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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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67 | 16.58% |
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94 | 23.27% |
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14 | 3.47% |
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87 | 21.53% |
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euphronius posted:what do militaries think about tablets?? is the tablet interface not robust enough? A few years ago a guy in my IT department said there was a desire to move everything over to a tablet-based infrastructure to replace everyone's desktop and laptop computers. It never happened but the idea is horrifying to me- that is some whiz kid moron's idea of The Future and it only died when that fantasy came up against the reality of what people actually need in order to do their jobs. I'm grateful that realization hit before and not after the implementation like so many other misguided attempts to "modernize".
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Jul 10, 2023 17:16
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lol that France makes the patch design wide NATO-OTAN
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Jul 10, 2023 17:20
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Futanari Damacy posted:A few years ago a guy in my IT department said there was a desire to move everything over to a tablet-based infrastructure to replace everyone's desktop and laptop computers. It never happened but the idea is horrifying to me- that is some whiz kid moron's idea of The Future and it only died when that fantasy came up against the reality of what people actually need in order to do their jobs. I'm grateful that realization hit before and not after the implementation like so many other misguided attempts to "modernize". most it guys hate tablets and are "simpler is better" type of people ime it is unfortunate when you get a guy who is the opposite and fucks everything up. in my book, if i dont have to think about it at all then theyre doing an outstanding job
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Jul 10, 2023 17:21
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Frosted Flake posted:
Our vet plates are pretty easy to spot in Quebec. 
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Jul 10, 2023 17:26
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mawarannahr posted:lol that France makes the patch design wide France et Canada.
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Jul 10, 2023 17:26
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supersnowman posted:Our vet plates are pretty easy to spot in Quebec. I like the Green variant, for veterans who drive Priuses.
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Jul 10, 2023 17:27
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OctaMurk posted:most it guys hate tablets and are "simpler is better" type of people ime The problem IT people have with tablet is how lovely they are to work with when they have issue. For a end user, it does not matter all that much because they rarely do the actual fixing. Every keyboard application sucks poo poo bit if I have to fix poo poo, I probably need a functioning keyboard. Any actual hardware fix is also automatically a gigantic pain in the rear end.
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Jul 10, 2023 17:33
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Frosted Flake posted:I like the Green variant, for veterans who drive Priuses. Too bad there does not seem to be any active service to help us spot which chargers are 16% APR straight out of boot.
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Jul 10, 2023 17:35
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DancingShade posted:Anyone who puts stickers on a laptop is a poser wearing a uniform from a surplus store and medals from the wrong country entirely. It's a halloween costume. There have been three distinct machines over the years inside my case and it has never once occurred to me to put a sticker on anything. My last motherboard came with a whole sticker sheet that I kept out of sheer bemusement. Do people actually use those? Why? Is it like plastering the insides with LEDs? I *almost* got LED fans once but ultimately decided it'd be irritating at night because I never turn the PC off.
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Jul 10, 2023 18:04
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putting stickers on your macbook is required for getting a job some places, or you will fail the vibe check
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Jul 10, 2023 18:07
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any place that uses the term "vibe check" was never gonna hire me
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Jul 10, 2023 18:10
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Stickers on workmachines suck massive balls and if you plaster your worklaptop with them you deserve to stub your little toe on every corner
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Jul 10, 2023 18:11
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Some people just didn't grow out of the child like glee of a teenager plastering everything they own with images of pop culture that they love to consume. Unlike me, the grown up that was crushed by realities of life and is too jaded to care about these things anymore.
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Jul 10, 2023 18:13
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I had a very cool conversation with someone today in which I discovered that 1. Ukraine will use cluster munitions responsibly, and they gave written statements about it. 2. They never used cluster munitions on Donetsk City because Ukraine never had cluster munitions. 3. All independent organizations have said that they have never observed Ukraine using cluster munitions. 4. 2014 was a different time and different government, and Maidan happened because of the pro-Russian government using cluster munitions on Donetsk City caused Ukrainians to rise up against it.
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Jul 10, 2023 18:16
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speng31b posted:putting stickers on your macbook is required for getting a job some places, or you will fail the vibe check I don't have the impulse for decorating things I guess. Even when I routinely carried a laptop around the only thing I ever put on it was a label with my name and number
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Jul 10, 2023 18:16
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Zeppelin Insanity posted:I had a very cool conversation with someone today in which I discovered that 1. Ukraine will use cluster munitions responsibly, and they gave written statements about it. 2. They never used cluster munitions on Donetsk City because Ukraine never had cluster munitions. 3. All independent organizations have said that they have never observed Ukraine using cluster munitions. 4. 2014 was a different time and different government, and Maidan happened because of the pro-Russian government using cluster munitions on Donetsk City caused Ukrainians to rise up against it. Oh yeah, people are just completely disconnected from reality on the events of the last decade in Ukraine. All they know is good guys and bad guys
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Jul 10, 2023 18:18
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I now define myself by much more demure objects such as a importer premium japanese day planner with a leather cover with the only adornments being creases and scuffs it got from use. And a feather pen.
