I think the Gepard is probably the most cost-effective way of shooting down Shaheds. These fly low and slow, exactly what the Gepard was designed for. I didn't know Jordan had so many of them, but this is good news and will help protect Ukrainian infrastructure during winter, together with additional Patriot and IRIS-T from Germany. I hope they can also secure enough ammunition.
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I'm not touching that post again. But a small rant about typesetting in lemmy: It seems there is no way whatsoever to put angle brackets in a "code" section. In an overzealous attempt to prevent HTML injection, everything in angle brackets is just removed when posting (although it remains there in preview). In normal text, you can use "<", but not inside "code" segments, where it will be retained verbatim.
Very unlikely. The West has enough sources in the Kremlin. We would know when he died. Things like this cannot be kept secret.
If you're as paranoid as me about data integrity, SAS drives on a host adapter card in "Initiator Target" (IT) mode with write-cache on the disks disabled is the safest. It will degrade performance when writing many small files concurrently, but not as badly as with SATA drives (that's for spinning disks, of course, not SSD). With a good error-correcting redundant system such as ZFS you can probably get away with enabled write cache in most cases. Until you can't.
RAID is generally a good thing but don’t get complacent, follow the 3-2-1 method
To expand on that: Redundant drive setup and backups serve completely different purposes. The only overlap is in case of a single disk failure, where RAID (or similar) may save the data.
Redundancy is all about reducing downtime in case of single hardware failures. Backups not only protect you from data loss in case of multiple simultaneous failures, but also from accidental deletion. Failures that require restoration of data almost always involve downtime. In short: You always need backups (unless it's strictly a local cache, and easily recreatable), but if you want high availability, redundancy may help.
3-2-1-rule for backups, in case you're unfamiliar: 3 copies of important data, on 2 different media, with 1 off-site.
I had no idea that the North-Koreanification of Russia was already that far advanced. Propaganda and music so hilariously over the top that nobody could possibly believe any of it, and yet everyone must pretend to.
At first I thought "Yes". Everyone helps defending the country. But thinking about I have to agree with you 100%. Children must be shielded from war and given a normal childhood as far as possible. Don't lie to them when they ask why they have to run for shelter, or where their father is, but don't involve them in hating and killing other people, no matter how justified it may be.
"Speed limit enforced by aircraft."
That assumes the people "broaching the topic of negotiations" are the same that promised support for however long it takes. Since the negotiation-supporters have chosen to remain anonymous, this is not an assertion we can make. But we know some likely names among US Republicans, parroting Russian propaganda.
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.
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.
Yes, so not for this winter. Sh*t indeed. They really need them.