Atacks on the enemy has long been known to force their resolve to fight on. finding a useful target for missles is hard. Not that there isn’t a use for hundreds but that they are not as useful as many think.

Did they get the transformers though? Some diesel engines there is just wires between the cab and the transformer and no computers. You select which winding to use with a simple switch. These days I’d expect in-cab computers, but you can run without if you don’t care about safety (which we already know Russia doesn’t)

They are killing their labor force, and steam engines need more labor. (In the US diesel engines used more fuel than a steam engine when steam was retired - but it needed less people to run and so was overall a lot cheaper. I don’t know how Russia compares but I assume similar)

I don’t know russian locomotives but I’d guess finding the oil fill on the first would take an hour but after that it is 10 minutes or less.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_silicate

Not mentioned in the above, but water glass is what was most commonly used in the “cash for clunkers” program to ensure the car traded in under this program was taking off the road. Which is why I suggested it. You can get it easily enough if you look (I assume, I don’t know the situation in Russia), and it will do damage after you get away.

I would expect a jug full per locomotive would be enough - the train would continue to run for a while (I’m not sure if this is hours or days), but by the time anyone noticed the damage is done and it won’t be easy to fix.

That always worked - on a minority of women. There are only a few men willing to descend to those disgusting levels so it worked out for them. (if it was any more society as we know it would break down).

The men who did it crossed the political spectrum trying to blame people you don’t like for everything does your side no favors.

How repairable is this? The cab of locomotives (looks like that is all they got) can be very simple. Put a cushion on the seat and put some electric tape around some wires and it will be working in a day. Maybe you lose in-cab signaling, but we did without that for decades.

If anyone can get access to these people, better to pour some “water glass” into the engine oil - it will run for a short time, while destroying the engine bearings and cylinders - it will be a major rebuild to get that engine running again (probably cheaper and faster to scrap it)

IIRC Russia only has around 6000 locomotives and most are in use so if this is hard to repair this is significant, but it feels like a feel good piece that makes no difference.

After verifying that OP’s intent was met I gave a more fun answer that abused the letter of what was asked.

Yes. However as others have already said odds are you don’t have the right devices. Still if you really work at it everything exists. Start by selecting one of the few TVs that support it, then get a good HDMI cable, make sure you have a video card that supports it, with drivers for the OS (you might have to write them yourself), then just setup networking. This would be an interesting hack, I’d love to see someone get it working and show their setup, but it is otherwise useless and will be a lot of work.

Cage is not what I want from a kiosk. I want window management, I just want a few fixed windows in fixed positions. Sometimes I want to rotate between a few windows. I’m running Magicmirror now which gives what I want, but it is too slow and too locked into the everything is a web app model.

What does anything matter. If you deal with someone else at least one of you needs to learn the others systems. You and your neighbor probably speak the same language so it is easy, but the more differences the more there is to learn. You can choose to not deal with people in the US who only know US systems, or you can work with them by learning. I have no idea what your motivations are, but whatever they are they becomes your reasons to do or not do something.

1100 people… Last I heard Russia was recruiting about 1000 per day, but there have been rumblings since that they are no longer able to keep that pace. Anyone have insight into how Russian recruiting is going?

I have a pi3 with a 20" touchscreen that I’m using. Raspbian booting to magic mirror. It works, but Magic Mirror is slow bloated/slow that I’m not happy with it. I’m about ready to make my own QT based signage - I suspect it will be much more performant as well as more flexible. Still it is a lot of work and so I hesitate to bother (even if version one could be done in a day - I have enough other projects).

Sigh… Everyone is used to what they have used all their life and refuse to learn anything else…

Extept in very rural areas there are far too many people around for it to be useful. Unless somehow we can enforce strict rules on what you are allowed to say.

Divide kmh by two and round toethe nearest 5/10 is close enough to mph for discussion purposes. It is off at times, but for discussion purposes it is close enough that your impression of how they drive is the same. (90 vs 100 kmh - not enough to matter in discussion - it matters in court so don’t try this in the real world)

mostly a lot of work. If you can’t do it yourself then hire someone - for a quatrer million per year.

that of course is why nobody does it- those who try can get bored before they get far. Or they get a day job and run out of time.

Of course once they arrive and population expands we can expect random mutations to build up over the next 100k years or so. If you can last that long.

There are lots of options. Honest jeweler buyers (likely including your local jewelry store and pawn shows - which might be dishonest in other ways but not that) are notified by the local police when jewelry is stolen and they consult the latest description list when buying and inform the police if anything is on that list.

So as a criminal your options are: use it yourself (either wear it, or as gifts to friends); sell in a different city where hopefully it isn’t on the list; sell it to someone who doesn’t care that it is stolen; sell to a fence (who will in turn sell it to someone); melt it down for the metals (gold and silver) and jewels.

Note that buyers of metals are also on the list of those watching for stolen goods. If you bring “a lot” of something to anyone buying metals expect questions. Metals are easy to melt and hard to trace, but if you are selling more than the average person is likely the police will be told to check you out. Often the point of a “fence” is to mix your illegal gold with legal gold and sell to locals jewelers who think everything is legal.

As other have said jewels are cut.

You lose a lot of value in all of the above. Jewelry is already way overpriced in general (that is the value is much less than you pay), and hiding your tracks is hard. It is really hard to make this type of crime pay because the police are good at their job.

FreeBSD - it won’t be easy, but I’ve been a BSD guy at heart for decades… You will learn a lot and eventually be able to create better systems, but it will be years before you should risk putting anything important on a system - as a noob you have a lot to learn the hard way. Once you think you know FreeBSD you should try the other BSDs, and things like gentoo linux: you will really learn how this works.

You can follow the advice of the others and get a system going sooner. It isn’t a wrong choice, but you won’t learn as much and if something doesn’t work the way you want you are stuck since you can’t dare change anything. As such I have to advice against it despite all the time/effort my advice will cost you.