Recommendations for a top-of-the-line used/new laptop under $1000?
Hi, sorry if this is the wrong place to post this.
TOTL: Top of the line.
I have been looking for a laptop with a new, TOTL chip under $1000. Till now Framework with their outlet store selling a 13 inch model with the Ryzen 7 7840U is the best I could find. I don't really mind used laptops but they need to be repairable and upgradeable. I'm looking for laptops with the best CPUs from now going back to the last 2 years (I.E. Intel Core Ultra 9/AMD Ryzen 9 HX). I want maximum CPU performance possible in a laptop under $1000.
Any recommendations? I will bring my own memory and storage. I'm OK with both used and new but they need to be easy to repair
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I use Mastodon and Pixelfed mainly. But I also have an account on Friendica and Loops.video, but I rarely use them. And does Matrix count?
Oh and I forgot about Funkwhale for putting your music collection online.
XMPP is great. Movim.eu is a nice webclient for it that also does macro-blogging.
Akkoma serves me well for the micro-blogging part of the Fediverse.
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Mastodon but not nearly as much as Lemmy.
Bookwyrm but not nearly as much as Mastodon.
I really wanted Bookwyrm to be more useful for me. But it’s really not geared towards what I want in keeping track of books. ymmv
This is the only federated software that I use because it is the only one in a format I enjoy using. I liked reddit for the threaded forum kinda format, so lemmy was an easy transition.
Never liked facebook/twitter/instagram or those formats so no interest in a federated version of them. There could be something out there I would also like, but thst would require trying more things and I gave up after bouncing off a few.
Mastodon, but I've largely dropped it for Bluesky. I'm no purist about full decentralization, and I think it's enough that the latter both has users, and isn't currently awful.
I've used Bookwyrm a bit. I kinda like it. But it had some UX issues imo, and didn't keep me hooked.
Also tried Pixelfed. It's pretty slick, but I just can't see the point. Like Instagram, seeing a feed of just pictures wasn't all that interesting to me... though I probably just haven't followed the right accounts.
Mastodon on my pen name.
Piefed for the hell of it.
Used to use one of the "key" forks, but the instance I was on shut down, and I never went back.
Haven't really bothered with the rest because they don't fit any needs, and tend to be based around things that aren't my personal interests enough to use regularly. Peertube, I'll never put videos up, but I use it when other people link to it.
That's really it. I don't want/need the kind of services friendica is for, nor whatever the name of the Instagram clone is, and loops is totally not my thing.
I don't have anything against them, mind you, I just don't use those kind of platforms
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mbin lets you access all of the lemmy content (the threadiverse) as well as the microblog stuff like mastodon and universeodon.
its also a bit more reddit-like
example: moist.catsweat.com
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I use :
microblog
- mastodon for political content as it allows me to avoid lenghty and tendious discussion with its 500 character limit. But...i stopped using it for a while due to current news on climate change and fascisme. And i'm not fan of its UI
- IceShrimp. I love its colorful UI. For me it one of tge best UI pn the fediverse. It also have a good balance between lenghty text and short one. It also support markdown. 3000 character is enough
forumverse
- lemmy, it was good when we migrated from Reddit but over time i prefer PieFed.
- Mbin, i tried it but i dunno why i don't use it as much as Lemmy whereas there were much more functionalities and cool ideas.
- PieFed i'm starting to use it much more than Lemmy. There are plenty great ideas as downvote management, tags, poll, multicommu, support peertube and a.gup.pe. It is better each week.
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Musical Solidarity: Artists and Bands Who Stand for Justice in Palestine
Musical Solidarity: Artists and Bands Who Stand for Justice in Palestine - Palestine Chronicle
Karan Singh's comprehensive list for the Palestine Chronicle highlights numerous artists who publicly back the Palestinian struggle for justice.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
I helped my son install Windows 10 on a spare SSD for Fortnite. His first comment after booting into Windows: Why is it so ugly?
After the novelty of playing Fortnite wore off he's back to Linux.
