Replace software possession with a cloud service in a 3rd party jurisdiction and this allows to avoid the ban. You don't have to reveal to court how you recognized a person with the use of cloud service, you can always call it luck or magic or endless hours spent watching security footage.

This is already thought of and Starlink use in Russia is banned according to Russian law 1086353-7. Uses will be fined for up to 1 million rubles. Importing dishes and other necessary devices may be problematic too because they are not approved by regulators. However the biggest problem with using Starlink in Russia may be that it doesn't currently work without land support because traffic from satellites has to somehow get to the Earth and this requires land based antennas. Russian government certainly will not allow to build such infrastructure on Russian territory.

There is a problem with investing in technology that gets cheaper every year. Why would I want to spend a lot of money on solar panels if I know that they get twice cheaper in 5 years? I'd rather wait than install them now.

Systems made for cold climate have a melting cycle to melt ice buildup from the outdoor radiator so that it would fall to the ground. Radiator temporarily heats and all buildup falls from it. I've read accounts about houses build around Moscow, Russia with heap pumps used for heating. They function happily even in -25C which is quite cold even for Moscow region winters. Of course melting cycle reduces efficiency a little, but overall consumed energy is still less than the same energy used for heating.

I don't think downloading dependencies is the most important feature of an IDE. I personally never use it for this, never use integrated GIT and prefer Emacs to edit Python code than PyCharm editor although PyCharm has some neat code navigation which (sometimes) allows jumping to a function definition. What I like the most in PyCharm is its Python debugger. It is much better than Emacs pdb frontend and even allows remote debugging in Docker container if you have a professional version. PyCharm debugger is still inferior to what is available in other languages (C++, Java, Go) but it is the best debugger for Python that I could find.

Yes, and sometimes it is content that is shot on camera. My wife teaches art and now she does it over internet. Image quality is really important for her lessons. Unfortunately Canon's software works only with very new cameras, I am out of luck to use my 5D Mark III with it.

This is not true. Visas are stamped in foreign citizen's passports, and at no moment it is required to submit a passport while obtaining green card lawfully. I can attest for my words because a little over a year ago I completed the process of getting green cards for me and my family. BTW green card cannot be used as a photo id and requires a valid passport to be presented, so valid foreign passport is still required for legal residents.

I wonder if it would be possible to disable single Alt key press which currently enters menu or ribbon. This is what always makes me mad.

Just yesterday my iPhone SE fell into bootloop with "Press Home to upgrade" message. The only solution to this was to run iTunes recovery through USB port which upgraded iOS properly. How can this be done without a data port on the body?

With chromebooks targeted at education it makes to sense to remove Home/End and PgUp/PgDn keys. It is so inconvenient to press Alt/Search in addition to arrows with two hands just to browse through pages.

Amazon Fire HD 8 already had 1280x800 8" screen and 1.5GHz Mediatek CPU.

"and sometimes going as far as appearing to originate from countries other than the US" <- Russian hackers?

Thunderbolt interface is PCI-E interface to the outside. There are already external graphics "cards" (can't call them a card really) which use various connectors (ATI had a good idea but buried it), mostly USB but these kinds are just to connect another monitor. If Thunderbolt has wider adoption there are going to be fully featured graphics "cards" for notebooks which would allow gaming.

You can use polarized light filter for photo lens. It can be rotated to get rid of the right angle of polarization. Of course holding it before your eyes makes it obvious as well. By the way circular polarization (CPL) photo filters are still linear polarization filters (because they are meant to be rotated) but they convert linear polarization into circular because it is better for digital sensors. So if circular polarization is used on this monitor, this isn't going to help.

Actually Intel's VA API has backends that use VDPAU and something from FRGLX. I am not sure these backends are tested well but in theory an application that uses VA API can use acceleration provided by all three major graphics hardware vendors. In addition to decoding VA API can be used to accelerate encoding and post-processing filters.