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I just use IBM Plex, but that's mostly because the keycaps my keyboard came with used it :) I also think it's just fine for readability (i.e. I/l and O/0 are different enough)

It can always get worse. "Only" ~200000 deaths from Israel's actions for now, or ~10% of the population, which Israeli pieces of shit see as "90% still to go". One can imagine how a total famine can speed up the genocide significantly.

I've actually found RawTherapee to be slightly faster for what I'm doing (slight edits to my amateur photography)

While the video is kind of bullshit, I (as a vegan for 3 years now and no plans of stopping) also don't think the message "just go vegan bro" is useful. A lot of people are now aware of the cruelty involved in animal agriculture, but just don't care enough to give up nutritious tasty food that's easy to cook. As usual, relying on individual action can't be the solution for a systemic problem. So I think the most important part is to mobilize people to organize, lobby and protest against the animal industry, and to push for pro-vegan regulations, without necessarily going full vegan themselves for now. Quite surprisingly for a lot of people that's easier to do than give up "mah cheese", as horrific as its production may be. Of course it's also great to encourage them to try easy & tasty vegan alternatives for some days of the week at least.

I prefer to do it the other way around: only have substituters = https://cache.nixos.org/ in /etc/nix/nix.conf, add all other binary caches to trusted-substituters there, and use them only when necessary (typically by adding them to nixConfig.extra-substituters in each flake.nix that needs them). This speeds up builds significantly, because otherwise Nix checks for each path in each substituter before building it locally, which can take literal minutes if you're building a lot of paths.

Expansionist? No.

Putin literally started an imperialist land war to expand the territory and capture resources (and stay in power for a while longer).

You’re confusing the Soviet regimes of the past with the current country.

No, you have it backwards.

The Soviet government at least had some noble goals for their expansion, and measurable improvements to the lives of people on the captured territories.

Russia is an oligarchy and the only goals are territorial gains, resource exploitation and enriching the richest at the expense of the poor under the pretext of wartime nationalism. Same as the US, really, but with less power and resources.

Look at where progressive policies have gotten the west thus far!

You seriously think that the current state of the west is due to "progressive policies" and not capitalism and nationalism? If anything, progressive policies (women's rights, LGBT inclusion, secularization, education for all, universal medical care (in places where it exist), and some limited labor rights) are one of rare good things that's been happening in the west.

the people seem to overwhelmingly support the government despite these serious shortcomings

BTW, few people actually support the government. The best way to confirm this is to look at the public reaction to the attempted coup by Prigozhin in summer 2023. It ranged from apathy to amusement, the same kind you would have if you were watching Fast&Furious 21 (or whatever number they're up to). However most people don't oppose the government either and just go about their daily lives. It's similar to what most Americans are doing right now despite their country turning to mask-off fascism, dismantling all their all social safety nets and flaunting a world war.

Not if you’re simply parroting western propaganda, which you are!

I was born and grew up in semi-provincial Russia. I had two neighbors who went through the prison system and told me about their experiences.

Russia isn’t some backward country. Like most western countries, they have various types of prisons or gulags.

Semi-agreed.

Central, more well-developed parts of Russia are not backwards (in fact I really liked the soviet heritage of microdistricts, well-developed public transit, socialized medical care and the remains of the education system); the "provinces" (in which I grew up) absolutely are, compared to the even the worst bumfuck nowhere in Europe.

Russian jails (СИЗО) and low-security prisons (колония общего режима) are OK relatively speaking. However if you are in for a "political" crime you're most likely going to end up in a high-security prison (колония строгого режима or тюрьма) in which conditions are seriously worse, including forced labor, denial of medical care, regular isolation, beatings by prison guards and other inmates.

And then there is the heavily prevalent "prisoner culture" which ensures that people who've been in for more than 3-5 years come out with completely destroyed psyche and lack of any real-world social skills. One of my neighbors who spent 5 years in a low-security prison for drug use in the 2000s came out a broken man and was in and out of the system for as long as I knew him.

I agree that the US prison system absolutely sucks ass and must be abolished entirely. Russian (high-security) prisons are still worse (except maybe for Gitmo and the El Salvador thing, which are a fucking disgrace to humanity).

Gulag is just Russian for prison

No it fucking isn't, how hard is that to check? ГУЛАГ (GULAG) stands for Главное Управление ЛАГерей (Main Administration of [labor] Camps), a controversial system of labor camps in 1930s-50s (colloquially up to the 80s). Back in Russia I've almost never heard anyone use it to refer to the modern prison system. It is sometimes used in a set phrase "Digital Gulag" to refer to the government's attempts to censor the internet, but that's about it. Funnily enough the word is used in the general sense of "brutal prison" in the West only - and that is indeed western propaganda.

Have you tried the "new" OpenGL renderer? It fares much better for me. (Actually, maybe it's the default now?)

Yay! Now to wait while it trickles down to F-Droid...

For further context, opposing the war can and does lead to 10-15 years imprisonment in Russia, and Russian prisons are even worse than ones in the US.

The sad/scary part is that the missile research did indeed work pretty damn well.