hate leads to suffering

(as much pseudo-philosophical as Yoda is, here we really have to do something before it breaks so many people)

Well, despising people and thinking of them as a monogamous group based on nationality is neither rational nor positive. Plenty of Russians are against this war, and whatever is currently done only serves to empower those who benefit from it.

I have relatives in Ukraine, Dnipro to be exact, and they were under rocket strikes. I feel afraid for them, and I would love to stop everyone who enters the battlefield - and have no mercy for those going there by their own will.

But I also understand that blatant hatred is going to do nothing but empower “us against the world” mentality. What is your preference - to be able to spew hateful messages or to try and make a change? Without understanding the drivers behind what happens, you only play into the deck of those who escalate the conflict, while also supporting suffering for those who never deserved it - crucially, on both sides of the frontline.

If you ask me, countries should not exist to begin with - but you’re not arguing with me here. For plenty of Russians, losing their country is a big fear, and if you add up immense uncertainty that comes with it, I kinda begin to see what they’re afraid of.

If you consider the geography of contracted soldiers, they primarily come from poor regions and have exactly one motivation to fight - money. For those regions, the money people get for serving 1 year is lifechanging, worth over a decade of work. And with desperate conditions many find themselves in, some take an offer. From that perspective, sanctioning the country in the way it is conducted now may actually exacerbate the issue even further.

Russians don’t commonly love Putin, but consider themselves powerless to make a change now that protest leaders are all assassinated and even the mildest form of dissent is immediately met with police brutality. Many also don’t see the alternative and are scared that end of Putin’s reign will induce separatism and end of Russia - which is a talking point commonly brought up.

Although placing countless sanctions and international intervention tanking the Russian economy doesn’t help Russians to love the West, either, as it is regular people, including anti-war and anti-Putin folks, that struggle, not the ruling elite.

Source: spending a lot of time in Russia

To make bugs less traceable, I guess.

And their opinion is that this is unacceptable and outrageous.

Uh-huh, and plenty of NAS devices had 2,5Gbe even those 6 years ago.

I see! :)

The ports on most Synology devices are the weak spot indeed.

Interesting! May I ask why you use USB port on Synology for Ethernet connection instead of ports on the back? Are they 1gbit?

Yes, because at the same time they offer a better business environment. US, for example, can do pretty much anything, being de facto commercial center of the world, with highest scale operations historically based there and interconnected to the point they can’t just “leave”.

Should you run this “experiment” in aforementioned Venezuela instead, you’re unlikely to enjoy the result. Although it wouldn’t benefit the US in the long run either.

In theory - sure. In practice - all countries in the world have to agree to raise taxes, even though individually they are better off betraying this agreement and lowering them, thereby attracting the rich and ending up with more, not less, money.

And if all countries agree to tax the rich the way they should, we might as well go and build socialism everywhere, because not having everyone onboard is a main issue there too.

Fair enough! But won’t they flip again to start the program?

So, creating a massive headache for government ~15-20 years into the future?

Or what is the point?

MGTOW is absolutely no better.

The most beautiful thing about this program is that it would work.

Various bit flips will once lead to all numbers being in the correct order. No guarantee the numbers will be the same, though…

I’d argue plenty of people are simply not aware such alternatives even exist, and don’t bother researching.

Internet could be a different place if more people cared.

With that said, even then we’d probably be in a minority.

It’s alright! We don’t all have to host our own instance. Existing ones can easily accommodate hundreds of users.

The docs are not only often difficult for an inexperienced user, they commonly omit points of failure.

Various prerequisites, problematic settings, possibility of the user choosing the wrong menu etc. etc. should always be considered.

How about all the Russians getting forced in to a war just to die?

Just to clarify: do you suggest to murder everyone who was forced to get onto the battlefield, or do you mean Putin does this to them?

I might be wrong on the side of cost efficiency, this is just common perception and you can inform me, but where did I tell anything about Musk himself?

I do think he is an asshole, but this is irrelevant to the topic