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#21
Current Events / Re: Russia's War Against Ukrai...
Last post by nelmsm - May 14, 2024, 08:44:05 AMQuote from: Skoop on May 13, 2024, 08:16:30 PMThe 2nd SS and the near breakthrough at prokarovka is a legendary moment, but you can't have an encirclement with only one pincer. The arty and trenches were so effective on the north side, the Germans could never get past ponryi which was only a few miles from where they started. So yes arty and trenches won Kursk.
I'd be all in for dozens of arty shell factories springing up all over America to produce 100,000 shells per month for Ukraine, but good luck convincing fellow tax payers on that trillion dollar endeavor, especially since we aren't really at war. But that's what's really going to make a difference in Ukraine, not a hodgepodge of Bradley's, abrams, and f16s. Artillery is still the god of war in 2024.
Agreed. As far as I'm concerned we should be gearing up industry to supply Ukraine with whatever we can. I'd rather we be sending weapons so other folks can fight the Russians than pussy footing around and letting them fall and just encouraging Putin to gear back up and pick on the next country on his list.
#22
Tech Talk / Re: Strange new PC problem
Last post by Jarhead0331 - May 14, 2024, 08:09:14 AMAs it turns out, it seems that the USB switch was not the problem.
After disconnecting the USB switch, the problem started again, wherein every time I turned on the computer from a dark state, the mouse and keyboard would not be detected until I unlugged the USB cable attached to the KVM switch and plugged it back in. As it turns out, my USB switch was not even connected to the KVM switch. Rather, it has USB lines running directly into each computer.
In any event, the only thing I could think of was that the KVM was, in fact, on the way out. Either that, or being several years old, perhaps newer Win11 updates created a conflict of some kind. As a result, I picked up another one that was a relatively modest price. I spent under $200 and it can support up to four PCs and three monitors with audio and three USB ports. Man alive...disconnecting the old and installing the new was a giant pain in the ass due to the location of the PCs under my desk and all the damn wires down there. The new KVM requires a ton of lines to function. I now have three PCs connected to it and for each one, it needs two HDMI cables, a display port cable, and a USB. That's 6 HDMIs, 3 displays and 3 USBs. On top of that, it needs another 2 HDMIs and a display port cable that run from each monitor to the KVM, for a grand total of 8 HDMI cables and 4 Display port cables! If I was to add a fourth PC to the echo system it would require another 2 HDMIs, another display port and another USB!!!
So far, its working great, but for one major issue. I can't get the KVM to recognize the display port cable running from the monitor into the KVM. I've tried two different cables so I'm pretty sure that is not the problem. The other thing I want to try is to maybe run the display port line to a different monitor and see if that works. I understand that the majority of KVM issues have to do with incorrect setup, so there is a big possibility the problem is on me.
Its not the end of the world because I can still just run the display port line directly to a PC and get it to function that way, but then of course switching the KVM won't provide functionality for that monitor that is not connected to it.
In any event, the hurdles we jump through...serious first world problems.
After disconnecting the USB switch, the problem started again, wherein every time I turned on the computer from a dark state, the mouse and keyboard would not be detected until I unlugged the USB cable attached to the KVM switch and plugged it back in. As it turns out, my USB switch was not even connected to the KVM switch. Rather, it has USB lines running directly into each computer.
In any event, the only thing I could think of was that the KVM was, in fact, on the way out. Either that, or being several years old, perhaps newer Win11 updates created a conflict of some kind. As a result, I picked up another one that was a relatively modest price. I spent under $200 and it can support up to four PCs and three monitors with audio and three USB ports. Man alive...disconnecting the old and installing the new was a giant pain in the ass due to the location of the PCs under my desk and all the damn wires down there. The new KVM requires a ton of lines to function. I now have three PCs connected to it and for each one, it needs two HDMI cables, a display port cable, and a USB. That's 6 HDMIs, 3 displays and 3 USBs. On top of that, it needs another 2 HDMIs and a display port cable that run from each monitor to the KVM, for a grand total of 8 HDMI cables and 4 Display port cables! If I was to add a fourth PC to the echo system it would require another 2 HDMIs, another display port and another USB!!!
