elmicha

You seem to underestimate how many companies and government organizations rely on American hyperscalers. It will take many years to replace these with something European. The same for Android and iOS, Windows and macOS and all the apps that were built for these. Cisco and Juniper - sure, just replace all of their hardware with something European.

Tariffs are insane when Trump applies them, they are equally insane when Europe will apply them.

What do you think who is going to pay these taxes?

The watch officer apparently admitted that he fell asleep. I find it astonishing that such giant ships don’t have an autopilot that can at least stop the ship before it crashes into land. Or a dead man’s switch which would wake up the watch man or someone else.

You could plug in a power meter with wifi and look what power is used.

You could use a babyphone or a camera (e.g. an old phone).

I’m not sure if an Alexa (Echo Dot or so) would react on the little tune of your washer, but it hears the standard annoying beeps of my washer.