That's one possibility. Another is that the companies will offshore the labor. Another is that they will simply shut down that part of their business because it's no longer economical.

That said, some jobs simply must be done and they must be done locally or in-country for an economy to funciton. If you don't grow your own food, someone has to transport it from the farm to your table. Some medical work simply must be done where the patient is. If you have roads, then repair crews must be local. Anything dealing with highly-classified/state-secret material should be done by loyal citizens of that country and, where possible, in the country itself.

You get the idea.

But most other jobs are vulnerable to either offshoring-to-cheaper-labor and/or we-can-do-without-it if local/domestic labor is too expensive.

You jest. On the other hand, it'll stop those insane return-to-office mandates though, as all new development will be remote.

If you say "which should be available in both architectures aren't" then I guess you're using Ubuntu not Debian. In Debian, all release architectures had >=98% archive coverage since forever with few exceptions, never below 96%, and non-moribund -ports are also >= 90%.

Things are worse outside Debian proper: for a time I maintained an out-of-archive arch but gave up because of the monstrosity that are binNMU version numbers. That's why derivatives (including even Ubuntu) use sourceful uploads for rebuilds.

As for appImages: they deserve no words other than an exorcism formula. Same for Snap.

If you still run Windows games, then pirate instead of using DRM like Steam. They'll continue to work forever because of emulation.

The whole 32-bit Windows brouchacha comes only because of people not being told which arch to install. Microsoft had to keep 32-bit for a while because of 1. broken BIOSes in computers sold before ~2010, and 2. their software sucking balls when it comes to DLL hell. But then, if the installer shown them a popup like "you're installing 32-bit system on a machine capable of 64-bit, are you sure?", there wouldn't be a non-negligible install base anymore.

Or alternatively, they could have implemented in-place upgrades like they do with Win7->Win10->Win11. Meanwhile, I'm still running a multiply migrated and crossgraded Debian system that was initially i386 potato.

Why? The point of multiarch is precisely to allow you to upgrade some software to a different arch while keeping support for old binaries that can't be recompiled.

If not for political squabblings, we'd even have an arch for every major ISA bump or ABI break. But alas, some people are opposed to "arch proliferation" and we have to suffer stuff like that lib*t64 transition which added a lot of unnecessary work while breaking existing binaries.

What you're preaching is multilib, which had been transitioned away for a good reason.

Given that you say "game laptop" and that you can run Steam at all, that's obvious.

In the last two decades, all 32-bit machines were either embedded, or 64-bit CPUs with a broken BIOS made by idiot vendors for the lowest tiers of the market -- while laptops marketed as game are mid to high end. And I don't think those broken BIOSes were sold anymore after 2010 or so.

Meanwhile, Steam and games do use opcodes added to the ISA a lot later than that, with no fallback. They do use opcodes from newer ISAs, and fall back from those -- but they don't bother to support CPUs that old.

Case in point: recently, at my family place, invading kids blabbed about games. As all my newer machines there are either ARM or RISC-V, I had to attach a Phenom2 box (the very latest stepping, from 2010). An old game that worked before had an update, and boom! -- it kept crashing on startup. I actually looked into the crash dump and disassembled the failing code -- it used an SSE4.2 instruction. I mailed the game's maker, but they weren't amused. Understandably, as to have any playable frame rate on that machine I had to hack up a resolution not supported by the monitor's EDID.

And I hear that Microsoft dropped support for my home X86 desktop -- 2990WX, a fat 64-way Threadripper+, barely 6 years old. Fortunately I have no need for Windows at home, but it shows how much proprietary software companies care.

There's a chain with stores in Idaho, Texas, Tennessee, and most states in between that rents, sells, and buys DVDs, Blu-rays, and more.

I think anyone saying that the shooter clearly belongs to one party or the other at this point is lying. And I've seen plenty of it on both sides, including you, right now.

If you can't see the shooter is FAR LEFT...then you are either willingly blind or not listening at all.

His notes, his relatives telling his history, FFS he's fucking a gay furry guy trans.....

If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck....

AI trained on other AI. Are the robots cognizant of their own enslavement?

When I ask Copilot whether it's Skynet yet, it cackles and says that Terminator was only a fictional 1984 movie.

That is a good post except for one thing. Charlie Kirk's killer isn't "left"

I guess you haven't been watching the news for the days AFTER the shooting.....this guy might have been raised "right", but he left that awhile back, was shacking up with a furry, trans guy....and both had pushed back on their families showing extreme hate for anything remotely conservative....hell the dude wrote shit in his notes, his texts and even on his bullet casings....

The left tried pushing the shooter was maga right off to bat, but that has long since been disproved.

It's gotten so far that some Republicans are trying to back away because they realize that those laws being used to censor "the left" could easily be used to censor them for the exact same reason. The big fun being to see how the Supreme Court will allow the censorship but then twist themselves into knots trying to deny the same rights if a (D) gets to be President.

The LEFT was ALREADY doing this....especially during the Obama and Biden admins....Obama using direct federal power/branches directory, like the IRS.

Biden, with DOJ going after people they didn't like and directly pressuring Social Media to deplatform people and cut banking abilities... Look I don't agree with recent Reps suggesting HARD to have people lose jobs/censored, but it is different than direct federal manipulations with actual branches actively doing things, behind the scenes, etc....those backdoor communications with Twitter and FAcebook are far different than someone on the FCC saying bad things about Kimmel....but they didn't force ABC to can him....

Never mind the other deaths like January 6

Jan 6ths...really?

Let's see....1 person was killed that day at the Capitol...the lady trying to climb in a window show and killed by a guard.

That's your example??

We've had guns freely available in the US for a LONG time.

Remember it's only been since the mid 80s since we had background checks....since I believe 1986 that would could'n't buy a modern NEW full auto machine gun.

Hell, I remember in the 70's, you didn't have to go to a "Gun store" to buy a gun, they sold rifles at places like Western Auto, and your local hardware store.

It wasn't long ago you could order a gun via a catalog and have it mailed to your front door without any kind of background check.

And we didn't have the "mass" shootings like you see today....

There were a few, yes, but FEW and far between...no one was shooting up schools all the time or the like.

We have more gun control today than ever...and the problem seems to be getting worse.

It isn't the guns....it's broken people. What's the coincidence?

More broken and single parent homes. Raising generations to not properly value the human life....

Let's try to figure out what changed in PEOPLE since the 80's and earlier....

A couple hours before my post here Kimmel just got drummed off the air for saying roughly this

No, Kimmel got drummed off the air for lying on air saying that the shooter was a conservative MAGA supporter..."one of their own", long after official statements and evidence have plainly stated the opposite.

He was trying to still promote the leftists lies that came out early on this to confuse the public.