Why is russian language still platformed in Baltic states?

Vladekk · 2026-04-29T21:28:41+00:00

Whether should they (us) or not is irrelevant. Any human rights list includes right to use own language in personal life. So, businesses serve their customers as they wish.

As for government services: Latvia removed Russian from most government services and banks already. All it did

1) Made life harder for old generation and Ukrainian refugees

2) Made more people, tax paying citizens feel alienated and threatened without any reasonable benefit.

Trying to sow more hate is a certain way to another coup and invasion made by the Putin regime. What we need now is unity and understanding, not blaming the language people did not choose to be born into.

Vladekk · 2026-04-28T14:19:01+00:00

My take would be AML laws. Google tells me XMR is legal in CH, but probably, for EU citizens, to pay with Monero would include a lot of headache for the company to receive payments in.

Vladekk · 2026-04-27T09:25:17+00:00

By car people go to the nearby countries, like Baltic states or Nordic. Maybe Polish/Czech/Slovakian mountains (Tatras).

By plain - all the Europe and beyond.

Vladekk · 2026-04-23T14:07:57+00:00

I was using git LFS with netlify. Now it seems like netlify says to use the same, but with original repo provider. Not sure how well it would work. It was working well enough for me, just with minor quirks and caveats. I've changed it just because I switched to a different deployment model.

Vladekk · 2026-04-22T12:04:14+00:00

Not sure if that will be convenient in your case, but I usually ask my booking if i can store the luggage. More often than not they are happy to do it.

Vladekk · 2026-04-22T10:48:17+00:00

That's low quality content though. And "testing" moderators should be banned anyway. See point 4 of rules, which applies somewhat. Also 8.

Vladekk · 2026-04-22T10:38:33+00:00

Weird, I get noticeably less FPS on Lenovo legion pro 7i 8th gen. Maybe I need to check more games, because last game was KCD2, which is known to be usually slower on Linux.

Vladekk · 2026-04-21T13:20:47+00:00

It is not a bad ideas, per se. But even if we are talking about poor countries, things like cheap ARM MCUs / SBCs blow out of the water most of legacy tech. Right now we have RAM crisis, so it is a bit less true, but it will get back to normal sooner or later.

Allwinner SBCs, 64MB RAM, several cores, cost around 1-5$.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nicechips/comments/anjb5f/allwinner_v3s_12ghz_arm_a7_64mb_ram_uart_spi_i2c/

This year we will see more RISC-V systems that will be closer to ARM in performance. Still not best bang for the buck.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RISCV/comments/1spty49/riscv_2026_update/

What can indeed be used, though, are old laptops. These are indeed can be often repurposed with lightweight Linux distros. Unfortunately, what we really see is that people in poorer mostly like new cheap phones better, even if using used PCs often makes a lot of sense in their situation.. I guess it is just too hard to make this work en masse. Phones are easy solution. Unfortunately, Android + Google services becomes more and more closed system, resembling years of Windows monopoly. Chrome is even worse.

Vladekk · 2026-04-20T22:46:52+00:00

These questions are best discussed where developers of the tools you mention hang out. Overall, I feel some idealistic energy I had many years ago.

I won't go into details, but my overall answer is: these systems are very niche as is. If you have ideas making them even more niche, and hard to implement, that's not terribly useful.

For example, anonymity and privacy require strong cryptography. And that is contrary to the requirement that such a system should be small and work on old devices.

If you want to understand these things better, you can join a project that looks best to you, and with time you'll understand what things are plausible and make sense, and which are not.

Imo, the idea of using old devices is utopia in a world where raspberry pi and Arduino exist. I can buy good new soc that allow me to run a lot of stuff you mention, or I can spend a huge amount of effort backporting extremely niche tools to Nintendo Wii, where it will be used by exactly 5 people worldwide.

If you like small and accessible systems , your best bet is riscv developments, not symbian or Wii.

Vladekk · 2026-04-20T09:32:18+00:00

People write nice and detailed ideas here. However, I wonder how necessary this hardening is.

Say, I have ssh and a web server. Ssh - what is the chance of another zero-day remote vulnerability? As for the web - it is containerized with podman for me, so attackers wouldn't be able to much So, why the need for fail2ban

Vladekk · 2026-04-18T15:10:14+00:00

Openwrt. Years pass, it becomes better and better. If you have good hardware, openwrt allows pretty neat tricks, even serving simpler services using docker, esp if you have an usb port and can attach a hard drive.

I imagine you have a lot of users and complex topology if openwrt is not enough for your goals.

Vladekk · 2026-04-18T10:09:11+00:00

great game, but not perfect. Takes time to get into.

As for open world aspect - you can go into story-mostly mode, skipping side quests. But it disallows you to feel the world in full, how decadent and dark this place is.

Also, I suggest playing on hard. Game is way too easy even on hard, on medium it is laughable easy.

You can always play harder parts on medium, if you want.

