Here’s something a lot of folks supporting the tariffs as some bass-ackwards way of returning manufacturing to the US don’t understand: in business, uncertainty is even worse than higher costs. Even if you end up paying a little more, it’s worth it if that payment gets you stability.

Trump’s instability in policy easily outweighs any benefits – and that’s assuming there were ever any benefits at all.

Those Firefox figures are abysmal. Argh.

I bet breaking the giant up into much smaller pieces would be a more efficient way to make them do less evil

Because expensive headphones tend to have drivers with higher impedance, meaning they produce less volume at the same current versus a lower impedance set.

That’s true for wired headphones, at least. For anything wireless, they have a secondary amplifier not in your phone, so then the phone really really has no idea.

In case anyone is curious what a screwworm infection can do to, say, a human…

These things are terrifying. Watch at your own peril.

https://youtu.be/kWMaYCiudsY

Well now… TIL!

I mean, $100 bucks at Best Buy is like $35 at actual market prices. I’d need at least a $200 gift card.

Fair – what I meant was more about the Teams binary kind of not being needed at all (you can use the web version without it). So having a Linux binary explicitly just seems a little weird, marketing aside.

I think MS assumes no one will use it. But having Linux builds of some of their software enhances their “MS loves Linux” marketing.

Teams is another example.

Kicad is up there with the paid options for electronic schematic drafting / PCB design. I don’t use a lot of KDE stuff since I also don’t use KDE, but Kicad is absolutely essential for me.

Actual journalists would have the easiest time in this timeline

Methodological issues aside, I don’t find this result surprising at all. I expect this result as someone who has gamed exclusively on Linux for years now.

On the Valve side, SteamOS is about as close to a purpose-built gaming OS as you’re going to get. The Proton compatibility layer works so well that some games perform better on Linux than on Windows – I assume this must be due to unnecessary Windows overhead, but can only really speak to the result.

Nitty gritty aside, I think the key issue holding back Linux gaming now is adoption. It’s free. If you haven’t tried it, try it.

In my experience as a Linux-only gamer for a few years now, equal performance is pretty easy most times. Sometimes you even get better performance on Linux than on Windows – this was the case of Elden Ring on release, for example.

Now I’m definitely sticking with LaTeX. Thanks.

business part of it

This is the part I don’t want.

It is, perhaps, the only thing he touches that is made in the USA.

I bet Tim Apple is really happy about his large donation to the Trump inauguration.

Then again, if you’re that rich, maybe having some intelligence and foresight should be an expectation. If you don’t have those things, maybe you shouldn’t be rich.

That said, for a 25% tariff, it isn’t even close. Still far cheaper for Apple to manufacture outside of the US and pass that additional cost to the US consumer.

Ah, this must be the “meritocracy” I keep hearing about. For some reason I thought you had to be a member of the Trump family or a Fox News host to take part.

Can you point out specific examples?

Is it just me, or does that sound like a monopoly?

Do any creatives attempt to create assets for another platform?

I’m really not blaming creatives on this one. Obviously they need to make money. But this seems like a clear case of advantage being taken against one skillset by virtue of monopoly.

I’d say it seems like the key issue affecting creatives, if AI didn’t exist.

As an outsider: how did we get to a point where every creator is limited to one box?