Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
Reply #5361 –
What are your opinions on Yanis Varoufakis ?
I actually thought quite highly of him from the few times I heard him speak, but the reality is as follows. As an Australian born to Greek migrants, I recognise that Greeces national politics are driven by geopolitical factors, which leaves governing Greece stuck between a rock and a hard place, where you are constantly having to bend to the whims of others as an otherwise small economic and military player in a region that is dominated by your neighbours. I am also more likely to be shaped by the opinions of my family members who have their own opinions driven by their own anecdotal experiences with life. I use their political spectrum as an example, because now that you mention Varoufakis, I forgot all about the middle left Syriza, who have been dominated by policies and ideologies more alligned with far left ideology. The best and brightest minds have been fleeing Greece for generations, and their workforce hampered by rampant nepotism. They have a long way to go as a nation, but the challenges are enormous. Makes me wonder whether or not the monarchy in exile was in the nations best interests because since then they have had a military Junta, and then decades of left leaning politicians, which has resulted in a rather dramatic shift back towards nationalism almost a necessity.
Anyway, Im glad he resigned when he did, as it showed him as being one of the few constituants of politics who seems to have left Greek politics with their reputation relatively in tact, BUT even that fact depends on whom you ask!
As an aside to this last point, I've been helping guys at work setup Raspberry Pi 4b for use at home for their kids and grandchildren. You can get a kit including a case and cables for under about $150, and you end up with a NUC style Debian Linux box that runs LibreOffice, etc., on any HDMI capable display. The biggest expense is often keyboard and mouse if you have to add them in assuming you can't get hold of old ones, the Logitech K400s work quite well as a combo and can be found quite cheaply. Because Raspian is targeted at young kids learning to be coders, even though oldies can use it for IoT dev, it's setup to be quite simple to manage compared to a normal Debian distro, and has some useful generic controls for printers, WiFi, etc., etc.. You still need to have a home WiFi or Ethernet setup, because at that price there is no real-time clock in those devices, so they get the date and time off the network. Being Linux, and being Raspberry PI, they are also easy to pre-configure in kiosk mode so that a power cycle cleans all the garbage.
In a decade or so we might have a whole generation of tech heads come out of this pandemic!
Future generations are by default more involved with technology which would have occurred with or without the pandemic (evidenced by our last 30 years), and the global chip shortage isnt solely about computers. money is only half the problem when an organisation like ours is waiting greater than 6 months for new devices because HP cant supply to keep up with demand.
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