Toner is cheaper if you have a laser black only, lots of pages per refill.

At work I’ve installed 10 color inkjet epson L6460 printers 2-3 years ago and most of them I still haven’t refilled.

They come with 2 bottles of black ink and one of everything else, last forever, will print after 4 months unused if you do a print head cleaning (a few times in a row) and the Epson brand bottles are 8 - 12 bucks each.

For home use a cheaper Ecotank would probably serve you just as well.

You are now on a list.

Germany sold some submarines to Greece that were leaning over on one side out the factory

Trump’s “Board of Peace” is intended as basically official world police and several countries have signed up for it because they want to actively enforce “peace” towards anyone they disagree with.

The UN will never succeed in anything useful unless their resolutions carry economic or military weight.

If you want a specific variety of a plant that’s patented by, say, Monsanto, you don’t own the seeds you get but rather their permission to plant them.

If you re-plant seeds in your own field produced by the crops of the previous year on that same field they can sue you and they will win (see Bowman v. Monsanto Co.)

Iran “attacking its neighbors” is one way to phrase the fact they are hitting back towards US bases they are being attacked from and also towards Israel which itself has attacked basically every country it has borders with and several that it hasn’t.

Ukraine is sending neither drones nor soldiers inside of Iran.

Thousands of Iranian drones have landed into Ukrainian soil, though.

Also are you telling me the Iranians sent the drones to Russia and just sent them flight instructions printed on an A4 paper instead of Iranian instructors…?

Hmmm, I wonder how Ukraine ever managed to become so proficient in shooting down Iranian drones, years before anyone else?

This is only second to that time the cops killed a dude then sent a dry cleaner bill to his family because of all the blood they had to wash from their uniforms

I assume that’s the same way people felt like in 1980, when IBM released the world’s first >1GB hard drive.

It was as big as a fridge and cost $100k in today’s money to buy, for a whopping 2.5GB of storage.

My astrophotography projects are several GB each, my phone can shoot 4k RAW video that eats up 6GB a minute and it’s all hobby-level.

I wouldn’t mind if those 44TB drives became more affordable in a few years, I’m already saving up for a 24TB NAS.

Most facilities are deep underground, hard to reach for most bombs except those carried by big bombers that are expensive to operate and a logistical nightmare in contested airspace, which Iran is at the moment.

The shaheds are also tiny, cheap and are built mostly from readily available components. As we’ve seen in Ukraine there are literally hundreds of designs, some made literally with cardboard, with new iterations seemingly every day.

Traditional air defense systems can be very easily overwhelmed by sheer number of incoming drones. Combine those with ballistic weapons and the mix is pretty much unstoppable with current means.

When it comes to countering shaheds, Ukraine is years ahead of pretty much everyone right now.

Iran has been mass producing them for years too, they can make hundreds a month and they could make hundreds more in a sustained war situation.

The US has very few options besides pulling outta there quickly that will allow them to call it a victory.

If Russia decides to play ball and feed intel to Iran then those salvos and shahed swarms are gonna start landing on aircraft carriers like flies on a turd.

They’re on china’s side against India, I don’t know that they’re that close as nations otherwise

I’ve been happily sitting on my R5 2600x for so many years now lol. My MB is an MSI B450 Pro Carbon and it can easily handle a 5950x or 5800x3D or whatever.

Add another 2x8 gb ddr4 for 32GB total and I’ll be seeing some insane performance relative to what I’m already happy with, which will last me another 5 years easily unless the mobo dies.

It’s really insane how well designed AM4 is.

Ah, AM4.

At 10 years old, it’s still the platform that keeps on giving.

Definitely. I’d also check to buy used if the price is right.

If you’re into fun technology stuff, a raspberry pi can be a million different things for you.

In Greece they all seem to own or work at big stores that sell randomly branded clothing and low to OK quality tools, fishing gear, cooking pots, gardening stuff and a myriad of random electronic devices like flashlights, LED strips, chargers, selfie sticks etc, all sold dirt cheap.

Some of them learn the language at some point, but most don’t. They don’t seem to even hang out amongst themselves, it’s seemingly isolated families here and there.

They keep to their own and bother no one.

Just go to the house of any cyber security worker, or any sysadmin / IT worker and tell me how many internet connected smart devices you find.

The “S” in IoT stands for Security.

And they’re still called “settlers” XD

Imagine me and a battalion of Greek soldiers marching into, say, Italy and bombing a town to shit, then establishing a perimeter, kill the locals, act like the area was promised to us by Zeus 3000 years ago and be called “Greek settlers” on mainstream media and nothing done to us.