towerful

Yeh, I'd just do early return.
It's not much more typing, and I find it easier to read and navigate specific conditional paths.

Some built in pattern matching would be cool (like the when keyword), but I'm not going to force it into my code

Except from the cron job part. Which is exactly what that's for

I had an offline windows account on my laptop.
I was freelancing for a company that gave me a Microsoft account.
I logged into teams, but was very careful not to assign my laptop to that account. I had to use teams, but I didn't want my client to manage my device.

Shortly after I installed Linux, which broke windows bitlocker, and I had to get my bitlocker key.
I hadn't set up bitlocker, I wasn't expecting it. As far as I was concerned, I had bricked my device.
On a hunch of "hmm, maybe", I checked my Microsoft account from the client, and it has a bitlocker key which unlocked my windows install.

At which point, I disabled bitlocker and now primary Linux.
But yeh, in my experience bitlocker is transparently applied during windows install and you never know your bitlocker key. If you never log in to a Microsoft account, you will never be able to recover it if you don't save it in advance. And if you don't know its happened, why would you know to save it in advance?!
The fact that I was able to recover my bitlocker key for my offline/local windows account because I had installed & logged-in to teams via a client provided Microsoft account is strange as fuck.

I feel if it was something like "Swedish Prime Minister launches their own meme coin", it would be world news.
Or maybe a country that pushes for their own produce to have Geographical Indication (like scotch or champagne) then churning out a bourbon.

I get that it's local to the US.
But the US is also currently pissing on global politics with their irrational/misguided/ignorant tariffs, with a strong flavour of "returning jobs to the US".
And the president of the US is now saying they will launch a Made In US phone for $400.
And Made In US has to actually be made in the US (by their own laws), not just assembled there.

So maybe not actual world news, it does contribute to the global opinion/perception of the US government.

Another example would be a country that criticises another country for abuse of its own citizens, then turning around and abusing its own citizens. At least as I see it.

But I get your point. It's the US doing things to the US.

Because the president of the united states is scamming

Pilot type rating is expensive

Yeh, but (to me) a hotspot is WiFi with internet access from a mobile device. Whereas tethering is sharing internet access from a mobile device via a cable (USB).
Kinda like how WiFi doesn't mean internet access, despite so many people conflating the meanings.

Computer/laptops WiFi card is dead. Can't connect to an android hotspot if your WiFi isn't working.
Thus, usb tethering. It's a wire, doesn't need a WiFi card. And the android device can then share ITS WiFi/Data connection through the USB cable

Nothing better than a properly formatted data file.
Self hosting teaches you this

The issue is big companies.
Google/Amazon/Microsoft can now fork sudo-rs and not have to upstream their changes.
So then Google fixes an exploit for their sudo-rs implementation (or whatever software) and patch it under a different licence. Now the upstream, Amazon and Microsoft forks don't know if that exploit is also in their implementation, is related to their implementation, or how to potentially fix it.

The only way it works is if sudo-rs is implementing new features in a way that it benefits Google/Amazon/Microsoft to contribute back to upstream so they don't have to keep merging/fixing their exploit code.

For something as stable as sudo, it actually benefits Google/Microsoft/Amazon NOT to share their changes.
If they are rolling and recommending their own distros (which I'm sure they already are) that include their forked changes, then they can say that their software is more secure than other brands. It benefits them for their competition to suffer security breaches, especially if they trace back to these kinda changes.

Which makes everything worse for everyone.

Your threat assessment is way off.
So, you import a phone. What sim do you use? Where do you use it? When do you use it? Who do you contact with it?
All of that is more valuable and easier to get for the police than some sort of modification of firmware or platform as it passes through customs.
If in doubt, flash your own firmware.

If this is actually a threat assessment to you, asking on Lemmy is the wrong place. You need people with the same experience that an entire country has at their disposal.

If it's a concern as opposed to an actual threat, buy some 2nd hand phones from random places and buy some prepaid sims (ideally via smurfs or black market means). And be aware of how you use them

Yup, fair point.
In my opinion, there is a difference between sharing your experience and pushing a narrative.
Ideally, viewers/readers would consider the perspective and draw their own conclusions instead of wholey adopting the celebrities view point.