Congratulations to India, this is their moment.

I experience the opposite. Whenever I criticise US government, I get attacked by hordes of cringy Americans.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa-upgrade-factory-show-cisco-router-getting-implant/

American producers are shipping NSA spyware as well. If this is a concern (which it should be), best thing is to install Linux on it yourself.

Lenovo makes great computers. They have amazing price-to-performance ratios.

Also lemmy.world is not the most stable instance and experiences a lot of downtime. My user experience got a lot better after I moved out of lemmy.world.