Why not use OpenSuse. We use it where I work in about 25 developer laptops, plus 1 Ubuntu (choice of the person themselves) and it has been rock stable. We should have about 50 by end of this year, out of 950 devices in total. Let’s go for something made in EU and of good quality.

Without reading the article, my guess would be because they give their engineers enough time to do their best work.

In my opinion it should be doable with some effort to have the bureaucratic processes in English and not only German, similar to how the Netherlands does it. Same thing about the work requirements. Newcomers should be able to work in English for the first 5 to 10 years until they are integrated into the society.

It seems that making a smooth and frictionless ball point pen is one of the most challenging problems in mechanical engineering. I understand why there was a high chance that moving the production overseas didn’t meet quality standards. It reminds me of this video: https://youtu.be/nKURE05_RPI where he explains what it the took chinese gov to come up with a working product.

We have the means to do it, but I think we lack the market and the necessary demand. There are already 2 initiatives from the EU under the EPI, for 2 chips. One is a general data-center CPU based on the ARM arch, called RHEA 1: https://www.european-processor-initiative.eu/general-purpose-processor and the other, EPAC, based on the RISC-V arch, is a fusion of accelerators which can be used for specialized tasks like AI training etc: https://www.european-processor-initiative.eu/european-processor-initiative-announces-the-successful-bring-up-of-the-epac1-5-acceleration-chip Despite the initial funding and the goodwill, not a single unit has been produced from the RHEA1, while they have already a design for RHEA2. The EPAC has had sample shipped which can boot Linux. Overall on the consumer side we have nothing to compete. The EU ceded any kind of consumer silicone tech to the US, which now can use it as a bargaining chip to their benefit.

You put some bird spikes around the lens. Same thing that is done for windows in cities with pigeons.

I moved all my photos, videos and emails to Proton.

I see no problems with the request. Their country, their rules. We here in EU should do the same instead of trying to fuck everyone of these companies equally. I say let Macaron deal with Trump if he wants to make amendments to the request. Now morally I would say this is absolutely retarded. But this is how this new gov operates there by default.