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Jul 10, 2023 18:19
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rockets painted yellow do more damage!
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Jul 10, 2023 18:20
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Frosted Flake posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uNXdPGlx14 What is sending more guys to Latvia gonna do? Just have an even bigger number of guys stuck in Courland Pocket 2?
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Jul 10, 2023 18:23
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Nix Panicus posted:I don't have the impulse for decorating things I guess. same. lol if you have desktop wallpaper that's not blank, too.
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Jul 10, 2023 18:23
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Clark Nova posted:if you haven’t been issued so many nigh-identical latitudes and elitebooks that you cannot imagine feeling any sense of proprietorship over one you’re a poser This.
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Jul 10, 2023 18:26
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mawarannahr posted:same. lol if you have desktop wallpaper that's not blank, too. I had to reinstall windows a few months ago and never changed back from default. I used to have desktop wallpaper though! My desk is covered in little gaming minis though!
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Jul 10, 2023 18:27
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Nonsense posted:rockets painted yellow do more damage! Pretty sure the meta is to paint them red for extra speed which counter interceptions.
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Jul 10, 2023 18:48
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KomradeX posted:What is sending more guys to Latvia gonna do? Just have an even bigger number of guys stuck in Courland Pocket 2? Well, it represents 1/3 of the Army at a time when the CAF is 15k pers short and the average length of service is down to barely 3 years. The result is that the people who remain are getting severely hosed up from the ops tempo. A guy who works here got a 1 week deployment notice by email (lol) and has to travel on his blue passport because a green one won't be ready in time (lol). He's filling in for someone, but it's kind of iffy what his job will be because there is no finalized ORBAT (lol). Another friend of mine is a pilot who was dragooned into a position in Battlegroup (lol). Compare the Baltic to facilities we had in Lahr, where remember, we had a formation of the same size. People could bring their families, there were Canadian schools, chapels, recreation facilities, nice new barracks and private quarters. It wasn't a hardship posting, it cost a fortune.    The Baltic is supposed to be on the cheap, and there are no permanent facilities. Camp Adazi is a loving joke. 
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Jul 10, 2023 18:49
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look once you tell the canadians about the latvian commemorative waffen ss marches you'll have so many goddamn volunteers that you won't know what to do with them all
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Jul 10, 2023 18:52
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Frosted Flake posted:Well, it represents 1/3 of the Army at a time when the CAF is 15k pers short and the average length of service is down to barely 3 years. So neoliberal rot means you can't even get decent living quarters for the Doomsday tripline sacrifices
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Jul 10, 2023 19:07
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KomradeX posted:So neoliberal rot means you can't even get decent living quarters for the Doomsday tripline sacrifices Yes. I think it will save my life through, as 4 CMBG had a huge amount of civilian DND employees at Lahr and massive planning staffs, schools for staff instruction, higher education on base, researchers, analysts, etc. and I'm thinking they'll just have an overworked Captain present PowerPoints on Defeating the Russian Battalion Tactical Group.
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Jul 10, 2023 19:10
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i don't get the messaging from doing this, aren't they just signalling that they believe Russia is a major threat and not a spent force? Is Russia a useless, incompetent and defeated force or not?
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Jul 10, 2023 19:11
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Regarde Aduck posted:i don't get the messaging from doing this, aren't they just signalling that they believe Russia is a major threat and not a spent force? Is Russia a useless, incompetent and defeated force or not? 
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Jul 10, 2023 19:13
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Frosted Flake posted:Yes. I think it will save my life through, as 4 CMBG had a huge amount of civilian DND employees at Lahr and massive planning staffs, schools for staff instruction, higher education on base, researchers, analysts, etc. and I'm thinking they'll just have an overworked Captain present PowerPoints on Defeating the Russian Battalion Tactical Group. So they're not reevaluating now that it's clear the Russians have gone back to a divisional structure.
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Jul 10, 2023 19:16
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Lostconfused posted:Some people just didn't grow out of the child like glee of a teenager plastering everything they own with images of pop culture that they love to consume. most of the good nerd stickers come as gifts from other nerds at nerd gatherings. it’s like tattoos for your computer. some people have no taste and compulsively slap every lovely sticker they find, and others have religious dogmas or workplace trauma that prohibits art on computers    challenge coins started becoming a thing i suppose from all the literal veteran "hacker" computer touchers making ctf puzzles
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Jul 10, 2023 19:20
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i used to cover everything in airshow stickers until the GWOT happened and airshows stopped and never really came back the same, at least not in the UK.