As much as I love Aero, one probably should use secure and supported OS for gaming
Of course, Windows 10 & 11 are harder to make look actually like Aero than basically any Linux DE, because they hate you
The Worsening Raspberry Pi RP2350 E9 Erratum Situation
The Worsening Raspberry Pi RP2350 E9 Erratum Situation
There’s currently a significant amount of confusion around the full extent of the GPIO hardware issue in the Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller, with [Ian] over at [Dangerous Prototypes] of …Hackaday
The Worsening Raspberry Pi RP2350 E9 Erratum Situation
The Worsening Raspberry Pi RP2350 E9 Erratum Situation
There’s currently a significant amount of confusion around the full extent of the GPIO hardware issue in the Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller, with [Ian] over at [Dangerous Prototypes] of …Hackaday
Adobe flash dress-up games.
A tumblr post by "the-fbi-agent-in-your-phone": "The eradication of adobe flash dress-up games directly led to the creation of NFT's." The post is in a monospace font. It has a reblog by "markwateneymemorialcrater" saying: "Sure. I'll incorporate that into my world view". The post has 96,248 notes.
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Paul Graham likened Palantir's ICE work to “infrastructure of the police state”; a Palantir exec said Paul's view is like Google's when it killed Project Maven
Palantir exec defends company’s immigration surveillance work | TechCrunch
One of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator offered unsparing criticism this weekend of the controversial data analytics company Palantir,Anthony Ha (TechCrunch)
Federal Inspectors Found Antibiotics in Beef 'Raised Without Antibiotics.' They Took No Action | JBS, Cargill and Tyson appear to have misled consumers
The USDA’s Food & Safety Inspection Service found that 20 percent of the samples under this label tested positive for antibiotics, raising questions about how widespread mislabeling is in the U.S. commercial beef supply. These findings were announced last August, but the names of the companies which tested positive for antibiotics were not made publicly available until recently
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“This strongly suggests that the US antibiotic-free beef supply is deeply contaminated and deeply deceptive to American consumers,” Andrew deCoriolis, the executive director of Farm Forward tells Sentient.
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It’s been estimated that 70 percent of medically-important antibiotics sold in the U.S. — those used to treat human infections — are used to produce meat, dairy and other animal-sourced products
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The World Health Organization calls antimicrobial resistance “one of the top global public health and development threats,” responsible for millions of deaths every year. The problem is only going to get worse, according to public health experts. The misuse and overuse of antibiotics — both in humans and farm animals (who often receive the same antibiotics) — leads bacteria to develop more resistant genes that then fail to respond to the medically necessary use of these drugs
Federal Inspectors Found Antibiotics in Beef 'Raised Without Antibiotics.' They Took No Action
JBS, Cargill and Tyson appear to have misled consumers.Grey Moran (Sentient)
Sign of things to come
From now on .... no American product is reliable or has any truth to it. Anything you buy from America is anyone's guess no matter what the marketing says.
For the past few decades, everyone made fun of Chinese products not being truthful or reliable on anything. In the next few decades, the world will be saying the same things about American products.
I could be wrong, but AFAIK, "no antibiotics" means no prophylactic antibiotic use. It means they don't dose the whole herd when one animal has some sort of bacterial infection, but they will treat that particular animal with antibiotics.
I agree that antibiotics should not be used to try to prevent infection, but I think it is inhumane to withhold antibiotics from animals that actually need them.
I read more of the article:
There are shortcomings to FSIS’s testing program. The tests performed didn’t distinguish between selective antibiotic use to treat an illness and constant low-dose exposure to antibiotics administered directly into the animals’ feed. While both are prohibited under the labeling program, the excessive, chronic use of antibiotics poses a much more serious risk to public health, contributing to the development of antibiotic resistance.
Seems that the labeling program doesn't actually make the distinction I ~~thought~~ hoped they did.
20% does sound like a lot, but given the nature of the problem they are trying to solve, I'd call it at least a partial win. With 80% testing negative, they clearly aren't adding it to the feed. 20% indicates selective use. I don't know how much lower it could feasibly go.
