realitista

I know :-(. Let the enshittification proceed.

I'd much rather have upgradeable RAM and SSD thanks.

If they are using GPL code, shouldn't they also release their source code?

Putin is a former KGB agent. He's good at the things that the KGB were good at, because that's how he was trained. Foreign influence is one of those things that he's very good at thanks to that training, and Russia has been good at for a very long time, actually. So it's kind of one of Russia's core competencies.

Lots of reports of massive funding by Russia in influence campaigns.

Seems to project weakness more than strength when the world's second nuclear power isn't even sure if it's ICBMs work.

See my post above in the thread where I show the laws I am talking about and cite source.

See my post above with citation.

This article summarizes the subsidies I'm talking about. Here's an excerpt:

For now, the important point is that trucks generally are more profitable than cars thanks to two big government incentives, both of them historical footnotes.

The first is the so-called chicken tax, a 25 percent tariff imposed by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 on foreign-built work vehicles as part of a chicken-related trade war with Europe. If you’re making a pickup or cargo van in the United States, profits should be higher, because foreign factories can’t come close to undercutting you on price.

The second incentive lies in the fine print of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards adopted in 1975, Gerald Ford’s reluctant response to a crippling Middle East oil embargo that sent gas prices soaring. To protect American commerce, work trucks and light trucks were subject to less-strict CAFE standards than family sedans. Trucks are also exempt from the 1978 gas guzzler tax, which adds $1,000 to $7,700 to the price of sedans that get 22.5 or fewer miles to the gallon.

That's because the USA subsidizes bigger trucks as "work vehicles". This practice needs to stop and they need to be taxed more than smaller vehicles.

Until his profile gets high enough that they find some permit he doesn't have and he gets shut down.

I was working tech in the Bay Area in the '90s, I remember it well.