A sea of consumer memory providers? You do realize that only three companies make the RAM chips that go into DDR4 and 5 memory modules, right? Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix. And they have scaled back production in favor of HBM for AI servers. Prices are up because the supply is very low now. Hopefully CXMT will get in the game and by 2028 produce enough chips to supply the market demand.

Once more a western company hands everything over to China. Just read reports today that Chinese company CXMT is preparing to ramp up to make desktop RAM at large scales. Now they won't have anything to sell until 2028. But since the incumbent cartel companies have all but abandoned this segment of the market, by then I suspect CXMT will probably be producing most consumer RAM. And when the AI bubble pops and AI demand goes to normal levels, Micron and SK Hynix are going to be in deep trouble. And we'll have handed one more thing we depend on to China. Tariffs will no doubt fix that.

I'm confused. Which system are you saying produces the borg drones? It's not at all clear.

Besides that was a bad analogy. The UFP (and Starfleet) always was a socialist utopia.

Problem is China needs the US to buy their goods almost as much as the US needs to buy their goods. Refusing to sell to the US isn't really an option for China. Anyway it's certainly not an easy thing for China to do.

Hmm that sounds familiar. Seems to work for Trump, so it should work for everyone else, right? Anything goes now. Heck he's still trying to put his name back on the Kennedy Center even though only an act of Congress can do that, and he's still trying to get his way regarding birthright citizenship even though the supreme court told him straight up it wasn't constitutional. If Trump can make a mockery of the whole system, then what this guy did is perfectly fine.

That was the peak during the test flight yes. Cruise would be considerably higher, probably comparable to other prop planes.

No it couldn't be used for crop dusting. It's simply not designed for that. This is geared towards short hop passenger service.

They obviously don't speak as precisely as we would like. But I read it completely differently than you did. Maximum power is 1 MW, which is comparable to a twin otter that has with two engines. Same ballpark. Cruising power would be considerably less. Total energy consumed was not stated, other than the equivalent in electricity costs.

And even if they do win, they will not be able to remove them. Trump really knows what he's doing, embedding loyal and deeply ideological people deep into the state institutions. He always talked about the deep state conspiracy. It never existed before, but does now. Dems will have to essentially do what Trump did (rule like a king) to undo it all. Either way it doesn't bode well for the future of the Republic. The United States will live on in some form, but it won't be at all like it was before Trump barring some miracle.

It's a bit like the fall of Rome. Few people alive during those times would have recognized what was happening, and many were probably in denial, and did not see any sudden "fall". It is only years after the fact can we look back and clearly point to specific things that mark the change and decline.

If what you say about "raping" the big companies by unions were true, the big media companies would be getting smaller and poorer, not richer and larger. No matter how you cut it, more and more wealth is being concentrated in fewer and fewer people, and that is accelerating. And they get handouts from governments all the time (our tax dollars).

To be fair, isn't that what a distribution is? I mean Linux Mint is just Ubuntu, Linux Mint Debian Edition is Debian. Lots of distros based on Ubuntu and Debian, including Devuan. All of them could be said to be opinionated customizations of the base distro.

I did find it funny that he keeps saying he has 30 years of Linux experience but doesn't seem to know anything about systemd. Connects to the mossad? Kind of lost all credibility at that point in his video.

Why can't these things just be an add-on package to an existing distribution

That's essentially what he's done. It's just Devuan with a custom package set and some scripts to make a better post-install experience. I don't think he maintains his own core OS repos other than the packages he's added on (nvidia installer, themes, etc).

I watched some of his video and I wonder if his purpose would be better served by building on NixOS. All of his post-install automation could be done quite reliably by some .nix scripts and flakes.

I used RPM since RedHat 5.1 days (and the really, really rough transition from libc to glibc). That was definitely dependency hell without a tool like yum. Thankfully yum and dnf eliminated any problems rpm had with dependency hell.

Lately the only major dependency hell problems I've had are with apt on debian. By far I've had more problems with apt than yum/dnf.

Chinese companies learn from the best (us). And they are only responding to demand. The blame for low-quality goods cannot be placed on China. The blame is squarely back here at home because low-quality, cheap goods are exactly what the American market is demanding, and demanding big time (Temu and Shein are wildly popular). No one wants high quality goods at higher cost. We all say we do, but in reality we don't, and our buying habits just reinforce that. No you can't blame China, sorry. The destruction of American industry is entirely a problem of our own system. American companies deliberately destroyed American manufacturing (and employment) in the name of short-term, quarterly profit. China didn't cheat and steal our jobs: we gave it all to them on purpose. No amount of tariffs and taxes will change that.

And for the record, I've had to deal with poor quality goods made in the US as well. Cutting corners to save pennies applies just as much to American manufacturers (maybe even more so) as it does to Chinese manufacturers. For example, Eaton Cutler-Hammer electrical panels are the most flimsy things I've ever dealt with. Every possible cost was cut.

My bad for not being specific. I was talking about the debt, no taxes. And obviously the moderators didn't read any of my other posts or they'd know I was not defending trump.

Sorry but that's not even close to true (yet). You'll have to provide some citations and references to back up your claim.