(I'm not particularly concerned with strict adherence to this specific labeling program. My concern is good animal husbandry, not bureaucracy.)
Strawberry Music Player
Looking for a place to find the Windows version of this without paying $20 for a single version or $5/month for regular updates
EDIT: which one of you mad lads did this? codeberg.org/WetOtter44/Strawb…
StrawberryMusicPlayer
Clone of the Strawberry Music Player repo with FREE Windows and Mac versionsCodeberg.org
"Access to macOS and Windows releases are currently restricted to sponsors, a 5 USD monthly sponsorship is required."
Really scummy on their part.
You should be able to build from source yourself to get a Windows version, although the process looks like a pain in the ass.
Curse whoever floated the idea to lock releases behind paywalls. We should not encourage this behavior.
Do not give them your money.
we also have to pay for a Apple developer account for signed macOS releases
Sounds like you should blame Apple, not the dev.
Great point.
Now, are they using this as an excuse to not provide a Windows version?
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So, why even mention apple if you're going to justify the developer's actions anyways?
I'm going to go back to blaming the devs now. Nice try defending the people taking money from you. They're banking on your low standards.
They’re banking on your low standards.
Yeah this is unfortunately common, and many people are quick to defend developers like that making excuses.
They also don't have to sign it.
Maybe I've just used MacOS so long that I'm out of touch, but installing unsigned applications is effectively a mild annoyance.
Really scummy on their part.
Anyone is free to build it themselves. Someone could even distribute their own build from the same source under a different name completely legally.
They bank on users being lazy and then pay for the convenience.
GPLv3 is a copy left license. If you legally acquire the source code (it's public already, so anyone does), GPLv3 does not put any restrictions on you when it comes to building, selling, distributing, modifying the code.
I pointed out the name because trademark law is seperate.
And yes, GPLv3 has some requirements like attribution (mention the original developer somewhere), and you have to point out where to get the source code (already public in this case). Also, if you make any changes to the source code you must provide those changes to anyone you distribute too under the same license.
These restrictions apply to eg. UNIT3D too. Some (most) torrent trackers seem to violate the requirement to provide their changes to their users and want to keep them private. But I never asked them whether they'd provide me their source.
Otherwise GPLv3 does not pose much restrictions on it's users, especially not on distribution.
Anyone is free to build it themselves. Someone could even distribute their own build from the same source under a different name completely legally.
You could just as easily in the spirit of this community do it with the same name and code, same way they do it for cracked games. Don't tell me it's not done because there are security concerns, you have no way to tell if cracked games contain secret malware in them yet people still distribute and download those.
They bank on users being lazy and then pay for the convenience.
And also pirates to not outright rip them off, which seems to be working for some reason...
You could just as easily in the spirit of this community do it with the same name and code, same way they do it for cracked games.
You could, and unless you're trying to profit off it the original devs likely won't care.
And also [bank on] pirates to not outright rip them off, which seems to be working for some reason...
They already publish it under GPLv3, they want it to be free (as in freedom) software.
I don't care about any security concerns. If someone does not want to build it themselves or download from a third party they can buy it for their convenience. Or they can take the risk or find another way to install it.
~~For example I looked up whether Strawberry is on Winget, the Microsoft package manager for Windows. And look at that, it's completely free to download by the original developer [1].~~ @upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com
~~They only ask users who are too lazy and want to download through the Microsoft store for payment. I get why you don't like there being no binaries on their site by them, but they do provide free ways to install it. They just don't tell you about it.~~
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~~Edit: For anyone who does not want to click the link: winget install -e --id StrawberryMusicPlayer.Strawberry installs Strawberry on any Windows computer. Officially.~~
Strawberry Music Player on winget.run
Strawberry is a cross-platform music player written in C++, which can also be used to organize smaller and larger music collections.winget.run
I got a "no package found matching input criteria" using this method.
It also appears to only offer version 1.0.15 whereas the newest version is 1.2.10
If I'm not mistaken, 1.0.15 was the last windows / Mac version released before the dev paywalled them.