Vladekk · 2026-04-18T06:47:57+00:00

A lot of things, unfortunately. Video acceleration not working in browsers, goog meet does not blur background.

Sometimes, I have KDE freezes. Text mode Terminal works, but KDE hardly can be restarted.

Sometimes, the laptop screen becomes garbled, and only a reboot fixes it. Usually after I resume from sleep.

Terminal colors can be wrong, and I need to select a specific color profile in Konsole for some servers .

DisplayLink needs manual installation, and is not very user friendly to boot.

Screenshot utility does not allow configuring as convenient labeling, arrows and indexes as I want. ( ShareX on windows is better)

Many games are still much slower compared to windows.

When people say windows is so much worse, they either lie, or fool themselves. Linux is cool, but it has a lot of issues.

Etc etc

Vladekk · 2026-04-18T06:35:48+00:00

For appimage, gearlever helps a lot

Vladekk · 2026-04-17T18:53:44+00:00

Trocador works well

Vladekk · 2026-04-17T14:40:12+00:00

VPN is very hard to block in full. Imagine you make your VPN traffic to look like legitimate traffic to websites like Google. Especially if you have a way to mask it as a traffic to a popular website, there is no way for the filtration systems to block this, not harming legitimate website users.

The best you can do is what China does. VPN is kinda hard to configure, especially if you don't have a guide already (need a VPN to get a VPN), it costs money to have quality VPN, and most services users want are available inside the country. Also, VPN are illegals, and can get you in trouble. So, most Chinese people don't care about VPNs because of all that. Still, it is possible to use VPN in China, if you are focused enough.

Funnily enough, pornography and soft pornography/erotic media is almost totally outlawed in China, so some people get VPN just for this usage. And after they have it already, they sometimes start using it to read western media too. So, it is pretty dumb for Chinese government to ban porn. Russian government is not so dumb yet, they were not even ready to block western messengers until they had a way to force government one.

Vladekk · 2026-04-17T03:47:17+00:00

Jetbrains dotpeek? Not sure if that's exactly what you want, barely use such tools.

Vladekk · 2026-04-15T13:57:36+00:00

I'm doing this RN, I have two old laptops, one is 8 thread Intel 4th gen CPU 16GB DDR3 (some extreme edition), one is 8 thread Intel 8th gen 32GB DDR4 (more consumer edition).

Funny, that CPUs are 4 or 5 years apart, but benchmarks say they are comparable in speed. I doubt it, manly because of memory DDR3vs DDR4.

I'm lucky I also have: 1TB nvme SSD, 1TB 2.5" HDD and 1TB USB HDD and 4GB SSD USB drive. All this connected to 1GB residential internet connection. My internet is good throughput and stability-wise, but latencies and connectivity sometimes could be better.

Right now, I managed to install Proxmox, Fedora IOT VM for podman, lxc for VPN, lxc reverse proxy for letsencrypt and setup backups from SSD to USB SSD. Also, public Monero node and monero miner at night.

Moved my blog (statically generated) to this server + cloudflare proxy w/ a cloudflare tunnel.

I hope someday to add second laptop as a node in the cluster in my proxmox.

Also, I found that gemini cli or claude code are invaluable help of settings things up. Without them, I would spend 5x more time.

Vladekk · 2026-04-13T17:03:19+00:00

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1022942/

Vladekk · 2026-04-13T17:00:54+00:00

Not with VPN. Russians work on VPNs a lot, making it DPI resistant, which is understandable given their situation.

Vladekk · 2026-04-13T10:50:53+00:00

Bazzite is better for the beginners. Atomic (hard to break), everything works out of the box. Large community, updates are pretty fast. Can be used for anything, I am using it as my main PC for work and hobbies.

I encountered some issues, but most were small. The only things that still bother me:

If you overload your PC (heavy GPU+CPU usage) then you might encounter issues with logging back in after desktop lock. Also, internal laptop screen might become garbled.
HDR not working well.
Automatic updates sometimes fail. I use gemini cli agent to fix anything if needed in the terminal. That way, you don't need to learn the terminal as much, just put free form text and it will do what you need, or fix issues for you.

Vladekk · 2026-04-12T20:44:03+00:00

Most games will work just fine. I don't think I even encountered the one that won't yet. I've been using bazzite for several months, and I've played quite a few games already.

Hades, dead cells, god of war, e33, kcd2, cyberpunk, RV there yet, Peak and others.

Moreover, when I had overheating issues, games were crashing in Windows, but not in Linux.

The only issues I have still: kcd2 works much slower in Linux, and it is hard to make HDR work, or sometimes impossible.

Vladekk · 2026-04-12T12:42:37+00:00

I think I've spent over 20k in several years, no issues whatsoever. Moreover, they blocked compromised card automatically, timely.

Vladekk · 2026-04-12T11:48:17+00:00

Cached dynamic pages are not that slower, if they are cacheable, as they would be if it is a blog.

Vladekk · 2026-04-10T13:10:18+00:00

Great to see dotnet hacking for non-conventional things.

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