I wouldn’t. This isn’t a real problem but you’ll probably make one if you force delete things marked as necessary for Checkpoint Updates. This 8.5gig of “stuff” is only there because 24H2 is still in Beta and it has incorrectly marked some things from the 23H update as required for future updates.
WTF is up with this 24H2 update I keep hearing about?
The first thing you have to know is that it hasn’t been released yet! That’s right, every one of these articles screaming about 24H2 bugs is based on Preview, commonly called Beta, software.
This particular issue being caused because Microsoft is moving to “Checkpoint Updates” so that updates will install faster and be smaller in size.
Right now 24H2 is marking parts of 23H3 as necessary for future updates so they can’t be deleted. This will 100% be fixed before 24H4 goes RTM.
Basically this one is a non-issue. It’s being used as an outrage generator.
The 2 percent of GDP target is imaginary.
The target was set so that no country would be able to join NATO and then just let everyone else pay for everything. You contribute to the common defense or you GTFO.
We can bicker about 2% being too high or too low and whether the target should have been adjusted Post Cold War but any argument that some target isn’t necessary is just silliness.
No amount of NATO bombs or tanks would have stopped the invasion.
Oh I’m fairly certain that NATO military power would have stopped the invasion in the first 24 hours. A single flight of F-35s would have made those original Russian convoy’s cease to exist à la the Highway of Death from 1991.
Even now NATO military power could substantially end the ground war in Ukraine before the end of the month.
It only would have fueled the flames and given legitimacy to Russia’s claimed insecurity.
So what? NATO didn’t do it and there’s STILL an ongoing war with a casualty toll well over a million and millions more displaced.
Economic power is much stronger than military sabre rattling.
Then the EU should have flexed them in 2014. They didn’t and here we are.
I fucking detest Trump, but there is a kernel of truth in his statements about Europe more or less just riding on the US’s coattails in terms of the balance of military power, instead of trying to be a meaningful and (taken together) a peer power to the US.
You don’t have to point to Trump. Literally every United States President since Bill Clinton has publicly said it. Hell Bush Senior may have said it too. I’d have to go look it up.
It’s been a sore spot for decades and has nothing to do with Trumperoni.
I’m assuming .io just stands for Indian Ocean in this case
British Indian Ocean Territory, it was just shortened to .io so it would fit into the naming scheme.
That’s a great question and the answer can be found in the wikipedia entry for the .uk domain.
In a nutshell the volunteer “Naming Committee” setup back in 1985 established a rule that entities needed to register into specific subdomains based on entity type such as .co, where the .co part stood for “Company”. They did this to make managing registrations easier and to provide an “at a glance” way to see what kind of website you were visiting (commercial, government, charity, etc). The “Naming Committee” was extremely strict about ensuring that domains were registered to a specific entity and in the correct subdomain.
By the mid-90s the volunteer “Naming Committee” was entirely overwhelmed by the sheer volume of domains being registered so that volunteer group was replaced by Nominet UK. Nominet didn’t open the .uk TLD to registration until 2014 and by then the subdomain thing (.co.uk) was so embedded into the United Kingdom’s internet structure that it had become tradition and NOT using was confusing to many people.
There’s more subdomains than just .co as well and both wikipedia articles I linked list them.
tl;dr .uk absolutely exists in the UK, it’s just used differently than almost anywhere else in the world.
I have to chuckle, I didn’t think anyone would take my comment about “count the hairs on someone’s head” so literally! You are correct though, there are no satellites with that kind of resolution. We have…other toys…for that. :)
The US intelligence apparatus had better information which is really no surprise. The US has satellites that can count the hairs on someone’s head let alone see missiles being moved around, fueled, and / or prepared for launch. Israel doesn’t have those, or at least not nearly as many of them as the United States does.
Right now Brent Crude is just 71.28. Oil prices are going down.
Additionally Russia does not have the technical ability to fix all of the refineries that Ukraine has been blowing up nor do they have the ability to fix all of the upstream production problems being created.
Productions of raw products is dropping fastand those declines are going to both continue and accelerate.
O&G is not going to be propping up Russia’s economy for much longer.
I think you’re suffering from recency bias. Yes right now it seems they’re all related to the AfD but you don’t have to go back very far to find other examples such as Gerhard Schröder.
There’s always people who will sell out their country for money.
Vaterlandsverräter
In this case wouldn’t she be a Vaterlandsverräterin?
Edit: Oh I get it, you’re referring to Maximillian Krah.
We have the electoral college, the senate, and gerrymandering.
The outsized effect of the EC and Gerrymandering have a very simple fix. I wonder why Democrats never talk about it?
It’s sad you have no third strong grassroots movement,
One of the few things that both Democrats and Republicans work together on is making sure that there are no viable third parties. They make it extraordinarily difficult to get ballot access at any level whenever possible and on the odd occasion that a 3rd party candidate does make it into office they pull out all the stops to make sure they lose the next election.
You think the people who brought us Stuxnet aren’t fucking with Russia?
Wouldn’t you be able to say the same thing about Facebook and Twitter?
I don’t know. I haven’t used Xitter since before Elon took it over and I’m only on FB once every couple of months.
It is especially visible with YouTube which had downvoting from the start and decided to remove it despite user protests.
Wait, you don’t have a thumbs down button on YouTube?
I don’t even do that! I’ve just never spent any time watching political stuff on YT so presumably the algorithm knows I’m not interested in it and doesn’t show it to me.
The closest I get to watching political content on YT is Peter Zeihan so the algorithm simply doesn’t put political junk in my feed. If you’re getting tons of politics, from either direction, in your feed its probably because you are watching political content on YT.
That’s the best explanation I can come up with about why our experiences are so different.
What does YouTube have to do with this? I’m on YT quite a bit watching a wide array of content and I’ve yet to see anything thing Pro-Trump or Pro-Russian.
It’s actually a shit article that doesn’t do anything to explain why this is happening, because once you know WHY you realize this is NBD and will be going away when 24H2 is actually released.
This article isn’t great but at the bottom it does explain what’s going on.