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I was able to get a used one cheap for under 600€, used it for a while and now have upgraded the hinges, speakers, battery, keyboard and motherboard along with more RAM and a larger SSD. It’s the perfect PC builder’s laptop.
The US and Japan have historically done the same.
See also Germany. Britain required stuff produced in Germany be marked „Made in Germany“, because many imported goods had the marks of British manufacturing and were of poor quality.
At this moment, I am sitting in a Amazon Kiro course. We have spent more than 2 hours and half the tokens of our test account just to fucking connect to an MCP server.
The process is so convoluted and Byzantine it has to be some kind of cult to enjoy this pain.
And the term is strongly associated with the right wing in Germany. The kind that praise a certain Austrian that shot himself in a bunker.
Hab neulich mein Inverter von 600w auf 800w umgestellt. Ganz easy, ohne Passwort oder sonst was. Da kam schon der Gedanke wie einfach es wäre den Inverter von jemand anderem herunterzuregeln oder zu deaktivieren.