US Marines moving 15.5 cm M777 howitzers with Super Stallions, 2012:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/M777_Howitzer_External_Lift_121229-M-EF955-805.jpg/2560px-M777_Howitzer_External_Lift_121229-M-EF955-805.jpg

Better living through technology.

Mulvad apparently uses Wireguard. Is there an Android Wireguard client that supports multiple VPNs and toggling each independently?

“If countries see that central bank money can disappear if European politicians see fit, they might decide to withdraw their reserves from the eurozone,” he added.

I mean, the assets were frozen. I imagine that if someone is planning to invade Ukraine a second time around, the freezing alone is probably sufficient to make them not want to store assets there while doing so.

If GRUB is having problems too, not just Linux, I’d be inclined to blame hardware of some sort. Do you have another stick of NVMe that you can swap in, see if that makes the issue magically go away? Maybe run off a USB drive, see what happens?

Maybe less likely, but that processor is a 14th gen Intel desktop processor, one of the models affected by the voltage degradation problems. I burned up both a 13th gen and 14th gen processor myself. Looked like a variety of random errors, often related to memory, eventually not even managing to get through boot unless I disabled all but one of my cores. Might look into that. I assume that there’s a potentially-affected serial number range list somewhere.

And you can run memtest86 to bang on the memory and CPU, see if anything comes up. If it runs into errors, then it probably isn’t the NVMe at fault.

I guess anything is possible, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a CMOS battery light, though I’ve seen a lot of motherboards with an LED to indicate that they’re getting power from the PSU. I’m pretty sure that you’d burn through a CMOS battery pretty quickly if you just left an LED always on powered off it.

At about 12:33, it looks like they’re plugging expansion cards into a motherboard that still has power, as there’s what appears to be an LED on on the motherboard. It’s possible that this motherboard doesn’t power the PCI slots in that state, but man, I would not be plugging any expansion cards into a motherboard without the PSU powered off.

He also accused NATO of attempting to “militarily encircle all of Eurasia”

Like, two continents?

I mean, the only realistic way that you could do that would be via control of the seas. I think that NATO members have, in sum, represented the majority of world naval power ever since NATO was founded. So, insofar as it’s actually possible to have military superiority surrounding two continents, looking at aggregate military capability, that’s probably been the case as long as NATO has been around.

That being said, the Article 6 of the NATO treaty doesn’t — in approximate summary — oblige members to act unless they’ve been attacked in North America, the North Atlantic, Europe, Turkey, or the Mediterranean, so NATO as an institution doesn’t really legally have much direct import on most of the area surrounding Eurasia. What happens in the Pacific Ocean or Indian Ocean isn’t a matter for NATO. And from Russia’s standpoint, where it has practical import is going to be Russia’s western border.

!pareidolia@sh.itjust.works

I expect that that means that Israel isn’t too worried about incoming ballistic missiles from Iran at this point, or they’d probably be hanging onto it.

People have done a good job of mentioning the free open-source games that I’d call notable already.

I don’t play most mobile games, because most are commercial, and I’m not willing to get a Google account and associate it with my phone. I think that Google has enough information about me.

However, there are a number of commercial games that exist for both the PC and for Android, stuff like Bloons TD 6. Unless you have a PC, I’d probably take a glance there, since if a game is good-enough, unless it’s deeply tied to a touch interface, I’d expect it to have a PC port.

goes to find a list of Steam games with mobile ports

https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44803552-Mobile-Ports/

Some games on there that I know and think are good — though I haven’t played the mobile versions, and can’t speak as to port quality:

• Stardew Valley. I’m not a huge fan of this type of game — lots of drudge tasks — but I think that it was well-made, and lots of people like it.

• Balatro. Already mentioned here.

• Hades. Action roguelite. Might want a controller for this; I don’t know how well this would translate to a touch interface.

• Terraria. I don’t know how well this would work without a mouse.

• Bloons TD 6. I already mentioned this.

• Subnautica. Dunno how well this translates to not having a mouse, and the game is 3D-heavy, so I dunno what tradeoffs someone is gonna make to get it running on a phone, but it’s pretty neat.

• Vampire Survivors. I’d guess that this is probably playable with a touch interface, though probably best with a controller.

• Slay the Spire.

• Dead Cells. This might want a controller.

• Papers, Please

• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. I would definitely want a controller for this.

• Spiritfarer. Didn’t really click with me, but popular, and if you’re looking for an adventure game…

• Little Inferno. Older puzzle game that I enjoyed, and I don’t usually do puzzle games.

I’d also mention:

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (if you want Android; there isn’t a current iOS version) is a good free and open-source game on the PC with an extremely steep learning curve. It is a very deep open-world roguelike. However, it is seriously tied to a keyboard interface. I have played the Android version, and while I think that the porter did do a better job than I expected making it playable on Android, it’s clearly not optimized for a touch interface, and it is very CPU-hungry, so can run slower than the original does on PC.

