It definitely would if they are in place for a long time. The big issue is how discontinuous American leadership is. This forces more drastic moves in a shorter time frame if one wants to shake things up. I'm not advocating for Trump personally to have a longer term, but if an American leader was guaranteed to be in power for say 25 years then they could implement a slower and more strategic set of changes.
It's almost as if removing leadership incentives to plan for the long term of the country (such as by preserving it for their children to govern) might be a bad idea...
More likely they’re used as an excuse to roll back workforce protections, child labor protections, minimum wages, environmental protections, and consumer protections to the levels in the countries that have been producing these goods until now —- because “how else can we produce goods at reasonable prices?”
Now they’ll just have to make shoes for $11 or new balance will have to come back to North American manufacturing and make shoes for $40 wholesale
Shipping , customs , duty , port fees , transportation , packaging that can survive across the ocean should all be things that make the product unrealistic to make outside North America, not to mention environmental tariffs that should be applied to products made in Asia.
I'd buy one if I knew I could use it. The old Intel Macs shipped with UEFI and a fairly open architecture, even Apple couldn't control when the chipset was fully depreciated. When MacOS cut off 32-bit support suddenly, hardcore software aficionados could still use Bootcamp to run the software they bought. When Apple "vintage"-ized old iMacs and Macbooks, they could still install other OSes and live on. Apple doesn't have to support their hardware forever... but their lack of a serious depreciation model means that I have to trust MacOS wholeheartedly.
And MacOS isn't worth my trust as a user. Big Sur feels like Mac by way of Windows 8 - it's stepping deeper into a service-integrated product that won't respect my time or money. If Apple published their driver code or at least documented their hardware as a gesture of good faith, I'd trust them a lot more. But Asahi is on the ropes right now (who'da thunk) and Apple isn't stepping in to heroically save anyone. Like the Halloween papers, with teeth this time.
It's all so tiring. I like my Magic Trackpad on GNOME, but I don't think modern Mac hardware is worth locking myself in with Dr. Tim Strangelove and learning to love his software.
Hopefully future Qualcomm SDXE or Mediatek/Nvidia SystemReady Arm PCs will deliver an open-standard Arm platform with upstream Linux support. Until then, we have Apple Silicon Macs with:
- official mechanism to provision non-Apple operating systems
- global retail availability, both physical & online
- best price/perf/watt Arm desktop via Mac Mini base
- NPU and unified memory for LLMs
- upcoming LTE/wifi/BT radios without Qualcomm/Broadcom firmware
When we stood up our OpenCollective, none of us really knew what to expect.. The sheer volume of support and the speed at which it flowed in left us floored and humbled beyond measure. The financial support provided via OpenCollective allows us to continue our work with confidence.. we have the resources we have always wanted to ensure the project’s viability long into the future..
After getting through all the administrative work required to keep the lights on after marcan’s departure, we’ve hit the ground running with upstream patch submission. We held our first board meeting.. we must start reducing the amount of patches we’re carrying downstream. Most of what we’re carrying is stable and has been for years..
We have submitted three new drivers upstream - the Image Signal Processor (ISP) driver, which is necessary for webcam support, and drivers for the Touchbar’s display controller and input digitiser.. both Touchbar drivers have already been accepted! Thanks to chaos_princess for taking on the responsibility of preparing and submitting all three.. Alyssa and Janne have been hard at work tidying up the GPU driver to prepare it for submission.
Rust for Linux abstractions are starting to be merged at a healthy pace.. every time an abstraction used by our driver is merged, we must drop our downstream version and rebase the driver atop the version accepted upstream. This is gruelling, menial, and unpleasant work, and Janne has our deepest gratitude for volunteering his time to get through it.
We have also been working to clean up and upstream.. fixes and changes for drivers already upstreamed such as the NVMe and I2C controllers.. changes to the upstream Texas Instruments TAS2764 and TAS2770 speaker amplifier drivers.. to support the Apple-specific variants found in Apple Silicon Macs.. we found that the ASoC maintainers had already been cherry-picking some commits from our development branches!
You're welcome to hold out hope as long as you'd like, people have said that stuff since 2019. Qualcomm seems to be nose-to-grindstone right now, Nvidia's SPARK offerings ended up being more niche than expected and Microsoft is happy to go full steam ahead on x86. The status quo on PC isn't really changed with Apple Silicon, and now that the work-from-home market has died down it's not entirely clear if computing as a whole is going to respond. Add tariffs into the equation and it doesn't seem likely that ARM will be getting any new license applicants anytime soon. Nvidia might make a cheeky laptop chip just to put their GPU in a form-factor that can frustrate Apple, but the ARM market continues to stay frozen.
