Absent the belligerents industrial capacity to wage war, what will the second Great War look like?

Yeah, the material reality isn’t gonna change, but I could see a ‘28 dem administration caring about Europe and the various coalition governments aligned against nationalist parties responding to it.

Romeo and Juliet but the houses aren’t alike in dignity.

I agree that the action is very consequential, the pipeline in particular was an unexpected shock with real tangible effects. I only was saying that the overwhelming majority of anti euro stuff is rhetoric, not that the actions weren’t important.

It was worth saying that most of what is done against Europe is rhetoric because a subsequent American regime could walk those positions back (not that any smart leader of a European state would trust them). Specifically if in the future one of the pressures that could be urging European nations to move to Microsoft alternatives were to disappear, it would be common sense to use the ms alternative program as a bargaining chip to get what the state actually wants: to not change anything and not have to retrain everyone.

I kind of agree with you but the whole point of the eurozone and eu was to elevate the interests held in common across the region to avoid balkanization and competition between constituent states.

Once the us is aligned against that construction the cheese stands alone and European crack up is inevitable.

Of course American anti euro aktion has overwhelmingly been in word instead of deed, despite your handful of good examples.

It’s very likely that European politicians will follow their unique european polities and place the interests of their individual nations over the interests of their region.

The cheapest way to maintain control over the globe via military force is to establish a moon operation that runs at only a slight deficit and hold the specter of lunar regolith asteroid strikes over every person on the planet earth.

Doubtful. Us hostility to Europe is overwhelmingly in rhetoric rather than deed and on the off chance that tech independence is a European ambition (to the extent that a European identity, let alone European governing body survives prolonged American hostile deeds) the smart play is to use an open software test case to figure out what your requirements are then get a contractor like Microsoft to fulfill them even if that means making a spinoff company.

Even if the idea of some kind of libre Europe wasn’t idealistic utopian thinking, its actual existence would be just another elephant on the open source dance floor to be avoided, not a powerful ally to be celebrated.

Afaik it is, but it only started in 2024…

Every euro country or agency that has done or announced this has simply used it to extract concessions from Microsoft and either stayed with or switched back to windows.

If you like fg, try Panasonic fm next time you can’t get some value in nichicon.

NASA collected ancient herminudic texts and combined the antediluvian wisdom within with cutting edge materials science and technology to produce a device that could reverse the events of the last few seconds within a 1m radius at phenomenal energy cost, scrubbing the mission in the process.

The soviets welded the capsule shut.

Yeah I guess if you’re constantly slamming your penis in the car door than having a button that turns back time would be one approach.

Good luck. If that gets enough heat off you that you can wait on putting a computer together it’s probably a good idea to target good deals on old Xeon workstations or tower servers instead of using consumer hardware.

Sorry it took a little while to get back to you, I wasn’t in the workshop till today.

Just powered it up and did a quick memtest and pi, the case has three 5.25 bays, eight 3.5, the motherboard has eight sata ports and has a i7 3770 cooled using an aio with 16gb of total ram in four slots.

The front bezel of the case is missing. For a server the front bezel shouldn’t matter too much, nothing is exposed in an unsafe way, just a metal grate instead of plastic transformer face.

I use the little brother of this configuration, with half the cores and a slower clock, as my primary nas/jellyfin/rtorrent server/arr stack/many other tasks and it handles 150+ tb of disks (using an hba and expander) and transcoding 1080 content no problem. I wanted to do 4k I’d add a surplus workstation gpu to transcoding.

I’d like to not get completely destroyed on shipping, so lmk your zip (or some other way of talking if you don’t wanna give that out here) and I’ll see how bad it is.

E: I just wanna say, you’re probably best served by thrifting a recent wireless router that’s supported by freshtomato, openwrt or pfsense and doing your network stuff on that.

No I mean like I will sell you one of those. What dimensions do you need to know?

E: Also I have an old gaming pc in a gaming pc sized case.

May I interest you in a Lenovo thinkcentere m700, hp z230, or dell 3040 sff or 7040 mt?

Usually people don’t that.

The preferred solution for those mice in linux for as long as I can remember is modifier left clicking where you hold down ctrl or alt or whatever when you left click to get right or middle.

The reason people don’t do long click and instead do modifiers is because it allows you to use three button inout which is what x and whatever came before it were designed for and secretly everything in a linux gui expects.

If you absolutely have to have long press and cannot use modifiers because your other hand is occupied when clicking the mouse button due to chronic masturbation, evdev or the other x11 input emulation configurations are the way to go.

If you have a computer repair place near you just go there and say “I have $100 and I want to trade it for a motherboard, cpu and cooler that fits in this case and takes this ram.”

They’re gonna have an old 8th gen + intel or am4 setup that will work for you.

Reserve currency status is established and maintained through military might.

How much you looking to spend?

Oh I didn’t even look up motherboard availability, I only know of dual core no multithreading celeron lga 1200 CPUs. You’re gonna have problems accomplishing your goals with that.