I don’t think anything short of making the US lose face will work.

So, it depends on the details of the deal and the reaction of Europe to any push-back from America - Europe has to treat the expressed wishes of America as irrelevant and if America actually pushes back (such as with Tariffs, as has become Trump’s default mode of pressure) it cannot bend in any way form or shape.

Personally from all I’ve seen I believe that at least the EU Commission is unable to act thus and invariably appeases and even supports America and its interests.

Trust is a lot easier to lose than it is to gain and Europe has lost a lot of trust when it sided with the US when Trump unilaterally exited the last agreement and imposed sanctions.

Further, continued submissive compliance behaviors from Europe towards the US in all manner of things (for example, Tariffs) aren’t exactly helping building in others the trust that in the future Europe will stand fast in such tri-party agreements when America unilaterally tears then down: if Europe won’t even play hardball towards America when an American Administration goes back on bilateral agreements with Europe itself, it will certainly not do so in the interest of a third party in a trilateral agreement involving it and America.

America can’t be trusted because it’s a ultra-nationalist and imperialist country with a growing Fascist side and Europe can’t be trusted because it acts as a spinless coward that won’t even stand-up for itself, much less for others.

Neither America nor Israel can be trusted to uphold any agreement and Europe has shown it will always bend over to America and Israel rather than leverage it’s power and push back for the sake of saving an agreement - even one of this importance - with a 3rd party.

Europe has to demonstrate having a spine and some fucking honor when it comes to America before it’s trusted as a counterparty to such an agreement and, at the moment, at least the EU Commission has repeatedly shown that they’re little more than boot-lickers when comes to America.

The conditions that made such an agreement a great idea have been destroyed by America’s betray and Europe’s half-hearted pushback.

Kick out America’s and Israel’s embassadors => problem solved.

I bet the vast majority of my countrymen would be fine with that if it means gas and fuel prices going back down. Even if that’s not yet the case, I bet it will be the case if this shit continues for another 2 or 3 months.

Only the politicians around here in the pay of or blackmailed by America and/or Israel put having those embassadors here above the welfare of the population.

Trump Administration Plan for Iran:

• Step 1 - Attack Iran
• Step 2 - ?
• Step 3 - Profit!

What they had was only a “plan” in the same sense as the underpants gnome’s plan.

One person, whose family voted for Trump for his anti-war stance, said she felt “betrayed” and what she perceived as the treatment of US citizens as “an afterthought”.

You are nothing more than a filthy peon that doesn’t matter for the guy you helped elect.

So it uses up way more hardware and power whilst not improving the part of the game were the fun is: gameplay.

What’s next NVidia, an AI driver that plays the game for you?!

DLSS 7: You don’t even need gamers to play the game. AI will play the game for you.

(Wasn’t that a Microsoft patent?)

It can check if people are typing or using the mouse.

It’s also possible to use the camera of a notebook to track if a person is present and looking at the screen or not.

Any company using that shit is the kind that uses “bums of seats” rather than actual deliverables as a measure of performance, which means they’re also the kind of place were unpaid overtime is the norm and, if in dev, things like projects often ending up in a death march stage - such places are stupidly inneficient and badly managed with a disfunctional work culture.

Avoid such companies like the plague - you’ll be luck if the worst that happens is insane work hours.

Never, ever, EVER use your personal equipment for work.

There are a ton of legal reasons for that, not just around who owns the Copyright of work done on that machine as well as licensing of the software running in it (most commercial software has different licensing conditions for personal and commercial use) but also because if there’s some kind of legal case against that company your equipment might very well be confiscated as part of an investigation.

Also, more in general, if you have personal practices which are legally dubious or often frowned upon (piracy, porn) you don’t do it in the same machine where you’re doing your professional work, definitelly not on a work machine but even in your own machine it’s risky (see the point above about how your machine might end up confiscated and examined by the authorities if the company is investigated). The principle of “you don’t shit were you eat” applies here.

Even for your own company, it’s best to have the company stuff separate from personal stuff.

Beyond that, it’s also a very good idea in terms of having a good work-life balance to separate the personal from the professional: ideally you keep a very strong separation between work and not-work, at all levels, from work time and outside-work time to work/personal machine and work/personal phone - it helps make clear both for yourself and, even more importantly, others, that there is no work outside work, which reduces the chances of management doing things like call you on weekends or evenings with questions and makes it easier for them to accept when they try it and you say “I’m not at work now, so I’ll pick this up first thing when I’m back at work” - the cleaner and harder the split the less room there is for the “barely in control, almost 100% reactive” kind of manager to sneak work stuff into your personal-time.

It very much depends on what you’re developing for.

Back when I did server-side development (which almost invariably is targetting Linux servers), having Linux as my dev environment was much better if only because I could run parts (or even all) of our server code directly in my machine configured as a Dev Environment.

