The ironic thing is that I think the only realistic way to get an European army on a reasonable time scale would be pretty much the worst case scenario: A full conventional war with Russia without US support, which would literally force European countries to integrate their militaries beyond what we currently do in NATO.

Oh no, not an arms race against … North Korea!

I guess it could, but I’d say it’s rather unlikely.

Still, I’d rather have a military than can stand up to Russia should things escalate instead of not having one on the off-chance democracy collapses.

I guess I just wouldn’t call it insurance as it barley mitigates the impacts of a potential blockade. It’s more like their backup lifeline should shit hit the fan.

That’s a bit of a stretch. I’m sure Russia could supply them with oil, but you can’t just shift China’s sea trade to land like that. So a blockade would still have a massive impact. Not a very good insurance.

How is Russia an insurance against that?

I hope they fixed the hair-trigger on the drag-ungrouping … so annoying.

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Depends in which group I am.

That’s not how computers work, but sure bro.

Sure, you might.

But Baulder’s Gate 3 for example, which claims to require an SSD in it’s system requirements runs just fine on a HDD.

It’s just the developer making sure you get optimal performance.

It’s not a hard requirement.

Yes. Our company did hosting and IT support for a esoteric online book store.

Olympic swimming pools.

Nobody beats the Swiss at food prices :)

I actually checked yesterday, it’s $9.40 for a dozen.

Switzerland has been a member of Schengen since 2008 …

Since I have no idea what the price of eggs currently is or how it has changed … I’d say not at all.

I’d create an y and o for you.

I went with a Synology NAS (I know, the foss crowd will probably crucify me) which really keeps the setup effort to a minimum. You put in the HDDs, setup your pool/volume, install Plex (or jellyfin), upload your media and you’re basically good to go.