I’ve watched all of season one, and part of season two. A very recommendable thing to watch indeed, also partially because it shows very well what kind of place Ukraine is in the eyes of Ukrainians!

Nah. I am a Finn. I do hear Ukrainian almost daily in my life, but my own roots are elsewhere.

ugh, Putin’s mouthpiece– I was wondering when you’d show up.

I would say that esc is most likely being sincere here, and on Ukraine’s side and against putin.

It is a known problem in ZSU that many of the high-ranking officers were trained before year 2014. Before year 2014 the military in Ukraine was trained just the same was as it still is trained in Belarus and in the Russia. The further towards the very top your officers are trained post-2014, the better it is for you. But if you are in a unit where all the officers all the way to the top are pre-2014-trained, then yes, the only thing they can do is to rotate the handle of the meatgrinder. That’s why the Russia is not able to win the war.

But, changing the highest officers in middle of an actual war would cause such a chaos, that only more soldiers’ lives and only more territory would be lost in the chaos during the transition from old officers to new, too inexperienced, ones. They are doing that change, but because of the war, that change is horrendously slow.
There really isn’t much anything else that can be done than live with some units using the unnecessary meatgrinder-y pre-2014 tactics.

If esc is in one of those units where the leadership is merrily using him as a feed for a meat grinder, then yes, I can see why his motivation is not the highest. But even there: A meat-ground unit is doing more to defend Ukraine than not having any unit at all would. It is useful and important that also those units are manned! Esc-am slava for that! Maybe his units is not managed well enough to actually gain any new ground, but it’s keeping the orcs distracted from elsewhere, where better-managed troops are making progress.

So, homes, please be kind to esc. A soldier in one of the most exceptionally mismanaged units in the whole of ZSU is understandably disgruntled. Let’s be happy that he has the unimaginable willpower it takes to not flee under such conditions. He is needed and he is important. They are maybe using only 10% of his capability, but with the capability he has, even those 10% are a LOT!

Eventually the Russia will leave all of Ukraine, including Crimea. That will happen once their logistics are destroyed using long-range sanctions. The military action is only a small-ish part in the whole victory, but it is one without which the victory would be impossible. There is no way for the Russia to avoid having to eventually leave Ukraine, because the Russia will eventually crumble from within. In 2022 it was said that it will happen late 2025. That turned out to be an optimistic assumption, but it looks like 2026 is really the year where either there will be a conclusive victory, or we will at least be in a situation where the victory is already unambiguous, but the enemy will still fight until the last centimetre, just like their spiritual predecessors mindlessly did until May the 8th, 1945.

SLAVA UKRAJINI!

(Tag: @[email protected] )

Oh, that’s interesting!

I hadn’t known that eqch language version has such a high level of autonomy.

Though, when reading that text, it also looks like there are Wikipedia-wide standards that the ruling on Russian-language Wikipedia is clearly breaking. (I noticed this when I was trying to edit an article about an electric locomotive built in Ukraine and used nowhere else than Ukraine. When I corrected phrasing “built on Ukraine” to “built in Ukraine”, a error message popped up telling that " on Ukraine" has been decided as the only allowed form. And the grammatical rule is that of independent countries you always say “in”. After the Orange Revolution in 2008 the Russia made an exception to this rule, because it wanted to prepare Russians for the invasion that then took place six years later, in 2014. But that exception was never accepted by Ukrainians, who continued using system that had been official since 1991. And it’s quite crazy than in an article about Ukraine, written mainly for Ukrainians, in a language used by 40% of Ukrainians as their everyday language, you are forced to use grammatical forms that can only be used about a region but never about an independent county!)

We really do take neutrality seriously

Well, semi-seriously. In the Russian-language wikipedia it is forbidden to talk of Ukraine as an independent country. I don’t consider that terribly neutral. (They did have a vote about this, and because the Russian-language Wikipedia has more users from the Russia than from other countries, the Russian “opinion” about this won the vote. But it’s absolutely not neutral anyway and with such a rule in place, it’s ridiculous to claim that Wikipedia is really neutral. It is neutral-ish, though, yes.)

Yeah, based on what the Wikipedia said and what you say in your comment, this quote by @[email protected] summarizes it extremely efficiently:

The cartoonist for Dilbert was kind of fun, then he started to be kind of weird, then he became really odd, then he turned into a total weirdo, then he died. The end.

