NaibofTabr

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Everybody has a test environment.

Some are lucky enough to also have a production environment.

Ummm… basically all of the silicon comes from Taiwan, China or South Korea, so I don’t know what you expect there… the PCB is most likely manufactured in China too, along with the capacitors, resistors, diodes and probably the casing… do you mean final assembly done in Europe, or just repackaged and resold by a company from Europe? I’d bet the solder paste used to mount the components on the PCB comes out of a factory in China too.

Even if the circuit design was done by a company in Europe, the most likely production path is chips from Taiwan and subcomponents from China soldered onto a PCB from a board maker in China by a manufacturer in China, burned with firmware developed by subcontractors from India, South Korea, and Japan, and then packaged in a casing from a plastics manufacturer in China and finally retail packaged and shipped by another facility in China.

Consumer electronics production is a global supply chain. Nobody anywhere is doing the entire thing in-house. No matter who you buy from, the hardware will come from all over, and the firmware/software will have had many hands involved from many outsourced developers from god knows where.

And beyond all that, USB-IF (which develops the USB interface standard) is based in the US, so technically everything USB is US-dependent.

Does Proton really support Trump? A deeper analysis

One thing to note is that while on Reddit, people are alleging that Proton is a company run by a fascist, pro-MAGA, pro-dictatorship CEO, users on X are accusing Andy and the company of being anti-MAGA/anti-Trump.

So, in the face of all the evidence I’ve found, to compare Andy to a tech oligarch like Zuck and Elon, who are now bootlicking on display for all to see, is not supported by the evidence.

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However, being disillusioned with one party on one issue doesn’t mean that all of a sudden Andy Yen changed all of his stances and that now he’s actually pro-Republican or pro-MAGA. All of the evidence gathered suggests the exact opposite.

Considering how many users here have expressed similar disillusionment with the current Democratic party, it seems a bit hypocritical to judge Andy Yen for having the same feelings (or expressing them on occasion).

This whole “Proton supports MAGA” thing is another example of internet mob-think where everybody has an opinion informed by no facts at all, actively ignores or dismisses the larger context in order to protect that fragile opinion from reality, and most haven’t even looked at the original statements that sparked the controversy.