69 … Nice.

I hope this doesn’t end badly for VMware. I use VMware exclusively in a professional setting, and partially in a personal setting. With everything I’ve seen it’s by far the most stable (Qemu seems to be close to bare metal in ideal conditions, but can get a little quirky at times to say the least) and beats out virtualbox in both performance and stability.

If it’s mostly in cash & stocks hopefully from my layman’s view they’re buying a valuable asset and not going to enshitify it for a quick buck when the debt bill comes in with an uncertain economy.

“Or some other other solution to be determined by the state in question”

Gulags, generally speaking

The various European countries and the EU in general appears to be against encryption, looking to implemented some pretty heavy censorship, and getting pretty heavy handed in enforcing said laws (e.g. getting raided because you said the politician who broke the law was a dick).

As an American if EU laws can result in replaceable batteries and an unlockable bootloader that’s great, but the EU is definitely not friends of a free and open web.

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