Who gave you permission to do that!?

What are you planning on doing on the roof?

Pardon my ignorance, but did they have other options during the 90s and early 2000s? Did they have big software houses that could produce their own OS or tailor Linux to what I assume was then foreign hardware, and also have the ability to interact with standard file formats like Microsoft Office documents so that they could interact with foreign companies?

(Since tone can be hard to convey in text, and comment threads often lean aggressive, I want to say that these are genuine questions, not an attempt to be snarky)

How so?

China’s tech boom is relatively recent so they had to rely on western tech in the mean time. Now they probably also have the same issues as other non US countries in that it is hard to retrain all staff to use a “new” OS and related software.

Your homelab looks gay

Unless there is a Nuremberg style trial for the current administration, I don’t know how America can gain back it’s trust.

Even if Americans elect a president that is super helpful/generous to allies, there is always the chance that they elect another Trump in the following election who basically has almost free reign to do anything they want with no consequences.

The constitution that Americans beat over everyone’s heads has been revealed to be republican toilet paper.

I mean for the rest of the world noone cares what individual states think and do. The president and his administration represent the American people.

I mean they are trying to… by helping the aggressor win the war.

When considering new customers or those who, for example, have irreparably damaged their Fairphone, it’s important to recognize that selling a three-year-old device as new may not be appealing to them. Additionally, many people today rely on their phones as their primary computer and therefore require the performance necessary to handle a variety of tasks.

China has the luxury of being a totalitarian state. Xi does not need to worry about upcoming elections. Unfortunately in Europe any moves that requires great sacrifice might be political suicide.

Eh as much as I would like it to be true, I would take the word of captured enemy combatants with a grain of salt.

I think they hate “the west” in general as the population can criticize and pressure those in power. Whereas dictatorships have unquestioned control.

In this case they should have been using government systems for internal transparency and opsec.

Ironically this scandal was caused by fools

Frankly I think Trump sees western nations not led by dictators as threats.

I can already guess the excuse: “Europe started the war by not negotiating a peace deal with Russia when it came to Ukraine.”

Board of the UZA*

We are living in times where countries are doing or threatening land grabs even to their supposed allies. I think this is a preemptive message of don’t fuck with.

Ofcourse! A convicted pedophile is a convicted pedophile until proven innocent.

With a life sentence you can at least get some of your life back if proven innocent. With the death penalty not so much.