I think only one is currently still working in the company - but they do own it via a bunch of "Stiftungen". IIRC that construct was selected back then to make sure that spoiled brats can't fuck it up eventually.

Moscow

Just nuke Moscow, and send a message to the Germans and Japanese to surrender, or they'll be next.

Performance of the snapdragons is roughly that of an i7 from a decade ago - so yes, it's a good machine for office tasks and light development, but in no way suitable for gaming. That's not a Windows problem, though, just the hardware is not suitable for that.

It still is mobile, it can go a bit up and down.

The space used by the smallest solar charger I've seen on Amazon seems to be similar to 6 or more batteries in the format the N900 was taking - so if you look at space, slow charging from solar charger, and reliance on sun conditions taking individual batteries seems to be the better option for a few days hike. It's also easier to stow individual batteries to wherever you still have space left.

Pretty much same here - I kept an x230 alive until I had to accept earlier this year that it just is bad for overall productivity, and ended up getting a macbook. None of the newer thinkpads are good - and they're still one of the less bad manufacturers.

There's also enough stuff I don't like about the mac - but the current keyboard is one of the better notebook keyboards available right now, and if you want long battery life, lots of RAM and a lot of CPU power available in a compact device they're the only manufacturer currently offering that.

Not entirely sure about that. I have a bunch of systems with the current 8cx, and that's pretty much 10 years behind Apple performance wise, while being similar in heat and power consumed. It is perfectly fine for the average office and webbrowsing workload, though - a 10 year old mobile i7 still is an acceptable CPU for that nowadays, the more problematic areas of IO speed are better with the Snapdragon. (That's also the reason why Apple is getting away with that 8GB thing - the performance impact caused by that still keeps a usable system for the average user. The lie is not that it doesn't work - the lie is that it doesn't have an impact).

From the articles I see about the Snapdragon Elite it seems to have something like double the multicore performance of the 8cx - which is a nice improvement, but still quite a bit away from catching up to the Apple chips. You could have a large percentage of office workers use them and be happy - but for demanding workloads you'd still need to go intel/AMD/Apple. I don't think many companies will go for Windows/Arm when they can't really switch everybody over. Plus, the deployment tools for ARM are not very stable yet - and big parts of what you'd need for doing deployments in an organization have just been available for ARM for a few months now (I've been waiting for that, but didn't have a time to evaluate if they're working).

You've replaced the whole operating system - in which case they obviously are in control. It is equivalent to a rooted stock Android device.

But if you just install their app installer on a stock Android device you'll have the same problems.

Gerade bei SW ist selberentwickeln trivial. Zum weiter sparen dann halt Meterware kaufen und selber rollen.

And while that’s fine, it takes longer to understand and set up for simple installs.

It also allows for easier scripting, which makes things more reproducible.

Even for simple things I'm nowadays going through Ansible - because I know I'll have forgotten what exactly I did in a year, and that way I can just look at the Ansible files in git to remember.

Plus it's not a service you can typically afford to go down. Any emails you miss during that downtime are gone forever

The sending server will retry a few times, so you have at least a few days to bring it back. And if you prefer an additional fail-safe - adding a secondary MX somewhere else which will just store mails until the primary comes back is trivial.

I mainly got a steamdeck as the switches are occupied by the kids. For portability it is way worse than the switch - and the removable controllers on the switch are great, especially for some mukltiplayer games. I feel most of the games making proper use of those didn't make the jump from the wii, though - for movement games in front of the TV the wii is still regularly used. Switch mostly is used as handheld.