True, without 20% VAT German price would be ~1974 eur (=~2319 usd)

Pro 13 pre built with Intel

Germany: 2369 eur USA: 1499 usd

You can literally go to New York, eat a rye and pastrami, get your framework 13 pro, fly back and still be somewhat ahead

“Extreme social interest” like universal healthcare / basic income, human rights, being anti genocide, pro-human rights, basic privacy rights… list goes on.

My good fellow, extremists are not here shitposting, they’re running the biggest economies of the world. World’s richest man did 2 nazi salutes a couple weeks ago. Twitter is full of nazis. Spotify is hosting Andrew Tate podcasts.

“Public/open source = bad” is exactly what those people want the public to think, because it can’t be monetized and easily controlled.