I’m Gerry and I love mandering

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Cake day: June 30th, 2023
  • GerryMandering@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Twitter Blue accounts fuel Ukraine War misinformationEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Hmmm. I agree they’re no threat to the US in the sense that they’re not going to suddenly invade.

    As for the performance of their military in the Ukraine war, I’m not convinced they’re as “corrupt and poorly managed” as they’ve been presented in western media. Granted, the assault on Kiev was a shitshow but things have changed a lot since then, and the most likely outcome right now looks like some sort of victory for russia in that war - probably with Russia ending up in control of all the territory they claimed to have ‘annexed’, plus a corridor including Odessa.

    It’s worth remembering Ukraine’s military was and is enormous and extremely well equipped with modern tanks, rocket artillery, all the ammunition the west is capable of manufacturing and shipping, satellite surveillance, anti air defences, everything, and seem (at least to me) to still be losing the war.

    I read this… https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/the-darkness-ahead-where-the-ukraine

    Maybe John mearsheimer is full of shit, and too pessimistic, but what he outlines in that article is grim

  • GerryMandering@lemm.eetoLinux@lemmy.ml•Share Your Favorite Linux Distros and Why You Love Them
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    3 years ago

    Everything just works, it’s very stable and convenient. As someone who used windows for most of my adult life, things are where I expect them to be with the cinammon desktop.

    There’s a GUI option for most everything, which makes using it on my HTPC with a remote control a breeze.

    Has all the things that made Ubuntu so pervasive in the first place, and strips out the more questionable choices from canonical.

    Only thing missing for me with Linux mint cinnamon edition is support for Wayland, because I wish I could run android apps with waydroid more easily. Right now, I’m able to run waydroid successfully and then I’m using weston, but it’s a janky solution at best.

    I also worry cinnamon will be left behind if it doesn’t make the switch to Wayland at some stage, because of the progress I’ve been reading about when it comes to things like HDR. But right now that’s not a factor.

    Overall it’s an almost perfect distro for me. It’s still relatively light, but has all the convenience a lazy Linux user such as myself could ask for.

    Love it.