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21 days agoTimeshift for configs to a locally attached drive. Home partition to cloud with rsync
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“new default Cinnamon theme coming to Linux Mint 22.1 later this year.”
2·2 months agoWell, I’m with you on Putin can go get fucked. But I think you’re misinformed on the “petrodollar empowering Putin”.
The dominance of the US dollar as the currency for settlement of international crude oil contracts advantages predominantly the US and secondarily countries with strong currencies in open exchange with the USD. It disadvantages weaker currencies and those with poorer trade terms with the US such as Venezuela and Russia now the latter has been cut off from the western banking system.
Putin being forced to trade his crude in non dollar denominated contracts is one of the (several) reasons the sale price of muscovy crude is now significantly lower than the equivalent from other countries. (TL;DR the sanctions are working).
China has long been lobbying unsuccessfully to break the petrodollar/USD as world reserve currency and failed so far.
The major US banks are just agents of a (very successful) US foreign policy post WW2. They are indeed evil, but not for this reason
Well I came to say “takes one to know one” but bigger threat than Russia and NK is a big call.
7·2 months agoFor me this falls in the category of “sit back and eat popcorn”. Both sides are arseholes I don’t mind which loses, in fact it’s a shame they all can’t lose
2·2 months agoNothing. You can only invoke article 7 against a specific country, and with 2 there’s insufficient votes to invoke article 7 against either. You can’t do a “twofer”.
You have to remember this was considered an unthinkable nuclear option when the treaties were draw up. That two countries could both diverge so far from the EUs ethos would horrify the (possibly naive) original founders.
As that worn quip goes
" they did nazi this coming"
1·3 months agoThey can also hijack the connection of a connected box (ethernet over hdmi) or via a connected phone (bluetooth & chromecast iirc)
Wtf ? On what planet is the BBC “left centre” it is as establishment as it gets
To suspend Hungary (your first point) legally requires unanimity of all EU countries aside from the one to be censured. (Article7)
Unfortunately Slovakia has recently elected a pro putin govt who will now block any attempt to deal with Orban.
There was a short window between the end of the Polish far right PiS being in power and Slovakia changing leadership when it could have been done. Unsurprisingly Orban was very compliant during that period and as soon as he regained an ally is back to his old tricks.
There is no legal way to do what you suggest
Edit, missed a word
Disappointing tgat we arent when you put it that way
I can’t work out if this is well intentioned ignorance or trolling, so I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt and a serious answer.
The first point is there are a huge number of threats to privacy and your online and data security from connecting to the internet even in western countries.
VPNs are not just for protection from govt abuse, in fact their efficacy there is far lower than for several other use cases.
If you’re in the US (for example) and with one of the biggest ISPs then every DNS request being made is (was anyway, I assume still is) logged and your internet usage is then sold off to data brokers to profile you.
So yeah, dont trust your ISP, and if you’re dealing with a VPN that wants all that info then find a better one (proton or mullvad for exampke, you can pay with monero or bitcoin or even cash by snail mail)
Most common reason is running out of disk space. Boot from USB and have a check as to whether the update filled up the disk
My motherboard which is only a few years old (2ish?) has serial port pin outs.
You don’t need to give the VM network access to download the software if you have a linux host. You can directly mount a virtual box drive from the host, copy the file(s) onto the drive and then unmount it and start the VM as per normal.
Search for qemu-nbd iirc (network block device) - I have the how to details saved on my host (ie not on me) so ping me if you want them. Note it’s a qemu app that works for vbox
Much better
At that age cpu it’s almost certainly a hard drive not ssd.
My guess is 1-2 days. 4gb RAM is going to thrash like hell
Could be worth asking on selfhosted (how do I link a sub on lemmy ?) They probably have more relevant experience at this sort of thing.
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Does this work ?
That assumes sanctions would be quickly removed. Given the massive list of war crimes Russia has committed in UA I sincerely doubt many in the West are lifting sanctions before the offenders are punished - something Putin is unlikely to agree to.
It is a catch22 because that gives him limited reasons to withdraw. Russia are very much in “crash through or crash” mode now because they see no way out and still hope the west will withdraw support.
To answeryour question. Withdrawal of sanctions will remove some pressure points - improved revenue by being able directly sell fossil fuels and thus getting a higher price per barrel; ability to buy critical components such as aviation parts and ICs. Most importantly China will be able to buy significant major assets and invest (they’re avoiding overt help to avoid sanctions themselves)
That will take significant time to make a difference though, the decimation of the workforce will still be an issue. Russia will become a Chinese serf regardless of whether they retain Ukrainian land or withdraw completely. Their economy is now in such a bad state their only hope is a rescue by China. One which will be priced at firesale “cents on the dollar” prices