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@iska@mstdn.starnix.network I'm typing this using a laptop from 2013🤣 But good enough for me is not how it works. Being able to use tech on par in terms of performance with what was available to everyone 9 years ago just won't cut it. True, you may benefit from imposing trade restrictions in short term, but not in the long run. If you lack the tech edge the gap will only increase. And sanctions don't work like cutting off water to your house, so it's JUST three months. The future looks grim, but I might be wrong 😅

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network If you take a look at the data, Russian economy was already showing signs of slow down before the very beginning of this war in 2014, some sanctions were imposed, nothing THAT major, but COVID pandemic was a huge blow. For the world economy in general, but especially for Russia. They've needed to give this war which was no longer on the radar for common folk a new spin — to justify the lowering standards of living, not the other way round. Now everyone can blame that on the sanctions.

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network No economy can benefit from isolation in the long run. Foreign companies besides giving jobs to the people were bringing in technologies. Companies like Coca-Cola and IKEA didn't only do sell products, they've had factories here. They've set standards for their industries. TSMC doesn't want to produce CPUs designed in Russia and Russia only has production line for 32nm fab. Huawei could supply comm equipment, but no longer wants to do business in Russia. This is not going to end well!

@Gina Even to me, a person living in gulag where they can put you to jail for some weird shit they call "homosexual propaganda" (🤦), it seems weird that tattoos could still be a problem in the workplace. OMG what is wrong with this world?
I wish you luck and hope that it's won't be a problem for you.

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network Time to put an always-up VPN on the router and use another one with an exit server in Russia if you absolutely need russian IP-address for something 😅
I've been using a box with a VPN connection running squid for all my web traffic well since 2015. Never looked back.

@nerdtronics@mstdn.starnix.network @iska@mstdn.starnix.network Believe me they will not want any customers from Russia when all of this is over. The potential "customers" will already be so poor by then they can't pay a dime to these corporations. It would be piracy over file-sharing networks all over the place for software and having a decent hardware would be a privilege. In Russia it took about 20 years after the collapse of USSR for people to be able to pay for software, music or movies.

@pleb @evelyn It would sound like a good idea if quality of those cables was consistent, but in reality you can't just put a recommendation to use only certified cables into the manual and forget about it. Apple used to put a notch into USB ports of their keyboards. So you could plug a mouse on either side of the keyboard, but not the USB drive. Because people would definitely do it and complain about transfer speeds as those were USB 1.1 ports.

@evelyn I've been somewhat surprised to find out you can't just plug your wired headphones into some modern TVs (like most phones nowadays), but you can use one of the HDMI inputs as an output to plug some decoder dongle which you can plug your headphones into. It's called eARC and it's pretty common. And now this!
To be honest, I've seen a lot of odd RJ45 uses too, including connecting the device to its power adapter.

@evelyn Well, if we speak of Russia, you can't improve on perfection^W the perfect clusterfsck that this country is!

@evelyn There definitely should be something like Neurosis the microblogging software 🤔

@evelyn Ten Game BoyS Advance Extra-Terrestrial?

@evelyn So true! Like most things from Google: webm, vp9, nghttp… The advantage over what was already available is less than 10% on average — not a game changer. No one asked for this stuff!

@JulianOliver It's a good practice to keep everything from googleapis domain blocked with uBO and only allow when absolutely necessary. But it's even better to block fonts.googleapis.com at resolver level because the one using it is definitely going to show you something really ugly. Like Droid Sans 😄

@Gina #caturday night fever here 😅

@thomasfuchs My humble contribution: a couple of cats in cool (but warm) sweaters.

@esi @fribbledom gomuks is a console client in Go. No voice calls and all that, but it supports encryption, although you need to export room keys in Element and import them in gomuks manually. It uses external image viewer like feh which is nice. Quite good if you need chats only!
Obviously it doesn't support platforms not supported by Go, e.g. 32bit PowerPC.

@PeterCxy @fribbledom I think some heavy media files are the culprit, which it has to keep cached not to decrypt them every time. According to dev menu, Element uses 1,7 Gb on my phone, I do not have a lot of chats, but I do like to paste screenshots into chats with Firefox on desktop and it pastes them as PNGs. Also not an issue for me as I have a lot of free RAM.

@fribbledom @exception Some older devices had more RAM e.g. Xiaomi MI 10 Ultra had up to 16 Gb, newer model, MI 11 Ultra only has up to 12 Gb. Looks like no one needed THAT much on a phone 🤷

@sneak BTW what is wrong with surveillance then? Let's just call it you are "being studied". No one really dies. What can go wrong?
I'm not trying to change the subject (whataboutism) I'm just trying to understand your logic. I agree that teaching as in education should not be illegal, but teaching as in helping someone commit crimes should be punishable. For me it does matter what is being taught to whom.

@sneak Well, he was restricted from teaching an (already jailed) person how to escape his jail, still did that and went to jail too. You think this is wrong, point taken.
What do you think are good reasons for going to jail? Killing someone directly most certainly is, but what about selling a gun to a person with a really bad criminal record? Not unknowingly, but running a background check on him and still going forward. Or is it just "doing business"?