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Never thought I would feel grateful that the bank notifications I got so far in my live have been practically 100% inquiries to go see my bank clerk so he can sell me an underperforming pension scheme...

To my surprise, the brand new HP company laptop I got at least still has a RJ45 port, so not completely unhappy! :-)

Nope.
Connector count in general and USB in particular have unfortunately been declining for the last 10-15 years, current HP laptop being the lowpoint with only two USB type A on the right and a single USB-C on the left...
And we are talking development machines here, I work with embedded systems and have to connect stuff, which is often still legacy stuff.
Understandably I am constantly pissed about the development.
So went wireless as far as possible: Bluetooth headset and keyboard, only the mouse still needs a USB dongle (at least the connection itself being wireless makes the side it connects to doesn't matter...)

Lucky you!
Our company laptops are HP ones.
My previous one (already some years old, had to switch due to Win11 incompatibility) already had only a single type A on the left side.
The new one has only two overall, both on the right side.
At least it also has a single type C on the left side, but all my stuff is type A, and apart from that: only three ports overall is somewhat embarrassing, considering it is a physically huge top-of-the line development laptop...

We are talking about Germany.

And here the focus on the Israel-Palestine-Conflict itself, as well as the specific standpoints to be taken are topics of constant discussion e.g. within "Die Linke", the dominant left party.

See e.g. this report about finding a compromise during the latest Linke party convention, where Palestine has been a prime topic (German only):
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/linke-partei-nahostkonflikt-antisemitismus-israel-genozid-100.html

Your laptop still provides standard USB ports on both sides?

Apart from the cable itself, how old is this meme??

So... which of the possible problems hinted at in my comment specifically?
Radical lefts, radical rights, religious extremism or LGBTQ? 🤨

Darwich [...] expressed worry that the attack would polarize German society even more.

It quite certainly will. And probably in the worst possible way.

For the far right AfD (which hate Pride themselves, but are really good at double-think), this might be the event that tips the scale in the upcoming elections in Saxony-Anhalt so that they gain absolute majority.

For the left, which is already torn about issues like Palestine and the compatibility of absolute religious beliefs with an open society, this will widen existing gaps and further fracture the left wing movements.

I am always trying to see the positive side of things, but increasingly can't ignore any more that the previous two years feel like a speedrun to a dark doomsday here in Germany.

Stoßlüften is down to a precise science here.

You mean, not everyone in the world is using a multiple-wireless-thermometer and -hygrometer arrangement to determine the exact optimal millisecond to switch from one complex apartment window configuration to the next?

As a German, I am really confused by that idea... ;-)

Well, but still during the eighties most of the houses in my area burned brown coal in crude ovens to heat their homes, the cars spit out blue, only half-burned lead-enriched and carbohydrate-tasting exhaust in huge amounts, while the surrounding forests were dying because of all the unfiltered sulphuric acid the power plants emitted.

During winter, we often had dense smog in the valley, heavily tasting like a mixture of wood smoke and burnt rubber and triggering frequent coughing.

And just staying in the inside also wasn't that great of an option, as constant cigarette smoke was a given everywhere.

If I had to name one thing that definitely has gotten better by an insane amount, it would the air quality.

Generally agree, but where did the air quality decrease compared to some decades back?

(80s kid here, so maybe my brain is to slow to realize it, because of the remains still in my bloodstreams of the lead fumes and unfiltered coal power plant exhausts I inhaled back then...)

Spot on, I live in Germany!
This kind of shutters are standard here and are actually great!
But during longer heat they still loose most of their advantage, as at some point the heat has just seeped through the massively build outer walls (and stays in the walls for a nice, cozy bedtime temperature of ~30°C on the upper floors...)