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One Reason the U.S. Military Can’t Fix Its Own Equipment

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Post by calotow »

frosted-flakes wrote: post #24
bitlax wrote: post #3

What is the workaround for the New York Times paywall?

As soon as you see the text load, hit the "stop loading" button (usually takes the place of the refresh button). JavaScript doesn't load, so the paywall is never put in place. Works pretty reliably across the board, unless maybe you have lightning fast Internet. Maybe there's a plugin to selectively disable JS that would make this easier.

"Noscript" would be the plugin of choice, FYI. You can set granular permissions for every website, which is critical to personal peace of mind in my humble opinion. You can also toggle JS in firefox from "about:config" and setting "javascript.enabled" to false/true. But Noscript is far more useful for setting site-specific permissions.

Re: One Reason the U.S. Military Can’t Fix Its Own Equipment

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Post by Semiapies »

varjag wrote: post #29
mothsonasloth wrote: post #28

The British military have the same problems. It's disgusting how a prestigious military force has been reduced to a pitiful size reliant on contractors to install airconditioning units, weekend warriors who fly in and out on short tours and vehicles that have had "extended life" programs instead of making new ones. Meanwhile the Russians and Chinese have been building next generation ground, air and sea units. The UK…

> The UK have two aircraft carriers which were designed in the early 2000s. That's sparkling new for an aircraft carrier tho, and it's two more seaworthy carriers than Russia has.

All the yammering about "reduced to a pitiful size" aside, the world's navies are basically the USN, the RN, and everyone else sitting in the Honorable Mentions section.

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Post by chrisseaton »

mothsonasloth wrote: post #28

The British military have the same problems. It's disgusting how a prestigious military force has been reduced to a pitiful size reliant on contractors to install airconditioning units, weekend warriors who fly in and out on short tours and vehicles that have had "extended life" programs instead of making new ones. Meanwhile the Russians and Chinese have been building next generation ground, air and sea units. The UK…

> weekend warriors who fly in and out on short tours

Have you got some sort of problem with reservists?

> Are the technicians going to fly in to a warzone

Yes? They flew into Afghanistan all the time to fix equipment.

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Post by merpnderp »

lostgame wrote: post #68
merpnderp wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nothing stopping you from making your own brickish phone thingy that connects to lte, runs a powerful processor and has a huge battery. You could do it from commodity parts and it would be trivially reparable by slapping in bits you cheaply order off Amazon/New Egg. And compared to 1980, it would still be mind bogglingly sci-fi - it just wouldn't be as sleek and svelte as your new iPhone. But I do get your point. I d…

>> Nothing stopping you from making your own brickish phone thingy that connects to lte, runs a powerful processor and has a huge battery But the real issue is what does it run? Android? Seems contrary to the point of building your own device. There has yet to be a serious Mobile OS in the FOSS world that’s not tied in to the evils of Google, and still has e.g. baseband or phone call support.

I was envisioning basically and ultrabook set of hardware, so your favorite flavor of Linux would be the answer.
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