I was able to get a used one cheap for under 600€, used it for a while and now have upgraded the hinges, speakers, battery, keyboard and motherboard along with more RAM and a larger SSD. It’s the perfect PC builder’s laptop.
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The US and Japan have historically done the same.
See also Germany. Britain required stuff produced in Germany be marked „Made in Germany“, because many imported goods had the marks of British manufacturing and were of poor quality.
At this moment, I am sitting in a Amazon Kiro course. We have spent more than 2 hours and half the tokens of our test account just to fucking connect to an MCP server.
The process is so convoluted and Byzantine it has to be some kind of cult to enjoy this pain.
I‘m with Ed Zitron - the AI hype and especially stuff like this just makes it so obvious that the tech bros are flat out of ideas.
The megacorps can do anything they want with their product. The chef can change the menu anytime and he can refuse you service - it's his restaurant. Our problem is that it's a duopoly and there's nowhere else to go.
The only way out is open standards and platforms, enabling true competition.
Watched a clip yesterday and learned that compared to just last year, there were four times as many contestants and they managed to complete the race in less than half the time.
But the really fascinating things were mundane tasks like chopping vegetables.
Comparing that to what Europe has got to offer is what scares me.