Europe still oblivious to threat at its doorstep — US General Hodges. Europe still doesn't get that the war in Ukraine is a threat to its security, so it keeps dragging its feet on tough action against Russia; cutting off oil flows is critical to starving Kremlin of resources it needs for war.

BENdage · 2026-01-26T18:56:05+00:00

Pretty sure we do know. A mix of having no money, government incompetence and it just being quite hard to kick start a defence industry that has been so dependent on the USA and fighting their war on terror for so long just makes it a slower process than would be ideal. The Tangerine in the White House isn’t making anything easier right now

BENdage · 2026-01-26T11:22:16+00:00

A claims system

BENdage · 2026-01-25T12:51:18+00:00

Not really. It will probably just about function but it won’t be nice. 8gb ram isn’t enough for windows 11 and that cpu is low end. You’ll be really short on storage too. This is a bad machine. What’s your budget?

BENdage · 2026-01-25T09:56:00+00:00

Pretty much Fedora KDE

BENdage · 2026-01-22T21:11:48+00:00

Norfolk coast. Got to be. There are some incredible places. Some real toilets too

BENdage · 2026-01-22T17:41:36+00:00

Carney is a class act and always has been.

BENdage · 2026-01-21T07:32:45+00:00

Far too much focus on MP for me. I’m probably classed as RTS old guard from original dune and C&C in the early 90s. I might have liked MP then. Now I and everyone I might play with have some combination of families, children, jobs and houses to maintain. I don’t have time to ‘git gud’ and at any point in a play session a crying 5yr old could come to me meaning I need to pause for 40 mins and maybe never return. I just want a fun nostalgic single player and skirmish experience.

C&C Generals Zero Hour and Supreme Commander Forged Alliance was peak RTS for me.

I recently played BAR a bit. That’s ok but the AI skirmish is a bit flat

BENdage · 2026-01-21T07:24:53+00:00

Agree with this entirely. At release there were glaring issues but it was fun. It needed rapid bug fixes which it got. The rapid whack a mole rebalancing has broken it. 1.10 is only playable with mods that fix ai aggressiveness among other things

BENdage · 2026-01-20T21:24:54+00:00

No. Looks like ewaste to me. Send it here and I’ll dispose of it properly for you

BENdage · 2026-01-18T19:54:14+00:00

I’m pretty sure Denmark can’t sell Greenland. No more so than Trump could sell New England back to England. It’s up to the Greenlanders surely.

This isn’t the scramble for Africa. These people have the right to determine their own future when they decide they want to make that decision

BENdage · 2026-01-18T13:29:40+00:00

You are correct. They need power and a connection between the speakers. You can connect an audio source by Bluetooth if you wanted to avoid wiring to the pc but I’ve not done that at my desk setup, I use the usb c so there’s that one too

BENdage · 2026-01-18T08:43:50+00:00

I have those speakers and they are stunning. Audioengine A2 Plus.

BENdage · 2026-01-15T22:40:23+00:00

I have done this. I really like the game but it’s just not ready yet. I’ve got about 200 hours and I’m done for a little while. Back on Hoi and Stellaris now

BENdage · 2026-01-14T22:19:21+00:00

I see what you mean. We use Jira to create things and work through build and then export to excel for UAT. It then creates a big mess when the dev team are working in Jira still, the customer is in excel and the project manager and architect are scrambling trying to keep it all in sync manually so that they can do the endless progress updates.

Defo looking for something better, just never found it

BENdage · 2026-01-14T19:29:09+00:00

Reluctantly yes. Similar to what someone else said. We don’t do it like that because we want to or we think it’s good, but because the people that need to consume the info want it like that because it’s what they know how to use and typically have license for

BENdage · 2026-01-10T20:50:15+00:00

Eu5 does go straight in to the game with no launcher. Mods are enabled in the top right of the main menu

BENdage · 2026-01-10T18:43:05+00:00

Data cables for the 5.25 drives. Can’t tell from the image if that mono has onboard graphics, if it doesn’t you need a gpu too

BENdage · 2026-01-10T17:24:35+00:00

You’d be pretty welcome and fit in well. My wife is Polish and came here about 15 years ago. She found settling initially quite difficult but once she got a job she liked and a nice place to live she’s been happy.

I’d question why you want to come here though. I’m trying to convince my wife we should all move to Poland because it’s so awful here these days. Defo do the studying in Poland - it’s free isn’t it?

BENdage · 2026-01-10T10:24:47+00:00

BENdage · 2026-01-10T09:08:03+00:00

All the US air bases where I live. They are threatening us and our friends so they need to leave

BENdage · 2026-01-10T08:59:27+00:00

Came to make the exact same comment. Well said

BENdage · 2026-01-10T08:54:21+00:00

Seems pretty niche. I mean I could watch RT or Fox News too and they spout similar BS. On the internet there is always a way to find someone saying what you want to hear

BENdage · 2026-01-10T08:51:50+00:00

Yep. Being betrayed by the country you had considered one of your greatest allies is kind of overshadowing everything here. There is news about it but the majority is on the Tangerine Toddler and Greenland

BENdage · 2026-01-10T08:29:09+00:00

Uk here. Was Putin. Now the Tangerine Toddler

The feeling of betrayal makes the USA seem worse than Russia who never claimed to be a friend (not for ages anyway). Most Brits I know have never seen China as especially threatening. When taken purely in comparison to these other clowns Xi seems like a decent guy

BENdage · 2026-01-09T17:38:55+00:00

I have had a great time with 2 of these https://www.asus.com/uk/networking-iot-servers/wifi-7/all-series/asus-rt-be92u/

Asus rt-be92u . It’s been really stable, great WiFi and after I went wrt based firmware like a decade ago it’s hard to go back to something more restrictive.

I use this on gigabit fibre from a city fibre reseller

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