So you’re saying to load this shell second.

When you have thousands of possible upstream causes, but the end consumer effectively only sees and cares about two (availability, and price) then of course it’s all going to look the same. When you have a fever, cough, and shortness of breath it could be COVID, or pneumonia, or influenza, or just a cold, looks pretty similar when you have limited symptoms to work with.

Especially to the perpetually online edgelords on places like lemmy and reddit. Might as well just accept any and all conspiracy theories without evidence as well while we’re at it, because they’re apparently just as valid as plausible economic reasons when there is limited data. I miss when the tinfoil hat people without a shred of evidence were pushed out of society instead of being given the same platform as evidence-based conclusions.

A reminder that tariffs are actually a thing.

A 25% tariff on a $600 item is $150. Even taking into account the tariff applying to the import cost instead, sales margins aren’t the majority of the cost. The tariff is applying to the wholesale cost to import the product, sales margins are then added on top of that.

I haven’t seen a single thing from AMD about whether the MSRP was set taking the tariffs into account or not. If not, then that should only apply to the devices imported before that went into effect. And everything after would be at least 25% more, more like 30% taking into account sales margins are based AFTER import costs.

I mean, when you sell parts of your business to others you sort of give up control of them. That’s the way it works dipshits.

How can investors take any of these corpos serious when they constantly fuck things up everywhere they go.

Sadly, that’s actually a decent choice, as much as I hate to admit it.

18 000 employees and not one to run a “check dates on google” department?

To be fair, Google has been removing notable dates from their calendar.

No they’d still be running XP if they could.

Hitler was a drug addict and the trains didn’t run on time.

German trains still don’t run on time. Can’t blame that one on the Nazis, that’s just a German thing.

There are plenty of step-by-step guides to run Deepseek locally. Hell, someone even had it running on a Raspberry Pi. It seems to be much more efficient than other current alternatives.

That’s about as openly available to self host as you can get without a 1-button installer.

First rule, always have backups. Especially with an older drive, make sure anything you might need is duplicated somewhere else. Ideally off-site to prevent loss in case of things like burglary or a fire. Even something as simple as Google Drive or OneDrive.

Personally, I’d take a look at replacing it with an SSD if you can afford to, not only because of the age, but better performance. You may not notice slowness, but making the jump from a HDD to an SSD is still at least a little noticeable even on secondary drives from my experience.

it’s senior board members that are the real problem, the ones making the actual decisions and putting profits over anything and everything else.

Most of the board members at these companies are CEOs of other, often related and even partnered companies. While the CEO at a given company isn’t the only one to blame, CEOs in general covers the vast majority of the fuckers.

EVs don’t use the brakes nearly as much as regular ICE vehicles. Regenerative braking can provide nearly every bit of braking necessary for everyday driving.

And half the time it’s not even that fast anymore either.

Might as well order a burger from an actual restaurant, to go, for the same amount and pick it up on the way. Half the time they’ll even bring it to you curbside.

They should probably work to finish all those NEOM projects first. They’ve got a pretty big chuck o’ change announced for that already, something around $1.5 Trillion already.

See you say no apocalyptic event, but we’ve done almost nothing to slow climate change, and that will destroy humanity in less than a century much better than we can directly do ourselves. The event has already started, and we’re ignoring it.

His plan is to fuck them over anyway, just so other organizations know that it won’t make a difference. They’re an enemy if they ever air anything against him.

Been getting mixed reception with the Bellamy Salute … probably because this is fucking serious.

Even IF we were to give him the benefit of the doubt, the Bellamy Salute was abandoned specifically because of the Nazi use of a similar salute. AND that salute is older than Musk, so there’s no history to claim there. Combined with his recent public praise and support of the far-right parties in Germany specifically, it really leads to one conclusion.

Even if we give him the benefit of the doubt despite all of that, and maybe claim that he’s trying to “take back” a previous American flag salute to make it American again… it reminds me of the this scene from Clerks 2 (NSFW - language). Elon is most definitely not the person that can bring that salute back.

Did they? Or did Apple and Google pull the app because the law went into affect today and Trump isn’t actually president yet. All they had at the beginning of the day was a one day promise from Biden to not enforce it.

Tencent happen to own large portions of nearly every video game company on the planet to start with, and a ton of other large companies, 600+ of them in fact. Large enough positions to directly affect board decisions if they wanted to. And that assumes overt sudden changes and not more subtle things.

That won’t stop Apple and Google from keeping it pulled from app stores until things are more concrete.

TikTok only blocked access and put that notice up in the app after their partners decided that a statement from the outgoing administration 24 before the transition wasn’t enough for them to not comply with the law.