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I agree, this is probably the best approach. Stop, breathe, apply critical thinking and give it some time to process the information and see how it fits into the big picture. You need to detach yourself emotionally from the issue you're trying to observe and evaluate (aka don't choose sides, it's not a football match). And as ever; if in doubt, go against the majority. That's your safest bet. The average person is more or less an idiot (I don't mean this as an insult, I'm not sure how to explain it in just a few words).

I would if Pinephone was able to make phone calls or Librem 5 ever shipped...

Let the politicians play politics. It's bad for business when companies decide to do that. Namecheap might have only a handful of Russian customers to afford to do that, but this won't affect just them. It will affect everyone else who will now think twice about trusting their business with Namecheap, because what's stopping Namecheap to do the same thing in the future but for a different reason? Once you cross the Rubicon, there's no going back.

It's more likely that you are being naive, to be politically correct. There hasn't been a single time of crisis in the recorded history where donations hadn't been stolen (and sometimes victims even being abused and exploited). From earthquakes, tsunamis, famine, wars...none of the campaigns went without an incident.

Ukraine is receiving military support from the entire NATO sphere. They can't shoot with your donations and they can't make any purchases either, so guess where the money is likely to end up. That's why I said if you want to donate then do so, but don't ask where the money is going because if you do that you won't donate ever again.

I don't see a problem with Finland joining NATO on a reciprocal basis; as long as Russia can set up a military base on Cuba. Of course the United States will start a world war before they allow that to happen, but then we can't reasonably expect any different from Russia?

If you want a short summary of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, I suggest this presentation/speech by John Mearsheimer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4 - he explains it really well.

I would be very surprised if this happened. This would mean that European economies won't get their invested money back and also won't be able to pay for services. Extremely highly unlikely. Even if Europe replaces Russian LNG with American it will still be at least 3x-5x the current price.

That is exactly my point; you don't dig your own grave. Sanctions are only affective when it hurts someone else, not you. That however proves to be a difficult task in a globalised world.

Probably for the same reason they didn't exclude Five Eyes from SWIFT when they invaded Yugoslavia, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria and killed over 1,500,000 people in just over twenty years...lol nah it's about money. They'd shoot themselves in the foot if they did it.

The only reason why there isn't a NATO base in Ukraine is because Russia has taken measures to make sure that doesn't happen. NATO pushed you into a war by installing a puppet regime, publicly speculating about Ukraine joining NATO for decades and supporting Ukrainian neo-nazi groups. It's an old divide and conquer recipe that worked well so far, you fell for it too.

Yes the "rest" of the world knows the "truth". It's just a matter of defining what "the rest" and "truth" mean. In the context of the modern Axis of Evil also known as Five Eyes the "truth" is whatever the propaganda machine releases to its mass audience of intellectually handicapped people.

The "truth" were the "weapons of mass destruction" where the Allies killed over 550k children only in Iraq, not counting Syria, Libya, Afghanistan. Quiet an achievement in just twenty years. Let's not talk about killing children in Serbia in 1999, keeping Cuba isolated for over fifty years, having English aristocracy go on man-hunts in Africa in the 1980s... "truth" is a very funny word nowadays.

How do you comment your NATO countries invading half of Middle East and killing 1.5mil people in just 20 years so that your economy could prosper? Did you consider sanctions then?

There's being professional and unprofessional in a business environment. Those are the only two choices you have.

All hands: no Everything else: yes

It's rude otherwise. I don't like attention so much that I only have a few pictures of myself as a child, none as an adult. But you have to put your preferences aside when it comes to business and be professional.

We had someone join our team and in every team meeting they would have their camera turned off while the rest of us had it on. I felt like they weren't part of the team, I could barely remember their face from the interview. Far from the eyes, far from the heart. So when the probation review came I gave them a thumb down, turns out others had the same experience and that person was gone.

You wouldn't hide yourself in the toilet and eavesdrop a meeting if you were in the office. This isn't something that needs "adding to the contract". That's so far from common sense that it hurts me physically reading such comments.

So a VM inside a VM inside a physical container. Sounds great.

This might come as a shock to a lot of people, but not everyone's goal in life is to be rich.

