Perhaps then its the best to handle it like the vietnamese part of my family: Deposit large stashes of cash scattered around the house and the houses of family members…

Well… if i remember correctly there is that old saying that “only the dead are really free”…

No, but it certainly helps (and has helped me) in some situations if you are big guy that looks like being a coal miner (while actually being a keyboard jockey)…

Yup, i use it for work and its not only allowed, but the company is at the moment evaluating if it would be feasible to move all our clients to ChromeOS(-Flex).

I understand the general sentiment regarding Google, and it is somewhat earned, but if you compare Windows and ChromeOS (or the whole Google ecosystem) then its interesting to note that Google is (at least in my opinion) much, much more user friendly than Microsoft. No dark patterns, hassle free updates… it surely has its upsides.

Funny that, in the end, germanys stubborn insistent “cash is king” mentality may come out handy in the conflicts to come…

Well… if THAT is a sentiment shared by enough people the world indeed is doomed.

Would you bet your life and the lifes of anybody you know on it? Because this IS such a bet

Well… i am feeling somewhat heretical writing this… but i am a happy ChromeOS user for years now. In my opinion its a very good middle ground between a super stable platform that JUST WORKS and with the integrated Linux VM i have the opportunity to Install the necessary tools for my work.

…yet

For me as an old fart this all sounds like such a stupid thing… who cares if someone who volunteer to work for an software project is a Russian, German, Iranian or - God forbid - an Frenchman. My personal - and of course completely insignificant - opinion is that politics should stay out.