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but there’s got to be at least one EU state that is still dependent on Russian gas

Plenty of them. Altough the things have changed quite quickly at some point pretty much the whole Europe relied on (cheap) Russian gas. EU states have largely switched to other supplies, but I think at least some of France and a ton of smaller non-EU countries still rely on the pipeline so shutting it down would cause a ton of issues across the continent which in turn would harm Ukraine as they'd be the 'bad guy' for your Joe Average in Austria (or somewhere else) who would at least pay more for his gas.

Additionally there's the PR value when Ukraine can say 'we honor our agreements, no matter what' but I can't say how much that plays a part on anything. Plus, I suppose, they collect some rent for the pipeline going trough their country, so keeping it running has financial reasons too.

It's a pretty complex situation, but as Ukraine could pretty literally just crimp the whole pipeline with an excavator on their own land or pull the gas from the line for their own needs and haven't done so, it tells to me that it's more beneficial for them to keep it running.

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Tämä on jo laskettu suunnitelmiin, että ei sinne stadionille auton kanssa edes suunnitella vaan kiesi jää majoitukseen ja kuten odotettua niin juomien hinnat on taivaalla, joten ajatus on muutenkin hankkiutua ajokunnosta eroon jo aikaisemmin illallisviinien tms merkeissä. 10€ tuopit alkaa olla täälläkin todellisuutta, lähipitäjässä oli metallimusiikkia livenä muutama viikko sitten ja siellä oli tarjolla jalkovälilämmintä karjalaa 8€/tölkki ilman tuoppia.

Sporaa varten känniä ja huutamista voisi vielä harkita, mutta säännöllisen housuunkusemisen olen lopettanut kohta 40 vuotta sitten, joten pitää vähän harkita. Kokemushan se tietysti tuokin olisi, edellisen kerran on raitiovaunussa tullut oltua jossain 1991 nurkilla. Laatutaksista maksaa ihan mielellään, mutta ei sitä tuntitolkulla viitsi odotella.

I can weigh in with my small experience with their hardware. Back in the day we used quite a lot of their hardware for VPN-clients, firewalls and things like that in small-ish offices on work and I've been running my router for 5(ish) years without any hiccups with 1 spf port and 8x1Gbps copper and a 1/1Gbps upstream (trough spf).

I still have a bunch of old hardware gathering dust in the bin from when we ran them at the office (around 2010-2014, give or take a few years) and all of them still work. Granted, an old 100Mbps router isn't that useful today, but I still occasionally use them on my homelab for testing/verification of my ideas.

My current home office goes around 30C in the summer but that hasn't been an issue at all. And their pricing is pretty decent. The unit I have isn't available anymore, but vendor claimed that it can push up to 7,5Gbps trough and the price was something around 120€.

That being said, I don't have that much experience with them (only a handful of models and none of them was pushed too hard), but personally I'd pick anything from mikrotik over zyxel/d-link/tp-link.

You could of course use some kind of socket or connetor for supercap, but as they last far less than I thought then I get why it doesn't make sense. This thinkstation I'm writing with in my garage I got for free at old office is from 2011 and it's still running original cmos battery. No idea if there's any juice left on it, but at least it doesn't complain anything at boot and once it refuses to boot it'll become e-waste immediately (I do metal working, fix cars etc at the garage, so internals of this thing are far from clean, I think this is 3rd or 4th hardware for 10 years in here with only the SSD moved from setup to another).

You can deflect rain while you're at it too.

The only real solution is to make this an extended maintenance task.

This is the correct answer. No matter how reliable your power feed is you still need to reboot the server at some point for whatever reason and if CMOS battery is dead by then you'll have the very same issue and you'll need monitor and keyboard again. And even if you don't mind about the RTC on board you'll still lose the settings.

I wonder why manufacturers haven't switched over to supercapacitors or something else than a coin cell battery, but perhaps there's a valid reason for it. I think that supercaps can't hold charge as long as a coin cell, but if your board is completely cold for a year or so maybe losing bios settings isn't that big of a deal.

