I can place a pretty hefty bet that this thought has not visited Elmos head.

You can get conductive epoxy, but I think it's more expensive than a new controller. But maybe something like that, graphite or iron dust mixed in epoxy? That would most likely need some trial and error to get proper mixture.

The Trump plan included a ton more land than Crimea alone (actually pretty much exactly the areas Russia claims to be theirs) plus a freaking nuclear power plant which Ukraine should just give to the US to make profit out of.

Quite a deal maker and negotiatior this orange pensioner.

“There is nothing to talk about. It is our land, the land of the Ukrainian people,” Zelenskyy said.

US will not succeed in spinning this as something positive if they help Russia occupy part of Europe

On that you're correct. But what they can at least try to do is make Ukraine look bad or difficult/subborn/whatever after rejecting their "peace offer".

It's not that much about choosing a side. Europe has been sleeping on their defences for decaes and should US just pull all their hardware and troops back home tomorrow there's no immediately available replacements on that. And that's a sad state for the whole continent. So it's not about honest opinion but, as everything between countries is, a political question on how badly some countries depend on US defences.

I have no doubt that should US side with Russians it would be widely condemned in global west, but I don't think global south or China really give a damn. But Europe almost as a whole need to get their shit together really fast and so far, even if the movement seems to be into the right direction, it's been really slow to show up any actual results.

Well, that is also a possibility, but the end result doesn't change. Either way it's possible to spin that so Ukraine would look bad. In the normal sensible world that wouldn't fly, but with the global circus we're experiencing it seems like anything goes.

Putin is willing to make a deal with Trump in which he cedes invaded land that he doesn’t actually control?

That might work for him, at least until Russia can build up a few new tanks and artillery units. More likely they make all kinds of outrageous claims and when Ukraine (rightfully) rejects them Russia can claim that Ukraine doesn't want peace.

Or the fools hope option: Cracks in Russia start to show. Money is tight, there's no workforce, no resources to cover up any kind of losses on the battlefield and so on, so they're starting to push on whatever peace treaty they can before the whole country collapses.

Good point, will do. Currently I'm just focusing just on the lights themselves. Dimming even with a off-the-shelf constant current module would most likely be enough so I could set it once for suitable level and leave it at that, but of course it would be nice to extend into more adaptive lights while I'm working on it anyways.

Other what I've been thinking is if I should go full RGBW and just set colour temperature and intensity as a whole to something nice, but that would mean more wires and more complex setup as a whole and I'm not too sure if that's worth the effort. It's sauna after all, not a disco.

Noniin, ei pitäisi yömyöhään yrittää muistella mitään, kiitos korjauksesta.

Tuosta nyt varmaan saa parikin filosofian maisterityötä tehtyä, mutta itse näen että maanpuolustuksellinen turvallisuus ja yhteiskunnan hyvinvointi/toimivuus siviilipalveluksen kautta tähtää molemmat tasan samaan maaliin. Meillä kun on paljon muitakin potentiaalisia uhkia kuin suora sota Venäjän kanssa. Luonnonmullistukset aina isoon aurinkomyrskyyn asti ilmeisimpänä, mutta ei siitä nyt niin kovin montaa vuotta ole kun mm. Kainuussa oltiin keskellä talvipakkasia ilman sähköjä pari vuorokautta myräkän katkoessa puita linjoille ja noissa tilanteissa tarvitaan yhtälailla auttajia paikalle.

Tällaisissa "pienissäkin" murheissa koko yhteiskunnan valmius hoitaa hommat takaisin raiteelleen on kokonaisuuden kannalta aika merkittävä asia. Ja toisekseen meillä ei pienenä maana ole kertakaikkiaan resursseja siihen, että puolustusvoimat tai mikään muukaan instanssi voisi toimia pelkästään palkkatyöläisillä jos koko maan toimintaan tulee joku merkittävä häiriö, oli sen aiheuttaja sitten missä tahansa.

