You don't need a laptop, a minipc would suffice which can be plugged in at either location, or even just a thunderbolt SSD with your data that could be attached to a desktop located at the two locations.
The purpose of a laptop with battery and screen is so you can use it when you're *not* at home or in the office.

And under every previous administration you could be shot on the street because some punk [agent/cop/random] doesn't like you, and it's always been difficult to pursue cops or any form of federal agent for unlawful shooting.

And in most countries of the world you can be detained and deported because you can't prove a legal right to be there. The stricter the enforcement (and the less desirable the country for illegal migration) the less cases you have. But if you switch from soft to strict enforcement you're going to have a huge initial backlog to deal with, which is where the USA is right now.

Assuming you were trying to *kill* those 10 individuals to disrupt ongoing research, no it wouldn't make any significant difference.
But who's to say the missing individuals weren't kidnapped and taken somewhere? china? russia? iran?
Who's to say a foreign agent wasn't trying to recruit or kidnap individuals, and the dead ones represent failed attempts where they had to kill them to cover up their failed attempts?

One dead scientist doesn't make a huge amount of difference to the overall program, but one captured/defected scientist could spill a lot of secrets and significantly advance an enemy program.

This would be genuinely useful for iOS.
Currently you can back up either to icloud or to a macos device, but this requires your mac to be reachable on the network while the phone is charging, and it backs up to the expensive internal storage of the mac (which can then in turn back up to time machine). Backing up a 1TB iphone and a 1TB ipad very quickly fills your macbook storage, but wouldn't make a dent in a cheap HDD.

Being able to push backups to a strongly authenticated (eg mtls) server would be great. The images themselves are encrypted over the top so you have an added layer of protection should the server or storage protocol be compromised.

Time machine is almost there, but it uses SMB which is blocked by most ISPs, a lot of people would not be comfortable exposing SMB publicly and it's very slow over a high latency link. Something like webdav with mtls would be better. I can theoretically perform time machine backups from across the world if i connect a VPN to get around blocking of the SMB port, but it's too slow to be usable.

Even 90 years ago attacking from the air formed a key part of the strategy. Today even more so.
You can see the battlefields of Ukraine where soldiers on legs are gradually being replaced with flying and wheeled/tracked robots.

The sort of ground defences that impede tracked/wheeled vehicles are easily able to impede bipedal attackers too. But machines which are able to fly above the battlefield are immune to these kind of defences.

Indeed, arbitrarily constraining a robot to animal-like motion defeats many of the advantages of a robot. In most cases it's simply more efficient to use wheels or fly, which machines have long been capable of. It's only in a very few niche cases that walking on legs makes sense.

Machines have been faster for a LONG time when they're not arbitrarily constrained by being forced to emulate animal motion.
Machines which fly or run on wheels are far more efficient at traversing fixed distances at speed, and have long existed.

And this is different from the traditional delivery trucks that are both noisy and can just as easily harm someone by hitting them?

They did.
Earlier windows versions didn't have this limitation, they introduced it in xp as far as i remember. Other systems also had no trouble formatting fat32 volumes up to 2tb in size, and windows would happily read such volumes it just couldn't format them.

They will almost certainly be used in chromebooks, and no reason they can't run linux..
But i doubt they will be able to match the performance/watt of apple's offerings.

Do you actually know any Iranians?
The majority of them hate the regime and want it to fall, but the loudest voice online is the regime because not only do they commit a lot of resources to spreading propaganda around the world, they also suppress the voices of ordinary people so it's more difficult for them to speak out.

Biden didn't release them in 4 years, what makes you think Kamala would have?
If they were as damaging to Trump as people claim, surely Biden could have released them before the election?

Reliability does not negate repairability...
Batteries will always degrade and need replacing, unless you intend to replace the entire unit when the battery degrades.
Physical damage (eg smashed screen, spillages in keyboard etc) can always occur irrespective of how reliable a device is under normal usage etc.

Either you lose $200 billion now, or you lose your lives in a few years.
The IR has been actively building missiles, developing better ones and funding various terrorist groups around the world while making money selling oil.
They are stronger now than they were 20 years ago. They openly call for the complete destruction of Israel, and they call the US "The great satan". If they had the capability to destroy Israel and the US right now then they absolutely would, if they ever got that capability in the future they wouldn't hesitate to use it.

The majority of the Iranian population HATE this regime. They also know that this regime is ruthless and will not hesitate to kill, and yet thousands of them stood up against it in january and lost their lives.

The sooner the IR is taken out the better for everyone, $200 billion this year, $400 billion next year, $1 trillion in 2 years time, or in 3 years it's too late and they take you out instead. And unlike western governments, the IR will not hesitate if they have the capability.

The market plunging 2.5% is a 2.5% drop...
But Linux going from 2.5 to 5% is a doubling of linux market share, even if it is only 2.5% of the overall market.