Everything their military has been doing for the past ~20yr or so has been toward capturing and securing Chinese waters and beyond, including Taiwan. It's a negotiating chip for them.

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/01/china-suddenly-...

what ads?

edit: Ahh, EFF privacy badger. Turned it off and now I know what you're talking about. With it on I didn't see anything :)

There's so much "old info" that people pass around online when it comes to linux (or anything I guess with an ever evolving feature set).

Any modern distro running NVidia or AMD should be fine. I've done both. I didn't have to do anything for the NVIDIA 3000 or NVIDIA 4000 series cards but select the nvidia driver. AMD otoh is built into kernel now.

AMD Radeon 7000 and 9000 series all support DisplayPort 2.1

DisplayPort has been running the best PC high end monitors for a long while. HDMI OTOH has been in A/V land (DRM management).

> The amount of greedy self-centeredness and backstabbing I've seen in this industry across multiple companies is unreal.

And this just keeps happening over and over? Interesting.

International airports are a border and fall under CBP. So do "vessels", busses that may move between countries, etc.

> Employees traveling internationally on behalf of an organization must take steps to protect sensitive, confidential, or proprietary data carried on electronic devices. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has broad authority to inspect electronic devices—regardless of citizenship—at U.S. airports, land borders, seaports, and preclearance facilities abroad.

https://www.potomaclaw.com/news-Border-Search-Inspection-of-...

It's extremely complicated:

https://cdt.org/insights/no-warrants-and-half-a-dozen-differ...

I've had great luck with their hardware (phones / tablets) and they get updates frequently and for quite a long time.

Same for a while. OTOH a Pixel 9 Pro screen of a close friend broke 7 times in a year.

That sounds more like a problem with said friend :-)

7 times also sounds... well... Like a lot

White hats that take money are not white hats, those are grey hats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_hat

> I'm not sure that attacker reputation is particularly meaningful. The group can rebrand into a new identity at any time.

Reputation is everything in a collective.