Well as a citizen of a 5-eyes country that may well be so. But why are government employees using civilian technology?

Tinfoil hat time, I am considering a Moto GrapheneOS capable phone when they become available. Funny world if I would trust a Chinese company (Lenovo) to scrub any Google-isms from my device. :)

Polygon agencies worldwide may consider building their own ROMs or contributing to such existing FOSS projects. And what a perfect cover to be a spy and mainstream GrapheneOS under the cover of "you don't know who is listening"; cold warriors sharing a conversation over a martini both protected from each other!

That's when RAM shortages are supposed to subside.

If you're currently selling netbooks with only 8 Gig, how much RAM will a Gemini iPhone realistically require?

You're using lynx and you rely on a mouse?

tell your grandparents that's what a tricorder looked like two hundred years hence.

Thank goodness for the NoScript plugin in Firefox.

It takes some diligence to selectively whitelist each site; totally worth it.

Jodie Whittaker.

And if you're wondering, yes, James Bond is a time lord; Timothy Dalton as Rassilon.

I never understood Santa.

It's a folktale of a man who climbs down a chimney during the middle of winter.

No one gets burned? That's a miracle worthy of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.

And yet Tesla's owner has been in China this week as part of a US presidential visit.

This sends a message that they want China to buy American vehicles but that it's one way traffic.

I can't recall a British western.

Ray Winstone, John Hurt and Emily Watson starred in the Australian film, The Proposition. does that count?

The best ones are filmed in Spain by Italian directors.

At most workplaces you'd be fired for slacking off and spending too much company time on Facebook.

At Meta you'd be fired for slacking off and spending too little company time on Facebook!
 

If it's "Aluminium" then it's Android for the desktop - merging the 'good' bits of ChromeOS into a Googlebook-flavoured Android.

On the one hand it's a greedy western imperialist corporation, yada yada.

But done right, upgrading the grid and capacity to support such a venture could provide economic benefits to a pejoratively 'developing' African nation.

Who pays...

c.f. the GNU Libre kernel that 'cripples' hardware relying on binary blobs with the intent that any training data ought to be supplied in human readable source code before being compiled into said binary firmware.

If we want to go all in tinfoil-hat, harmless initialization data or something nefarious? The idea that you're uploading undocumented bootstrap code into hardware registers to unlock secret modes or redirect your traffic to hostile actors...

Seriously? That is not happening soon.

There is a Toy Story 5 next month.

It wasn't cost effective.