Hopfgeist

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[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 22 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Why do people keep calling these "Kamikaze"? The point of the Kamikaze was that there was a human pilot inside, who was going on a suicide mission. These are just inanimate things. Drones, cruise missiles, whatever, NOT kamikaze.

Or else I will start calling all bombs, artillery shells, all munitions that destroy themselves at the target, "kamikaze":

"Germany has agreed to send more kamikaze ammunition for the Gepard anti-aircraft systems, along with a number of IRIS-T kamikaze anti-aircraft missiles, and 50 Taurus kamikaze cruise missiles." "The US have announced that they would deliver 15,000 new kamikaze artillery shells to Ukraine."

See how silly that is? /rant

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

~~Mig~~Su-24 bombers

There's no such thing as a MiG-24. (MiG has only ever used odd-numbered model designations, though I don't know why. But it's one of the reasons why it was a safe bet for Top Gun to use "MiG-28", being sure not to refer to any real aircraft, past, present or (probably) future.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Although I'm a bit late, it is worth mentioning, that the Tu-22M3 is not just a variant of the Tu-22. The Tu-22 was a completely different aircraft, and the Tu-22M retained the name only for political reasons. The Tu-22M3, though, is actually a development of the Tu-22M, most notably with different air intakes.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

What's German about it? It isn't even a German Shepherd.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Probably "Interesting", but it wasn't very hard. Probably within limits for the airframe, although the right nacelle came too close to the ground for comfort. But this kind of inane commentary is why I stopped watching BigJetTV. I much prefer Simon Lowe, who is also a better videographer, with his first published videos predating youtube.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

These models (1A5) were already old, and only used by heavy reconnaissance units when I was in the German army 32 years ago. The main tank brigades already had Leopard 2 back then. The main point of the Leopard 2 for Ukraine is that it has a longer range gun than the T-72 and whatever else Russia has, so that it can attack from a larger distance with relative safety. As far as I understand this is not the case for the Leopard 1. Probably better than nothing, though, and hopefully they'll still have better targeting electronics and night vision than their counterparts. Also, the Leopard 2 has more or less a standard NATO smoothbore gun, made by Rheinmetall, the same as the Abrams, and ammunition should be plentiful. That may be not be the case for the Leopard 1, which has a very different gun.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

I use the names of chemical elements, but with two twists: I assign them in the order in which they appear in the song "The Elements" by Tom Lehrer, and I use the German names. So I have (or had), among others, Wasserstoff, Sauerstoff, Stickstoff, etc ...

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

Same here. It just says "nginx has been successfully installed" or something like that. It serves the appropriate directories or redirects to the respective virtual machines for other (sub) domains.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What are the advantages of raid10 over zfs raidz2? It requires more disk space per usable space as soon as you have more than 4 disks, it doesn't have zfs's automatic checksum-based error correction, and is less resilient, in general, against multiple disk failures. In the worst case, two lost disks can mean the loss of the whole pack, whereas raidz2 can tolerate the loss of any 2 disks. Plus, with raid you still need an additional volume manager and filesystem.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

ZFS raidz1 or raidz2 on NetBSD for mass storage on rotating disks, journaled FFS on RAID1 on SSD for system disks, as NetBSD cannot really boot from zfs (yet).

ZFS because it has superior safeguards against corruption, and flexible partitioning; FFS because it is what works.

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

The manual says it works on "any phone or tablet", running Android 7 or higher. Mine is a OnePlus 6T running LineageOS 20 (Android 13). On my much slower and less well-equipped Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite LTE (3 GB RAM) it installs just fine. Would it really object to being installed just because the phone has an unlocked bootloader? It isn't rooted, and even banking apps work fine.

Strange. Maybe I'll file a bug report. It looks like something I might spend $10 on if it works fine.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The Playstore says Infinite Painter won't work on my device. What are the requirements? I have 6GB RAM and Android 13. What more could it want? Or is it generally only for tablets?

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