Or proprietary shit

Debian is the only distro that if installed on my iMac 2013 shows a black screen after installation

Just last week I updated the kernel in my arch laptop and now the touchpad doesn’t work anymore

Luckily the solution was just pacman -S linux-lts

This is my pixel after Google “upgraded” the assistant to Gemini

The engraving is irrelevant as the main glass piece will “accidentally” fall down and break, the 24k gold stand then would be put in storage where it will be “lost” and smelted down to a clean untraceable ingot

Or at least that’s what my coffee roaster says

That’s the main issue

In Europe we’re getting price increases due to American tariffs and this pisses me off too much

That’s how this import tax work.

Ever wondered why converse shoes have felt on the sole? Because in this way they’re “by tariff definition” slippers, and slippers have less tax than shoes.

https://www.upworthy.com/why-converse-have-felt-lining

Serious or trolling?

You said:

If you manufactured it in the USA there are no tariffs. I don’t know why this is so hard to understand.

Then I explained to you why it works like this:

Manufactured in the USA = tariffs and expensive labor.

Manufactured outside the USA = tariffs and cheap labor.

It’s really that simple.

Tariffs on everything is an incentive on manufacturing outside the USA as the supply chain is missing and all the parts need to be imported too.

The story would be different if those were targeted tariffs on specific products. In that case it would work in the opposite way

there’s a youtube video from “smarter every day” that showed his attempt to make something 100% in the USA.

The item was just a barbecue scrubber, with just a few components.

He needed a simple screw… NOBODY made that in the US…

He needed a simple plastic knob… NOBODY made that in the US (he bought 10k “american” knobs but once arrived there was a MADE IN COSTA RICA sign)

He wanted to make injection molds in the US… NOBODY did that, he had to find some retired expert to help him.

So, if you assemble stuff in US, you still need to import EVERYTHING, paying the same tariff and with more expensive labor. Tariffs need to be carefully considered and target a specific item in order to have some positive effect

tariffs are over the final product, not the individual components inside that product.

For example Ford was making a cargo van in turkey, but thanks to the chicken tax that they themselves lobbied for, a cargo van made in turkey would have a 25% tariff. Solution: make passenger vans in turkey, import them with 0% tariff, then pay an american to remove and send the passenger seats to the landfill and get a cargo van

Same for Europe, negotiated to buy billions in weapons to get 15% tariffs, then a week later he threatens 35%.

Fuck that

Brasil top exports is oil, minerals, sugar and coffee.

The first two can easily find a market somewhere else, while can Americans live without sugar and coffee?

He meant that this is a disincentive to manufacture a phone in the USA.

Phone built in china: 30% tariff on the total assembled unit (this week is 30% or it changed again?)

Phone built in USA: 30% tariff on all the components because they’re made in China, 100% tariff on the processor, AND spend 1000% more in assembling the device because finding, training and paying skilled workers is way more expensive

Maybe there might be an incentive to move production to a country different from China, but the situation changes too wildly. The risk of spend millions to move production to Vietnam to get a lower rate, then a week later Trump gets diarrhea from eating a bahn mi and imposes an immediate 50% tariff as revenge

Girls gone wild is still in activity? Didn’t they lost the lawsuit for coercing all those girls and even have some minor in their videos?

Fuck them

Meanwhile they require vendors to apply code128 barcodes (so: without the “mark of the beast” 😂 bars) on all the shipping boxes for warehouse management https://docs.hobbylobby.com/pdf/Domestic Barcoding Instructions - October 2023.pdf

How can snopes mark that as fake? The reasons the founder listed are all clear BS.

The cost for a single barcode scanner is so low that has a ROI of just weeks if not days. They never had a single customer swap a price label on a $100 item?

And I don’t get the “huge effort” on sales. With barcodes in 100 milliseconds you can update the promotional discount rate of an item nationwide, simultaneously in 1000 stores, instead of paying 1000 man hours to send someone to physically update the price labels on everything

Uhm. Using the “Trump” wordmark for profit. Was he paying a bribe a license for that?

Well, if he expected a total Crash and instead got only mild recession, it still “shatters expectations”

I think it’s Samsung that interpreted the rule at their advantage in a way that sends more devices to the landfill

When I read that news I literally laughed.

It makes an average of $5000/day while the deficit increases by $55000/second

The article isn’t really honest btw, it says indian company and very vaguely alludes to sanctions.

Only a link in the article explains that it’s a Russian company dealing with Russian oil

No, on aur there’s duckstation which is the old GPL3 version (stuck to one year ago) and duckstation-git which downloads that git with latest license and compiles on the end user machine. Both versions respect the dev intentions of “no packages” as it downloads the code and compiles it. The problem that it was about were probably two

1. Documentation on how to compile is insufficient. It depends on many libraries but doesn’t say which exact version which causes issues at compile. Someone did the guesswork and wrote “instructions” (the pkgbuild file) for everyone but it’s not the main dev and it breaks often

2. Because it downloads the code from git, it might be an issue if it’s not tagged correctly, users get the latest commit instead of latest release and that’s undesirable (didn’t check for this case, but it was an issue for other emulators where non devs could run buggy code and complain about non-issues)