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@Emmanuel Florac Trade deficits of several hundred billions of dollars, should be the least of the problems, of a nation that has forty one thousand, billion dollars of debt, don't you think so?
@Carter Braxton actually both are related. By having the dollar the world reserve currency, debt accumulation and trade deficit are unavoidable side effects. The world need dollars to trade, therefore they need extremely large amount of dollar-denominated assets in the form of US Treasury bills. There is no way around this.
@Emmanuel Florac You really do believe that, don't you? Trade deficits results in profits and loss, imports and exports between private entities. Government overspending causes national debts.
@Carter Braxton trade deficits mean that the US imports stuff and exports dollars. For people outside of US to accept these dollars, there must be something to buy back, denominated in dollars, or they wouldn't take them. The stuff they buy back is Treasury bills. Fractional reserve banking implies that in all exchanges, there's a bank as a third party (see the video). When the money used as vehicle is USD, that bank is, in last resort, the Fed.
@Emmanuel Florac Yes, accumilated deficits will add to national debts but in the context of modern US debt, it is hardly fair to place the lion's share on trade imbalances, as some are wont to do, when anyone paying attention can clearly see, that US debt is the product of uncontrolled spending by the US Congress.
@Carter Braxton sure, but OTOH this uncontrolled spending is necessary for the Empire to function... Dog chasing its tail. If the Congress stopped spending, then the USD would collapse and cease to be the world's reserve currency, and suddenly the inhabitants should rely on their own work only, because the influx of Chinese-made stuff would stop.
@Emmanuel Florac Yes, some of that rings true. However, I don't think that losing the USD as a reserve currency would hinder the US. The USD has been the reserve currency for many decades now and the people in charge have managed to wreck that presumed opportunity still.
No, I propose that the pressure would be off the American people and indeed, the people of the world if the USD was no longer a reserve currency. The US has become fat and lazy, a big welfare state in her own right but she does not have to linger in such stagnation. If she would give up her delusions of empire, perhaps, she could compete again. Perhaps, she could make goods and services available that others would seek.
No my friend on closer observance, one could make arguments as to why the USD as the world's reserve currency, may indeed, be an albatross around the necks of mankind, including the Americans themselves and a yoke to be cast aside.
@Carter Braxton yep, Steve Keen's definitely of the opinion that USD has been a boon but is now a hindrance to US welfare. A more neutral system such as the Bancor would probably be better for everyone in the long run.
@Emmanuel Florac Indeed, Americans don't know what's really good for them, do they? Here we have a whole world trying to fix them and they're like the half dead patient that refuses to take his/her medication.
Americans don't realize that having the dollar overthrown and actually accommodating BRICS, would do us much more good than harm. Of course the delusions of empire would have to be lost.
CDU verhindert mit AFD ein schon bewilligtes Demokratieförderungsprojekt weil ihr der Verein zu links ist ...
1,2 Million Euro Förderung vom Bund abgelehnt weil die CDU nicht will. Da muss man sich gar nicht mehr wundern, dass es bei der Jugend zu Demokratieverdruss kommt.
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Commercial 3D printers keep getting faster and faster, but we can confidently say that none of them is nearly as fast as [Jan]’s Minuteman printer, so named for its goal of eventually printing a 3D…
First of all, I'm not sure this is the best community for this, so if you think there is a more suitable one, please inform me.
So I've been looking for manufacturers that sell computers with Linux out of the box and I remembered hearing about Tuxedo Computers. Some people seem to really like them, but I've also heard of some people complaining about them too.
And so I've come here to ask this community what are your experiences with this vendor? Is there somewhere else I should look? Thanks in advance.
Describe more about your use-case. Tuxedo is just alright, but a bit overpriced IMO.
The he absolute best performance and value laptop or desktop on the market is going to be a Framework, for instance, but maybe that's not exactly what you want.
Its value proposition is in its repairability and upgradeability. You save money by repairing and upgrading the existing laptop later instead of buying a new one. If you don't like tinkering, its not a great value.
Framework does not provide firmware support. Most framework mainboards only receive one or two firmware updates within the normal lifespan of a device. So if you need a secure bios, framework is not an option.
The actual performance per dollar of framework laptops the day you buy them is poor. A lenovo or a dell will beat it in perf/$ anyday.Frameworks laptops are only attractive perf/$ wise later when you start benefiting from cheap upgrades.
Well this is one of the worst takes I've seen around here 🤣
1) Not sure where you're getting this from. The value comes from buying a known Linux compatible platform at a similar price point to any other manufacturer. The Desktop is the first AMD Ryzen Max+ platform on the market in that form factor, and those chips are well above the performance of any other Ryzen chip on the market. Fair price as well.
