There are a lot of Ukrainians and sympathisers in Russia. A terror campaign wouldn't be with drones, but strategically placed explosives.
aard
joined 2 years ago
I don't really care what is was - Russia is fucking lucky that Ukraine was mostly playing nice so far. They could've made the chechen activities inside Russia during the chechen wars look like amateur hour if they really wanted to - and if we don't give them the type of weapons they need to win in the right quantities, with ability and permission to strike airports they use for bombing and supply runs inside of Russia Ukraine eventually might want to.
I'm a father of two young kids nowadays, and I also was a teenager in the 90s with internet access when my parents didn't really know what it is.
I think her statement should read "no unrestricted/unlimited smartphone access for children", but I think for a child time limited, guided smartphone access is important - just by letting her use my phone now and then I don't think I'd be able to have her build up the media competency required for not wasting her pocket money on nonsensical predatory games when she's a teenager.
She's 7 now - she generally can chat with a limited amount of people (family members and some friends), make pictures, and request app installation. I'm approving pretty much every free app nowadays - at the beginning I was curating, but we went over game mechanics several times, so she's now recognizing predatory or low effort games herself, and gets rid of them after trying them out. I have my doubts educating a teenager with significantly more technical skills, disagreeing with everything you say, and some ability to throw money at the problem will be as open as her to slowly learning those kind of pitfalls.
I have stuck labels on all my DP capable cables - it is very annoying not to get video output, and "does this cable even work for video" being one of the things you need to debug.
I have some larger and more specialized bags as well - but those are not EDC. Everything in that kit is USB-C (or at least has adapters for it), so worst case the complete bag is usable just with my phone.
Phone is a Unihertz Titan Slim with hw keyboard. Also have the Titan, great for the big screen, but for daily carry the slim is better.
Additionally I have a swiss army knife, flipper zero and another chameleon ultra in my pockets. I moved from a multitool to a knife with lots of stuff as I still can do most things, and have a higher chance of keeping it when I forget it on my belt at the airport yet again.
We're doing pretty much everything a customer wants. Part of my stuff is for being able to get access to stuff to diagnose/repair it, part is for security consulting (or just for a quick unrelated demo as conversation starter, or to shorten discussions).
I typically carry a GDP pocket 3 with KVM module installed, running Linux.
Additionally I may carry one or several of
- Thinkpad x230, custom firmware, Linux
- Windows on an Arm64 notebook
- MacBook Air M1, MacOS
depending on what I expect to be doing. I also often have a boox epaper tablet for notetaking.
I probably can use the GDP Pocket 3 (partially visible on one picture) for that. That thing is surprisingly robust.
While failing at art he was still Austrian.
It's a similar thing with four leaf clovers - I never in my life found one, even during periods where I've been scanning every bit of green while hiking. But then we had a friend who isn't really paying attention to her surroundings, and just randomly goes 'oh, moment', and picks up a four leave clover from a few metres away.
Seems my daughter is also developing that talent - last summer she picked up a few while playing outside.
The Tesla factory in Germany has roughly 3 times as many reportable incidents as comparable factories.
There are small and cheap USB-C IR dongles around nowadays - generally USB-C has been a blessing for making additional hardware features available on smartphones.
My current phone does have IR - though I'm not really using it much since most of the existing Android software for that is horrible (broken, ad-infested, requires account and access to everything, ..), and I have too many open projects to start another one for writing my own software for that.
I just looked up what that is - not sure I see much value in that. Specs say maximum 480MBps data transfer speed - that's USB 2 speeds. For charging from a charger that is not your own you'd want data transfer blocked. For your own charger you probably already carry a longer cable anyway. With my set of adapters I get faster speeds, and am free to change cable lengths to whatever I need.