To each their own.
I think its reasonable that a one man dev team wants a bit of money for their time. They gave good reasons as to why and as others have said you could compile it yourself. I just don't know how and am a bit intimidated by the tutorial.
To me, personally, paying for this type of program when my use case is very casual, isn't worth it to me.
See, you people keep trying to excuse those who are taking you for a ride.
It's fine to "want" money. This isn't about "wanting" money. It's about lowering people's standards and contributing to a 'new normal.'
This isn't an issue with the vast majority of other projects, why should this one get a pass?
Don't be a useful idiot. Even among piracy communities, useful idiots are the norm.
Download the source code and build it?
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GitHub - strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry-msvc: :strawberry: Instructions and batch files for building Strawberry with Visual Studio 2022
:strawberry: Instructions and batch files for building Strawberry with Visual Studio 2022 - strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry-msvcGitHub
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Jesus fucking Christ ....GitHub actions is free for open source.
And they still put their binaries behind a paywall?
I'm a bit surprised that this request is creating so much friction. This to me, is just a run of the mill "help me find a free download of this software" request that shows up all the time here.
I'm not comfortable trying to build this myself. I am happy to just use the inactive Clementine media player this is forked off of if people are really so offended by my request.
I totally understand why the dev wants to be paid, I'm just not going to be the one to do it.
Yeah I don't have an answer for the thing you're actually asking (sorry) but this is 100% a reasonable take and honestly I fully approve of their approach here. Strawberry is licensed under the GPL, it is libre software and can be packaged in any FOSS operating system without issue. This adds to the free software community. They are explicitly only selling to people who don't value free software enough to use a free operating system.
And to be clear, I can guarantee that no one loses sleep over piracy of their GPL software, otherwise it wouldn't be GPL. I see it more as a way for the devs to wash their hands of troubleshooting for operating systems they don't want to care about - anyone on windows/mac who cares enough about strawberry to pay gets listened to, but otherwise you've created an easy excuse for ignoring the extra work.
As an aside it's my preferred player on linux, good software.
Originally I just wanted to try a FOSS media player and found Clementine to be the most reliable when it came to importing music and reading the tags. This was especially true when grabbing old music files off an iPod then importing them.
When I realized clementine is basically dead, wanted to see how strawberry compared.
Side note, I enjoy the outdated aesthetic. 😋
I would probably use MediaMonkey if I was going to go the non FOSS route.
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:tangerine: Clementine Music Player. Contribute to clementine-player/Clementine development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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The audio player that keeps it simple. Contribute to digimezzo/dopamine development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Clone of the Strawberry Music Player repo with FREE Windows and Mac versionsCodeberg.org
Install Strawberry Music Player with winget - winstall
Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer.winstall.app
Cut Data Center Energy by 30% with This Simple Hack - IEEE Spectrum
Data Centers Can Slash Power Needs With One Coding Tweak
Reworking 30 lines of Linux code could cut power use by up to 30 percentRina Diane Caballar (IEEE Spectrum)
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A good improvement, but an important distinction from the headline alone:
This energy savings comes with a caveat. “It is sort of a best case because the 30 percent applies to the network stack or communication part of it,” Karsten explains. “If an application primarily does that, then it will see 30 percent improvement. If the application does a lot of other things and only occasionally uses the network, then the 30 percent will shrink to a smaller value.”
Prop 12 Is Under Attack Again, But Some Republicans Aren’t On Board
Prop 12 Is Under Attack Again, But Some Republicans Aren’t On Board
Inside the latest attempt to undo the landmark animal welfare law.Seth Millstein (Sentient)
Ron Johnson says he thinks Senate could hold hearings on 9/11 conspiracies
Ron Johnson says he thinks Senate could hold hearings on 9/11 conspiracies
Sen. Ron Johnson has suggested that Congress may hold additional hearings on the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and has been listening to long-festering and debunked conspiracy theories about the government’s alleged involvement in the collapse o…Elizabeth Crisp (The Hill)
And the globe Earth and the moon landing conspiracies! What about that whole pizzaria blood drinking thing too! Piss all the tax payer money down the drain on stupid shit!
