This is so stupid how every headline they release is marketing and so clearly setup and entirely staged, but all media laps it up like crazy.

Get ready, we can finally afford RAM and GPUs again!

Pretty much true but only half of the disaster.. he is missing plenty of absolutely critical points. Germany is a poly-trauma and would have to mend all of these lethal, crippling issues from a position of all-encompassing weakness.

They have sacrificed everything at the altar of subsidizing exports in every way they possibly could annd this has made the people comparatively much poorer than they realize and germany missed every single technological paradigm shift since jumping on car manufacturing, and most of those exports were cars or car related. Because they never had any IT or Internet industry worth mention, no microchips and they are surprisingly irrelevant in military goods on a global scale except for basic firearms. To understand how bad it really is, the forsaken merkel roughly ten years ago called the internet the-unknown-land, at a time when the whole population was very much online and using Internet daily - using almost exclusively US hardware, services and websites, however.

Germany has deep issues in terms of self-understanding and ideologies as well. They do not want nor trust new product, so they buy as little as possible combined with the low salaries due to keeping exports high, Germany is a shockingly poor country in terms of poor citizens even when directly compared to neighboring EU countries. If the US is hyper-consumerism, germany is the toxic opposite.
Also, the stereotype of the hard working German is a thing of the past. People rather rely on government handouts nowadays instead of working hard, and they hide behind absolutely over-done worker-protection laws when they are employed. You would not believe how far an employee in germany can be lazy and downright fake working hours before the employer can FINALLY kick them out, but they will still have to pay them handsomely on the way out. It is bananas.
Their horrible energy-dependence and absolute lack of diversification now hits them twice as hard, with Ukraine and Iran.
Their integration of refugees is entirely failed as is evident with almost weekly terror-related attacks all over the country.
And their demographics are quickly catching up to Japan. Their weird cultural hatred for children and having children might boost them to Korea levels.
They have been suffering a massive brain drain and flight of capital for years, too. Anyone who could is already gone or in the process of leaving, all rich and/or talented people. It has become an entire YouTube category of their few successful content creators to flee the country and post lengthy videos why.
I have seen more than enough german orgs to tell you, the rot and decay is there on every level and at every size.

And now all those trauma-chickens are coming home to roost...

I wouldnt hold my breathe waiting for them to finally wake up and get better, this will be a deeply painful and very humbling process over the next decade or more.

The doorkicking and borderline illegal house invasion came from Habeck, the short-lived darling of the left-green germans who will bend over backwards that it was not his fault. The victim of the search called him evil names online, and the tolerant-inclusive could not tolerate being called stupid.

You never had really good coffee, from the sound of what you are saying - if you dont care, that is fine. Good coffee doesnt taste brown, burnt or bitter. It can taste juicy and sweet and vibrant and very far from what you have as a mental frame of reference.

If you like your crappy coffee, that is your choice, Im not keeping you from it.
Im just saying there is much better and much more interesting coffee out there, and coffee can offer MUCH more variety, and that is an absolute fact.

You can make your own choice, but do not bend facts.

Coffee beans matter by far the most, then grinder and water - or water and grinder.

If you get just a basic half-decent hand grinder even, you will be just fine. And use soft, clean, good quality water.

From there, anything making coffee taste really bad is far outside normal, decent brewing parameters. You are overthinking it and talking from a OCD enthusiast position. Normal people barely taste those nuances unless you point it out and side-by-side.

Just do what I said and brew any form of basic French-Press and it will be better than literally any coffee Starbucks could ever serve you. And on par with most thirdwave/premium Cafés.

You already gave them half of all your data, now they are coming for the other half that actually matters even more and is deeply personal and private and critical.

Your country has been circling the drain for a while now, you have slept on literally every technological paradigm shift and sold your only 2-3 industries out to China while sacrificing the wealth of the population for subsidizing exports, and your country is going back to being the ridiculed poor and sick man of Europe you were in the 90s. And worst of all, for a while you even wielded the EU like a tool to benefit only german exports, while your people lost their wealth and purchasing power.

And funny you bring up the good olâ(TM) tradition of Nazzzis in germany, because it sure looks like they are making a massive come-back these days - and it will probably take yet another international alliance to set you straight again, for the third time in what, barely 130 years?

So tread lightly, lil sauerkraut.
Your entire country only exists because allies allowed you to and later US troops didnt let Russia erase you.
And even Ukraine is safe by barely any of your support, your military notoriously doesnt have enough tents and clean underpants to make it to NATO exercises.
Tread very lightly, you are in NO position to lecture anyone in the entire West. Because they all bled for you.

You forget an important factor in roasting to charcoal level: it evaporates any origin-related differences to the point they can even vary between (more expensive) arabica and robusta freely AND thereby taking away literally all bargaining power the coffee farmers have.
Bending consumer tastes this way massively benefits Starbucks, and shows the very ugly and extremely colonial side of coffee.

Which is why third-wave coffee is generally a welcome change to see, and why we should consider buying from these small roasters more often. And their coffee beans taste WAY better, even without milk or sugar, and even when cooled down.

You should buy nicer coffee beans - if your coffee tastes bad without milk or sugar and tastes terrible when cold, that is a sign you are buying trash coffee beans.

Good coffee tastes GREAT on its own and even (or especially) when cooking down!

You may laugh about it but coffee beans and roast level affect caffeine levels massively. So they are trying to break down their mg of caffeine into a wide-enough range of coffee, from charcoal-like supermarket trash to premium ultralight third-wave single-lots.

All the wannabe-cool suits&ties want a macbook, so you still dont need windos for any of that.

How does plugging in hardware cause windos to auto-install a whole bunch of apps and not just the most basic driver and nothing else?
What kind of insane shenanigans are that?

Just make the switch already, there are plenty of rock solid Linux distros with LTS and with Proton you can run the vast majority of windos software including most games.

Nobody needs windos or micro$oft anymore.

This has been done the last 20-40 years, with China and with Russia. A free and open cooperation while half-secretly hoping they will become as allegedly-awesome and free as us.

Ask germany how that worked out for them, and Ukraine. And it is not any different for the US. On the level of geopolitics and between nation states, there is no playing-nice it seems. There is only occasional common interests, and huge divides, and lots of espionage and getting one over on each other.