That’s right!
But if I stopped buying from AliExpress, I would have to purchase the exact same thing from Amazon or eBay at 10 times the price, and if I boycott the US companies as well, I would need to buy the exact same thing at 100 times the price from Bunnings!
(Meanwhile AliExpress sellers are reselling the exact same thing that can be purchased in bulk from AliBaba at 1/10th the price)
You have a very valid point. And the guns that they purchase wholesale are of much better quality than the retail crap available to civilians,
It’s almost as if their “Right to Bear Arms” was just an excuse for Firearms Manufacturers to sell more units.
Why the Fuck haven’t Americans borne arms against the profiteering tyrants who are currently destroying their country?
I’m not sure. I want a Linux Phone or compact tablet with a premium quality camera.
I would be happy if it does not have a capability to run Android Apps; only native KDE or GNOME apps. I would also be happy if it doesn’t support X and only works with Wayland.
The legacy of X, iOS and Android is a liability.
I reckon that the next phone I get will be a Linux Phone.
I will keep my iPhone mini for those things where I need an Android or iPhone (banking, government, etc), but my daily driver will be something that I have complete control over.
Time to watch Glass Onion again.
I live in a safe Australian LNP seat, the odds are that on Saturday night, our neighbours and I are (very likely) going to continue having a Right-Wing member of Parliament.
That does still mean that even though they are voting for our local MP, they are also voting for a former 1980s Queensland Cop with a suspiciously large amount of money as PM.
I would be happy if every (Australian) Coalition candidate and all the Right-Wing independent candidates received Zero votes this election, otherwise there are too many Australian Fuckwits.
I’ve edited my original post.
Now we both look like Goofs!
No worries. I’m the silly bugger that mistyped. I’m trying to think of a way to blame AutoCorrect…
Sorry I meant 5 million individuals, not $5m
I disagree. It should have been a complete landslide.
The fact that Pierre Poilievre received any votes at all suggests that almost 5 Million Canadian Voters are still fuckheads.
As evil as Graham Lineham is, I do need to post the parody of these forwarders that was in The IT Crowd.
I have a Tent with built in LED lighting and the switch is illuminated, so you can find it at 3:00AM when you go for a wee. It uses 5V over a USB-A plug. Quite nifty!
The problem is that it does not adhere to the USB spec so after a minute, the power bank decides that nothing is connected and stops supplying power (as a safety feature). You then have to wake up the power bank back up to can find the light switch, which you can’t do without lights on.
Anyone who uses gMail knows (or should know) that their data is being used for commercial purposes. Any business that uses Google.Business or MS Office should also be aware that they are giving away all their corporate secrets, regardless of any “Opt-In”/“Opt-Out” broken promises.
If they get Apple Intelligence into a functional form, (and not an embarrassing hilarious punchline in an anecdote), the will be profiting of my data.
They can claim that it is Opt-In only (until a bug the next software update ‘accidentally’ changes my Opt-out status) and they can Anonymize my data, but that still doesn’t change the fact that they inferred that hey wouldn’t use my data.
At least their user abuse is still less than Mozilla and Google threw out the “Don’t be Evil” motto decades ago…
Is this the same “Opt-In” as keeping Apple Intelligence disabled between software updates?
Apple are haemorrhaging a lot of hard earned goodwill every time they try to move forward with their own AI.
That still doesn’t give them the right to mine the data that their users entrusted to them though a paid service.
It doesn’t matter how anonymised their harvesting is, they had an agreement with their subscribers not to invade their privacy like this.
We are better off with a LLM that doesn’t work than abusing the data entrusted to them by their users.
It won’t be long until the LLM bubble bursts and we all laugh about how stupid we were to think they had any use whatsoever.
It’s not the competitive pricing that is the issue, it the forced upgrade cycle and invasive user policies.
(Except for system admin costs and Mail/File Hosting) a Linux-based solution is literally Free. I would assume that Mail and File hosting for Governmental Entities should be hosted in-house anyway.
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