I think you are uninformed, friend. This is the equipment that was supplied to Ukraine in the first 4 months of the war. It's nice to think that they are doing this all on their own, but it's no truer now than it is when Russia talks about winning WWII. In both cases, it's only true in the context of massive donations of arms from the west.

Ukraine had tiny amount of MANPADS and man portable anti tank weapons of it's own. They used orders of magnitude more from the west than they had on their own. Yes, the West's donations could have been more, but compared to what Ukraine had on their own, it dwarfed it in most areas where it mattered like air defense and anti tank weaponry, which is what turned the tides. Don't confuse the standard media talking points about the west not doing enough with the reality that it's still orders of magnitude more than Ukraine could do on their own, even if it is just the West's old leftovers.

Granted, Russia would have had to fight against a long guerrilla war, but without support from the west, Ukraine would have been ground down over time. I mean even without the US support for just 6 months you started to see the tides turn. Momentum has a way of increasing over time given the same situation. Even for 6 months, all of NATO without the US wasn't really able to achieve parity with Russia.

I hope this changes. In 3-4 years of grinding down Russia and building up production in Europe, it could. But it's is dangerously delusional to think that NATO without the US is at all ready for this fight on their own at the present time. No serious expert in the subject that I've heard from believes this is the case. NATO's abilities rest heavily on the US who accounts for 70% of the NATO defense spending. Without it, you are dealing with a bunch of small militaries, all subject to their individual political situations, many who are being taken over by far right parties sympathetic to Russia rather than Ukraine.

Russia couldn't go against fucking Ukraine with the help of the entire NATO (including US) stockpile backing it up.

Imagine what those early days would have looked like without MANPADs and man portable anti tank weaponry. Imagine the rest of the war without tanks and artillery systems and air defense. It wouldn't have lasted long.

The narrative that Russia just sucks is prevalent and fun, but the reality is that it only sucks when the entire West works together to counter it. Fracture that support and it's a lot more formidable. And it's learning and becoming much more battle hardened.

Real pity. It was an important idea that should have gotten a chance.

That's far from a foregone conclusion. NATO without the US is roughly the same size military as Russia, but Russia is currently massively outproducing NATO without the US and has more soldiers.

And then you have the possibility that when article 5 happens that the NATO allies pussyfoot around again and worry more about their own defense than the NATO alliance defense. In such a case, Putin can go pick off country by country and use them for cannon fodder against the next.

Youz better get yaself some stoichiometry.

Well yes it's a given that Citizens United would need to be overturned for any of this to happen.

I think you can just outlaw paying someone to do this, not the lobbying itself, no?

Seems like it's a coalition that will have app developers, app stores, maybe an OS, etc.

Look at the video of the daylight. It's a really ugly display IMO.

Every use case you described is already filled much better IMO by the high fps e-ink tablets like the Boox Tab Ultra. I would not want to do any of those things on the shitty screen shown in this post.

Fair enough but is that enough to buy a whole different computer with a much worse display? Modern e-ink displays can do probably 10-15 fps on high frame rate which, while not perfect, is probably adequate.

I still miss the visualzers.