Well, yes, you shouldn’t trust the US government or any other government out of the control of its people.

(Also, guess who has stolen land from a few different non-NATO states (Chechnia, Georgia, Ukraine), but has never dared steal land from a NATO state?)

Western media is portraying Israeli bombs as good? Who? Fox doesn’t count.

For as long as Russia is willing to use bombs to steal land, Europe needs bombs. Obviously.

Not a single person I have ever talked to defends Israel’s land grab while condemning Russia’s. NATO did some stupid shit now and then, but overwhelmingly, their only purpose is to promise to crush Russia if it ever tries a land grab on a NATO state.

Maybe you’re not a Chinese bot account, but you are isomorphic to a Chinese bot account.

I used to think it didn’t matter how electricity is used to generate heat, so I came to the same conclusion you did. Surprisingly, it does matter. Rather than a computer’s resistive heating, it is much more efficient to refrigerate the outdoors and point the refrigerator’s heat sink indoors. This is how a heat pump works. It’s basically awesome.

Laptops are better, because they have an integrated uninterruptible power supply, but worse because most can’t fit two hard drives internally. Less of a problem, now that most have USB3. Just run external RAID if you have to.

Arguably, a serious home server will need a UPS anyway to keep the modem and router online, but a UPS for just the NAS is still better than no UPS at all. Also, only a small UPS is needed for the modem and router. A full desktop UPS is much larger.