I think that's fairly normal. When you learn a concept in a language it's difficult to convey it in a foreign language if you don't have the vocabulary, even if you're a native speaker. That happens to me all the time.

I had to manage email infrastructure for years as part of my job and I really don't see how running your own email server can be a good idea for anyone. Setting it up superficially might be a quick and easy task but maintaining it stable takes hell of a lot of effort. I seriously cringe every time I see this type of guide and articles, it just makes me think that people who write them have zero experience running a mail server and have no idea what it takes to set up one that is secure and stable.

For majority of people best middle ground is to buy a cheap domain and a cheap cPanel/web hosting and just use that to host emails. You'll be done in 5min, it will cost you a cup of coffee and you won't have the headache maintaining anything other than passwords.

Ah yes, "self-improvement":

- watching videos as 2x the speed

- speedreading

- listening to audiobook while doing chores

I'm sure there's plenty more I'm forgetting here.

People spend their lives in misery and then go out of their way to try and artificially prolong it. :)

I was being sarcastic. Not only is it not easy, it is impossible! There is no such thing as distinguishing a cyber attack of any kind between a state-sponsored and independent-sponsored. This move by Apple is bizarre to say the least.

"If Apple discovers activity consistent with a state-sponsored attack"

I am really interested in understanding more about a "state-sponsored attack" as someone who works in Ops and has experience in CyberSec. All these years working in the industry and I had no idea you could identify an "attack" that easily.

The greatest misconception about life is that you are ought to "achieve" something. You're not. Do what you want, not what you ought to do.

Thanks for the suggestions, these all look good!

Excellent, thank you! I've already played Machinarium and absolutely loved it but I've wishlisted the other two. Great suggestions!

This list is from my Steam library, however I haven't yet played all of them:

   - Deponia  
   - The Detail
   - State of Mind
   - Black Mirror II
   - The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav
   - Disturbed
   - Earthshine
   - Edge of Reality
   - Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes
   - Fighting Fantasy Classics
   - The Forest of Doom
   - Jericho's Prophecies
   - Memoria
   - Mirt. Tales of the Cold Land
   - Scarlet Hollow - Episode 1
   - Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders
   - Life is Strange
   - Life is Strange: Before the Storm
   - The Lion's Song
   - Misadventures of Laura Silver
   - Omen Exitio: Plague
   - Syberia
   - Syberia II
   - Wonderlust

That's why I mostly play point&click adventure/rpg games and text adventures, because that genre can't really survive without a good story. I'm rarely disappointed and the games cost a fraction of what you would pay for a AAA title. Not that I don't like AAA, but every time I watch a gameplay video I get bored fairly quickly because I don't feel drawn to the game, it seems "same old, same old". Perhaps it's just me.

I think "Life is strange" is a good example of what can happen when the writing is strong combined with a nice, easygoing gameplay that takes you through the story. The only AAA game that I bought was "The Witcher 3" precisely for the back story, but after 5-10h of playing it just felt so repetitive that I gave up on it. I am likely in a minority but I'd take strong writing over graphics, physics and other elements of a game any day.

I recently bought a Samsung 4K TV and it came with a "free tv" service (that's also crammed with ads). It's intrusive, it auto-plays and can't be disabled and I just don't want it. I've never owned a TV as an adult before and was interested in buying a video console to play some games, so it's kind of my fault for not understanding how these modern TVs work. But even so, if I'm paying £600 for a TV how is it acceptable to have all this nonsense pre-installed on it that can't be disabled or deleted? Nowhere on the sales page does it mention any of that and all the reviews seems to be from happy people on day 1 of purchase. The only way around it is to connect up a third party receiver to it such as Amazon Fire TV or Apple TV...but still feel cheated as a consumer if I have to do that.

City of London Corporation, Gibraltar, Jersey, British Virgin Islands, South Dakota... I'm intentionally ignoring honeypots such as Cayman Islands, Delaware, Panama etc.

I understand how hard it must be wanting to seek help but at the same time trying to avoid being falsely stigmatised. I sympathise with you because I can relate, but that's the world we live in. Downvotes tell you all you really need to know.