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Jul 10, 2023 19:22
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Russia is out of shells, tanks, planes, missiles, and the average soldier is a barely trained conscript quaking in his trench who will break and flee at the first sign of trouble (and is also closely watching for any palace intrigues and/or barely noticeable smirks on Ukrainian intelligence officers!) but also an existential threat who will conquer all of Europe if we don't give Ukraine cluster munitions (which definitely isn't a sign the US is scraping the bottom of the barrel) and rally troops from several nations.
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Jul 10, 2023 19:25
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supersnowman posted:The rugged segment sucks all around tbh. It require too many compromise to achieve what is asked. They are all stuck in an escalating battle of making it tougher and additional carelessness by the end user. We got Toughbook because the regular laptop would break when they fell out of their attach points on forklifts and it ended with IT call for Toughbook broken because after falling to the ground, a forklift ran over it. Now we are going with tablets with stronger cases and fixation points but we "know" some will oddly detach from the stand and break on the ground. Yup I hated the idea of putting tablets into these kind of environments when they first started showing up but it's really a no brainer now, they're gonna get destroyed at exactly the same rate but you can buy the tablet four times for the price of one toughbook Futanari Damacy posted:A few years ago a guy in my IT department said there was a desire to move everything over to a tablet-based infrastructure to replace everyone's desktop and laptop computers. It never hapbpened but the idea is horrifying to me- that is some whiz kid moron's idea of The Future and it only died when that fantasy came up against the reality of what people actually need in order to do their jobs. I'm grateful that realization hit before and not after the implementation like so many other misguided attempts to "modernize". In a lot of cases this is coming from end users in the c suite who only use tablets and have only used tablets since 2010. Executive brain poisoning is a real problem infrastructure is constantly having to head off at the pass If you leave it to the whiz kids they move everybody onto wyse terminals and call it a day Engorged Pedipalps has issued a correction as of 19:29 on Jul 10, 2023 |
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Jul 10, 2023 19:25
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KomradeX posted:So they're not reevaluating now that it's clear the Russians have gone back to a divisional structure. Both the Canadian and Australian militaries are in the middle of plans to convert to almost entirely light infantry (which is cheap, so politicians like it). This will be backed up by F-35s using PGMs and M777 and HIMARS firing PGMs (which is expensive, so the MIC likes it)That's only viable against BTGs because otherwise it's going to go... well, almost exactly like the Ukrainian counteroffensive. If the Russians are back on divisions, then NATO would logically need to go back as well, moving to 1989 force structures and not the lightweight digital expeditionary warfighter poo poo. That has so many political costs it's not really tenable and imo what will happen is the work people like me put out will be turned into a summary titled Defeating the Russian Guards Motor Rifle Division, which calls for... light infantry with more technology, stealth aircraft and PGMs.
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Jul 10, 2023 19:29
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Im curious to see what gets blamed for the lack of breakthroughs. Do they blame the Ukrainians, the kinds of gear they were given, the quantity of gear they were given, or Russian defenses? I suspect they'll settle on quantity.
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Jul 10, 2023 19:36
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KomradeX posted:What is sending more guys to Latvia gonna do? Just have an even bigger number of guys stuck in Courland Pocket 2? Well, for  troops it meant subjecting the local population to violence and at least 11 counts of sexual assault. They also got busted with cocaine and left a pistol in a public restroom, and backed a Piranha AFV over some dude's car. NATO membership really pays dividends.
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Jul 10, 2023 19:38
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Nix Panicus posted:Im curious to see what gets blamed for the lack of breakthroughs. Do they blame the Ukrainians, the kinds of gear they were given, the quantity of gear they were given, or Russian defenses? I suspect they'll settle on quantity. I hope they don't blame me.
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Jul 10, 2023 19:39
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Zeppelin Insanity posted:I had a very cool conversation with someone today in which I discovered that 1. Ukraine will use cluster munitions responsibly, and they gave written statements about it. 2. They never used cluster munitions on Donetsk City because Ukraine never had cluster munitions. 3. All independent organizations have said that they have never observed Ukraine using cluster munitions. 4. 2014 was a different time and different government, and Maidan happened because of the pro-Russian government using cluster munitions on Donetsk City caused Ukrainians to rise up against it. I'm not even sure how someone could come to believe that, especially the bolded part. A complete misunderstanding of Ukraine's political situation at every level.
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Jul 10, 2023 19:51
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Regarde Aduck posted:i don't get the messaging from doing this, aren't they just signalling that they believe Russia is a major threat and not a spent force? Is Russia a useless, incompetent and defeated force or not? Russia is a pathetically incompetent, corrupt nation of drunken orcs who can't even aim an artillery piece without blowing up one of their own. Also Russia is an existential threat that will completely overrun all of Europe unless they are stopped here and now in Ukraine.
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Jul 10, 2023 19:53
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