However, for example, for Game Dev running Linux is much more of a problem because some tools are for Windows and you have to jump through hoops to make it run in Linux, if at all.

If you’re doing development on internal frontend systems for use by the Business side of a non-Tech company, then Windows is almost certainly the best dev OS because the software is meant to run in Windows machines (as that’s what the Business runs, unless we’re talking about creative companies, in which case it will be Mac) so the very same reasons why Linux is better for server dev apply here for Windows - it way more straightforward to develop in a machine where you can directly test at least parts of the code within the OS it will be running in.

Yeah, you can run virtual machines or deploy to a dev server, but that just adds extra steps and hence extra overhead for frequently done things like running small snippets of code whilst developing just to check it’s working as expected.

Then there’s the whole big company vs small company side of things: big companies have dedicated IT Support people and those will naturally try to standardize things for the obvious reason that it’s way more effective (same thing in dev, by the way, good Technical Architects try to keep the number of programming languages used low because its generally more efficient to have libraries, frameworks, maintenance and hiring practices around a smaller number of languages than it is to do it for many languages) which in turn means that in large companies “everybody gets the same” is an almost unassailable policy except for top-level management.

I’ve worked in all sizes of companies, in various industries and 3 different European countries.

In my experience it very much depends on the industry the company in, the division one is working in and the size of the company.

Engineering types in an Engineering/Tech company using Linux isn’t at all unusual in smaller and mid-sized companies. Sales types or accounting, definitelly are using Window. Creatives tend to use Macs, mainly because the Adobe suite runs perfectly in it and the hardware is superior to PC hardware - designer types almost literally salivate at things like 4K monitors.

Real startups (so, not mature Tech companies that try and still be startups) will definitelly have their devs running whatever they want, whist for example big financial institutions will have everybody on Windows, except perhaps top-level management if they’re quirky and prefer Mac for some reason or other.

Then to this add that the kind of professional who not only prefers Linux but can actually say “bye, bye” if they don’t get it is almost certainly be a pretty senior Techie (say, a Senior Designer Developer) and even now those are pretty hard to find for a permanent employment position (you can’t replace those with AI or outsourcing, not even close, and in the path to such seniority many devs who keep on progressing eventually step into management instead of staying on the Technical career track) - outside a large company (were the hiring manager doesn’t have the pull to make it happen), it a pretty good idea to let them use whatever OS they want in their work machine, even if it has to be with the proviso that they won’t be getting any support for it from the IT Support group (which, trust me, they will be fine with).

If a hiring manager has the pull for it and there are no regulatory reasons to make it be otherwise, it’s pretty dumb not to let a rare resource like a really senior dev use whatever the fuck they want on their work PC if that’s going to allow you hire/keep that person.

Why won’t somebody think about the poor land-thieving child-murdering Israelis…

Consoles have mainly operated following the razor and blades economic model: sell the console at or near cost and then sell the games at much higher prices than PC games.

Overall they were always an inferior financial choice vs the PC because that extra costs for console games didn’t take that many games to exceed the savings in upfront costs of buying a console over a PC - turns out that plenty of games which aren’t ultra-realistic extravaganzas with budgets in the 100s of millions of dollars are also fun because gameplay is more important than graphics, and there are tons of those for the PC and they’re way cheaper than the latest AAA fancy-graphics with meuh gameplay games that are console exclusives.

Worse, this was the before: nowadays a console itself isn’t really all that much cheaper than a PC, so even the upfront saving isn’t there anymore.

Unsurprisingly consoles have been losing ground to PCs.

Because whomever decided which questions are in the test are incompetent as fuck, as are the people who gave them that responsability.

The whole thing has a massive stink of being the indirect result of some posh cunt giving one of his post cunt mates a top position in the part of the Public Service he’s responsible for.

In the UK at the level of the so-called “Public School” educated (in a perfect illustration of the level of deceit in that society, what they call “Public Schools” are in fact expensive Private schools) Cronyism is standard and Merit is at best secondary to Knowing The Right People.

Having left the UK some years ago after having lived there for over a decade, I had almost forgotten just how much governments ministers over there tend to be sleazy posh cunts.

You are correct.

A little digging shows that unlike the CE mark in the EU for electronics, “UL certification isn’t mandatory, but may be required when selling electronic items to retailers”.

UL certification is a requirement for an electric or electronic product to be licensed for sale to consumers in the US. This is enforced on US manufacturers of a product and on importers.

Whilst people buying something from AliExpress for personal use and importing it themselves don’t have to obbey such requirements, those importing them or making them for sale in the US do.

The CE mark does the same thing in the EU.

No idea if in the US there are further licensing requirements for things to be connected to the grid that would close the importing for personal use loophole.

And the side of the space for monitors isn’t an integer multiple of the monitor side.