OP might not be the best example but I have a growing appreciation of holding your temper in check. Self censorship is some acknowledgement that you’re watching a little bit of what you’re saying.

At the same time though, fuck Trump.

More than a phone, I want a good 7-10" Linux tablet. Something like a Samsung Tab S7 but pure Linux, not Android. Full-fat USB-C (video out, etc) with a slim keyboard cover. I seem to have a lot of low-level hacker-y needs while out and about but I don’t want to always carry my laptop.

These days a tablet is a luxury, a phone is a necessity. You can iterate a mobile UI on a tablet slowly. Shooting to replace a phone means you need to hit a much higher bar of quality. It seems like an easier path to adoption.

A Republican proposing a tax on EVs does not deserve the benefit of the doubt. There’s absolutely no reason to go looking for a silver lining or making apologetics.

Unless I’m misunderstanding something, this is just how networking works. All of your local traffic is going to go through that router at some level. The router is making all the decisions for… routing. It has to be a part of the network.

If it’s truly an untrusted device, you need physical separation. Subnets are just informational for routing purposes. The trivial setup is “tandem routers”: ISP – ISP_router – Your_router – (( your home network )). The downside is the double NATing is going to cause weird problems unless you go to a lot of trouble of port forwarding (and don’t forward all ports to your “favorite” machine).

Advanced “I have a Cisco certification” setups for separation involve VLANs and many distinct, specialist devices: a pure router/firewall (no switch/hub, no wifi), a managed switch, and a mesh of managed wifi access points. Some home routers automate this to give you a “guest network” or maybe even an “IOT network”.

In a really twisted sort of way, it shows how a country can make really smart moves (social media war/propaganda, Hormuz choke point, etc) once your elderly leaders are removed (in this case, by bombs).

To be fair, China isn’t very good at communism and the US isn’t very good at capitalism.

China has way too many billionaires. And the US isn’t a well regulated, free market.

I’ve sometimes thought that WW2 flak cannons (~artillery) with a programmable fuse (set immediately before “launch” by radar) could be effective. You would get longer range than C-RAM or laser and artillery shells are cheap. Shahed/Gerans are not particularly fast or durable. It wouldn’t take much to make it fall out of the sky: close enough is good enough.

Again, this particular DIY radar has no application in Ukraine. It does not have a 50+km range (10km). It can not direct or interface with an interceptor missile, of any kind, to shoot down TBMs, Shaheds, etc. The critical issue really is how many interceptor missiles Ukraine has and far less about janky early-warning radar coverage.

Acoustics are used for FPVs, which have a tiny radar cross section and can fly at tree top altitude or lower. A basic/crude DIY radar would not be effective there and at $12,000 vs $Free, acoustics win hands down for FPVs. The Gepards (AA gun) have their own onboard radar already for cruise missiles/shaheds. No one is proposing or expecting acoustics to track missiles or bombs. These are two very different problems.

The Russian Navy stays way, way the hell away from the Ukraine coast these days. The drone-boat bombs have them running scared. Even Sevastopol in Crimea is too risky.

This doesn’t have any practical application in Ukraine.

Ukraine detects FPV drones with numerous distributed and networked microphone/acoustic sensors. You’re not going to get any cheaper than a used phone paired with a $2 USB solar panel.

The larger Shahed/Geran and above stuff isn’t limited by radar detection. What they need are cheap interceptors to deal with swarm attacks.

“I’m not here because it’s the right thing to do. I’m here because I expect to get something out of it.”

The minute the deal doesn’t look good, they drop you like a sack of bricks. It happens in ever facet of how they act.