Anybody who keeps their money on an exchange any longer than necessary is just asking for trouble. An exchange is like a public toilet. You get in, you shit, and you get the fuck out. You don’t hang around in a public toilet.

Self custody or GTFO.

I had a pair of noise cancelling headphones when I was in like seventh or eighth grade, but when they broke, I just never ended up replacing them, and I’ve never had noise cancelling headphones ever since.

Duplicate of https://feddit.nl/post/28948680

That 10-year time horizon is a very good point. And it’s not likely that the tariff would stick around that long since every four years has a changing administration who can do whatever they please in those regards.

Personally, for me anyway, I am a Monero holder and am seeing prices fall fairly rapidly. For example, a thing of beard oil in October of 2024 was 72.9mXMR and is now 61.11mXMR (-16.2%).

LOL, just goes to show. I don’t keep up with processors close enough, apparently.

I’m not totally sure how those lease programs to companies work. Once the laptops are replaced, I know some of them will obviously be unusable and have to be destroyed. But there should be laptops that are in perfectly fine condition. And what happens to those if they get put on the second hand market you could buy them from their and the company paid the “new” tax. Now to make up for that, the company could either raise their prices on their items or if they don’t want to lose sales, they could eat it.

Edit: A price rise will cause a demand drop. If the upgrade was not essential, it won’t be done. And if it was essential, it will be done whether the price has risen or not.

That’s a fair point. The way I see it, it’s similar to buying a car. If you buy a new car, as soon as you drive it off the lot, it loses $3,000 in value and depreciates quite a bit within the first year. If you buy a one-year-old used car, it’s still in pretty good condition and has had the “new” tax deducted already.

If they cost more, it would also disincentivize spending on the laptop unless it’s necessary. So theoretically fewer laptops should come over. If you don’t buy a laptop because your laptop isn’t really in need of replacement, then you just saved 100%. Or you could also buy a used laptop that’s newer than the one you have from somebody else in good condition and save some percentage of what you would have paid for the new one anyway.

Just as an example, I’m rocking a laptop from 2014 with an Intel 3rd generation Core i7. Obviously the newest Intel is the 13th generation, but you can find Intel 7th and 8th generation laptops which are much newer than mine for decent prices.

How exactly does this hurt the planet? If the United States imports fewer laptops, then that means there are less laptops coming over on ships from China which saves fuel. If tariffs cause a rise in US production, then the production of the product is closer to the end consumer, again saving fuel.

I doubt regenerative braking will be ever useful at all because Lord knows you’re not going to get the same energy back that you took out while driving. /s

This is just to increase efficiency.

As a legally blind user, this is really, really bad.

If I don’t control it, I won’t install it.

Pass

I use a combination of mp3s and opus primarily but I can’t remember if opus is the open format ogg or not.

Google has plenty of money. That’s the way I see it.

Those poor suckers. I don’t think I’ve seen an advertisement on YouTube in something like five years.

Edit: And I sure as hell ain’t paying Google either.

I’m confused, the author asked at the end of the article what should be included, and so I brought up what I thought should be included. I wasn’t trying to criticize the author at all.

Monero and chat applications (eg SimpleX)

I haven’t personally tried it, but I think there’s a setting in the mobile app for using it with a desktop. So I assume it is fixed, but I won’t swear to it.

You may want SimpleX. You can still self-host your own server if you wish, but it doesn’t have nearly the metadata issues of matrix and encryption keys are stored in a database that you back up instead of constantly breaking