2) This comment is disingenuous at best, and just wrong overall. They were slow on their firmware updates during their initial pilot shipments while the platform was still in validation, so they were making delayed changes to firmware in light of that until they cleared that hurdle. Been regular updates since. Also, firmware rarely decides the overall security of a hardware platforms unless known vulnerable portions are found and then intentionally NOT fixed, which is not what happened with all of that.
3) Absolutely wrong. The price point is the same as any other machine in the same segment, which is not the general consumer crap Lenovo kicks out, but the slightly elevated professional segment. If you're not looking for that in a new device, guess what, they have refurbs at have the price. Both conditionals right there completely invalidate whatever point you're trying to make, especially when you're buying for the stability on Linux as OP mentioned, and it's a crapshoot at best with any other manufacturer in their cheaper segments of machines.
I don't know if you're shilling for some specific point here, but you need to get informed.
Not trying to be disingenuous, I have a framework 13 and I love it. Just pointing out some real tradeoffs with it that folks ought to be made aware of.
You can get a lenovo or a dell or something else with the same specs for cheaper if you're willing to give up repairability. I'm not, so I have a framework, but that's not everyone.
For firmware support, the 12 gen frameworks still haven't received a single stable update on Linux since launch despite known vulnerabilities. That's an ongoing issue, its not fixed. For some people in security a critical environments, that's a deal breaker. Similarly the 13th gen only got 1 stable update on linux and the ryzen 300s (which I have now) again have started to get vulns reported but no patches yet.
Most vendors patch vulnerabilities according to the coordinated disclosure, and framework doesn't. Not saying framework is the devil or anything, just that there's a real tradeoff for some people.
Unfortunately no, that is only for installation via windows. There is no Linux updater for it. Still no stable update on Linux for the 12th gen 🙁
Edit: oh nice actually I see they added an EFI updater! That's great progress 😀 so I stand corrected -- 3 years after launch, it got its first and only stable update on linux! Thanks for the correction.
Correct they do not, there are components on some models (like the 12th gen) that they do not support updating using fwupd. You must use either EFI updater or update from windows to get the full update on those platforms.
I have a Tuxedo Pulse 14 gen 3 as my personal laptop, was looking for something with a bit more display resolution than my old 1080p machine, but did not like the price of 4K laptops.
It has been superb for over a year now. Came with Tuxedo's own Linux, which looked pretty but wasn't for me. Installed Arch on it, has been rock solid. Is a great machine for coding on, makes a great job of running Dwarf Fortress and less stressful 3D games - Crusader Kings 3 and Disco Elysium run great, for instance. Battery life impressive too.
Been quite robust, too - heard complaints that the lid can get a bit loose but mine's fine. All the rubber feet have come off the bottom, but that's probably because I use mine on my lap. They prefer that you install their own fan control app rather than eg. just providing drivers so that you can set it up in CoolerControl, but it works fine.
All in all, good machine. Better than the ThinkBook that it replaced, and those are fine laptops.
when i bought one, they were nothing more than re-badged clevo and tongfeng laptops.
that means that they costed a little bit more than windows based laptops with the same specs; but it also means that there was no headaches with hardware compatibility and that the battery life was better if you chose your hardware correctly. (it's also smooth sailing if you pay for the support).
i bought from kfocus most recently and it turns out it's not any different than tuxedo and i suspect that all the linux laptop companies are the same; besides system76 who have started building their own laptops instead of re-badging clevo/tongfeng.
I quite like my Kubuntu Focus. I found some people complaining about the durability of System76 chassis (apparently they're plastic) and that's why I didn't go with them.
I might be the wrong person to answer in this community since I daily drive Windows, but my Tongfang has been a dream and I’m thinking of buying a new one.
Although in OP’s case I’d probably still be looking for the cliche used Thinkpad. Unbeatable.
They don’t, my current machine is a Maingear branded one that someone painstakingly hauled over from the US, and my potential new one would be an XMG branded machine, shipped at significant expense from the EU.
I’m in the armpit of the Middle East, I don’t have a local reseller, and even if I did, they’d want $1,000 more than just going through the pain of buying from overseas, alongside a blood sacrifice and the soul of my firstborn child, and a slap across my face for the insolence of asking.
We have a few Tuxedo computers and some other Linux brands at our company and are generally happy about them. Cheaper devices have a less than perfect keyboard (though I liked the one on the slimbook) a worse camera and microphone (though some are very ok).