So far, its working great, but for one major issue. I can't get the KVM to recognize the display port cable running from the monitor into the KVM. I've tried two different cables so I'm pretty sure that is not the problem. The other thing I want to try is to maybe run the display port line to a different monitor and see if that works. I understand that the majority of KVM issues have to do with incorrect setup, so there is a big possibility the problem is on me.
Its not the end of the world because I can still just run the display port line directly to a PC and get it to function that way, but then of course switching the KVM won't provide functionality for that monitor that is not connected to it.
In any event, the hurdles we jump through...serious first world problems.
#23
Current Events / Re: Russia's War Against Ukrai...
Last post by Skoop - May 13, 2024, 08:16:30 PMThe 2nd SS and the near breakthrough at prokarovka is a legendary moment, but you can't have an encirclement with only one pincer. The arty and trenches were so effective on the north side, the Germans could never get past ponryi which was only a few miles from where they started. So yes arty and trenches won Kursk.
I'd be all in for dozens of arty shell factories springing up all over America to produce 100,000 shells per month for Ukraine, but good luck convincing fellow tax payers on that trillion dollar endeavor, especially since we aren't really at war. But that's what's really going to make a difference in Ukraine, not a hodgepodge of Bradley's, abrams, and f16s. Artillery is still the god of war in 2024.
I'd be all in for dozens of arty shell factories springing up all over America to produce 100,000 shells per month for Ukraine, but good luck convincing fellow tax payers on that trillion dollar endeavor, especially since we aren't really at war. But that's what's really going to make a difference in Ukraine, not a hodgepodge of Bradley's, abrams, and f16s. Artillery is still the god of war in 2024.
#24
Current Events / Re: Russia's War Against Ukrai...
Last post by JasonPratt - May 13, 2024, 12:52:55 PMQuote from: Skoop on May 11, 2024, 09:41:12 PMA dozen F16s is like panthers and elephants winning at Kursk'43, arty and trenches won that one too.
To be fair to both sides: the Soviet trenches and arty definitely helped win, but the Nazis chewed through lines that nobody thought they had a chance to beat, and almost won the day anyway with those panthers and elefants (among other things). Then Stalin threw at least two fresh elite armies from his reserves (maybe three I don't clearly recall), which the Nazis weren't expecting was even possible, and that decisively turned the tide.
Whatever Putin has been using as reserves, he hasn't been dealing out that sort of thing (unlike Stalin for some of the past battles before Kursk already). But both sides, not only Ukraine, regard the outcome of this war as an existential threat.
Russia's side of that isn't as overtly obvious to us as their plans for destroying Ukraine for their own use, of course (which has been going on every time Russia targets civilians). But a draw or even minimal gain before stopping (like getting one real major city) will still be fatal for Putin and his regime as 'Russia' per se: they don't have the demographics to come back from this and do it again, they MUST take over and loot Ukraine -- or they'll disintegrate into something like a cargo cult, whose only sort-of-allies would love to take over milking vast tracts of Russia's land in an equally abusive and exploitative way.
Putin & his mafia cronies have mismanaged and plundered Russia to the point where they need this big win to keep on surviving a little longer. But unless their management radically changes for the better, they're just clinging onto the side of the toilet a little longer. It's really quite nightmarish for everyone involved, and the fact that the people who were inflicting the nightmares are now suffering the nightmares, too, doesn't really help.
#25
General Discussion / Malicious compliance
Last post by steve58 - May 13, 2024, 08:55:08 AM #26
Current Events / Re: Russia's War Against Ukrai...
