Yes, but the Irish part of the company does business in the EU, while the American part does business in the US. For example, Google Ireland isn’t exporting phones to the US. They’re made in Taiwan (or wherever) and imported to the US by Google America. Businesses set up this way so that the US can’t impose taxes on their EU business.

(That’s my understanding, anyway. It might not be 100% accurate.)

No, childhood obesity is way up since then.

Then why the fuck do they have an online form for it?

The US isn’t looking away. We’re giving it the thumbs up.

Routers can run just fine off only one port too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Router_on_a_stick

14/f/cali

Usually they announce arrests. I’m guessing he fucked off back to China before they could pick him up.

If there’s malware on your system, when you can read it, the malware can read it.

What laptop? BIOS option?

Well. Sometimes an enemy finds you.

I understood your intent just fine.

I don’t think passengers and crates of medical supplies share space on flights.

China has one time zone, but in Xinjiang they use local time anyway. Getting everyone on one time zone for daily use is unlikely.

I don’t think static linking is that difficult. But for sure it’s discouraged, because I can’t easily replace a statically-linked library, in case of vulnerabilities, for example.

You can always bundle the dynamic libs in your package and put the whole thing under /opt, if you don’t play well with others.

A full desktop with touchscreen costs money for extra hardware, and developer salary to port and test the software. Selling more specialized devices means you can use less powerful hardware, an embedded(ish) OS like Android, and only run your one program. That’s why the thing you’re looking for doesn’t exist, it just doesn’t make sense as a product outside your one very specific use case.

Okay, those devices are an entirely different category. If your goal is a full desktop environment, though, that’s completely the wrong thing to look at. They don’t have desktop input controls. The most widely supported device would probably be a Steam Deck or similar.

But, if your threat model is "being searched’, it depends on who is doing the searching. NSA? They’re going to pick you apart lest they have another Snowden. Immigration/customs? They’re going to ask you to turn it on and show it’s just a game console.

What are the crazy historical reasons? As far as I know, running six ttys and one graphical session, in that order, has been standard.

The really crazy historical way to test for crashes is num/scroll/caps lock. That’s handled by a very low-level kernel driver. If those are responsive, it’s probably just your display (gpu, X, wayland, or something) that’s locked up. If they’re unresponsive, your kernel is locked up. (If you’re lucky, it’s just gotten real busy and might catch up in a minute, but I’ve only seen that happen once.)

Anything that might interfere with sleep. Literally any attached device might have a buggy driver.

I don’t see a list of hardware in your edit.

Define “retro”, because no Game Boy supports Android or Linux that I know of. Nor even a DS.

Most retro handhelds do not have cellular network chips, gps, or even built it microphones or cameras

All I’m hearing here is that they’re not useful for much. Not even audio calls if there’s no microphone. I’m not sure what you’d use them for.