Hopfgeist

"Russia" would be "Russie". What it actually says is "rachysty", which is the French variant of "Rascists".

Which could very well be the reason they held back in the past; out of consideration for oil and gas prices affecting their Western friends. Now that the biggest friend seems to have abandoned them (likely until November), that consideration is worth a lot less, weighing it against strategic benefits from reducing Russian reserves and income.

They are still capable SAR, surveillance, reconnaissance and personnel transport helicopters. The German ones are also equipped with anti-ship missiles and a matching radar system. When receiving three of these from the UK some time ago, Ukraine said they were needed and useful. Age alone is not a measure of usefulness. These are only slightly older than F-16, and nobody calls those old and outdated. Though not as glorious as fighters, they can still play an important role for rescuing or relocating personnel quickly.

On the contrary. Ammunition is actually what is among the most scarce resources now. Among other things, because the EU didn't live up to its promises, but mostly because the US (more specifically: the House of Representatives, and even more specifically: Speaker Mike Johnson) has stalled aid to Ukraine indefinitely.

I agree, except that it's not retaliation when you hit strategic targets in a country that is engaged in a war of annihilation against your country.

To add, unlike "traditional" RAID, ZFS is also a volume manager and can have an arbitrary number of dynamic "partitions" sharing the same storage pool (literally called a "pool" in zfs). It also uses checksumming to determine if data has been corrupted. On redundant setups it will then quietly repair the corrupted parts with the redundant information while reading.

The craziest thing is that a single person can decide what the representatives can vote on, and thus keep the entire country hostage. In many civilised democracies, any faction (usually there are more than two) in parliament can introduce bills to be voted on. Which would make this whole thing impossible, because there clearly is a broad majority for a huge Ukraine aid package. But they don't get to vote on it, because a minority can demand that unrelated stuff get tacked onto the same bill. What does Israel (armed to the teeth anyway, and not currently putting their might to good use, losing what sympathy they might have had after the October 7 atrocities) and US border security have to do with Ukraine? You want to vote on those issues, too? Fine, introduce a bill and vote on them. Separately.

Thanks for the clarification.

Thanks. It was my mistake then, as they didn't translate Fuchs. I just happen to know Fuchs and Luchs from personal experience, and just assumed.

They are going to build the Fuchs and the Luchs? The Luchs has ben decommissioned by the Bundeswehr and replaced by the Fennek and the Marder quite some time ago. It was, however, impressively silent. With all auxiliary aggregates turned off (but the main diesel idling), and rolling slowly on sand, it could literally tap you on the shoulder with its 20 mm autocannon before you would hear it. The Fuchs is just an armoured personnel carrier with no armament. Both are amphibious, which may become important.

ebay is very international, and is also by far the greatest site for second-hand stuff in most European countries. I normally buy my used drives there.

mixing drive models is certainly not going to do any harm

It may, performance-wise, but usually not enough to matter for a small self-hosting servers.