: https://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/20622/debatte-um-das-init-system-bei-debian-8-h%C3%A4lt-an.html Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version).
It's now less public but Canonical still has its tentacles in Debian with Snap and such.
I would be highly surprised if this was more time/cost effective than just buying a bunch of land and planting trees.
Trees by themselves are actually surprisingly less effective than some alternatives. The main problem is that when dead wood decays, the carbon is released again. That's why forests need to be paired with swamps where less dead wood decays but with swamps come mosquitos which in turn spread illnesses, unless humans also control the mosquito population via sterile insect technique or so. Sadly we cannot just plant a few trees and then pat ourselves on the back and declare mission accomplished.
That said, both ecological restoration with forests and swamps as well as researching technology are IMO worthwhile paths and both should be pursued.
And why would Microsoft fix those when their paying customers even work for free?