There's a few, but yeah, the majority of recent ones are Russian/Russian-alligned. I'm not sure there's another battlefield with an equal amount of civilian air traffic and air defense systems, though.
They in the sense of all Russians? All Russian soldiers? I don't think we should let the current conflict, caused by decisions of authoritarian leadership, lead us into vilifying a whole people.
I don't see any evidence for it not being accidental. There isn't really a good reason for them to shoot down random passenger planes, and a lot of reasons for avoiding that. I also don't find it hard to believe that there are problems with equipment quality and training.
That heavily depends on what you mean by writing music. Musescore (the software, not the website) is pretty good for writing notation, and open source.
If it's more about producing a track, there's Ardour, also foss. If you wanna pirate an "industry standard" daw, there's FL Studio and Ableton, I guess.
Depending on what you want to do exactly, there might be a lot of other software that fits the bill.
What I read (and who knows whether it'll turn out to be true) was that the plane was off it's planned course, likely due to a birdstrike, which lead to them entering an area that was actively expecting drone attacks, which likely lead to the Russians shooting it down.
Well, yeah, anyone that solders memory and storage will be exponentially harder to fix. I'd be hard pressed to think of any more difficult to fix than the current Apple lineup. Equally difficult? Sure, there's plenty.
I wouldn't be surprised of there's shome shitbox out there I just haven't had in front of me yet.
The one thing I'd agree is that it tends to be harder to fix hardware issues. Well, on the new one's you just don't because it's soldered, but a friend's late 2015 27 inch imac has a borked SSD, and to replace it, we'd need to take off the glued on screen.
Softwarewise, I prefer the issue-finding experience to the windows one, though.
I assume there wasn't a walking path even though the school was rather close?
Still sometimes shocked when hearing about how little public transport the U.S. has. I walked home by myself in my last year of primary school, then took the metro/bus in secondary school, which was pretty much normal.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliner_shootdown_incidents
There's a few, but yeah, the majority of recent ones are Russian/Russian-alligned. I'm not sure there's another battlefield with an equal amount of civilian air traffic and air defense systems, though.