The Russia-Ukraine War has begun

[Spirits Rising]

Same for anyone using the Quest 2. And more recently, a Steam Deck. And the Steam Link ....

Each of those is either android derived or more directly Linux/Linux derived.

 

[Chalice Yao]

Put it the other way around.
If it isn't a Windows PC, there is a very very high chance the device is using some Linux or BSD Unix, or a derivative of either (Including OS X being a BSD derivative)
Those are essentially what run nearly everything aside of ye olde Windows desktop.

 

[Soen Eber]

Linux has a pattern of being used invisibly all arround you. Mall kiosks, appliances, point-of-sale terminals, entertainment systems, car electronics, factory systems, ATM machines for withdrawing cash, etc. It's low power, reliability, costs, and developer mindshare make it idea.

 

[Free]

Welcome to Virtualverse, where a Linux discussion can break out in the Russia-Ukraine war thread!

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Apparently that's not the case, at least not according to the Finish Boarder Guard and various government ministers. Sorry.

Now out of date; in the two days since, the traffic has increased substantially after all:

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

You see, Genghis Khan would just roll on into those provinces and take them back.

 

[detrius]

You see, Genghis Khan would just roll on into those provinces and take them back.

...liberate them from Nazi rule.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Payback time! Germany has just acquired the gas company Uniper, which previously belonged to the Fortum group, where the vast majority belonged to Finland.

Uniper is the owner of several power plants, amongst others of Shaturskaya with 1500 MW near Moscow. Time for some accident and looong, unexpected maintenance there!

Shaturskaya | Uniper

Die Erdgas- und Steinkohlekraftwerke Shaturskaya von Uniper befinden sich in der Region Moskau, Russland.

www.uniper.energy

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Linux has a pattern of being used invisibly all arround you. Mall kiosks, appliances, point-of-sale terminals, entertainment systems, car electronics, factory systems, ATM machines for withdrawing cash, etc. It's low power, reliability, costs, and developer mindshare make it idea.

Your car is a computer running Linux with a drive-train attached.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

The Irish Taioiseach appealed in a speech at the UN general assembly to remove Russia from the UN security council due to their war with Ukraine.

As he puts it: "We face an expansionist power, brutally invading and occupying a peaceful neighbour. We faced this many times in Europe in the 20th century. We did not think we would face it again in the 21st century."

Russia commented these statements as regrettable.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Zelensky giving Russia some private lessons in history about the topic "Is Crimea really Russian?" - here we go:

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

83 year old Holocaust survivor living in Ukraine telling Russia: "There are no nazis here!"

Ukraine is 'not Nazi', Holocaust survivors tell Putin

Roman Gerstein, an 83-year-old Ukrainian Holocaust survivor, has a blunt riposte for Kremlin justifications of its invasion: "There are no Nazis here."

www.france24.com

 

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[Innula Zenovka]

Informative thread on why Putin is following the Soviet practice of holding clearly rigged referenda in occupied areas of Ukraine

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Basically the same logic as "push surveys" over here.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[detrius]

From an actual Russian pov - a left leaning one at that [he left right as the 'special military engagement' started]

A small update from Roman:

 

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