jonathan

The accusation of projection is a little hypocritical, FYI.

It’s weird how you’re moving goalposts in an analogy you created that misrepresented the situation anyway.

Please educate yourself https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland–Israel_relations

Sarcastically saying “Imagine X” only works if it’s not actually difficult to imagine.

They put forward legislation to ban trade with the occupied territories. In response, they got threatened with crippling economic action by their largest trading partner, the United States. A smear campaign in the US is also ongoing. In spite of that, the legislation is still moving forwards.

Literally the most anti-zionist country in Europe, but ok.

As an engineer, yes. I managed to get a pilot program off the ground at my last company. As a recently public company with a lot of IT debt, the biggest challenge was around making those devices compliant with security and IT processes, and easy for IT to provision and monitor.

It helped that I made an effort to build good connections into IT and IT leadership. The clincher was a clear proposed timeline, a commitment that it would not require any additional workload from IT, and that we wouldn’t expand it without their sign off.

Unfortunately, layoffs meant I couldn’t roll it out beyond the initial group, and when a second round of layoffs came around I took the opportunity to leave. I haven’t been looking much yet, but “allows Linux” is one of the criteria I’m measuring companies against.

Fuck off with the AI slop mascot.

Not true. For example, an EU resident (citizen is the wrong group) purchasing in the US is not covered by EU law.

Residency and place of purchase is what matters, citizenship has nothing to do with it.