I also figured out later that offline maps you can download on your phone beforehand and use even without Internet don’t help a shit if you haven’t happened to download them before the Internet we t down.

“The Internet is down, therefore I will download offline maps” isn’t the breakthrough idea I first assumed.

WWWWHY printed maps? They have their Russian-made Maps.me, which has offline-maps. And its equally Russian-made (but without the influence of the Kremlin ally corporation “Mail.ru”) fork, Organic maps.

And if they don’t like the Russian influence, they can use CoMaps.
When you have offline maps in your phone, what’s the problem with that?

The way that always works is to send a message to an admin.

In the case of .world, there are many alternatives that probably work better, though. Matrix and email are probably their preferred channels for this.

You can see those alternatives around halfway along the sidebar on the right, if you go to lemmy.world with a browser. And the admins list is at the very bottom of said sidebar.

I get my laptops from a city bureau.

They sell old laptops of Helsinki public servants. The hard drives are very thoroughly emptied and Ubuntu is installed. It’s a kind of a workshop for unemployed people, with the purpose of keeping them used to the concept of work. They get a tiny bit of extra money atop their unemployment benefit by working there.

This has all kinds of weird side effects, like how the actual buying process runs. Once you’ve decided what you want to buy, they print something akin to a receipt to you, and you need to walk some 100 metres or so to a wood workshop where they have a worker with a permission to handle money. You give them the receipt and money, and they give you back a other receipt to prove you have paid. And then you take that back to the shack made of corrugated metal that works as the computer shop, give the receipt to the guy there and carry your laptop home.

At one point they were selling old laptops of the.fire brigade. They were built so that you could very well use them as a hammer 🐳

Anyway, the shop is on the backyard of the Kyläsaari recycling centre in Helsinki. It closes at 15, so.it’s a little bit difficult to visit if you’ve got an eight to four job.

Thinkpad X280.

And if you tell where the hell my key for the cellar is, I can go downstairs and check what model the Thinkpad I bought in 2017 for 30 €. It’s now in my pile of broken laptops from which I should extract useful files some day :P

Something you can buy for 20 €.
Okay, I paid 60 € for mine and it’s good enough to play Skyrim and Stellaris :)

But the same shop sometimes sells laptops for 30 €. They come preinstalled with Ubuntu Linux and are absolutely fine for browsing the web.

I’m wondering why Musk elected to do this now. Most likely has to do with the Epstein files.

But, there are two different ways that may have had an effect. They both may have played a role, but not necessarily:

• Maybe Putin no longer has material for pressuring Musk when the cat is already out of the box anyway. If Musk wanted to support Ukraine, now it can.
• Musk must be furious at Trump for having been selected as one of the people to throw under the bus by choosing Musk as one of the people whose mentions should be published. If this is just it throwing a tantrum, there’s a sadly high chance that the Russia will regain its Starlink access once the assumed tantrum is over.

Both need to always be printed, with kJ first as that’s the official standard. But since in practical terms more people talk about kcal, they’ve required including that one as well. Here’s a photo:

(Also, all foodstuff must have the ingredients and nutritional values in the local language, so I wonder how this package of instant noodles made its way into my pantry!)

It’s somewhat a wild assumption that the only electronic appliance a household uses is a hair dryer.

Because total energy used is not what matters. What matters for most people is how much they have to pay. And they have to pay according to how many hours they were powering their devices with how many kilowatts.

People are – sadly – very uninterested in thinking about energy being indeed energy.

I have no clue of kcal, because I always read the numbers in kilojoules. And EU is not a part of Australia :) (And we need to mention the kJ because EU legislation is in effect in Finland where I live)

Happy to see it’s not just one Minneapolis that is standing up against nazism.

I would recommend exporting your settings just in case. I was using an instance that kind of vanished for a week and then returned, but with my user account completely gone 😱

It’s nice that you can just import your settings from a file on your own hard drive and continue from basically where you left.

In a way yes, because this post is in a community running on a Lemmy instance. But at the same time: The user was did not use Lemmy to write the Lemmy trashing :)

(And Lemmy is good. It’s just, PieFed is so much better!)