Probably depends how the companies responsible for opening backdoors in their apps and services would handle it. Would they use the same backdoors that they give access to authorities in other countries or will they create a super specific backdoor just for EU.
It seems pretty quiet already as drones go in the video. Even bigger propellers and lower rpm? Some new tip or blade surface designs. I don't know if they can straight out start copying designs from silent computer case fans and such.
unless the Finnish school system has bought into Chromebooks in a big way
Yeah goverment is now giving laptops students at that level, on a loan basis. Just so that everybody has access to free study materials that are now partly of fully digital. The computers are usually, but not always chromebooks because they are cheap and chromebooks are the "student laptop" anyways.
I wonder if the whole Secure Boot/Microsoft shim key issue is a part of this.
Yeah that's part of it. The boot issues with usb. It's apparently a total lottery of whose computer decides not to boot when the exam starts with the new windows limitations.
The US has surrendered almost all of their manufacturing power and knowledge
Only high tier manufacturing can even compete in the US and that's because that's the only place where there are no or very little completion. Us manufacturing alone can only compete with total monopoly. Even then the degradation of manufacturing base makes things difficult and expensive.
US science base is mostly there to try manufacturing new monopolies and not so much to serve the manufacturing industries. Failing that they can produce new patents and intellectual property that can then be leased to other companies in other countries and leaving US capital a cut from all the sectors and the their companies that use those patents.
What's left after that? Much of american economy as I understand it is based on being able to constantly suck up the capital and scientist from around the world to the Usa.
Anonymity is dangerous because it let's the little people think they can have have ideas and talk about them freely and possibly not face any consequences for it.
Samsung phone might be dangerous to your health and life, even in a case of being near oen. Even if you aren't conspiring to send aid to Gaza, since they can probably also track people around you. Andd they do kill based on metadata. US and Israel, both.
Yeah the noise I heard is the biggest hurdle. Not so much them dropping out of the sky, or pets attacking them and getting magled.
I think silent, safe, quick and cheap drone delivery would be really nice, since all kinds of delivery work should be automated, but especially in urban areas there are problems.
Zelensky's actions only make no sense if one thinks he is doing what's best for Ukraine and ukrainians and is still intrerested in winning this war. In my opinion it's been quite obvious that Zelensky's and the goal of his close circle is to fight this war, not to make peace and ride this war as long as possible. Not to victory, because that seemed unlikely in 2022 and it seems almost impossible now. The goal is to stay in saddle until the collapse comes and then flee with the money and remain Ukraine's western recognize president in exile for life and keep living large with all the money he has and will have. If peace comes through peace agreement he will be the president that lost Ukraine and has to step down and the radicals who kept him in power will probably kill him as a traitor for betraying Ukraine.
Zelensky's goal therefore is not victory, but control. Control over the goverment and especially the military, ideological batalions and intelligence apparatus and such. Those will keep the war going, Russians away from Kiev, people in line and his political opponents silent. Those will help him ride out this war.
Macron won't allow that. They already pulled serious fuckery over the popular front and national rally just to get into government. They are even more unpopular now than they were in 2024.
Some good money in that. One has to however take into account the cost on your soul.