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BaconPacketson British military aircraft rapidly supplying weapons to Ukraine

Sure, but I expect any current generation Ukraine ATGM to match the UK stock.

BaconPacketson My 70 year old mother has been using Linux on the desktop for the past 21 years

There we're enough issues with a couple of things that I felt like I would have required some 1-800-linux-help for most of my family members.

- APT randomly breaking and require some CLI magic. - Installing french translation packages was awkward since they we're not part of the official repos. - He unfortunately was running 32bit Mint which is much less fresh when it comes to the repos.

Not bad overall, but I wouldn't throw my Windows for 25 years aunt in there!

BaconPacketson I Spent Hundreds of Hours Working in VR

This is such a strange article. It doesn't present anything or explain how a VR workstation can actually work.

Has anyone actually worked this way?

I spent about an hour with a Vive headset and it was the most obnoxious experience I ever had. The lack of feedback, the requirements of a large room free of obstacle, the awful screen door effect, the poor precision from the dual wands.

Overall, I was exhausted after just 30 minutes. That's not to mention the physical portion of using a headset + the wands.

There might a middle ground where you are sitting or lying down. But that still doesn't solve efficient input. As far as I see it, nothing really beats a keyboard.

I got into it thinking that we had passed the hype cycle, but it really felt like I was still in the tech demo hell.

BaconPacketson British military aircraft rapidly supplying weapons to Ukraine

This is strange posturing. Anti tanks rockets won't make a difference.

BaconPacketson What three-card monte can teach you about NFTs

I agree with the sentiment. That entire website seems like an excuse to wrap robot generated art into NFT.

Just look at the description of one of the piece

THE SOURCE CoDE is a new techno-mystical framework that channels knowledge from source creation to our digital present. The medium of this knowledge is a set of unique 1024 “karma” cards minted in the Genesis phase of THE SOURCE CoDE. The Hash is a unique entity that drives all aspects of a single card.

What is this even doing.

BaconPacketson My 70 year old mother has been using Linux on the desktop for the past 21 years

A friend of the family has been running Mint as a daily driver for a couple of years. It works pretty well but it does require some Linux expertise.

I definitely would not recommend that to anyone out of the box. More for power users still.

BaconPacketson Housing is both a human right and a profitable asset, and that’s the problem

I'm a Canadian living in oven of our traditionnaly low cost city, Montréal. Over the past few months, I've seen the market explode wat put of reach of our average salary.

Housing should be a national interest and something that we work to make as obtainable by the largest portion of our citizens.

Owning multiple houses and flipping to keep the market surging should not be legal.

BaconPacketson Bitcoin Miners Are Giving New Life to Old Fossil-Fuel Power Plants

It's hard to see how we benefit from all the crypto craze. Pure speculation vehicles that have intense energy requirements is just something a bit sad to see in 2021.

Of course, like anyone else, I would like to have 50 BTC and not have to work one more day in my life.

But there is still that feeling in the back of your head thst none of this is good for humanity.