jonne

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[–] jonne 116 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (11 children)

I'm actually amazed how he keeps finding new suckers after decades of doing it in the private sector and almost 10 years of doing it as President. The only ones that really came out ahead are the criminals that bought their pardons. Everyone else gets screwed one way or another.

[–] jonne 20 points 3 months ago

Probably attached it in the CMS and didn't upload the file as private even if the page itself was, or something like that. Users mess up permissions all the time.

[–] jonne 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Between this and how they treated Afghans that collaborated with them, this is going to be a long term issue for future recruitment efforts.

Still not sure if it's deliberate, but Trump is taking the exact steps one would take to dismantle the American Empire.

[–] jonne 30 points 3 months ago

For this specific device you want to be able to hook it up to a TV, and unfortunately TVs tend to come with HDMI, not the superior displayport.

[–] jonne 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Manpower is a bigger issue for Ukraine compared to Russia. Ukraine is at least not doing human wave tactics and doing more to keep their guys alive, but Russia can last longer in that aspect as well.

I do agree that Putin can't stop the war for anything less than complete victory, otherwise people will start asking questions about why this was necessary as you said.

[–] jonne 6 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Yeah, they are still able to trade with China (which happens to make everything anyway), and as opposed to most countries, Russia can still draw on a lot of the remaining Soviet infrastructure that was specifically built because Russia needed to be self sufficient during the cold war.

As long as Putin can manage to remain in power Russia can keep this war going.

[–] jonne 47 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, the original post sounded very much like the typical fake story you see on Reddit.

[–] jonne 102 points 4 months ago (12 children)

He left rockstar after red dead redemption II, partly because he was tired of dealing with those execs.

[–] jonne 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The profession always attracts authoritarians, so it's something you'll see everywhere.

[–] jonne 6 points 4 months ago

Some people are still used to 100% windows at work and take that home, I guess.

[–] jonne 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You have to keep in mind that ever since Elon took over Twitter, nobody's left that actually understands how it works, so whenever they implement a change they do it in the most hamfisted way possible, usually in the presentation layer.

Disabling translation was just the easiest way to do this, as banning Israeli accounts for their actual hate speech was going to get the ADL on Elons ass.

[–] jonne 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If it's only 50mW it seems like it wouldn't be worth whatever the extra cost is to roll this out for anything except super niche applications. Even off grid you're probably just better off saving solar in a battery or putting up a small windmill.

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