This entire debate relies on the assumption that they have any respect for the law. Nobody, literally not a single person in that administration will be held accountable for breaking the law.
They'll try 200 different laws, orders, whatever. 180 of them will be declared illegal. And then what? Nothing. No punishment at all.
And they'll try again and again and again. Slowly eroding the entire government.
Asking obviously doesn't hurt, but usually the laptops aren't even technically property of the company but leased and given back after some years.
And even if your company actually owns the laptops, there's likely a bureaucratic nightmare lurking because a laptop with potentially critical information on it is missing.
I know of a company where the IT guy "accidentally" sent a mail to everyone that the old hardware is sitting in a hallway waiting for the recycler.
Also just being liked by the interviewer. For my current job I had an interview of about 90min, and basically just had a rather one-sided chat with the two guys. They seemed to like me, just let me talk and the next day I had the contract draft in my email.
I certainly did not excel at anything during the interview.
Again, how many people does that affect in relation to food delivery?
Hardly any of your statements make any sense. Are you honestly suggesting that people order food specifically to maintain their medications schedule for medication that has to be taken with food? Really?
Do you really for real think that all these people are physically unable to have, well, a fridge? That's absurd.
You're trying to justify being drunk. Maybe that's why you're so angry.
I think it's worth distinguishing between censorship and limitations.
Deepseek essentially wipes out events or concepts in order to hide them, obviously without saying so. That's bad
When, say, OpenAI removes/blocks porn/nudity and says so, that's maybe not aligned with your values, but it's not hiding anything.
The problem here is, we don't know how large each category is for each model. I'm 100% sure there's knowledge blocked/removed from Chatgpt without ever publicly saying so.
I would externalize it into a separate script/command anyway (the skeleton already exists).
However, knowing myself, I would certainly forget cleaning up manually once in a while. My goal was to create truly self-contained, stupid-simple dev environments - or get as close as possible to it.
Even then you still have a bunch of cheap hardware crammed into an insufficiently ventilated box that will lead to problems down the line.
My TV is 15 years old, not very smart, thick as oatmeal, but works like a charm.