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  • Defaulting to nano without explicit user consent will be considered a class c user experience violation

    One step forward, two steps back. I always hate how politicians can be so accommodating of the popular minority while still being so discriminatory against the less popular ones.

  • I'll give you 'satire'. But I don't really agree with 'critiques'. The lesson i got from the movie was "stupid people can't really have empathy, so they just need to shut up and let actual smart people do the important work", and also eugenics.

    If it was critiquing the modern corporate structure, it would have included actual critiques of the modern corporate structure, rather than a single poor idiot in charge of a big company who should have just let the smart guy fix it all for him. In short, comapnies as they are would've worked if only the smart people were in charge of them.

  • It's very much a thing. The smaller the company you're purchasing from, the more likely you'll find a counterfeit product of theirs available for cheaper. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/06/how-us-small-businesses-are-fighting-counterfeiting-in-china.html

    I get the white-label / drop shipping distinction. It's why I mentioned them both. I also get that chinese manufacturers can make new stuff too. It's why I didn't say shit like "china never innovates or makes new products, they only steal".

  • The difference between a white label (drop shipped) product and a counterfeit made at the same factory on a different work shift is impossible to discern.

    You literally can't know if what you're buying is original or not anymore.

  • China has a huge counterfeit industry, and amazon is complicit in helping them out with it. https://daxueconsulting.com/counterfeit-products-in-china/ https://www.marketingscoop.com/consumer/amazon-fake-products-policy/

    Basically, anyone wanting to make anything has two options for manufacturing; in house, and in china. In house is way more expensive, and much less likely to result in profits. In china is incredibly easy and much cheaper, but as soon as you ask for them to pause making your product, they turn around and rebrand it and sell it for much cheaper everywhere they can (Temu, amazon, etc).

    Another part is that a lot of manufacturing companies don't speak English, so there is a whole industry of people who know Chinese manufacturers who will sell their translation and industry contact services. Super helpful when you have a good relationship with them, but the instant that turns even slightly sour, you discover the major downside of having a middleman between you and your product tooling: you have absolutely no power to stop anyone in china from using your tooling to make cheap knockoffs of your product, legal or otherwise.

  • The other part is that they depicted the corporations as completely innocent idiots too; "the computer said the money went away so I had to fire people and now they're all rioting in the streets!" As if the company wasn't at fault for all of that.

  • Nah, the fighter is just being stubborn about magic items. If he'd asked for real help the wizard would've been happy to give the fighter a temp magic weapon or whatever.

  • I had thought that another part of it was the levels of harm compared to the problem; getting pregnant is incredibly stressful and possibly harmful, up to and including death as a possibility. A medicine that can stop that but has side affects that are less harmful than pregnancy is a lot more palatable. Whereas, for men, the harm caused by pregnancy is zero, so any harm caused by the pill is weighed a lot heavier.

  • Nah that just does the drum loop for ten hours.

  • It's not completely out yet. That was likely AWS being down.

    Also, the new quantum protected message encryption headers are about 2kb. If that's causing issues with your internet, you may want to consider looking at new internet.

  • we always use this laptop for our taxes, so TurboTax. Disk-wise

    Independent of your experiements with Linux, it may be a good idea to switch away from turbotax. They've been lobbying to make filing taxes harder for the past 20 years.

    More relevant to the Linux discussion at hand, they're locked into a specific operating system, whereas the alternatives are much more modern and work just fine in a regular web browser. I've had good success across three states with freetaxusa, personally.

  • When you do get around to changing the graphics, maybe you can ditch the ovaries and uterus look of the logo.

    Lmao I hadn't even noticed, but yes, definitely that.

  • The slate truck has been advertising itself as open source; ironically partially funded by Elon, actually.

    There's also been a couple people saying they'd make one for the past several years, if my internet searches are a thing to go by.

    This guy just started a company for managing an open source truck project, and he seems pretty serious about it. He just started though, so we aren't likely to see anything actually come of it for several years. https://mutiny.fm/ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G-QgQitWNLY

    There's also the tabby evo, which is for sale right now, but I'm not so sure I'd call that a car so much as a gokart that may or may not be street legal. https://www.openmotors.co/product/tabbyevo/

  • Nah. Obituaries are usually reserved for immediate family members. You don't get that status until you've commited to marriage.

  • Unironically yes.

  • Yeah. Everyone assuming this is some sort of praise or support of the current presidency really don't know how that phrase is normally used. Half the time I heard that phrase it was in a "wtf is going on right now"/"this shit sucks" sort of way.

    Shitty clickbait title is shitty.

  • It costs money for them to attempt to sort between honest/upfront advertising and the scummy kind.

  • I have had no issues running beatsaber on my 7900xt/5800x3d. I assume you don't mean anything else either. /s

    to be honest, i have had nearly no issues running anything at all. Only bf6 has been a notable failure for me so far.

  • You kinda have to play the lottery with the HDMI cards; some of the can strip it, some of them can't. And it looks like some of them strip it and get detected.

    They can't advertise that as a feature either, so it's a bit of a crapshoot. It may be worth finding the latest reddit post about it to see if anyone has a specific model that was working in the past year.