Year of the desktop has been a meme so long the people spouting it have failed to realize that the desktop itself is in decline.
There are many many people for which a mobile phone or tablet is their only computer. If you want to count Android as a Linux distro then year of the Linux desktop has come and gone ten years ago.
No, no it is not.
I mean they were built to make money, the fact that you can send them a national security letter is just a happy accident that keeps the NSA from having to run more datacenters.
That’s true and not true at the same time. The one advantage Windows has in this regard is that everyone is working on the same “distro” as it were. With Linux the various components can vary enough to be confusing. I think that is why it’s important to choose a distro with a sizeable community.
Something like Ubuntu, or an arch derivative like endeavouros are a good choice for that reason.
I would also warm against the copy paste of commands that you don’t know what you are doing with. The one nice thing is that in 2025 you can drop a command into your choice of LLM assistant and get a pretty good description of what it does without breaking out the man pages.
Honestly in an office situation there is no excuse not to have a super automatic espresso machine. They cost like 1500 dollars and you don’t need to buy the damn kcups.
Those people have never seen someone who has been hit by an air bag. It’s not a gentle pillow it’s a punch to the face and if you aren’t strapped in you’re probably gonna bounce around a bit off the interior.
That actually sounds like it might be an improvement…
Smokers can never smell themselves so they don’t think it’s a big deal.
Is that giving a donkey an enema or preforming an enema with a donkey or is it utilizing a donkey to perform an enema…
I don’t want to block it. I want to see the list of things worth 300 percent or whatever.
I mean do they care a bit. If it doesn’t sell at auction or goes for basically nothing they could lose whatever value they gave to you for trade in.
The liberals are not left wing by most measures. They are probably best described as slightly right. You get the usual Neo liberal economics but you don’t get the regressive social issues.
No way, these importers are doing it for the good of the country. They are helping make America great again.
Nuclear works well with renewables. It provides reliable base load while the renewables and batteries can be used on top of that. Plus the fuel can be sourced from friendly nations like Canada.
Also worth noting that 15 years is a long time. SMRs are starting to be built and France is planning to build a bunch of nuclear capacity in the near future which might mean the possiblity to import cheap energy or leverage the human resources from those builds.
To be fair to target most business is just talk when it comes to these types of things.
Consumers need to understand that corporate support for any particular initiative begins and ends with how it affects the bottom line.
Disney, Google, even Costco cannot actually care about any of these things. The corporate incentives do not allow for it.
Putin does anyway and thus so does Trump
No no those other countries will pay the tariffs.
Can’t lock people into some service if you do that. They gotta have that recurring monthly revenue.
The reality is that there is no tax break large enough to make up the difference in costs for a lot of things. Even with tariffs China is still cheaper.