#china literally has zero choice but to #buy #australia 's #coal #supply - despite having ongoing #political #issues https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/ch.. #australia should squeeze them too, they are #desperate for #energy right now. Up the #prices and then release a #political #statement that #demoralises them - that's what they would do to you.
I've been telling people for some years now *not* to #buy #chinese #smartphones - they are most definitely #backdoored on request by #china 's #ccp https://aardvark.co.nz/daily/2021/0923.s.. We have already seen the result of this multiple times, with #chat #apps filtering #political #discussions and detecting #regions to run different #filters ...
When I get back to the #uk I'll be looking to build my own #cluster https://www.pine64.org/2021/09/01/cluste.. This would ultimately save on having to #buy #cloud #computation and could be used to host a series of other tasks, including #storage - #backup - #vpn and even third parties. It could even be setup to replace the need for a #powerful #desktop #machine , simply spinning up computation as required.