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‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life

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I'm a security engineer and I can personally confirm that trump has personally done more to advance tech in Europe that any other leader.

There is currently a "Sovereign cloud" arms race in European tech where governments are rushing to migrate out of US based solutions in favor for their own if possible and other European countries if otherwise.

It's been great for the industry and for the end users. I'm in the US myself, but even I am benefiting because more competition = more options and now I can have services where that orange fuck we have to call president doesn't have a say or access to my data.

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Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models

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Hijacking top comment to report that: This is true across the industry for (most) OEMs

The Secret is to buy "Enterprise level"

Check out the LATITUDE line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Latitude

Those are enterprise fleet laptops ... the ones they have to support for 5-10 years.

You know which line they don't discontinue parts for? You know which line has repair manuals and driver updates available? wanna take a wild guess which line is usually more modular and powerful at the expense of being less sleek looking and thin?

And the best part is that you can usually buy them fairly cheap if you find them used.

I prefer Dell Latitude to HP Elitebook, Thinkpads are OK too but they've gone down in quality a lot since they got bought by Lenovo

TL;DR = Buy an enterprise level laptop, consumer line laptops are all trash,

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My apartment building gives me free water but I pay for electricity. What if I run the faucet nonstop and rig up a hydro turbine in my bathtub to generate my power from it?

Most apartments with water included in the rent price (Sorry kids, there's no such thing as "free water") closely monitor their usage on a per building or floor basis. Whenever they detect irregularities they schedule inspections with the tenants to check for things like leaking toilet valves and such.

"free water" just means that they've calculated the cost of installing the meters and additional plumbing and determined that monitoring global usage and including it in the price of rent is cheaper.

Source: I have water included in my rent, I pay about $50 more a month than a similar apartment without.

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I would argue that we have been in WW3 for a while ... since this whole "de-globalization" started.

World wars are hard to define ... what started WW2? Is there a single moment in time? Was it Pearl Harbor? Was it the invasion of Poland? By the time the Germans Invaded the conditions for world war had already been around for a while.

I'd argue that we're currently in the "appeasement" phase of WW3 ... I just hope that it's a cold and mostly economic war .... and not one with global drafts and attrition (altho Russia and Ukraine already have broken that barrier)