Shattered Pixel Dungeon

!pixeldungeon@lemmy.world

The dev maintains a presence on the Threadiverse.

This, of course, does not factor in the problem of scalpers and the hugely increased fees charged on the secondary market.

Well, if tickets for a given band are being scalped, then it’s a good sign that they’re probably initially selling below market rate.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.

— Mark Twain

Jesus would return on September 23 or 24, 2025.

The Lamb of God had, in fact, returned on September 23, 2025. Unfortunately, he had chosen to appear to His faithful in rural Mississippi, who, after millennia of material suggesting otherwise, did not recognize a Middle Eastern man with shabby clothing as the Prince of Peace. He was quickly picked up for vagrancy, and after it was established he had no legal entry documentation, was bundled up into an ICE holding facility for deportation to El Salvador.

Mali’s leadership tried to sell the French exit as an anti-colonial victory, but it was anything but. As one empire left, another quickly moved in. Russian mercenaries replaced French soldiers, announcing to the world Mali’s intention to move into Russia’s orbit.

Americans watched with worry, and eventually started to use the “counterterrorism” angle to try and befriend a regime they loudly condemned and sanctioned just a few years ago.

For the Malian people, the country’s transfer to team Russia brought no real positives. Sure, the humiliation of France at the heart of Francophone Africa was rejoiced over by some, but the Russians brought with them nothing but more aggression, corruption and chaos.

As the Russians enjoy their newfound influence, Americans appear to be looking for a way back in. They are now courting the regime under the guise of addressing “terror” but clearly with the sole intent of weakening the Russian hand.

Europe and America’s support for many “friendly” dictators across Africa, such as Uganda’s Museveni, and Washington’s ongoing attempts to befriend Mali’s junta despite its insults to democracy, clearly show Africans have no true ally in this proxy war being waged on their lands.

Well, dude, if Africans are going to permit themselves to be led by dictators, I doubt that you’re going to find that there’s going to be an absolute wall built against dealing with them. The US most-likely isn’t going to come in, forcibly eject your leadership, and impose elections, and I suspect that there are people in Mali who wouldn’t like it if they did.

You’ll probably get more support for a democratic government, but there’s going to be a limit as to how much by way of national interest that will be sacrificed for that, true enough.

As to wanting agency — Africans have agency. If the population of Mali collectively told the leadership of Mali that they weren’t going to be running Mali, said leadership wouldn’t be running Mali.

“googles” -> searches with Google search engine

“kagis” -> searches with Kagi search engine

IIRC, it’s been Spain that’s been the strongest proponent of disallowing end-to-end encryption.

I’m guessing that this is because Spain has some substantial separatist movements and wants the federal government to be able to monitor them.

kagis

https://edri.org/our-work/chat-control-what-is-actually-going-on/

While certain pro-digital-surveillance countries like Hungary, Ireland, Spain and Denmark have unwaveringly supported the mass scanning and encryption-breaking measures, many other countries have been rightly alarmed.

They don’t have specifics there on a state-by-state basis.

https://www.wired.com/story/europe-break-encryption-leaked-document-csa-law/

Of the 20 EU countries represented in the document leaked to WIRED, the majority said they are in favor of some form of scanning of encrypted messages, with Spain’s position emerging as the most extreme. “Ideally, in our view, it would be desirable to legislatively prevent EU-based service providers from implementing end-to-end encryption,” Spanish representatives said in the document.

I’m pretty sure that Wired is referencing the leaked documents that I’m thinking of.

Note that there is a !letstalkaboutgames@feddit.uk.

EDIT: Ah, you posted there.

No problem. And just to make it clear, if you haven’t done so before, if you find a community you like on lemmyverse.net, you’ll want to copy the text with the leading exclamation mark, which you can do by clicking on that text on lemmyverse.net — say, for example, !foodporn@lemmy.world — and then paste it into the community search on whatever client or Web UI you use. That’ll make your home instance connect to the instance where the community lives and learn about it, if it hasn’t already. Your home instance is sh.itjust.works, which is decently-sized, so it’s not as much an issue for you — for many communities, some user on sh.itjust.works will have already done this and subscribed to the community — but for users on smaller instances, it’s more important.

Eh. It sounds like the thing is likely going out of business, and people are just batting around ideas to try to bring it back. Probably good odds that it won’t happen.

Craigslea community kindergarten, a local childcare centre in Chermside West in Brisbane’s north, made national headlines this week after a series of emails to parents. The centre has been in turmoil for weeks and was closed after a mass exodus of staff before the school holidays.

On Sunday, the management committee sent parents a 1,000-word email claiming the centre was “insolvent”, owing more than $40,314 to the tax office and employees. It proposed to “wind up” the centre, which has been placed into voluntary administration.

The next day, in a second email the management committee proposed to charge $2,200 for a scrapbook of artwork produced by their children and photographs of them to help pay off the debt.