I have never seen a ban for foreign software. I have never seen suggestions to use any other software than Windows and office. In fact I'm the only one in the faculty that uses LibreOffice. And I have constant complaints from my colleagues that LibreOffice is "not compatible".
So politicians may say big words but nothing has changed for the end users, for more than 2 decades now.

I work for a very public university in Europe. I have been hearing about this for the decades.

I had this windows program which did not run in wine. It ran fine in reactos. But reactos could not print or even print into pdf, and so it was useless for me. I was hoping that reactos would add print support, and so i could ditch windows.
Well too late. Two years ago a new web based version of the program was released. And the only reason to run reactos vanished.

Back in 2001, me and my girlfriend (now wife) had an old 486-100MHz with 32 MB RAM, running SuSE Linux. I was using it on purpose so that I could not rely on CPU raw power (and VGA) to make my code run decently. It worked. When my code ran on the then modern Pentium II, it had lightning speed. Eventually the 486 died a few years later. We still remember it fondly.
I still do the same trick. My ACER laptop is from 2011 with 3GB of RAM and it is running Mint Mate, 2022 version.

Even if it isn't spying, it is far easier to do something that you have proof than it can be done, and that it is cost effective, than develop it from scratch when everyone says that it is impossible.
It is still insanely difficult, as Musk says, so kudos to the Chinese.

Apple is as an american corporation as microsoft is.

Where I live in Europe it is illegal even to suggest a 60 hour week.

Linux at work, linux at home, linux at laptop. No windoze (except a VM on uni server, which I use to convert .dwg to .dxf).
Ubuntu mate specifically.

And I imagine after 7 years it will start to not work properly, because security.
Meanwhile my not-smart TV is more than 15 years old and it still works flawlessly.

Exactly. TFA provides no details. Omitting the source of oxygen is fishy, it is the majority of mass in water. Maybe import the 50 kilos of oxygen needed for 55 kilos of water from earth?

For me the year of Linux on the desktop was 2005, with SuSE Linux 10.1
Truly 64-bit (winxp64 was a joke), it installed in half an hour with all software from a single dvd, and it had everything. I never looked back.
My first encounter with Linux GUI, was with KDE (pre v1.0) back in 1998. It was already better looking than than win95.

It is really expensive if you consider that you will not reach space.

Assuming constant power during the charge, and 100% efficiency, the power needed is 327 kW, or one third of a MW.
For one car.
Good luck.

I half expected Poettering to say: won't fix, user should know better

It is a general purpose language. I made a program to minimize the earthworks in highway design. Not bad at all.