I have used hetzner, they are not perfect but at least they are European and have been correcting errors in judgement they have made regarding service suspensions.
Why would the Russians come overseas? I assume they are hooking around the south. (This is a classic Finnish military joke made when the enemy is not approaching from the east)
Well, the strategy of the Finnish navy is to make use of the very complex and rocky Finnish archipelago with small nimble ships and mine the living shit out of the Finnish gulf. There are also missile batteries and mobile artillery around the coastline.
The big challenge without the Swedes would be keeping the supply lines open. The Swedish air and naval assets would be essential in ensuring that.
Well, the assumption is that when we lose a fighter, they don't always ruin their rifle, so the tertiary reserve can reuse them. Of course the women and kida are brave enough to pick em up in the battlefield.
I gotta say, we have maybe 300k nice assault rifles, most of em are kind of... Better than nothing.
I don't know, but it seems consistent with my observations, although I have also seen people on the spectrum have really adult interests, often with very tight focus (eg. Narrow area of history).
I also think you should be proud of your coping strategies. From what you have told, I suspect you would do well as a preschool teacher or similar. I let my father's negative reaction affect my study choices and although it turned out well in the end, I think I needn't have.
Thanks for taking the time to write a longer post, it was a nice slice of life read.
No, I think we trust the swedes more than anyone else. Their defence is well integrated to ours, but they are not well equipped to handle the threat scenario we worry about.
Sweden's current rate of conscription is very low: about 4% of age group. Their fieldable military size is about 80k people.
For comparison, Finland has a field army size of about 300k people and an additional 650k trained men in reserve. We have bunkers for 4 million people, 1500 artillery pieces and 900k assault rifles. 25 000 people spent 140 000 days in voluntary defence training last year. That's not including mandatory trainings. That's nearly the full size of the Swedish reserve, in a country half the size.
Sweden has a lot of naval and air power, but Finland is prepared for a large scale land invasion and this is what we think about when asked about military preparedness.
With this said, Sweden's and Finland's militaries are complementary and serve different purposes. We have the 1000 km land border, and they need to worry about keeping supplies coming by securing air and sea, which I'm sure they will, if need be.
I feel like I am in the target audience of this type of channel. I have spent the last 20 years buying a tool every few months, usually used. I might not have every tool, but short of a lathe or excavator, I can usually figure out a replacement.
I still consider myself a DIYer, since i am not professionally trained to do anything. I am fortunate enough to have like minded friends, some even professionals to ask. They watch these channels too, and they consider themselves DIYers on everything but their specialty area.
You seem to be talking about computer games, so I will say this:
The easiest way to do this is to forego the hardware altogether. Mouse movements and keyboard inputs are trivial to generate programmatically and grabbing the screen contents is easy too. Building a software that understands the objective of the game and can react accordingly is the hard part
If you wanted to do this outside the computer where the game runs you could emulate a HID device on another computer and forego the keyboard and mouse, but it would be only useful to avoid some anti cheat systems
It is certainly possible to also build a mechanical system too, but adide from being a fun challenge for an experienced mechatronics engineer, I don't see the point, especially if you are a beginner
In all of the above, start with the first one these solutions can be expanded to be more complex.
What games are you looking for that would benefit from this, that don't offer computer opponents?
The big question on security guarantees is how to enforce them. Ukraine already has security guarantees from US, UK and Russia, but look what happened. Nobody cares.
The promising part about this proposal is, that it proposes a tripwire force, but is that sufficient?
This is an interesting but very long read.
It's also very relevant to right-to-repair, but approaches it from an anti-circumvention angle.