This is about how quickly the Russian war machine and economy can rebuild their capability to attack again. IIRC the report by the Danish Intelligence Service assumes that the Ukraine war stops now and that Europe does not increase its defensive capabilities.

E=MC2 TROOPER

And the main reason I didn’t get a domain? Because I couldn’t come up with a good domain name. Naming stuff is always hard.

Same. Considered getting a domain for my email, but ended up just switching directly to the protonmail domain. Regretting that now.

What are your issues with networkd?

Dudette*

Stupid d vitamin amounts over long time leads to a buildup of calcium in the blood which causes a bunch of problems. From wikipedia:

The recommended dietary allowance is 15 μg/d (600 IU per day; 800 IU for those over 70 years). Overdose has been observed at 1,925 μg/d (77,000 IU per day).[citation needed] Acute overdose requires between 15,000 μg/d (600,000 IU per day) and 42,000 μg/d (1,680,000 IU per day) over a period of several days to months. Source

XC skate skiing when there’s snow, running with spiked shoes when there’s not. Dark when going to/from work usually, so getting out in the weekends is important. Walk/run in the middle of the workday is great, but something that I don’t do nearly enough.

D vitamins. I also have a daylight lamp at work, but haven’t started using it yet.

*taught :⁠-⁠) No worries, your intent is coming across clearly.

Tip from long-time arch user (btw). Avoid installing or making changes to system installation without going through pacman. I.e., don’t use install scripts or make install invocations requiring sudo. More often than not that will cause headaches long-term. PKGBUILDs are actually reasonably simple to create if you need to install something not in the AUR, and it will keep you from overwriting files and leaving files behind after uninstalling.

Gaydar jamming

Windows subsystem for copilot

I wouldn’t say that there’s a major religious theme. It’s just that Bob doesn’t interact with that many characters except himself, so those interactions felt more important to the plot. Then again, I wouldn’t say that the Brazilian navy AI was a very multifaceted character either.

!Didn’t make it clear, but I was mainly referring to the storyline on the inhabited planet. I got annoyed by the main character essentially slaughtering natives and then at some point admitting to himself that he knew nothing about them as a species. Towards the end of that plot line there was some negotiation with the cult leader back on earth, at which point I was quite fed up.!<

There were a lot of fun aspects too though, like bob discovering stuff and making gadgets.

Enjoyed project hail mary, but bobiverse didn’t quite do it for me. >!Atheist gets recruited by religious cult. Proceeds to go to planet of the apes to play god. I found it to be mostly ok up to that point though. !<

Religion as portrayed in this book makes the characters very one dimensional. It’s also peppered with references to popular culture, which doesn’t really do that much for me.

First book by him for me, so can’t comment on his overall style. The main plot didn’t resolve in this one, it leaves it to a sequel. There’s definitely a tendency to introduce technology from ancient races in the plots which may be used in that way. Didn’t feel jarring to me in this book though.

Does shiny mean it’s gold-plated? :⁠-⁠)

The Intrl B580 also has a bit more driver overhead than AMD/NVidia, and might not be the best choice for older CPUs

Just finished Exodus: The Archimedes Engine on audible. Space opera with a lot of world building. A bit slow to get started, but I really enjoyed it.

Edit: not sure if I would classify it as engineering porn though, although there is an emphasis on use of technology

And then Huawei allegedly stole Cisco’s IP? Ah, the irony