DOGE could report it as money saved and then abruptly remove those line items from their website list.
Everybody knows OSHA is responsible for 9/11.
The collapse was a controlled demolition. A controlled demolition is meant to minimize danger to life and property. Now what organization would murder thousands of people using the safest methods?
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"La vita nelle città è assurda, va cambiata": la proposta dell'ingegnere energetico per spazi "più sostenbili"
“La vita nelle città è assurda, va cambiata”: la proposta dell’ingegnere energetico per…
"Non pensate che sia una cosa costosa. È più una questione di volontà e di attivazione per spingere poi la politica ad attivarsi”Pietro Barabino (Il Fatto Quotidiano)
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One of the last things the Pope ever said was that JD Vance is commiting a grave sin.
So, hope he has fun with that memory as his Christian Nationalist Brain fades out of life.
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Pope Francis has repeatedly rebuked the president’s mass deportation effort, calling it a “disgrace” and a “grave sin.”
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Pope Sends Deputy to Lecture Vance on Compassion at Vatican
Vance had an “an exchange of opinions” with Cardinal Pietro Parolin that touched on migration, the Vatican said.Liam Archacki (The Daily Beast)
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Future Chips Will Be Hotter Than Ever
Future Chips Will Be Hotter Than Ever
Technologies coming into production now mean new problems with handling heatJames Myers (IEEE Spectrum)
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Court blocks DOGE access to sensitive personal data at Social Security Administration
Court blocks DOGE access to sensitive personal data at Social Security Administration
A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction to block DOGE from further access to sensitive personal information at the Social Security Administration.Lorie Konish (CNBC)
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They're openly rejecting court order and legal precedent.
Unless someone starts enforcing these court orders, they're just going to keep doing things.
They're running the Nazi playbook. Word for word, step by step, just updated with newer propaganda.
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Any reason the dev of Summit@lemmy.world is banned?
- !summit@lemmy.world
- sopuli.xyz/u/idunnololz@lemmy.…
U.S. Chipmakers Fear They Are Ceding China’s A.I. Market to Huawei
U.S. Chipmakers Fear They Are Ceding China’s A.I. Market to Huawei
New restrictions on semiconductor exports to China are scrambling sales and fueling concerns that the Chinese tech giant will become a chip-making powerhouse.Tripp Mickle (The New York Times)
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What did Trump expect? That Huawei and SMIC would just throw the towel in the ring?
“Huawei is a ferocious competitor,” Mr. Allen said. “It brings a mixture of very high quality talent, psychotically driven work culture and the deep backing of the Chinese government.”
USA basically declared war on Chinese IT industries more than a decade ago, almost forcing Huawei out of the smartphone market when they had become the leader of it! Seeing how Apple became the richest company in the world on the back of the iPhone, Huawei obviously lost enormous amounts of profits being excluded from that market.
USA is still attempting to prevent China from being competitive, and obviously China is determined on every level not to let that continue, all the way from the top of government over major companies to the researchers and workers. It may not be exactly a war, but it definitely is a very serious competition.
Now China is hitting back for real, because they have the power to do it, for instance preventing USA from having certain rare earth minerals. And the loser will be USA, and that will soon be very clear.
American bully tactics have alienated everybody including allies, so USA is alone on this. And alone USA will lose.
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My wife had a Huawei phone for 10 years, because she doesn't like the new phones. It took amazing pictures despite it was only a mid range phone. But not so good in low light compared to new phones.
Huawei made insanely high end good looking designs even with their mid range phones, nothing on the market today looks as good as that one did.
But it ended up being too slow, and the software was too old, so there were things that simply stopped working.
preventing USA from having certain rare earth minerals
I think this is overblown. The rare earth minerals can absolutely be sourced elsewhere, it's just a lot cheaper to get them from China.
But yeah, maybe the US will be the loser here, that really depends on how much Trump sticks to his guns. I hope he gets ousted before he can do irreparable harm...
