Fixing the dilapidated oil production will take years I think. But my best wishes to all my Venezuelan friends. Hoping for a bloodless transition and a brighter future for the country.
I don't think those figures are entirely relevant anymore, since they're all pre-trade war. Factories are pausing operations due to the decline in export sales.
If you want to reduce imports and boost exports a plummeting USD is what you want.
Yes, that is an advantage... of people losing faith in your
government and currency.
Who are these more reliable trading partners you are talking about ?
The regions of note are
Canada, Mexico, China, and the EU. Probably most nations. Think back to Trump's 'Liberation Day'... who wants to deal with that kind of... diplomacy?
Fed does not seem to do what Trump wants.
Powell does as much of what Trump wants as he can without looking like a clown (and maybe for that reluctance, has stepped down).
AI stuff is privately held investments with the exception of Google and Nvidia
Wall Street considers Microsoft, Google, Tesla, Meta, Nvidia, Palantir - even Apple - to be AI plays now. Those companies have private equity in Open AI, Anthropic, etc.
That is the zeitgeist. American leftists like the democratic socialists talk loudly about being like Scandinavia but are going to visit Cuba and Venezuela. European socialists seems to think there is an unlimited amount of tax that can be raised from people who struggle to make 1500 EUR a month in countries like Spain while the EU political policy has been a major factor in the destruction of their purchasing power over the last 5 years.
They can't buy homes, they don't get raises. The state takes in more than ever. If anything you can argue Europe has too little capitalism going on and too much state capitalism.
No implementation would ever be good enough. We know the current system in Europe at least is collapsing because of the unbearable cost of the welfare system plus growth stagnation not because of "billionaires" (and no amount of raising taxes on the young generation or the "rich" will fix it). But it's easy to avoid dealing with the real economic problems and just blame something external being it "billionaires", the 1%, Trump, Putin, China etc (pick your favourite poison).
In this forum pretty much everyone is privileged in the country they live compared to the normal citizen. It's easy to cosplay about "utopia" when it has little direct impact on you or you can just move away to another place.
If it's the IT managed computer login then you couldn't use a password manager for it, right?
I think this is more the realm of using windows hello or apple touchid (AFAIK no good, simple, standard built-in way exists for linux distros) to get the first OS login and then you can use your password manager when you are logged into the OS.
What method/program are you talking about? Does it support FDE? Is it reasonably supported with the methods expected by end users (fingerprint, face, smartcard, etc.)?
Everytime I've tried its been finicky and had to use non-standard tools to get it working.
I'm a different commenter but yeah, solutions exist. For example systemd-cryptenroll let's you use a FIDO token (or TPM or PKCS#11 smartcard) to unlock your encrypted disk and it's very easy to set up. Quite literally a single command.
Windows Hello serves the same purpose for Windows, though I'm sure there are caveats/differences.
If it's a fido hardware token you still need to make sure you have a backup token. It's a lot simpler on windows/macos where you can use biometrics for the same purpose.
I tend to never use my password manager for my primary OS logins for desktops/laptops I physically access. Fortunately, I rarely have to keep more than 5 or so memorized at a time (including my password manager, Bitwarden/Vaultwarden).
reply