Love it or leave it, literally. Unless you like a Siberian prison.
FSB walks in, point to a dozen laws you've broken and then ask, how are going to do this. And you've almost certainly broken the laws (it's nearly impossible to operate otherwise in such countries), and even if you didn't a judge will say you did.
Tech sovereignty is going to be one of the most important international issues of the next few decades. The US has mostly lucked out so far, being the home of the overwhelming majority of major tech firms. But China has very purposefully taken steps to secure and guarantee their technological sovereignty, and there is movement in Europe to do the same.
China is blatantly ripping off the West in tech and non tech. Their rising middle class and population make it simple to copy and internally consume. Russia can do something similar because purposely segregate themselves.
They're based in Russia which obviously says a lot without needing to go into more specifics. They still do good work though, they're one of the most respected disclosure-publishers in the world.
I do wonder "why now?" though RE: banning them...Could be either posturing or some sort of recent intelligence (also I mean "recent" in the bureaucratic sense, so like...idk < 1 year?)
4GB? I wouldn't expect most open world games to perform well with 4GB. I think 2010 was the last time I had a laptop with less than 8GB. My current laptop has 16GB. Game developera and certainly mod developers don't optimize for bargain basement hardware.
Every enterprise client I have worked with has asked about our tech stack. I will agree that your groupon clone users do not care about your stack, but respond to an enterprise SaaS RFP and stack, security, DR will all be discussed.
I do course guides and question sets to support teaching in LibreOffice Writer (at home) and OpenOffice (at work). In the 60 page range, with lots of formulas, diagrams (drawn with drawing tools) and some bitmap images (scans of hand drawn graphs). I also copy in charts and graphs and more complex drawings from Calc/Impress as needed. No complex 'section' schemes or restyling though just writing straight through.
The size in Mb varies according to the number of scans - the drawings and diagrams themselves take little file space. A 100 page course guide comes in around 2Mb as an .odt with half a dozen scanned plots.
Seems sprightly enough on a core-duo laptop with 2Gb ram and KDE at home and the usual 'office PC' at work.
Interesting. Thanks for the info. Don't know a lot about the sizes of word processing docs, but slightly surprised that a 100 page doc would come in at as little as 2 MB. I would have thought it should be more. Maybe it is due to ODT format being compressed text/XML, which I think I read somewhere - need to look up the format spec.
I randomly get such a thing - hours worth of deja vu. Even when I know I've not been in the situation before. Smoking semi-regularly actually makes this happen less often.
