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  • Not really, not in the terms that matter, ready access to oil not controlled by rivals. China has offered quite a lot of loans to Venezuela, secured in oil. Venezuelan oil production is, for whatever reason you want to blame, far below the Chavez days.

    It’s almost certain that China won’t defend Venezuela by force out of pure ideology, they aren’t the Soviets in that regard for damn sure, and they don’t seem inclined to believe they’ll recoup their investments under Maduro.

    Short of Venezuela selling their sovereignty and putting Chinese bases everywhere to defend Chinese-managed oil production I’m not sure what they can offer for protection.

    As for Russian guarantees…

    Lol

    Tl;Dr the rambling nonsense,

    It’s not in their interests for America to conquer more oil reserves, but Venezuela isn’t offering enough incentives (sweet tasty oil) on their own to actually be worth stopping it either.






  • I don’t recall the exact details anymore, and this is more a Gigabyte problem than a Windows problem per se, but at one point I couldn’t enter BIOS on startup because it wouldn’t accept USB inputs in their fast start up, and I couldn’t turn off fast start up without restarting with Windows secure boot of whatever, which was a small problem because while in boot it would accept numerical and function keyboard inputs, the option I needed was only selectable by mouse (and presumably touch screen) for God knows what reason. I also assume it was, in the before times, designed to be used with tab+enter as well but guess what key didn’t work?

    Point is, I wouldn’t assume just because there’s a button they can click on it with Windows.

    Or that clicking it won’t brick your system for that matter.