I'm content with my dopey $150 Thinkpad and Linux. MacOS is untenable and headed down the dark monetization path that ruined Windows a long time ago. With my Macbook I have to constantly live in fear that Apple might break my package manager, disable third-party stores, remove virtualization or depreciate 32-bit programs.
> it doesn't seem likely that ARM will be getting any new license applicants anytime soon
Softbank's post-IPO business model for Arm is to move away from bespoke royalty-based licensing, standardize SoCs via a preferred partner like Mediatek, and demand a percentage of the sale price/value of final product.
Despite the lackadaisical Qualcomm Windows-on-Arm PC launch, Qualcomm has a huge pipeline in mobile and automotive, which should motivate support for Linux and virtualization with their gunyah hypervisor. Linux on Apple Silicon Macs can offer a point of reference for both macOS and non-Apple Arm PCs.
Post-apocalyptic Thinkpads are awesome resilience devices, engineering existence proofs, and inspiration for future US-manufactured computing devices.
You’re missing a state of change.
California uses coal, natural gas, and nuclear primarily.
Nuclear efficiency is low at 33%.
Best case you‘re charging your car from a new natural gas plant that is a combined cycle design which can potentially have up to 60% efficacy.
So 60% efficiency, minus 9.2% transmission loss, Minus charging losses and then electric motor efficiency loses… verses directly consuming fuel and putting the power to the wheels.
Electric cars are much less efficient if you consider the entire stream. If you want to use the argument that the gasoline needs to be refined and transported. Well so does natural gas. Or coal, or nuclear fuel rods, or bio mass, etc etc.
I’m not saying electric cars aren’t good. But we should really force people to charge them with solar if we want peak efficiency to save the planet.
I’m not missing anything. You’re being extremely selective in your argument by excluding all of the processes that extracted, transported, and converted, transported again, and again, and then again before ending up in a tank, and ignoring all those same processes required and used recursively for each of those processes, including the coal, natural gas, etc burned to power all those processes, etc etc to the same level of insane detail that you want to pick electric apart.
But then, starting from the position that 10% loss on a 60% directly efficient ‘fuel’ is worse than a minimum 83% loss of efficiency on another fuel isn’t much of a genuine position in the first place.
you forgot to calculate how much of cost of nuclear energy(sic) is going towards removing all CO2, NOx it is generating....
so if you are calculating efficiency of one power plant calculate this into price of another power plant too.
we can build utility PV + 12 hour battery with LCOE lower than nuclear... PV + battery price is for already deployed system. nuclear price is prediction of price of new plant...
Nuclear is dead in the water. And it is not pacific ocean water.
The censorship really annoys me. I would've happily paid for the definitive edition (even though I already own the game), but I'm not willing to support a rerelease which changes stuff about the original game like that. If the devs want to make sure their new content is politically correct then fine, but changing the original content isn't cool.
Let’s just say you’re a wealthy consumer with a million dollars in the bank. You’d still buy things with a credit card, why?
1. Purchase protection (insurance)
2. Chargeback protection
3. Rewards either points or “cash back”
4. Merchants hardly ever give cash discounts anymore, credit card fees are baked into the price of everything so you’re going to pay for the advantages above and receive nothing in return, plus have the burden and liability of carrying cash.
Merchant side.
1. CC fees are high so we add 3.5% to the retail price of everything. Someone pays cash? Good, a small bonus.
2. Merchants are being charged the same for “debit” cards which allow electronic payments from bank accounts, coming with the same chargeback risks and fees as a CC.
So what the heck assume the worst for every transaction.
How to fix this. Does it need fixing? If the gov is going to push everything to electronic payments, you might as well get the rewards.
The trap, if you’re not paying off your balance every month, the rewards are nothing and the interest rate is crippling.
1. For the consumer, paying off the balance due at the last minute gives you an interest-free loan on your spending for an average of 6 weeks. Let's say you spend $1000 per month. At 5% interest, that saves you about $30 a month.
2. It gives you an itemized list of what you spent.
It reminds me of an article long ago that explained how Amazon could make money selling items at cost. a) they get paid by the customer right away b) they don't pay the vendors for 90 days. Thus, Amazon gets paid interest for 90 days on the volume of business they do, which is very large.
Not many people seem to understand the time value of money, certainly it isn't taught in school. It's not just about mortgage interest rates. It's everything that involves money.
> 1. For the consumer, paying off the balance due at the last minute gives you an interest-free loan on your spending for an average of 6 weeks. Let's say you spend $1000 per month. At 5% interest, that saves you about $30 a month.
