is it the fault of my 15 year old amd fx cpu, or is it linux? I have a gtx 6700
It's your CPU. If you are up for purchasing new hardware, a Ryzen processor (5000 series or better) will be a massive upgrade and are very prevalent on the used market.
Yeah, you will generally have a better time with exFAT, which is a format both Windows and Linux works with well. All my external drives get formatted as such.
around half of the ammunition sent last month was so old that it needed to be sent to Russian factories for refurbishment
I feel like if an artillery shell is in such bad condition it needs refurbishment, it would be easier to just make a new shell instead.
An artillery shell is literally just explosives and an outer shell. The primer is added later. Are they sanding off the rust and refilling it with explosives?
Melting a modern penny is actually kinda neat. The zinc on the inside melts first, which turns the whole thing into a blobby copper flask. Then at some point the copper rips and all the zinc pours out.
Yeah, they effectively don't matter. People can do whatever they want with them. Most will continue to sit in the jar they have lived in the last 10 years.
China barely pays their workers. Hell, they don't even let you use services in the city you live in unless you were born there. Lots of people travel to the cities seasonally since they are prevented from doing anything reasonable where they work.
It's not surprising they don't want to spend, China has engineered an economy where huge portions of the domestic population have no spending power or even a stable place to live.
It's your CPU. If you are up for purchasing new hardware, a Ryzen processor (5000 series or better) will be a massive upgrade and are very prevalent on the used market.