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Comment Investment climate is the real reason (Score 3, Interesting) 64

Any significant investment in Russia (> few $M) inevitably attracts attention of many "powerful people", all asking for their cuts.
Thus, very few projects can be viable, forget about profitable. Basically, only those personally overseen by Putin (to fend off smaller "protectors").
In my opinion, this is the main reason high-tech in Russia is not possible, other than small software shops, which require little investment and can stay under the radar of siloviks until they become big. Then they are taken over and/or looted.

Comment Plants are absorbing CO2, but (Score 1) 81

They are not sequestering it. Over a lifetime of a tree (including the decomposing phase), the net CO2 impact is close to zero.
The only way to affect CO2 in the atmosphere is to stop digging out the already sequestered carbon. All new sequestration efforts are several orders of magnitude away from the current extraction rate.

Comment Not really a "desktop" use case, but (Score 1) 192

At the moment there are 5 Linux computers running in my household, all headless:
  - ADS-B plane tracking on Raspberry Pi 3
  - FT8 amateur radio monitoring on Asus Tinkerboard
  - Octoprint 3D printer server on Orange Pi
  - WeeWX weather station on Raspberry Pi Zero W
  - Discord bot on Raspberry Pi Zero W
Granted, this is not a typical household. I just want to make a point that there is more use for Linux than just desktop.

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