I follow Prune here, yes. I follow Steve Rosenberg on YouTube where he posts regular video updates of current affairs in the newspapers in Moscow.

He wasn't Australian by any chance?

Thoughts and prayers, Russia-style.

Well, this is based on official Russian information, and it's looking incredibly bleak.

If you follow Steve Rosenberg's 'Reading Russia', you'll know that even the newspapers there are clear about the economic crisis, even if they refuse to link it to the SMO (CBO).

Quite literally too. Russia has run out of liquidity in its national wealth fun (NWF) beyond some gold and a fair bit of Yuan. Meanwhile exports are plummeting and the economy has entered a pretty steep recession, as even the official messaging is beginning to admit.

There'll be no 2027 for Russia.

It's more of a recent thing for me, mostly as a Windows alternative that's less chaos-y than the Linux ecosystem. I like server and desktop systems that are boring and just work :)

Banks: *salivating and peeing self in sheer glee*

My sympathies. No chance of sneaking LTS on there? :)

You better be paid the big bucks for subjecting yourself to Win11.

I'm still trying to wrap my brain around all the anti-Trump statements made previously by current regime sycophants.

Only conclusion I can come to is that most US politicians do not have spines, and are thus morally & ethically extremely flexible.

The others probably get murdered, like it's Russia

Well, in the US bribes are called 'campaign funds', so yeah...

They should put up 'sponsored by <companies>' banners in Congress at this point, like in Idiocracy.

Yeah, looking like Schumer set this up, while pretending to be one of the good guys.

Can you imagine if the US actually had functioning democratic parties? Or a functioning democracy? Wild~

Oh, you can find super-overpriced 4 & 8 GB ones, but I might as well just roll with the extra and unneeded capacity in that case.

Was hoping for a stash of cheapo semi-e-waste cards, I guess :)

With the way that those 'AI' datacentres are churning through hardware, don't expect to buy RAM, storage or GPUs for anything approaching reasonable prices until said datacentres cease.

Feel free to guilt-trip anyone using 'AI services' like ChatGPT and Sora. You are doing this to us all.