Ja jos nyt maanpuolustus terminä on liian raskas, niin sen voi toki korvata vaikka 'yhteiskunnan turvaamisella', sillä ei ole niin merkitystä. Realiteetti nyt kuitenkin on se, että jos mitä tahansa isompaa yllätystä tapahtuu niin meidän täällä pitää keskenämme pitää pakka kasassa. Nato ja muut liitot toki auttavat varsinkin sotilaallisten uhkien kanssa, mutta loppukädessä tämä koko yhteiskunta on meidän suomalaisten käsissä ja ainakin minä olen sitä mieltä että sen turvaamisen eteen kannattaa tehdä töitä.

In our company we (at least IT department) get to choose our own bags (within reason). I have some generic lenovo backpack they had laying around when I started and it's decent enough. Maybe a bit smaller side on what I'd like, but it carries my laptop, headset, random cables, power supply, notepad and stuff like that just fine. And it doesn't have any kind of visible logo on it at all, unless you count the Think(r) colour scheme on zipper tabs.

And it's also a security thing. Should someone steal my backpack it does not have any logos to pinpoint which company it belongs unless I've left my lanyard in the pocket with my rfid-tag. And of course if you open the laptop it has AD forest name on there, so it's pretty trivial to figure out, but at least I'm not advertising 'steal my things if you want access to this company' everywhere.

Siemensiltä ne taitaa tulla. Ja se vekotin on tosiaan "melko" iso, suuruusluokkaa pieni rivitalo pyörimässä vartaassa. En nyt yhtäkkiä löytänyt mittoja että olisin muistikuvan varmistanut, mutta se on useita metrejä halkaisijaltaan ja pituutta kaksinumeroinen määrä metrejä (edit: muistelin OL3:n roottoria). Ja toleranssit on sellaisia, että sen koko ropelin pitää pyöriä jatkuvasti ettei se väänny oman painonsa alla mutkalle.

Ilmeisesti nyt koronan jälkimainingeissa tuotantoketjut ovat edelleen vähän solmussa ja tilaukset venyvät, normaalisti tuommoisen (edelleen muistikuvan varassa) saa n. vuodessa, mutta viimeisimmän varaosan kanssa oli mennyt yli 5 vuotta. Jotain hämminkiä jossain kuitenkin on kun noita paukkuu "jatkuvasti". Ydinturvallisuuteen noilla ei onneksi ole vaikutusta, mutta meidän kuluttajien lompakkoon sitäkin enemmän.

Ja sehän ei siis ole vain jäykkä sorvattu akseli mihin on hitsattu siipiä kiinni. Koko roottori itsessään on melkoinen insinööritaidonnäyte lämmönvaihtokanavineen ja kaikkineen, joten tuommosia ei edes teoriassa, saati ydinvoimaa varten tyyppihyväksyttynä, saa ihan joka kyläpajalta.

Varsin järkevän oloinen lista kokonaisuudessaan. Siviilipalvelus kun nykymuodossa on lähinnä rangaistus varusmiespalveluksen väliinjättämiselle, mutta jos nyt puhallettaisiin pilliin niin tässä maassa on ihan hemmetisti hommaa tehtäväksi, että yhteiskunta pysyy edes auttavasti toimintakykyisenä varsinaisen "kovan" maanpuolustuksen lisäksi ja siihen rakoon tuo ohjelma osuu kyllä juuri eikä melkein kohdalleen.

Samalla hoituisi "kätevästi" myös tasa-arvovinouman korjaaminen kun maanpuolustusvelvoite laajennettaisiin kaikille sukupuolille ja aseellisen palveluksen rinnalle nostettaisiin karkeasti yhteiskunnan kannalta samanarvoinen siviilipalvelus.

I don't think there's one at least in official repositories. But if you're missing libc6 one might argue that your system is not in any functional state anyways.

I have absolutely zero experience on pacman, but I could argue the very same with dpkg/apt with the same arguments. The Debian kind, not the abomination Ubuntu ships with today.

as far as i know apt and dnf have no equivalent easy redo all

It's similarily possible (dpkg --get-selections, some sed/cut/awk wizardry to cut unnecessary stuff from the output, xargs to apt install --reinstall on that and you should be good to go, maybe there's even a simpler way to achieve that) with Debian.

But that's just me. I've been with Debian for quite a while. Potato was released 2000, but I think I got my hands on it 2001/2002 and I've been a happy user since. And even if I've worked with pretty much any major distribution (RHEL, CentOS, SuSe, Ubuntu and even Slackware back in the day) around I still prefer Debian because that's what I know and learned over the years on how to fix things if something goes sideways.

