IsoKiero

I totally agree. Setting up an email server is pretty trivial, but setting up a good email server with long lifespan and managing it is another matter. I absolutely recommend doing that, that's the one front we can take back from the giants if enough people decide to go that route, but it's not something you should just spin up by following a random youtube tutorial and leave it be.

I do host my own emails, but I've been doing that commercially too for a decade or so and make my living as system administrator, so I've cut my teeth on this quite a while ago. You need to understand quite a few things, set up backups, clear your IP from various blocklists every now and then, manage the ever growing spam problem, make sure that no malicious actors can access your systems and so on.

It is very much doable and at least I personally enjoy the freedom I have for not relying on anyone else on my communications. Go for it, but be prepared to jump in to the deep end without floats.

They could at least stop using twitter (and meta). At least here in Finland a ton of public offices, news outlets, radio channels and so on use twitter as a platform to deliver their information and, while it was a decent plan back when twitter wasn't owned by that clown, that ship has sailed ages ago but their practises haven't changed a bit. Government ran mastodon instance would be pretty cheap solution to this and it would quarantee that everyone had access to their information without signing up to any service at all.

Yes, something like that. I've undestood that snap-on is just for tools while Würth does a crapload more than that. You can get shoes, gloves, jackets and pretty much the whole wardrobe from them. And then there's würth electronics (or something like that) where you can get vaious kinds of common electronics components and so on.

I've seen some shit. But I'm also old enough to not care. I'm a freaking system administrator, not a surgeon. No one has died if their email is unreacable for an hour or two. Shit happens, then you deal with it and that's all. Difference between a junior and a seasoned veteran is that old guys with battle scars is that the seasoned guy knows that something will break, shit will hit the fan and everything might turn up into a chaos and plan accordingly. Juniors will either endure and learn along the way or crumble.

When you've been in the business for few decades it's not that big of a deal to cause an outage. You know how to fix your shit, you know how to work with a severely crippled environment and you know how to build the whole circus from the ground up. And you also know that no matter how disappointed or loud the C** suits are, they'll calm down once you get them out of the hole.

Just today I had a meeting with discussion on what to do if some obscure edge-case ruins our ~5k users and few continents wide AD tree. Sure, if that would happen, it would most definetly suck balls to get back up and it would hurt the company bottom line and it would mean few nights with very little sleep, but no one would still die and our team is up to the task to build the whole crap out of nothing if needed. So, it's just business as usual. But all of us have been in the business long enough that we know how to avoid the common pitfalls and we trust eachother enough that should the shit hit the fan in the big way we could still recover the whole situation.

And still, even if the whole thing burns up in the flames, I've got the experience and skillset under my belt which will be valuable to some other business entity. I just don't care if the main office building is on literal fire. It's not my problem to fix immediately and when it is it's still just work. I put in the hours they pay for me and do whatever I can but when I'm off the clock the employer doesn't really exist in my world.

To be honest, their stuff is pretty damn good. It's a bit like Knipex or Festool. Pretty much the best quality tools around, but their pricing is also premium. No matter the brand, they are really good, but not all of their stuff is really worth the money, but if you're buying with a company credit card it doesn't really matter either.

For a home gamer it's of course different scenario, but for a company it's nothing to throw 100+€ for a side cutters since you still need to pay for someone to go and pick them up from a retailer and when you pay the premium they last for a very long time no matter how badly you abuse them so you don't waste time and money on replacing stuff.

And würth has reasonable priced tools as well. I have serveral utility knives with break away blades, welding gloves and other stuff around in garage. I could get the cheaper ones too, but even if würth (or knipex) ones are often way more expensive than competition the quality is just so much above anything else that coughing up the cash is really worth it.

Würth. I'm sorry for your wallet.

You are correct, this is definetly not that big of a deal right now. My license is already valid across EU. However, the process for this has been going on at the background for quite a while and the end goal is to improve road safety and have common rules in all of EU. Increased road safety is obviously a good thing and it also helps people to move around if they want to, so even if it's not the biggest problems at hand it's still improvement across the union.

They more likely use turnips.

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Ei tornifirma sinänsä väärässä ole. Täällä hoidetaan miinoitukset kuitenkin niin vastuullisesti kuin miinakentän nyt ylipäätään voi vastuullisesti rakentaa (ei miinoiteta tenavien hiekkalaatikoita, miinoituksista piirretään kartat, niiden purku on suunniteltu etukäteen jne).

Mielellään näkisin maailman missä miinoja ei ole olemassa, mutta kun sirkus etenkin itärajan takana on mitä on, niin vähän pakkohan meidän on varautua siihen että iivana joskus ei-niin-kaukaisessa tulevaisuudessa haluaisikin ottaa revanssia. Maassa kuin maassa kun on pidemmässä juoksussa aina armeija. Ja jos kurkkusalaattipojat ja -tytöt ei ole omia niin sitten ne on tuontitavaraa.

Meillä ei ole rajattomasti resurssia laittaa esim. kk-pesäkkeitä 50 metrin välein koko rajalle pysäyttämään lihamuurihyökkäystä niin jotain muuta pitää keksiä. Paska tilanne, vaan ei peukalo takamuksessa istuminenkaan ole oikein vaihtoehto.

Neither can Ukraine.

True, but Ukraine has played this game pretty well in my opinion. They keep negotiations going, speak nicely about the deal in public and at least in here media represents Ukraine as willing and open of discussion about whatever deal Trump suggests, no matter how bat shit crazy they are.

I mean, Ukraine isn't stupid enough to sign off all of their wealth to USA or surrender land without any significant gain. But they can now at least say that they're willing to discuss about the matter while Russia just bluntly rejects the proposals.

Majority of European fighter jets depend on US suppliers for spare parts and maintenance for a start. Same with helicopters. Also, the Europe as a whole has problems on delivering even the most common artillery shells to Ukraine in quantities they would need.

So, as I mentioned, our military is well capable of stopping Russian invasion at the border, but holding it on the long term requires allies and co-operation. Also, size of the population has very little to do with military capabilities, which was proven by Finns a few decades ago and currently in Ukraine.