High-end chips? I’m guessing TSMC in Taiwan.

TL;DR Bully got Bribed.

That’s for the low-end stuff, but yeah.

How is the US gonna fine a company from Taiwan?
I guess said company could always hike export prices to match the fine…

There’s squirrelmail.

Tom Cruise?

Cloud’s cute until there’s a network outage.

I prefer to buy used. Less ewaste. Also they’re expensive, even w/o turdtax.

I prefer second-hand Lenovos to any new Lenova.

I’m sorry but that’s wishful thinking (IMO).
Don’t get me wrong, there still may be a humanity when we reach a point when that’s technically possible, but it’ll be one more of the cyberpunk dystopia kind.

This current iteration of “AI” is just autocorrect on steroids, so… no, no AGI yet.
There’ll be a lot of work fixing the effects of vibe-coding and similar practices, for sure.

You’ll pry my kitten pictures from my cold dead hands!

You answered yourself: ThinkPads. Beware of soldered RAM (and other "improvements) in newer models.