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I think it's about printers being required by law to (covertly) watermark copies as such, and make it somewhat traceable. This is supposedly to prevent duplication of protected works (books?) but also to prevent someone just using it to print money (badly, probably).

To my knowledge all major brands incorporate something like this.

Wikipedia article about the technology

The one point that has basically been solved is NAT traversal. Thanks to Wire guard, Tailscale and the like. The relevant parts are open source and can be used basically as a library.

I don't know how recent your experience is with installing Linux, but there are no "hacks" required, haven't been for many years. In 99.5% of cases everything just works, including sleep & suspend. This is just incredibly outdated or just plain bad advice. There is no tech-savvy-ness needed to use it either.

I've installed it for as tech illiterate people as you can imagine and told them "just use it like you have before". They had a few questions where the answer would usually be "well what did you do before", told em to try and that was that. I personally found the PCs to feel faster, but that's my own comment, not theirs. I don't think they noticed.

No, cause it's at work and not my choice. It's also just one example of many. I don't run Windows on any of my own PCs any more.

You can't even install Windows (local account) these days without answering 3 of these. If you ever click on one of the recovery options, you'll be asked for one of them.

My solution is usually to just randomly smash the keyboard for a while.

So far I'm happy with my Fairphone 5. Not exactly cheap, but I'd argue it is value for money in the end. Timely security updates, unlockable bootloader (though I haven't yet) and updates for (at least) 7 years after launch. I haven't had the need to swap any of the middle things yet, but I'm starting to suspect my USB port has a loose pin or something so I'll probably swap that module soon. Glad that I can.

These days, you can install any of the gaming focused distros (Bazzite, CachyOS, Nobara, ...). And you didn't have to do anything. It just works, and works well. Steam is either installed or suggested initially. Really trivial.

Password managers on Android (and frankly all platforms) actually try to avoid using the clipboard. They prefer the auto-fill service, which is intended for applications just like this. Unfortunately this isn't working in all cases, but you can also set your password manager as a keyboard (temporarily), so it can directly input a selected username/password without anyone else seeing it.

Examples where I know this is the case are open source keepass options (Keepass2Android, KeepassDX). But I'd assume bitwarden and the like also work this way.

That really depends on how the VPN is setup and configured on the company side. And possibly how the applications it their servers are configured as well. In our case, absolutely nothing breaks and it just works.

I know that isn't the point of your comment, but what issues do you have with Logitech hardware on Linux? I have just mice from them, but honestly an embarrassing amount. I just use Solaar and I can configure all I need? I also have always only used the onboard memory (so I can move them between computers), and don't really use macros though...

China also has over half of the world's coal power generation. They are also still building more, just not as much as solar, but it's still being added to. Coal power share in China fell in 2025 for the first time. But not because they reduced it, but it was the first time where they added enough solar/wind to outpace the adding of coal.

China also has quotas that require utility companies to buy a certain share of coal power. So you can't get clean energy there by law, as individual or industrial user.

China also has the rare earths needed to produce batteries, from what I remember they sit on the largest reservers for them by quite a margin, but I don't remember a source for that. So for them, adding battery based grid storage is easier than most of the world. Plus they are basically the only ones that even make any batteries anymore in the first place.

Source for most of the info.

Version string on GitHub says 1.76.1 (as does the tag), but version of the app itself says 1.76.0. not a big deal, but does cause obtainiun to keep showing that there's an update.