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BlackAura

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  • Do you think Chinese companies will pick up the slack when it comes to consumer RAM and SSDs?

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  • I mean I'm sure it was a mix. There are a lot of stories out there about how if you didn't stay on top of your outsourced factory they would look everywhere to cut corners to save a few extra cents here and there.

    You (used to?) have to constantly check production quality and make sure nothing was changed out for a low cost part or lower cost source material. Otherwise your product quality falls off and you're losing money on warranties and repairs and losing customer goodwill.

    The other thing that happened is these factories, once they had your design, would make the same thing with lower cost parts / materials as a knockoff and sell it unbranded, as they don't care about US or European IP Laws. Word might get around that "hey you can get the same brand X product as brand Y or from Aliexpress and save 50%". Now they're undercutting you, and you lose customer goodwill because people think your product is overpriced. Then the knockoff fails and they are happy they never bought your product in the first place because they think yours would have failed too. Through word of mouth people say "oh that broke after a month" not realizing the offbrand was made with shoddy materials, less screws, cheaper batteries, an inferior screen, literally anything they can do to save money.

  • The real American household poverty line isn’t $31,200, it’s around $140,000.

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  • That's because the poverty line is directly tied to the cost of goods and services (and to social services, tax credits, etc that those under or near the poverty line can take advantage of).

    Effectively it will move up as goods cost more (inflation) and social services and other credits people can take advantage of are reduced / removed.

    If more social services are added, i.e. Life becomes cheaper without your income increasing, then the effective poverty line drops as it's only a number based on household income, and now you need less household income to survive at the same level.

    The stock market is its own beast and is not directly connected to income, social services, or the cost of goods.

  • Girl, 13, expelled for hitting classmate who made a deepfake porn image of her, lawyers say

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  • Technically it's battery if she actually made physical contact. :p

  • This place has an "Alberta" problem

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  • Where's the pusbback beyond talk?

    https://operationtotalrecall.ca/

    Someone made a list of all the MLAs who voted in favor of forcing the teachers back. Some are in various processes like they are at the Gathering Signatures point for Demetrios Nicolaides.

    An article on it here:

    https://calgaryherald.com/news/politics/recall-efforts-targeting-ucp-mlas-momentum-notwithstanding-clause

    In fact Elections Alberta asked for additional funding and the UCP blocked it.

    https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/elections-alberta-urges-government-to-reconsider-13-5-million-funding-request-for-recall-petitions-and-citizen-initiatives

  • Popular Tech Youtuber Enderman loses his YouTube channel after AI error

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  • Firefox w/ uBlock Origin is still fine.

  • B.C. grape grower left with unsold fruit as wineries allowed to import U.S. grapes

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  • Had a girlfriend from decades ago where her dad started a family owned winery in the Okanagan (though they eventually sold to a larger company, I guess none of the kids wanted to take over?). They would sometimes age and bottle grapes from other vineyards (who didn't have their own equipment) for that vineyard to then sell.

    For all I know there are companies that buy grapes off the market, pay a winery to process, age, and bottle them, and then sell it under a brand name that's basically just outsourcing all the work so they could exist in a small office somewhere.

    Another example on a brewery tour at Big Rock brewing in Calgary, they would bottle for other companies sometimes. At the time our tour guide pointed out a bottling line that was being used for Smirnoff Ice iirc. Or maybe it was Mike's Hard Lemonade? One of those.

  • Microsoft Teams Starts Telling Your Company If You’re Not At Work

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  • Yeah I work at MSFT on a completely different team.

    Teams recently asked if I wanted this and I was like.... "sure!"

    Now when I'm in the office and people check my status it tells people my desk location and when I'm WFH or elsewhere it tells people I'm not in the building. I don't get people asking "hey are you in today?"

    A lot of people in this thread are taking the headline literally like it's "are you online or away?". No. This is more of "are you at your desk in the office or working from a different building or from outside the facilities.

  • Games to Really Test my 5090 graphically without marketing dark patterns or microtransactions

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  • ARK Survival Ascended (the new version of the game) wrecks my 9800x3d and 5080 on max settings and dlss off. Like I can't get over 30fps if I remember right.

  • Leak From the Sky: It Turns Out a Lot of Satellite Data Is Unencrypted

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  • spice satellites

    The spice must flow.

  • System76’s Oryx Pro Is the First Linux Laptop to Ship with the COSMIC Desktop

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  • Is it beta now? I tried alpha 8 or alpha 9 and ran into a lot of issues (3 or 4 independent ones) with my multimonitor setup and eventually just gave up because of the frustration of having to reconfigure all 3 monitors every reboot.

    Bazzite never had a problem, but locked down some dev stuff I wanted to do.

    CachyOS has been solid but every once in a while I will experience one of the multi monitor issues I had on Cosmic Alpha. But I can live with that.

  • Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update

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  • Netflix charges me, a single guy, for 4 simultaneous streams if I want 4k. So I shared with my parents.

    Then they had the audacity to stop people from password sharing or to charge even more if you want to share. I set up an automatic email forward so my parents get every sign in related email.

  • Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody"

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  • Oh yeah that was when they announced you'd get copilot credits or whatever as part of Office 365 and bumped up the price.

  • New home server, NixOS vs Proxmox vs Arch

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  • This is what my friend and I do now.

    Proxmox on bare metal.

    Currently messing around with Talos Linux in a VM.

  • Crunch time: Democrats ready for shutdown standoff over Republican health cuts

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  • Republicans will promise them back in the form of tax cuts.

    You forgot this part: "... For the rich"

  • Wayland breaks the tools I use to make a living

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  • Just getting my password manager being able to type text into other windows was a bit of a pain in Wayland in CachyOS. That's a common thing everyone should be using these days.

  • Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions

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  • For Microsoft 365 / Office 365.

  • Scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2

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  • Damn I call it my forever cough but also dealing with post nasal drip from both the first (2023) and second times (Aug 2025) I had covid.

  • Japan to impose 12,000 yen fine for using smartphones while cycling under new rule

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  • I still do. Really should travel there soon before the rates get better for them (worse for me)

  • FBI releases images of person of interest, announces $100K reward amid manhunt for Charlie Kirk's killer

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  • Has South Park Comcast episode nipple rubbing vibes.