That's pretty much it. I personally would run conduits too while the walls are open, they're pretty cheap and once you have them in place you can just run whatever you want and easily replace cables if needed. Maybe even add an extra conduit to expand wiring later on, but that depends on quite a few things.

I still have a fools hope that generals and other high ranking military people have their feet firmly on the ground, as their whole training, career and often identity necessities. And, at least on my belief, that also means that they won't lead their military across the ocean to get their ass handed over.

I'm quite confident that US military could defeat their Chinese counterpart on a level field, but fighting across the ocean is a logistical nightmare and even if they could get their boots on the ground against Chinese holding anything there would be nearly impossible and it would have an astronomical price tag. USA might be able to pull that off, but in the long term it would just be another Vietnam, but with far more severe consequences locally.

So, yes, I assume that generals would disobey. And any competent replacement would disobey too. Replacing them with someone who don't know what they're doing would just be a disaster for the US of A. It might still happen, but at that point they'd look like the "second strongest army in the world" which is being destroyed on a field in Ukraine and there would be no hope for anyone in the Europe (or maybe globally) who would like to do any meaningful business with the US, so they'd just dig their own grave. pretty much like what Russia is doing right now.

You are of course not wrong with that. But also I tend to believe that high ranking military personnel are pretty practical and rational on their decision making. Getting US military boots on the ground in China would be bigger than Vietnam war scale of operations even to the US army and it would have immense effects on both US army and the country as a whole. The operation would practically mean moving a smaller European country quite literally across the ocean even without any warfare and when the receiving coast is armed to teeth and willing to fight for their land it's way more difficult.

And for what? Absolutely destroying on whatever respect and trust is left globally? Because there's no way in hell US army would conquer and keep the whole China. Maybe expand Hong Kong or Taiwan a bit and gain a relatively small area of land for material imports? It just doesn't make any kind of sense at all.

9/11 retaliaton at least made some sense as US was willing to punish someone for the tradegy and Iraq wars had resources they could actually hold and gain from but with China there's just no way for US to make any profitable scenario out of open warfare. Anything they might gain from that would be diminishingly small compared to the military effort and expenses they would need to get anything out of that fight.

And that's what I'm pretty much counting on. No matter how patriotic the generals might be, attacking China just doesn't make any sense and it doesn't have any arguments for it beyond the rambling of a demented leader they have. I refuse to believe that the biggest military and logistics might in the world would do that stupid things just because one man said so.

will Americans stop him before he starts more wars?

A really good question. Politically it seems like it's not going to happen, but I still have (at least naive) hope that the actual US mlitary would not respond on commands should the cheeto order active military operations against China. That would make absolutely no sense in so many ways, no matter how you spin it around, that I'd expect the boots on the ground would just say 'fuck off'.

But I also tought that the orange clown wouldn't have a chance on elections either, so we'll see. And also, I'm across the pond from US, so my information is mostly from European media outlets and social media around here, so take that with suitable grain of salt. I just rather not see the reality where US is fighting China and Europe is left to deal with Russia. Not because we couldn't handle that, but because that would be just bat shit crazy situation in my lifetime.

Otsikosta huolimatta tuo ei taida aivan kokonaan mennä nimimerkki Riikan ansiolistalle. Yle uutisoi asiasta jo ~5 viikkoa sitten ja Google on ehtinyt jo kovasti pahastumaan asiasta.

Itse asia taas ei ole aivan niin suoraviivainen. Toisaalta nuo datakeskukset luo oheistyötä vartijoille, sähköasentajille, IV-insinööreille, lounasravintoloille jne, ja toisaalta jos niitä valtion toimesta tuetaan kohtuuttomasti niin kokonaisuuden kannalta hyöty voi jäädä jopa pakkaselle. En osaa suoralta kädeltä sanoa kumpi nyt sitten on parempi ja toisaalta vaikka kokonaisuus olisi valtiolle nettonegatiivinen euroissa niin se ei välttämättä ole silti huono investointi jos vaihdossa saadaan työllisyyttä ja yhteiskunnan hyvinvointia parannetua.