Saves you versus... taking a 5% loan for the 6 weeks? You need to actually invest the money versus paying the credit card to earn interest. The average consumer is not walking around picking up pennies in front of a steamroller trying to get $30/month with clever interest rate arbitrage.
> Not many people seem to understand the time value of money, certainly it isn't taught in school
Realistically a person will take out loans for like 4-5 transactions in their life where this actually matters. House, car, student loans, maybe a small business. If you look at personal finance advice they usually use the "snowball method" of simply paying down the highest-interest debt first and reducing expenses.
> taking a 5% loan for the 6 weeks? You need to actually invest the money versus paying the credit card to earn interest.
And I do. I don't have any actual money. It's all invested. I look for ways to borrow money at a lower rate and invest it at a higher rate.
> Realistically a person will take out loans for like 4-5 transactions in their life where this actually matters.
Every time you buy something with a credit card, you take out a 0% loan for 6 weeks.
If you pay attention to what a bank does, if the bank hands you a check for borrowed money, they start charging you interest immediately. If you pay off the loan by handing them a check, they charge you interest until the check clears. I.e. the bank works the float both ways.
The pennies add up.
If you're not aware of this for a large transaction, the other party surely is and is taking advantage of you.
A few years ago, it was commonplace for late night TV to run seminars that I call "Make Money By Real Estate Scamming". I decided to watch one and see how it went. The presenter presented a series of transactions that ended up netting the buyer $15,000. It was complicated, so I set about figuring just how the $15,000 from nothing came about. It turns out it hinged on giving the sucker a bond that paid $X upon maturity in lieu of paying $X today. The $15,000 was the interest on the time to maturity. The complications were all about hiding this.
For example, I'll get flyers in the mail offering mortgages for an absurdly low teaser interest rate for the first year, and after the first year the interest rate goes above market. I carefully read the contract. If there's no prepayment penalty, I'll get the loan. A year later, I refinance and pay off the first mortgager.
I asked my loan officer "why do they do these contracts?" He laughed and replied they were playing the odds - the vast majority of people are too lazy to refinance, or didn't read the contract.
Once I bought a new car, and they offered 0% financing after we agreed on a price. I asked, why would they offer 0% financing? The dealer said the terms of the contract were if you are late on a payment, you get hammered with interest. I said sure, I'll take the loan, and set up an automatic payment plan.
This is all basic stuff. The credit card thing is mostly just for practice.
> You need to actually invest the money versus paying the credit card to earn interest. The average consumer is not walking around picking up pennies in front of a steamroller trying to get $30/month with clever interest rate arbitrage.
They should be. Interest bearing checking is out there. No real danger there. It's not glamorous, but depending on how much interest you're getting, paying with tommorow's dollars for today's purchases gets you about 0.4% off (based on bad math of apy is 3.25% * 45 days / 365 days in a year; I know this isn't the right way to use an APY, but you can also find better interest checking than my credit union)
Cash isn't necessarily cheaper for merchants. They have to deal with depositing it, there's a risk of theft during transport, employees are more likely to steal it, there are losses from counterfeit money, and it might take longer to process the transaction.
Cash is not the bonus you think it is. Few have calculated the risk of robbery, (both employee and otherwise) counterfeit money, miscounting, and all the time spent counting and recounting cash. Having been mananger of a fast food in a previous life just my time to count cash was 1% of gross income and the other clerks similar - divided over each customer.
Related to charge backs, it's a security wall between theft and your actual cash. FCBA covers credit cards but not debit cards. While many banks will work to resolve fraud, your cash will still be locked up during that time.
These are available on debit cards as well. (Both by law, i.e. Regulation E, and both Visa and Mastercard requiring issuers to provide zero liability policies to consumers.)
> 3. Rewards either points or “cash back”
Which consumers more than pay for themselves – all consumers, including those paying cash.
The UX for chargeback protection is not quite the same, though.
Say someone commits fraud and charges $1000 to my credit card. All that happens is 1. Some time later, I see the charge on my list of other charges, and 2. My bill is $1000 higher this month, which I dispute. Some time later, the CC company confirms it's fraud and the $1000 (and the interest) disappears from my bill.
Say someone commits fraud and charges $1000 to my debit card attached to my checking account. Between the time the fraud happens and the time the bank confirms its fraud (or otherwise restores the funds per their fraud-reporting policy), my bank account balance is now $1000 lower. Maybe some checks start bouncing. Maybe I needed that $1000 for an upcoming purchase, and it's not available for a short period of time. Yes, the numbers will all eventually be correct, but it's mayhem in the mean time.
I also hate having to carry a brief case of money around.
Seriously though while the purchase protection is nice, so is the ability to cancel a lost or stolen card. And if course the cats is slightly smaller than one million dollar bills
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