Is he, though? He looks more like the final result of decades of very deliberate work by certain groups in the US political establishment that started with Reagan or possibly even earlier who put specific types of people on the Supreme Court, extended presidential executive order powers, gerrymandered, sabotaged political education, established think tanks and propaganda networks,...
They might have gotten a bit more chaos than they wished for but to think Trump ended up as president by complete accident would be naive and other nation's top politicians (and their own advisors) are not that naive.
Yes, he is, his whole appeal is that he's an outsider. And Reagan was also an outlier, he was an actor that decided to get into politics.
Trump ending up as President in 2016 was largely an accident. You can see the complete 180 by media orgs and the top brass of the GOP once he got the nomination as evidence of that. They had all geared up for a Jeb Bush nomination, and that obviously never materialized. 2024 was a bit more intentional, because he wanted to run again and nobody in the party really dared stand in his way.
That said, Trump is very much an outsider and got elected mostly on that basis. He's a result of a decade or two of frustrations w/ the establishment, and now we're seeing what that actually looks like. His approval rating took a serious hit during the tariff nonsense, and it's only back now that he's not doing what he promised to do. I don't think Americans really want what he has to offer, they just want something different from what they got before. I would be very surprised if he retains a reasonable approval rating through the midterms, so many of his campaign promises are likely to end in disaster, and he needs to show some kind of progress on those promises for his party to have a shot next year.
So yeah, I think in a year or two, most people would agree that he's an outlier.
I hope he gets ousted before he can do irreparable harm…
Too late for that.
China spent $50 billion on researching chip production last year, about half the global investment!! Because of policies instated by Trump in his first term!
Canada has cancelled their F35 program, and is looking for non US supplier of their fighter jets.
EU has decided to become independent of USA on military equipment, making their own equipment instead of buying from USA.
Tesla sales have dropped almost 50% in Europe, and Tesla is very unlikely to ever come back to their leading position in Europe again.
George Bush wasn't nearly as bad as Trump, but USA misled the world under him regarding Iraq, and started a baseless war that many allies were drawn into. Obama was VERY popular in Europe, but despite that relations weren't completely restored in 2 terms with Obama. Bush broke trust with comments like if you aren't with us you're against us.
Trump was much worse already the first term, despite not starting any wars. Talk of abandoning NATO, not respecting article 5, pandering to Russia, withdrawing from the Paris agreement. And in general undermining democracy and cooperation with allies. USA lost leadership under Trump, and it didn't recover with biden.
So don't think for a second that the harm from Trump's first term was repaired by Biden. Although we did return more to business as usual with Biden.
Now Trump has within only 3 months managed to piss off everybody. China is opposing USA directly, which they never did before, and EU has declared a goal of independence from USA, which was talked about the first time Trump was president, but now was decided very quickly because Trump cut off aid to Ukraine. Europe simply can't rely on USA anymore, and the decision to work towards independence is final. The ol PAX Americana can never be restored, and the soft power USA had because USA was supported by many allies can never be restored either.
As another lemmy poster wrote, imagine you are in a loving relationship with a partner you trust. But suddenly one morning when you get up, your partner punches you hard in the face without reason. That relationship can never go back to what it was.
USA can absolutely make friends and trade with everybody like before. But the trust and soft power USA had built after WW2 for 50 years was already shaken under George W. Bush, mostly restored by Obama, but then shaken badly with Trump first term, and now destroyed by Trump 2nd term.
Mind you this is not just Trump, Trump won the popular vote, and is representing USA by democratic election. So it's the American people and the Republican party that has shown that USA isn't to be trusted as we used to trust it.
To rebuild that trust, a fundamental change is needed in USA. A shift in ideology in the population and probably also a much improved democracy, that doesn't surrender so much power based on the election of 1 person.
Trump has made history already, but unfortunately it is not the good kind.
title : ~~U.S. Chipmakers Fear They Are Ceding China’s A.I. Market to Huawei~~
After failing to destroy A.I. in China, Americans regret not dominating it.