I'm very happy with these Linux devices. The few makes for which we needed parts also supplied them but sending the device their way for repair took longer than we'd have wanted.
It was a performance monster and still had amazing battery life. But as others have said, they only take some finished Clevo models - like most small distributors, who can't afford their own factory.
But they verify that everything runs with Linux, else they sometimes patch stuff.
And I need to highlight their support! After years with my Pulse 15 the battery became a pillow, because I used a USB C charger that wasn't working right (always switched on and off, which killed the battery) Pretty much without questions asked I got a new battery for free.
Now I have it to my nephew, who enjoys Minecraft on this laptop (still Linux), but the CMOS battery was dead. Got that one for free as well after warranty
So, I can't really complain about them. Actually the opposite.
But I still settled for a Framework 16, because I wanted something different and the models at that time weren't fitting my use case...
HUR publishes Russian military order, claims proof of Moscow increasing military footprint in #Armenia
#HUR published what it claimed was a #Russian army order to increase its military presence at a base in Armenia, two days after HUR's warning of such a move was denied by Yerevan.
HUR first made the claim on July 5, saying #Russia was increasing its forces at the Gyumri base to exert greater influence in the South #Caucasus and "destabilize the global security situation."
HUR first made the claim on July 5, saying Russia was increasing its forces at the Gyumri base to exert greater influence in the South Caucasus and "destabilize the global security situation."
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@scottdhansen Just bought myself a Typhur Dome 2 airfryer and I can cook my 3.5lb tomahawk steak in the damn thing. I just need to starve myself for a few days.
The new Typhur Dome 2 air fryer comes with dual heating elements (top and bottom) to evenly cook both sides of your food with less shaking or flipping.
President Trump is ending the most ridiculous regulation in airport security history—that everyone has to take their shoes off every time they get on a plane because one time 24 years ago a Muslim terrorist hid a bomb in his sneakers.
#What Freedom of Speech? The United States was founded on the principle of freedom of speech. The Constitution, which called into existence a government of limited powers, did not delegate to the federal government the power to suppress criticism or to infringe on the natural, God-given right of freedom of speech. ----The regime simply starts having its military and paramilitary goons start arresting critics, disappearing them in terrorist confinement facilities, torturing them, and then killing them. Everyone else understands. No more criticism of the regime. Federal officials have long designed sophisticated ways to suppress speech in wide sectors of American society, such as the business, educational, banking, medical, and even the mainstream-media sectors. fff.org/2025/07/03/what-freedo…
Trump is threatening to employ the power of the federal government to destroy or severely harm an American citizen. And for what? For simply speaking out against Trump’s spending and debt bill. CEOs of universities, big corporations, banks, medical companies, and other establishments criticizing the policies of the federal government. The dole system and the regulated-economy system are very sophisticated devices that have succeeded in silencing them. They don’t dare to exercise freedom of speech, no matter what the First Amendment says.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Monday afternoon inspected a valve manufacturing company in Yangquan City, north China's Shanxi Province, where he learned about the province's efforts to promote the…
This one didn’t have the body count of prior acts of multicultural outreach by France’s Arab conquerors. Muslims killed 17 at the offices of Charlie Hebdo and 130 in the synchronized attacks that included the Bataclan nightclub in Paris. The next year on Bastille Day, Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel killed 84 in Nice with a truck. However, the age of the Annecy victims may cause this to stick in people’s minds. Eventually even a country as rotted through with leftist ideology as France starts to push back. Either that or it just dies.
Ah well, if we can choose, I'll opt for extinction then. After a little Arab invasion for exoticism. And before the extinction of the rest of the world's population who don't know how to do anything but destroy and annoy other animals.
"a little arab invasion" your wording is that of the already occupied!! musloids you deserve so they can finish you tools off... no one is coming to save your ass any longer
Would you prefer Europe to be overrun by uneducated obese people like the Americans? Except that here we have a certain notion of beauty and intelligence. To each his own.
Just because there's “socialist” in national socialism doesn't mean it's socialist. But to understand it, you have to know how to read. China calls itself “democratic” when in fact it's a dictatorship. The same goes for Russia. And you should stop drinking, you're a moron enough as it is, and what's more, you're always rambling on about the same thing (Human sub-shit).
As per letters sent to various countries yesterday, in addition to letters that will be sent today, tomorrow, and for the next short period of time, TARIFFS WILL START BEING PAID ON AUGUST 1, 2025. There has been no change to this date, and there will be no change. In other words, all money will be due and payable starting AUGUST 1, 2025 - No extensions will be granted. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
It's our Republic and I think while what is happening now is despicable it won't push enough people. Suspending elections. ... That will rouse the nation.