Täkäläisen aakkosbaarin kahvilassa ei kylläkään tarjoilla laihaa sumppia, mutta muuten juttu kyllä osuu kohdalleen. Muualla internetissä YLEX:n Libiso on saanut ehkä vähän kohtuuttomankin paljon palstatilaa ja jos nyt onkin että Yle ei ole aivan viimeisen päälle hoitanut tilannetta, niin en kyllä yhtään kadehdi sitä PR-henkilöä tai tämän kesälomasijaista jonka niskaan paskaämpäri on sattunut kaatumaan.

Yle on tottakai juurikin kolumnin mukainen sylkyämpäri, jonka johtohommat jokainen kommenttikentässä vaahtoava osaisi hoitaa paremmin, mutta kun pistetään hommaa mittakaavaan, että firmassa on pienen kunnan asukasluvun verran työntekijöitä ja vaatimuslista toimitettavasta sisällöstä ei ole erityisen lyhyt, niin ei voi kuin hattua nostaa miten vähän näitä kohuja nousee keltaiseen lehdistöön.

Julkisella rahalla toimivan vallan vahtikoiran pitää tietysti kestää rankkaakin kritiikkiä ja sitä pitää myös antaa, mutta viimeaikojen kohut, ainakin omasta kuplasta käsin katseltuna, vaikuttaa enemmän myrskyltä vesilasissa kuin oikeilta ongelmilta koko organisaatiossa.

I haven't paid too much attention on what lenovo is doing lately, but at some point they brought L-series thinkpad-branded laptops on the market which was pretty much garbage. At least in here local stores sold first models of L-series as a 'thinkpad grade laptops for consumer pricing' and they were just bad on all fronts, as the L-series was just a competition on a*-brands trying to get their share for sub-300€ (or whatever that was at the time) laptops from your equivalent of walmart riding on the brand which they didn't build.

Gladly that died out pretty soon and Think* brand is still somewhat strong with their T/W/X models as they used to be when IBM ran the business. Of course they had their own issues too, USB-C docks were garbage with everyone when they started to appear and people at the office still curse on thinkpads for various issues with firmware/hardware/whatever, but in my experience it's been the same road for all the big players. Dell had a pretty decent sales/support going on at 2010(ish), but their hardware had plenty of problems, HP had pretty good pricing for their hardware a bit later, but they had massive issues with firmware and so on.

I've been pretty happy with thinkpads I've got since R50 brand new (if I recall correctly) and for me they've been available on second hand market in here since that. But that's just a personal experience, I've never been in charge to buy hunderds of anything on IT department at work.

Depends on what you call 'old' and what your use case is. My T495 was less than 300€ and it does everything I need from a laptop easily. Bigger drive would be nice, but once the summer is over I rarely need to pull 4K video from sd-cards in temporary storage, so I doubt I'll bother to upgrade it any time soon.

Lenovo makes consumer crap with their own brand and they have Think -line of products from the big blue and the latter is pretty much comparable to all the other big players (dell, hp, fujitsu...) on desktop/laptop market. Each have their own annoyances and fuckups and in general if you ask opinion from 3 IT professionals on which brand to buy you'll get 4-6 answers.

Personally if I'm looking for a laptop I'll go to pre-leased and refurbished thinkpad. I currently have T465 and for wife I got pretty decent Tsomething from the office for peanuts.

Personally I'd run separate 12VDC cabling instead of pulling out from POE if it's simple to do, but if you get a splitter which will negotiate POE (assuming you don't run some older passive-POE setup) it should work just fine. But note, that POE goes up to 57VDC, so check that you can run your POE switch/injector with 12VDC at all.

Apparently you can kind-of rewrite queries on the fly with PowerDNS scripting and answer accordingly. So maybe that's what you're looking for.