USAF started removing marks form transport and other large planes about one year ago.

There's a rheinmetall video on YouTube, it's a few years old already. Definitely not first gen research, and it's good there's competition already

Ah indeed, the British empire has been quite bad. /s but not too much

That, but also the fossil fuels underneath Ukraine, let's not forget about those.

And why is that? Why don't the russian federation people have any control on that? They should be able to get informed and vote, no?

In the last 30-ish years nobody in Europe had considered Russia "the enemy", on the contrary a lot of people were happy of doing business with them and putain could have chosen a path to integration with the rest of Europe and "the West" in general. I even dreamt of them being a civilised part of EU, along with the rest of the countries on the continent. But no, he had to revive the tsarist empire instead.

This happened once with the Cuban crisis, and humanity still exists thanks to the level headedness of JFK. I'm not sure the situation is comparable as, afaik, no new nukes have been stationed in Europe after the end of the cold war. And it is useful to remind that nobody would have felt the need to join NATO after the end of cold war if they hadn't felt threatened.

Ok, you're right, let's give putain all the territories he wants.

I hope nobody in their sane mind considers bargaining with Russia anymore.

There's an even worse thing: timezone selection UIs that don't let you choose UTC

It was a struggle. You went to buy some device and you had to check it was not one of those windows-only ones. Modems were particularly bad, for example.

You had to read the how-tos and figure things out. Mailing lists and newsgroups were the only places to find some help.

You had to find the shop willing to honour warranty on the parts and not on the whole system, as they had no knowledge of Linux at all. But once you found them, you were a recurring customer so they were actually happy. You might even have ended up showing them memtest86!

You would still be able to configure the kernel and be able to actually know some of those names, compilation would take several hours but it was a learning experience.

You could interact with very helpful kernel developers and get fixes to test.

You could have been the laughing stock of your circles of friends, but within you, you knew who'd have had the last laugh.

And yes, Loki games had some titles working on Linux natively, Railroad Tycoon was one. Too bad they were ahead of the times and didn't last much.

You are right. I once heard a pilot say "popping flares", so that's my usual choice.