Pete Hegseth out as Secretary of Defense before July?
Polymarket | This market will resolve to “Yes” if Pete Hegseth ceases to be the US Secretary of Defense for any period of time between March 25 and June 30, ...Polymarket
NPR: Trump Has 'Begun Process' of Replacing Pete Hegseth
BREAKING: Trump White House Has Reportedly ‘Begun Process’ Of Replacing Pete Hegseth
NPR is reporting that despite public backing from Trump and Karoline Leavitt, the White House has begun the process of looking for a new Secretary of Defense.Joe DePaolo (Mediaite)
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Assuming he's out and replaced tomorrow (makes the conversion easier), he'd be in position for 88 days.
That's 8 mooches (or 2 Trusses for our friends using the metric system).
- 1 Mooch = 11 Days
- 1 Truss = 44 days (or 4 Mooches)
- 1 Hesgeth = 2 Trusses = 8 Mooches
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I’m sure it would tickle him to have left after 88 days.
Appreciate the mafs.
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When this baby reaches 88 days, you're gonna see some serious shit.
- Doc Brown
LOL "or two Trusses for our friends using the metric system"
I needed a good laugh, thank you
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I was really hoping they'd keep him, rather than replacing him with the next most sycophantic rich boy in line.
We all know they tolerate rank incompetence and have no care for the lives of americans. Keeping hegseth would be saying that much louder, so now it's someone else's turn to endanger our lives.
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I heard Aaron Rodgers is looking for something to do...
Or maybe take Brett Farve before his stupid ass tries to run for governor of Wisconsin.
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Remember, losing his job should only be the most minor thing he faces out of all of this.
He should face felonies for leaking classified information and for actively creating non-traceable government records. He should be spending time in solitary for this, based on other prosecutions.
Just like his boss.
He only surrounds himself with the best people...
(Good god, his fat ass has all these morons circling like a bunch of satellites)
U.S. Chipmakers Fear They Are Ceding China’s A.I. Market to Huawei
U.S. Chipmakers Fear They Are Ceding China’s A.I. Market to Huawei
New restrictions on semiconductor exports to China are scrambling sales and fueling concerns that the Chinese tech giant will become a chip-making powerhouse.Tripp Mickle (The New York Times)
NVIDIA Rumored To Collaborate With DeepSeek To Develop Custom AI Chips For China; Massive Turnaround Plan For Domestic Markets
NVIDIA Rumored To Collaborate With DeepSeek To Develop Custom AI Chips For China; Massive Turnaround Pla…
NVIDIA has a massive plan to turn the China market, as a new report claims that the firm plans to develop chips with DeepSeek.Wccftech
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Team Green plans to get closer to the Chinese markets by building a dedicated R&D center in China as well, which means that NVIDIA is serious about this move.
Yup, of course they are. As I said the other day, US firms for which their userbase is not the product face long term downside as the US state cuts them off of foreign markets or the foreign markets cuts them off as retaliation to the US state trade policies. If they keep their product development in the US they're facing reduced markets and increased dependence on the US state. And of course increased competition by foreign (e.g. China's Huawei) firms catching up to fill the demand gap. If they manage to fill the gap with price competitive product, there's no coming back for NVIDIA.
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Funny I was pondering the same thing. What would Trump do if Nvidia moved to somewhere outside US jurisdiction?
It's very serious for Nvidia to lose about 45% of their revenue. But they also need to keep their development teams running.
Can they do that if they move?
asymmetric-investing.beehiiv.c…
But this is really serious for Nvidia! As far as I can figure it's about $33 billion profits in a year they stand to lose!!!
Based on market cap and P/E.
NVIDIA's China Problem & Big Tech's New Headwind
A decoupling from China could have a massive impact on technology firms.Asymmetric Investing
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Right, for profit companies famously have a history of just handing themselves over to totalitarian regimes.
China has no successful companies that aren't approved, controlled and often subsidized by the party.
The wonderful world of Linux package managers
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/28905872
One of the strongest points of Linux is the package management. In 2025, the world of Linux package management is very varied, with several options available, each with their advantages and trade-offs over the others.
