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I am not an audio professional and I personally am not in love with the interface in my limited use of the thing -- though my basis for comparison is only much-simpler software packages -- but I have consistently seen Ardour recommended as a DAW under Linux.

If you have not considered it, I'd probably at least have it on your list to look at.

The New York Times stated that this was specifically asked the Pentagon, given the phrasing of their announcement and got a no-comment. It's certainly a good thought.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/us/politics/houthis-strike-stealth-bombers.html

“This was a unique demonstration of the United States’ ability to target facilities that our adversaries seek to keep out of reach, no matter how deeply buried underground, hardened or fortified,” Mr. Austin said in a statement late Wednesday night. “The employment of U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit long-range stealth bombers demonstrate U.S. global strike capabilities to take action against these targets when necessary, anytime, anywhere.”

Attacking so-called hardened buried sites generally requires the use of specially built bombs that have much thicker steel cases and contain a smaller amount of explosives than similarly sized general-purpose bombs. The heavy casings of such “bunker buster” bombs allows the munition to stay intact as it punches through soil, rock or concrete before detonating.

The B-2 is the only warplane that can carry the largest of this class of weapon in the Pentagon’s inventory: a 30,000-pound GPS-guided munition called the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, that contains the equivalent of about 5,600 pounds of TNT. A Pentagon spokesman declined to say whether that weapon was used in the attack on Wednesday.

EDIT: Reading the above, maybe the situation is basically both of the two guesses here combined.

It's a message to Iran, and the reason that the B-2 specifically is involved in that message is because it can drop very large bunker-busters, which could presumably penetrate Iranian facilities.

I don't think that the Houthis have S-400s (and I can't imagine that Russia has been providing them to anyone in the last couple years, given as how they have a shortage themselves, and it's probably one of the more-critical shortages that they face).

I can't find any reference to the Houthis having them online, at any rate.

Wyoming

LLC

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You can use this to your advantage by creating an LLC in Wyoming and using that LLC to create other LLCs or a DBA (“doing business as” arrangement) in different states where you may be holding property, making it extremely difficult for a potential litigant to follow the trail of ownership back to you.

You may be wondering if an LLC can become totally anonymous. Providing there is one owner it is a disregarded entity. This means that profits and losses go onto your personal tax return. In a C corporation or an S corporation, profits are taxed separately. Keep in mind that financial records, bank account, tax returns, and correspondence with the IRS are not public records. Nobody can legally find your assets or your personal information in this way. That said, your anonymity can be excellently maintained by forming a Wyoming LLC.

I think that "best" is open to various interpretations.

The most-emotionally-impactful in the context of the game?

The most-graphically-impressive?

The best-integrated with the game?

I often don't try and play the latest-and-greatest games, and while I'm sure that I've played games with thunderstorms in them, I can't immediately recall any recent first-person 3D games...and I've kind of shifted way from FPSes in recent years. Probably the newest 3D game that I can immediately recall playing that I distinctly recall having thunderstorms -- though I think that they were rain is modded Fallout 4; I was using one of the weather mods.

I think it was one of:

• Natural and Atmospheric Commonwealth

• True Storms

There are radstorms that impact gameplay by dosing the player with radiation, and I suppose could be considered to a different form of thunderstorm. These are separate from normal storms. Fallout 76 also has radstorms, but they are less-frequent and far-less-damaging than in (modded, don't recall base game) Fallout 4.

I guess that that'd probably be the most-graphically-impressive that I personally can recall off-the-cuff. I'm sure that there must be some newer, fancier thunderstorms out there.

For impact...I can't recall for certain whether-or-not there was actual thunder and lighting other than in cutscenes, though there's certainly rain.. But The Saboteur is an Assassin's Creed-style game (I understand; I've never played more than a very small amount of those games) set in World War II Paris. The areas that are occupied by Nazi forces are mostly black and white, with a small amount of color, mostly red, and at least some of the time, it's raining. The areas where forces have been pushed back look kind of like spring. I think that it added to the game's atmosphere a lot.

Okay, now I just saw a bunch of posts newer than the past two days show up on !NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.works, one from only 37 minutes ago as of this writing.

Note, on the second, probably-unrelated "slow lemmy.today over the past hour" thing, looking at the behavior I see with tcpdump, I see periods where there's no response to SYN packets at all in a quick test. So I'd assume that whatever is going on there is either related to network connectivity (I don't know whether you have a reverse proxy of some sort set up, but might be between that and your actual host) or if not on the network, at the kernel level on lemmy.today. My machine was sending a SYN on connection initiation, but getting no SYN+ACK packet back. My understanding is that SYN+ACK should be sent by the lemmy.today kernel prior to the userspace-level involvement in the connection process; the lemmy.today kernel should be doing that process independent of any issues in userspace, shouldn't need an accept() call.

It's responding normally at the moment. And I'm not super-worried about the latter issue, as far all I know it's some sort of transient problem with Hetzer's infrastructure; just wanted to mention it, as it might be relevant to the prior problem.

I don't think that rate of maxing out a credit card is very interesting. I mean, that says that you're whacking into the limit of what the credit issuer is willing to let you borrow in terms of risk that they're willing to take, but it doesn't really say much about the impact on an individual.

Like, the real concern would be how much debt is being carried on average from month-to-month.

A credit card just provides payment processing services. Like, this particular statistic would care about whether, say, someone is paying for a given large-ticket item via check or credit card, but in practice, that doesn't have a whole lot of impact on an individual.

Gotcha, thanks.

That definitely isn't a complete list. It might be the most-recent package, but two items that I know that Germany has provided that aren't on there:

• Gepard SPAAGs

• Leopard 2 tanks

Reading the page, it doesn't appear to qualify the list at all. Like, it doesn't say "for 2024" or anything like that.

The date is current, and the site claims to be a German government site (though I don't know the German DNS layout; the UK and the US and the EU have a specialized sub-domain for government sites and this doesn't appear to be under one, but I assume that this is indeed an official site).

I'm not sure how much demand there will be for a house in that form factor, but it might make sense as a sort of guesthouse or spare bedroom or similar, an easy way to extend a house's effective space.

Honesty, if you're going to aim to go serious with prefab houses like this, I'd think that it'd make a ton more sense to make the thing modular. Like, sell a selection of prefab "rooms" and then just have the end user hook 'em up. If you do that, I'd also think that you'd want the exterior to be modular, as it's something that people are going to care about.

Second. I am absolutely boggled that Walmart is selling this. It's clearly intended to evoke the iPhone, with the "Apple" name even being on the Walmart site. I'm sure that Apple is not affiliated with this. Apple is litigious as hell about their phone design; at one point, I recall them fighting a case on a design patent that merely covered the rounded corner rectangle.

kagis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electronics_Co.

It's from a Chinese manufacturer. I can absolutely believe that Chinese companies are making infringing knockoffs of all sorts of stuff in China, flying below the radar. But Walmart offering them in the US seems like it'd be a prelude to litigation.

Please check the source yourself.

I've never heard of neuters.de, but it's a Reuters article.

kagis

Here it is.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-unemployment-surges-80-economy-collapses-un-agency-says-2024-10-17/