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Migration is Britain’s superpower. Our future depends on embracing that truth, not denying it
(www.theguardian.com)
Saudi Arabia isn't great on human rights either...
Most developing countries don't have a brain drain problem but a capital problem. Remittances from people that moved abroad are a strong factor helping with that and are bigger than the official development assistance for example.
Very few in Africa are under any sort of illusions about Russia. They just play both sides for their own benefit.
And it is anyways China that has a much bigger influence these days in many African countries.
Due to the colonial history most of Africa isn't particularly fond of Europe. And modern France being insensitive on the issue certainly didn't help this lately.
Not really, as traveling by bus is quite popular in Europe as well. I just personally try to avoid it when there are better options.
Yeah, those have been pretty common with similar comfort in Latin America since decades. I always wondered why they never made the jump accross the pond.
But traveling by bus kinda sucks. I rather take a sleeper train or a high speed one than a bumpy slow bus (or car).
Don't look online, ask friends and family if someone has an old laptop you can get for free. Very likely someone does, especially if you are ok with a bad battery and/or a broken screen.
A RPi3 can work, but it being ARM based will cause various headaches when learning compared to something x86.
Soon to be found in the attic of some AfD linked nazi for sure 😓
Typically a video-chat server does no transcoding so this isn't a major issue. But for hosting a Peertube or Owncast server it would.
The old A/V chats in Matrix were just Jitsi-meet in disguise, but this has been largely deprechiated now with Element Calls.
https://movim.eu/ can do that AFAIK, but for now the A/V calls don't go through an SFU distribution server (coming soonish), so it will not scale to many participants. But if you want to only stream to a few people (like max. 5 or so, depends a bit on your and their internet speed) it should work.
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New thermoelectric cooling breakthrough nearly doubles efficiency compared to older methods.
(www.sciencedaily.com)
I don't get why people continue to recommend Minecraft when there is the much better open-source Luanti project: https://www.luanti.org/