Trump Warns US Economy Could Slow If Fed’s Powell Doesn’t Cut Interest Rates - Bloomberg
You know what else allows the economy?
Massive, un-targetted tariffs aimed at our allies and randomly putting them in and out, and putting unreasonable tariffs on China without having a plan in place.
Trump Warns US Economy Could Slow If Fed’s Powell Doesn’t Cut Interest Rates
President Donald Trump warned the US economy may slow if the Federal Reserve does not move to immediately reduce interest rates, in his latest broadside against Fed Chair Jerome Powell.Jennifer A Dlouhy (Bloomberg)
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yeah, this is purely preemptive to cast blame on powell as the entire us economy tanks.
as far as I am aware the feds focus is still entirely on trying to control inflation. what trump is demanding from powell would almost certainly lead to stagflation - economic contraction with increased inflation, and that is as bad as it sounds.
I dont think there is any better means to impoverish the general us population faster than trumps apparent "plan". the wealthy, however, will be perfectly fine.
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Well, they will be fine until a desperate population with more guns than people starts starving.
Then all bets are off.
we just have to get past the machine gun turrets and mechs. but, yeah... this feels like its gonna get really bad, really fast, on purpose.
was talking to a "non-political" associate today and he dropped a nugget about how the media is telling him the economy is slowly improving. didnt have time to ask what media he was consuming and I am not sure he would admit to watching fox (but I think he does). I reminded him that he just pulled his house off the market because of no interest. this entire country has become delusional.
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Playing the role of Fauci this time around will be Powell, as donvict does yet another self-own and tries to to blame it on adults with expertise.
Of course he didn't cause Covid, but he could have, if he was not a child suffering from utter derangement, easily handled Covid like almost any normal human being could have in such a situation - shut up and let the experts do the talking, and then reiterate what the experts say and give the experts all the tools and platform they need to help steer things.
But this is diaper donnie we are talking about.
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We're sinking!
We're sinking!
....what are you sinking about?
The damn engine room man!
There are several other articles posted on this topic that don't have credulous, Trump-sucking headlines. Therefore, there's no good reason to upvote this one.
I get that OP isn't trying to push a pro-Trump narrative given his commentary on it, but picking Bloomberg as a source was an unfortunate choice.
Maybe Mr Trump should let the professionals do their job?
Or, hell, just let an adult have the wheel for a bit.
Given Trump's actions over the past three months, this isn't a prediction, but a threat.
"I've got a tariff and I don't know how to use it! Now lower interest rates or the economy gets it!"
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in reply to just_another_person • • •Neither do I...
Unless it's Tactical in some fashion... 🤷♂️
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in reply to fishynoob • • •There is no "Top Of the Line" anymore. Everything has tradeoffs for their purposes. Maybe let us know what you want it to do.
Framework will be the platform to beat 100% and without question. The Refurb prices are an insane deal.
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in reply to fartsparkles • • •fartsparkles
in reply to fishynoob • • •Depends where you live. Just look up regional PC builders and see if they do laptops. They pretty much all sell Clevo, often unbranded or you can request they don’t brand it.
eBay might be another option. Or a laptop refurbisher. I’ve picked up several refurbished Clovos over the years that were ex workstations of some big enterprise.
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in reply to fishynoob • • •You're not getting a "top of the line" laptop for $1000.
In my opinion the Framework laptops are the best you can get at every price point but there's an argument to be made for Macs if you're made of money and don't care about being fucked.
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in reply to Ulrich • • •Sorry but I don't want a MacBook. I'll run *nix on this laptop for my workloads.
I see. The Framework 13 with Ryzen 9 HX 370 is about $1700 and the Ryzen 7 from the last generation is $900. I think both are priced a bit too expensive for a barebones device, even if they are super repairable. A $100-$200 reduction would be my ideal price for these laptops.
Thanks for the comment.
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in reply to fishynoob • • •They are expensive but you have to account for the fact that they'll theoretically last indefinitely.