Well, half a billion is still a lot of money so it’s great that the union got it so they can spend it on something useful. Half a billion USD is the entire yearly revenue of some fairly large companies in Sweden.

And the fine is not intended to bankrupt Apple, it’s intended to punish them and as a show of force. If Apple still refuses to comply or even pay the fine, the fines would obviously escalate and the max fine on this offence is very very high.

Also remember that the EU generally only cares what they do inside the EU, they care about how it affects EU citizens. So it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to issue brutally high fines based on yearly global revenue yet.

FYI: You can still use windows offline and without an account if you use Pro or Enterprise and I assume education edition.

Email? Thunderbird’d’d

Thunderbird is only a mail client. Don’t forget to actually move from gmail if you want to degoogle.

Maybe someone just forgot to run copy running-config startup-config lol

I’m on your side mate.

I’m equally annoyed when people want civilians to die no matter who.

It’s very clear sometimes who wants suffering and who actually wants peace.

Well obviously. A severe violation of anything is considered worse by pretty much anyone.

Windows has a built in firewall, so why install a paid one?

Obviously recall is bad but for fuck sakes don’t use company property for watching porn.

but the goal should always be to write as optimal as possible.

Within reason.

Over optimization is a curse on getting done.

Small mode? I had completely forgotten that it existed. I didn’t know anyone used that.

I assume they mean that you can use your own domain with their email server.

I.e point your MX records to them.

Of course you always could use your own domain in their email client. It would be a pretty shitty email client otherwise.

What’s the Weissman score?

Aren’t the students provided computers?

Here students usually get provided computers and then MS accounts are no problem since they just have to logon with their domain account.

In the case of normal apps like PayPal graphics shouldn’t be a huge factor since it should be vectorized and there is pretty much no graphics in apps like PayPal.

The issue comes from frameworks.

Ordering components with unnecessarily small tolerances is stupid and a waste of money but of course they will complain if you can’t make the parts to the specifications.

Why did you even take the order in the first place if you can’t manage to produce them to spec?

Just don’t do it if you use any private trackers.

I’m fairly certain that you could get banned if you put public trackers on a torrent from a private tracker.

If you are gonna do that you might as well change your torrent client settings to automatically include the extra trackers.

That’s a waste of time. The torrent already comes included with the needed trackers.

Also get rid of password authentication if you can.