Rutte is an artist at that, but to be fair that is his job. “The Germans down and Americans in” I believe was the expression.

Android emulator on your computer?

Public costs and private profits eh?

I think even a general strike would fall short as an action.

Oh. I don’t doubt that, I was taking the shadow fleet as a commercial fleet like the Russian one is. I have zero doubt about all non landlocked countries using civilian registered vessels for at least signal intelligence and special operations forces.

I don’t think calling the western fleets shadow fleets is really accurate, but you are right about the issue: in lawlessness everyone is an outlaw.

There is a reason why western countries care about maintaining maritime law and it is to maintain freedom of navigation for themselves.

You seem to be talking about computer games, so I will say this:

• The easiest way to do this is to forego the hardware altogether. Mouse movements and keyboard inputs are trivial to generate programmatically and grabbing the screen contents is easy too. Building a software that understands the objective of the game and can react accordingly is the hard part
• If you wanted to do this outside the computer where the game runs you could emulate a HID device on another computer and forego the keyboard and mouse, but it would be only useful to avoid some anti cheat systems
• It is certainly possible to also build a mechanical system too, but adide from being a fun challenge for an experienced mechatronics engineer, I don’t see the point, especially if you are a beginner

In all of the above, start with the first one these solutions can be expanded to be more complex.

What games are you looking for that would benefit from this, that don’t offer computer opponents?

The big question on security guarantees is how to enforce them. Ukraine already has security guarantees from US, UK and Russia, but look what happened. Nobody cares.

The promising part about this proposal is, that it proposes a tripwire force, but is that sufficient?

How much is one of those fancy pants laptops?

Need to see how bad it is. It’s an old Lenovo business computer of some sort. My own old Lenovo is just a few screws but a mazillion plastic clips.

I was actually considering a desktop PC for this reason…

All of these basic OS skills are great! App management and settings are def on the list now.

Yea, taking a screenshot is definitely going on the list.

The presentation idea is good and maybe I can tie in some other fun thing, like identifying plants or something.

I have never heard of this project, I will check it out.

The typing practice software is also a good idea (from your screenshot).

I fully agree with you.

The kids can use most basic tools (hammers, drills, pliers), I try to involve them whenever we fix something around the house.

They can also cook some foods (pretty limited selection but relatively independently, including with the stove), but there is much to learn here.

We have also made sure they know how to swim, ride a bike, clean and treat wounds and even safely handle firearms (very far from anything approaching skill, but safety first).

I think we should practice stitching, that’s a great idea and next summer project will have some gardening.

Eventually I’d be happy if I can get them to try some martial art, but so far they don’t seem interested.

I am struggling a bit to teach them finance skills, since physical money is so rare now.

Those are good.

Honestly the only thing we have been doing has been that we try to latch on to things they show interest in. For reading it was first identifying letters together while out and about when they were asking and turning it into a game. Later they would request to practice writing and want to have a sample to copy. We read to them a lot and have since they have been very little.

Now at school we just take checking homework really seriously and try to make sure they see us read books, not just screens.

I made them a rainbow light thing from an ESP32. Need to fix that with them.

I never learned blender myself, although I can do some cad… Need to include some 3d modeling for sure though.

I didn’t know about Affinity, need to check it.