What makes you think suspending an election is going to tip the scales?
Mostly that at least right now there's hope for midterms to change things in Congress and then the presidential election to get Trump out. Right now we still have the trappings of a Republic. I think if elections got suspended all belief in a peaceful solution will be erased and people will react.
You have a point though, bread and circuses go a long way towards kowtowing the population. That and the risk of death at the hands of the state. I don't know where the line is that people will readily accept potentially getting shot especially if they're in white man suburbia.
#Dollar is collapsing The worst performance in 52 years sparks terror in the markets.
Shock and awe is being caused by the new plunge in the dollar, which has recorded its worst first-half performance in 52 years, bringing back memories of the Nixon era and the end of #BrettonWoods. By June, the #US currency plunged 10.7% against its major rivals and sparking scenarios of dramatic upheavals in the global economic order.
*Palestine Action isn’t a danger to British democracy - but this repressive government is.* Any government that tries to stretch the definition of "terrorism" as an excuse to
The home secretary is apparently an admirer of the suffragettes. I have no doubt that if they were active today she would proscribe them, too, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
[2/2] punish someone declares itself an enemy of freedom. (As is any government that tries to stretch the definition of "antisemitism" as an excuse to punish someone.)
"#Mozilla's management is a #bug, not a #feature" "#Dominance does not equal #importance, nor is dominance the same as #relevance. The #snag at Mozilla is a #management layer that doesn't appear to understand what works for its #product nor which parts of it matter most to users." "Don't #blame the #app, and don't even blame the #programmers. That is, the ones who still have #jobs, after years of #engineer #layoffs. Don't even blame the whole #organization – blame the #management. Steven himself has pointed this out before, early in 2024. So have I. In 2023, I said that Mozilla was asleep at the wheel."
@ThePfromtheO, Mozilla has made the mistake of his life to sign a contract with the devil, selling it's soul.
A company that depends on the external financing of large corporations, in this case Google and also another advertising company, can be impossiblely independent.
This train has already left for Mozilla, being a mere Google pet which can't survive without the support from these investors.
receive money from advertisers and search engines when the user use these, it's another approach to create incommings, without the risk with investors imposing their conditions, here is #Vivaldi the one which impose conditions with this system, saving its independence.
@Catweazle "without the risk with investors imposing their conditions, here is Vivaldi the one which impose conditions with this system, saving its independence."
"#Mozilla has missed so many boats that it's not even funny to #catalog them, but sadly, I must." "Most of the #web runs on #advertising, as it has for 20-plus years. You might think Mozilla would, say, buy and integrate an #adblocker. Acquiring #adblocking #companies has been a thing for a #decade. Other #browsers integrate ad-blocking, and you don't even need something controversial like #Brave – for instance, #VivaldiBrowser has offered it for years. Many of the #team behind #Vivaldi previously made #Opera, and it #blocked #ads too. (Soon afterwards, the company sold it to a #Chinese group.) But no. Instead, Mozilla goes and buys an #ad firm and then removes its promise not to #sell your #data. Once again, it's as if the #leadership were actively trying to work out the worst direction to turn." "The #AI trend is a cult now for many. Whither Mozilla? Oh, it built a #bot into its docs #server in 2023, then promptly had to turn it off again. Its #chief product #officer was quite gung-ho about AI in early 2024. He left the company soon afterwards.
In 2024, Mozilla made more layoffs and announced it would invest in open source #AI. This year, Mozilla finally integrated a #vertical #tab bar into #Firefox and, you guessed it, built an AI #chatbot into it. You can, at least, turn it off."
"#Money is the problem. Not too little, but too much. Where there's #wealth, there's a natural #human desire to make more #wealth. Ever since #Firefox 1.0 in 2004, Firefox has never had to compete. It's been attached like a #mosquito to an #artery to the #Google #cash #firehose. #TheRegister noted it in 2007, and it made more the next year. We were dubious when Firefox turned #five." "And as for that #money — remember back in 2018? That's when #Google dropped "Don't be evil" as its #motto." "#Mozilla's #leadership is #directionless and #flailing because it's never had to do, or be, anything else. It's never needed to know how to make a #profit, because it never had to make a #profit. It's no wonder it has no real #direction or #vision or clue: it never needed them. It's role-playing being a #business." "Like we said, don't #blame the #app. You're still #better off with Firefox or a fork such as #Waterfox. #Chrome even #snoops on you when in #incognito mode, and as we #warned you, Google removed the APIs #adblocker #extensions used. You still get better #adblocking in #Firefox."
i am not a star wars person (as a kid i walked out of return of the jedi cuz gads) but boy is Andor good.
it's exactly the right thing for the moment, a sort of crash course on fascism and dissent. maybe for a generation who hadn't really been exposed to those ideas before. i wonder how many people who watch it end up w raoul vaneigem or reading about the black panthers, etc.
