Indonesia and Russia have begun their first joint naval exercises, as Jakarta’s new leader Prabowo Subianto seeks a bigger role for the south-east Asian country on the global stage.

The exercises off the eastern coast of Java island, come just two weeks after Prabowo, a former general and defence minister, took over Indonesia’s presidency.

Prabowo has vowed to maintain Indonesia’s long-standing neutral foreign policy, but he is also seeking a more influential role for the world’s fourth-most populous country, whose natural resources have put it at the centre of global clean energy supply chains.

The five-day joint exercise will be conducted in Surabaya, a port in the east of Java, and its surrounding waters, the Indonesian navy said on Monday. Russia has brought four warships, one helicopter and one tug salvage ship for the exercise, it added.

Indonesia has held joint exercises with Russia in the past as part of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, but this week’s drills are the first bilateral effort between the two countries. Jakarta also holds annual joint exercises with the US and its allies.

As president-elect, Prabowo travelled to more than a dozen countries and met leaders including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping. Last week, his administration announced its intention of joining the Brics grouping of major emerging economies that includes China and Russia.

“We consider Russia as a great friend,” Prabowo said in a statement after meeting Putin in July, calling to deepen ties with Moscow.

But Julia Lau, senior fellow and co-co-ordinator of the Indonesia studies programme at the Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore, warned against interpreting the naval drills and overtures to the Brics bloc of emerging economies as evidence of a tilt towards China and Russia. As president-elect, Prabowo also met Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy and France’s Emmanuel Macron.

Prabowo “is trying a balancing act vis-à-vis the US, China and Russia,” she said. The military drills with Russia are “part of the new administration’s strategy to show that they are not aligned with any great power”.

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This laptop was originally sold with Windows 7 32-bit edition installed. Even back then it was really unresponsive and clunky. After several years of it lying around and being useless, I decided to do a really lightweight debian install on it.

And guess what? It can do so much more than sit idly in some landfill.

Now I can use it to write my study notes in neovim (gives me a good excuse to learn vim, and I'm learning slowly), listen to music with gst123, learn c and c++, torrent large files with transmission-cli and qbittorrent, and the list goes on....

I mostly just use tty. I hit "startx i3" if I absolutely need a GUI, but for everything else, tty. I use links2 for Wikipedia, online resources and browsing memes which is already a big chunk of my internet usage. I was really giddy when I saw Tor browser had a 32-bit version, it runs surprisingly well even with less than 1 gigabyte of memory (unless I visit some really bloated sites)

I can't play videos though, that's the one major thing it can't do. The integrated GPU is unsupported so playing videos or 3d-gaming is out of the question.

BTW is there a lemmy instance/frontend I can use via CLI or links2?

Before heading to bed on Saturday, November 2, many Americans will set their clocks back one hour to prepare for the end of daylight saving time (DST). In the states that change clocks (Arizona and Hawaii are the only ones that do not), this “fall back” time is always the first Sunday in November.[1] This year, DST officially ends at 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 3, 2024, after an eight month run that began March 10.
If you find yourself rejoicing each year over the extra hour of sleep, we hear you. But some medical experts say the extra slumber may have some unintended consequences for our health.

Here’s what you should know about the science behind why this time change may not be so great for health, and some tips for easing the transition.

Changing the Clocks on the Walls Can Throw Off Our Body Clocks
Setting the clock back affects your body’s circadian rhythms — “the physical, mental, and behavioral changes in your body that follow a 24-hour cycle,” according to the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) definition.
[2]Our bodies expect certain things to happen at certain times during the day (like sleeping, waking up, and eating) based on cues from the sun and on your doing those things over and over again at the same time every day. For example, says Aneesa Das, MD, a sleep medicine, internal medicine, and pulmonary disease specialist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus. “Natural sunlight during the day and the absence of light in the evening help to drive our circadian sleep phase.”

When you shift that routine — even by an hour — your circadian rhythms get slightly thrown off, similar to the effect of jet lag. The result: Your circadian rhythms become slightly misaligned from the time on the clock, which can throw off the timing of several daily processes that happen in the body, like sleep, digestion, and cardiovascular functioning.
[3]And while many people may not feel all that affected by the change, large-scale data suggests that the risk of health problems like heart attacks and accidents may increase because of the change to and from DST.

One study that followed healthcare workers for eight years revealed an 18 percent uptick in safety-related human errors in the week following DST in the spring and a 5 percent increase after the end of DST in the fall.
[4]Any disruption in the sleep or circadian cycle has the potential to increase risk of disease, says Matthew Morgan, MD, a primary care physician at Ochsner Health Center in Chalmette, Louisiana. Changes in daylight patterns — like the shorter days during fall and winter months — also affect your body’s normal sleep-wake cycle.

But those changes happen gradually over the fall months as the days get shorter (particularly in places farther north). DST clock changes happen overnight. “It can take several weeks for your circadian rhythm to adjust to the change that the end of DST brings,” adds Whitney Hardy, MD, a family medicine physician at Ochsner Health Center in Gretna, Louisiana.