Last post by Crossroads - May 12, 2024, 01:59:36 AMAnother long read from Lawrence Freedman of Ukraine, Putin's Victory day, and the situation in grand scale of things.
https://open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/a-third-victory-parade-with-no-victory?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
QuoteFor Putin deadlock is preferable to defeat but victory would be better. He had reason to believe at the start of this year that he might have a path to victory as his forces pressed hard against Ukrainian positions along the line of contact while the US Congress was paralysed by Republican Party splits. This led to concern that we had reached a turning point in this war, with Russia having the more reason to be optimistic.
The pendulum has yet to swing in the other direction but Russia's big push has not yielded decisive results and its position could worsen towards the end of this year. So for the third year in a row Putin has celebrated a famous victory of almost eight decades ago while being unable to claim a new victory.
https://open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/a-third-victory-parade-with-no-victory?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
#27
Current Events / Re: Russia's War Against Ukrai...
Last post by Skoop - May 11, 2024, 09:41:12 PMQuote from: Gusington on May 11, 2024, 06:36:09 PMPeace at what cost is the question. Is Ukraine ready to accept that 20% or more of their territory is now Russian and may be forever?
I know, it's a tough pill to swallow. But Ukraine has made Putin pay far more than that 20% is worth. Like Con eluded to, Russia might implode economically in the long run. We have to keep the rest of Ukraine in tact in the mean time. No one in the west is willing to switch their economy over to war time production to produce 70,0000 arty shells per month, cause that's what it will take to win this. A dozen F16s is like panthers and elephants winning at Kursk'43, arty and trenches won that one too.
#28
Current Events / Re: Russia's War Against Ukrai...
Last post by Con - May 11, 2024, 08:44:32 PMDon't see it happening
Russias economy is now linked to the war
They don't get to go back to the way it was before
Oil embargo's on tech will hamper growth
Brightest have left Russia to avoid the meat grinder
No organic or other tech growth
No country trusts Russia
I think the true battlefield is economic resilience and the story for Russia has not been played out
The leading indicators are not positive for them without massive intervention
which I don't see coming from China or India who have their own economic problems
Con
Russias economy is now linked to the war
They don't get to go back to the way it was before
Oil embargo's on tech will hamper growth
Brightest have left Russia to avoid the meat grinder
No organic or other tech growth
No country trusts Russia
I think the true battlefield is economic resilience and the story for Russia has not been played out
The leading indicators are not positive for them without massive intervention
which I don't see coming from China or India who have their own economic problems
Con
#29
Current Events / Re: Russia's War Against Ukrai...
Last post by Gusington - May 11, 2024, 06:36:09 PMPeace at what cost is the question. Is Ukraine ready to accept that 20% or more of their territory is now Russian and may be forever?
#30
Current Events / Re: Russia's War Against Ukrai...
Last post by Skoop - May 11, 2024, 04:33:28 PMThe dwindling of artillery shell supply, the low supply of Patriot missiles to combat the su34 glide bomb dropping are the main culprits.
Then Ukraine running out of manpower isn't helping either, nothing the west can do about Ukrainians not signing up for the military or zelenski's refusal to conscript.
Not helping that Russia isn't invited to the coming peace talks.
The cold reality is no one wants world war 3 today, everyone's economy is saying we'll wait for article 5.
Good effort though, ukraine has accounted themselves quite admirable. Their resistance was better than 2014, Putin had to pay big this time, and may think twice next time.
It's time for peace fortunately or unfortunately, how ever you may view the situation.
Then Ukraine running out of manpower isn't helping either, nothing the west can do about Ukrainians not signing up for the military or zelenski's refusal to conscript.
Not helping that Russia isn't invited to the coming peace talks.
The cold reality is no one wants world war 3 today, everyone's economy is saying we'll wait for article 5.
Good effort though, ukraine has accounted themselves quite admirable. Their resistance was better than 2014, Putin had to pay big this time, and may think twice next time.
It's time for peace fortunately or unfortunately, how ever you may view the situation.