TBH the real message is that you don’t need to revolve everything around the same few laser sword space wizards when you have a whole galaxy as your setting.
Star Wars has always been about fighting against fascism. The difference between Andor and the rest of the franchise is that Andor has painted a much more detailed picture of what the Empire is, how it works, and why it is still vulnerable despite all its power.
Starting to actually fill the rooms with stuff. RPG In A Box has a Steam Workshop where you can download assets! This little experiment is just going to be a free thing, so I'm not too worried about just downloading and using whatever. I'll probably have to develop my own models eventually but I'm terrible at it so I'm trying to avoid it for as long as possible lol. I also experimented a little bit with the item pickups, which seems actually extremely easy!
Now that everything is starting to come together a little bit more, I also have to say that I really like having the two tile high walls. They weren't looking too good in the beginning but seeing it like this is awesome.
Stopping anti-anxiety agents or antidepressants suddenly is a mistake. Sertraline withdrawal can cause "brain zaps." Is there a better way?
Drug companies have been reluctant to provide physicians or patients guidelines to help in tapering such psych meds. The FDA has been unhelpful as well. Sertraline withdrawal can be extremely challenging. So ...
Folks, the Nobel nomination is non-news. It's not even his first, and as noted in this report on a previous one, there is literally zero vetting or quality control at that stage. Every year some clowns are nominated by other clowns. If you're one of the literally tens of thousands of eligible nominators, you're free to suggest any old murderbot for the prize.
It's the time of year when tech publications supposedly committed to offering readers how-to guidance and objective product reviews become full-time shills for Jeff Bezos
The Yemeni Armed Forces have announced a naval strike against a commercial vessel in the Red Sea, claiming the ship was en route to Israeli ports and is now sinking.
Why would Jeffrey Epstein kill himself right before being acquitted of sex-trafficking and prostituting young girls for lack of evidence of any client?
The Social Security Administration sent a misleading email to benefit recipients and other Americans last week about the Republican budget billthat was recen...
[ Unión Rayo: Farewell to the Moon - NASA confirms it is getting farther away every year and the worst is yet to come ] unionrayo.com/en/nasa-moon-ear… This is a very weird headline.
I've known about this since 1981. I was 9 years old when I was first taught that the moon is moving away from Earth.
Are people just now figuring this out?
One thing I can tell you, had we had the Internet back in 1981 I wouldn't have posted a sensational blog post about something that I'm sure has been common knowledge since the invention of astronomy.
The Moon is further from Earth every year! Earth and the Moon have one of the most incredible cosmic links that we can observe from our planet. Thanks to
Today, the European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission unveils its first images of the Sun’s outer atmosphere – the solar corona. The mission’s two satellites, able to fly as a single spacecraft thanks to a suite of onboard positioning technologies, have succeeded in creating their first ‘artificial total solar eclipse’ in orbit. The resulting coronal images demonstrate the potential of formation flying technologies, while delivering invaluable scientific data that will improve our understanding of the Sun and its enigmatic atmosphere.
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in reply to Emmanuel Florac • • •Fractional reserve banking implies that in all exchanges, there's a bank as a third party (see the video). When the money used as vehicle is USD, that bank is, in last resort, the Fed.
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in reply to Emmanuel Florac • • •@Emmanuel Florac Yes, some of that rings true. However, I don't think that losing the USD as a reserve currency would hinder the US. The USD has been the reserve currency for many decades now and the people in charge have managed to wreck that presumed opportunity still.
No, I propose that the pressure would be off the American people and indeed, the people of the world if the USD was no longer a reserve currency. The US has become fat and lazy, a big welfare state in her own right but she does not have to linger in such stagnation. If she would give up her delusions of empire, perhaps, she could compete again. Perhaps, she could make goods and services available that others would seek.
No my friend on closer observance, one could make arguments as to why the USD as the world's reserve currency, may indeed, be an albatross around the necks of mankind, including the Americans themselves and a yoke to be cast aside.
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in reply to Emmanuel Florac • • •@Emmanuel Florac Indeed, Americans don't know what's really good for them, do they? Here we have a whole world trying to fix them and they're like the half dead patient that refuses to take his/her medication.
Americans don't realize that having the dollar overthrown and actually accommodating BRICS, would do us much more good than harm. Of course the delusions of empire would have to be lost.