Upset that the rest of the world now sees the USA and it's people for what you truly are and that we're turning away from you in ever increasing numbers?

It's also unclear how the regime could force tech giants to comply, as they are barred from making payments to Iran due to strict US sanctions; as a result, the companies themselves may view Iran's statements as posturing rather than serious policy.

That sounds like a them problem. Just because the US has sanctions against companies making payments to Iran doesn't mean Iran can't levy charges and take action if those do not get paid. US law only applies to the US, not the rest of the world. It will be for those companies targetted to find a way to pay the bill.

Its both.

As you say, previous films had some degree of continuity.

But with Daniel Craigs Bond, we see him earn the 007 designation in the first film, so that makes his Bond a reboot and self contained.

Oh seriously?

I use both Slack and Teams day to day (we use Slack internally, client uses Teams, so we are on both as a result).

Slack we never have any issues with, and can find information from previous conversations easily.

Teams? Fuck teams. Fuck it and then fuck it some more. Its slow, clunky, constantly has issues, very hard to find information unless you still have the chat open somewhere, and chats are spread all over the place (chats, teams, channels...). Teams also requires you to have access to the workspaces OneDrive and SharePoint as well if you want to share files, so if you dont have access to those things then ... you are limited to text only.

Its video call system is sorely limited, and even doing things like zooming in to the presenters shared screen is clunky and shit.

Teams is the worst collaboration system I have ever used, so dont try making out that its better than Slack or Zoom. It is by far the worst of the three.

I think that it's been proven more then sufficiently. We even have "parents" sitting their months old babies in front of a tablet for hours a day.

The argument will be that its not a bank, (I mean, who wants to trust those things?), and the money is merely travelling in a conveyance

When wildfires that are now happening at a historic rate are burning your home down and the fire department can't fight them because the local datacenters have sucked up all the water then remember you were quite happy with the cause of your woes.

Arch Linux only gets stuff I choose to install installed on it.

I dont see an issue with that, as UK schools also ban a lot of other things during "free time" (its not actually time without restriction), for example leaving the school grounds for most of the school body (when you get into sixth form, you gain more freedoms as you are deemed to be there voluntarily).

People go to Mint for it's stability and reliability, it's why it's recommended so much for newcomers and those who want a rock solid system, rather than one that is on the bleeding edge with all the pitfalls that can come with. Moving to a longer release cycle just increases that reliability for when they release a new version. If you want more up to date cutting edge then move to an Arch based distro. The beauty of Linux is there's choices of distros from cutting edge to rock solid and everything inbetween.

Yup, been buying up spares for a year or so now, I started thinking something was up when they had major stock issues, and theyve never really recovered from that so. I have maybe 10 pairs of my favourites tucked away now.

You can do digital preservation without distributing copies to the general public.

Yeah, I know Im going to get downvoted for that, but thats the crux of the issue here - it isnt the fact that the item is being preserved, that can be done entirely privately until the copyright expires, its about the fact that those people involved in the preservation want to release it immediately to the public. They want immediate gratification for their efforts.

Tell me you have no idea how Secure Boot works without telling me you have no idea how Secure Boot works. I bet you also think that Microsoft invented Secure Boot and has full control over it.

Actually they are and vendors like Asus have openly said so. They do offer lower price model Windows laptops but they're built cheap as hell and they both feel like they are, look like they are, the keyboards definitely feel like they are, the screen is terrible and they barely manage to last a couple of years before the battery craps out and things like the screen hinges start to give up the ghost.