Wagner is the only one involved and isn't really a random mercenary group though. Prigozhin is (was) in Putin's inner circle and Wagner was a tool of the Russian government. I don't think this is all that different from a faction in the armed forces trying to stage a coup as happened during Soviet times.

Of course when nukes are fought over it is always scary anyway which is why the USA didn't really want the Soviet Union to fall apart either.

@Jaximus @YellowtoOrange @ukraine

@archy does not work through nitter because of the age restriction

I assume this is the same video on mastodon: https://mas.to/@mhmck/110565653781867449

Crazy stuff. They do say that these regimes tend to seem rock solid until they don't.

Unless this is some massive false flag at the very least this should result in some disarray for Russia and that is helpful for Ukraine...

@BombOmOm @ukraine

@barsoap @ukraine
Thanks, despite the downvotes this seems informative and helpful to dispel Russian propaganda narratives. It is not useful to deny the existence of right wing Ukrainians but it is to show us how they actually think and what they actually want.

@wizzor @Wilshire
@ukraine

There have been countless accounts of Russian mobiks and people drafted into LPR and DPR forces having to purchase their own gear, getting old and broken stuff etc.pretty much from the start of the war.

Then again Ukrainians are not always able to equip units well either. Donating helps.

Other user suggestions on Mastodon:
@kevinrothrock
@MarQs
@ManyRoads
@timkmak
@ChrisO_wiki
@ScottLucas
@michaelh992
@Landcombatmissiles
@joannekelly

Things changing right now too since people are moving in from Twitter so more good accounts may pop up...

(obligatory mentions while posting from mastodon->lemmy: @curryandbeans @ukraine )

@c0c0c0 @lesserprophet this is a different Ukraine community. The ban being talked about is https://lemmy.ml/c/Ukraine

@mike That is interesting, I was curious about whether it is possible to post to lemmy from mastodon... Seems like part of your message ended up becoming the title so I wonder if there is a way to format the message in a way that won't look out of place on lemmy

Just note that several large mastodon instances including mastodon.social have blocked bird.makeup so it unfortunately is not available everywhere (personally I find it irreplaceable)

@petrescatraian @SuperPunny @ukraine

@BombOmOm I don't think they have been promised Gripens or even Hornets yet? Swedes are only training and Australia is considering giving their old Hornets

I think the Brits were training them on another fighter in RAF service too.

@Thorny_Thicket @Eqweytr Gepard can only help to a limited degree because the Russian KA-52s have ATGMs that have a significantly longer range than a Gepard.

@nivenkos Yeah that is correct I believe, still no actual release of it besides system images for Steam Deck.

@netwren @virtualreality

I think it has been fairly apparent since the release of the quest after which Meta started no new projects targeting PC and of course many developers shited their attention to that standalone too.

Do you also mean lack of ports for games intended for Quest? On the bright side Amid Evil VR reported better sales on PC than Quest. PCVR could also benefit from there now finally being PSVR2 to target alongside it.

Luckily there's all the VR mods too, Praydog is a hero.

Nice screenshot! Haven't been flying a whole lot recently, I hope to get into it more later this month when I have some free time, weather permitting.

@hpucks @microsoftflightsim

Haven't watched this in full yet but the "race to the bottom" type comments about how you need to make a device that people actually want I heard about from @davemark here on Mastodon.

#PalmerLuckey said that before too, in the context of the Oculus Quest that time IIRC. He's not entirely wrong in that we do need the high end devices that offer the best experience possible to drive things forward. Personally I just think we can and should have the low-end too.

@lloram239 @virtualreality

If that is such a great idea why is Quest doing so extremely well compared to PCVR right now?

I think the issue is more that we need both. There will not be any incentive for anyone to make any VR software if there are not users and clearly even the current VR headsets are of interest to enough people that you can build a market if you have a price they can afford.

Meta exclusively focusing on Quest and dropping Rift completely was what really was bad for VR.

@sexy_peach In one of Hromadske's reports from Bakhmut a drone team did quote a fairly high number for drone losses. Not sure how accurate 10k a month is but it doesn't strike me as completely unbeliveable in relation to that.

It's just the term used in some countries like Germany for FPS.

External trackers... so that sounds like they literally just use it as a display that has no idea how your head is oriented or moves. All that has to be added through other hardware. Which makes sense since that probably is one of the most challenging things to implement for this, still a very long way to go for anything actually usable if it even happens.

@kbinator @virtualreality

@kadu @Fubarberry FWIW the author of cryoutilities has done benchmarks and figured that increasing the default on the Deck does improve performance in some games slightly. He claims that introducing the swapfile also mitigates any potential disadvantages.