I halted buying new hardware as well. We are facing a destruction of consumer hardware ecosystem, no less, in favor of mythical data centers. But who will use them once there is no consumer hardware to access them?

For me the worst part is giving Google a phone number and copy of id document. Not a problem with companies, but for individuals it is huge.

Which comes at the worst possible time price wise 🥺 damn AI bubble

There is also Jolla phone.

40K is still a huge threshold.

Is it any different if it was a pastor?

Corrected headline for you: 'university "had negotiated directly with a foreign intelligence service to trade my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market,"'

Yes and no. The group that suffer the most as consequence are immunocompromised ones and I doubt those are antivax.

Sadly, a pandemic is a global occurrence. So it will be a little less fun to watch.

Why not not all of them: terrorism, malice and incompetence.

The official reason for tariffs is government subsidy AFAIK, but in reality the moment they lower the tariffs, US and EU automobile industry is done.

This trick gets rid of Israelis for you. Wish more countries follows Ireland, but who am I kidding, right.