Is there anywhere left, including areas within the borders of the United States, that aren't considered enemies of this particular regime?

Moscow I suppose...

Considering that H1-B requires paying the equivalent salary or local prevailing wage for the work, no they will not without that requirement being lifted, which it will not be.

Nvidia makes better shit than AMD across the board, except in market segments that Nvidia doesn't offer products into. Period.

Nvidia GPUs always outperform AMD, and are the industry standard for AI workloads. End of story.
Nvidia Jetson CPUs outperform AMD in the embedded space while bringing more features in a smaller footprint, at less cost in both module price and board design complexity, and less wattage.

It's only a matter of time until the Jetson AGX module starts getting design wins in medium-wattage designs - their highest TDP part is inside of 40W and fully supported in industrial environment specs. And if the next generation of these Nvidia SKUs starts supporting ECC, then they'll have a true contender for the data center.

You forgot when Intel sued Nvidia for having the audacity to use their licensed Intel IP to create chipsets that support Intel CPUs.

Intel had to pay Nvidia $1.5B and renew a cross-licensing agreement to get out of that self-inflicted GSW to the foot.

Motorola tried something similar with the "Atrix" device about 10 years ago and there was absolutely no market for it, and it died within a year.

The only people that want a fully converged device like that are the people that don't understand that doing real work with a computer still needs real wattage. Even the best that Nvidia can do with the Jetson Orin Nano still has the SoC using ~12W under load, and it has a proper heat sink / fan on it in able to disperse the heat.

If all you are doing is email and browsing and maybe some light document editing, yeah your phone + desktop display probably gets the job done. Anything more than that and you're better off with a higher spec device.

Because Apple doesn't allow you to run the software you want to on your phone.

Go ahead and fire up Xcode on your iPhone. I'll wait.

It's "so complicated" because with almost any other laptop manufacturer you can add RAM after the fact, and not have to upgrade everything else in the system that you don't need upgraded just to get more RAM.

Want more than the anemic (rumored) 12GB? Well instead of spending $100 to toss out a shitty low-denisty SODIMM and replace it with a 16GB module, you get to spend $800 more in order to get a completely different laptop model with far more spec than you actually need in every other aspect of the system, and a price that you may no longer be able to afford. Yay?

It's shitty design and you know it.

That is the secret sauce to making a touchscreen on a laptop anywhere worth a damn - the 180 degree hinge for the display.

Touchscreens without that don't get used because it's ergonomically terrible. The pen / stylus is an added optional bonus.

And it's absolutely not a process ripe for abuse by a malcontent handing the President of the United States something for executive signature, that the President of the United States doesn't even look at or read - he just accepts at face value that his aide would never lie and signs it.

TL;DR: what's the difference between an "autopen" and an old asshole so far into cognitive decline that he just signs anything put in front of him?

For that to be even remotely true, all of the following would also have to be true, which immediately disproves your hypothesis by observing easily seen reality:

1. somehow the public at-large became "informed" in the recent past with ever-diminishing quality of signal coming from reputable news sources, because "reputable" news sources are too busy chasing outrage for dollars

2. somehow the public at-large has completely disconnected from the propaganda networks such as Fox News, NewsMax, OAN, etc. that actively lie to their audience in order to get fact-based information from people that actually care about facts in their reporting, and nobody noticed.

3. government economic data was unreliable - you have not proven this central premise of your argument. You just threw it out there as if it's God's written gospel without warranting it with any evidence. Yes, there are corrections to past months, but there have ALWAYS been corrections to past reporting periods, and has been for decades. That is all factored in - you don't trust the absolute newest measurement period without padding the margin because it WILL be corrected.

4. government economic data is still unreliable - without proving it was unreliable to begin with, you cannot assert that it is still unreliable. There is an argument to be made that it is being highly politicized through the firing of bureau chiefs for presenting unfavorable data, but without disproving the data you're pissing in the wind on that too.

Economists the world over have always held that the data coming from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is the gold standard in economic reporting, emulated by national governments across the globe. I think I'm more likely to believe the career experts - some with Nobel prizes in economics - over "hsthompson69" on a little-known internet backwater like Slashdot who can't even bother to back up their asserted opinions with anything based in fact.

How much shit are you taking with you to a meeting?

You're not living there, you're discussing things with people and taking some notes. Maybe presenting something on a shared screen with the equipment already in the room.

Why do you need 3+ USB ports for that, assuming any wireless technology is in use whatsoever?

Stop bringing half your god damn desk to a 30 minute meeting.

spin them up with an angle grinder arbor and let them go and watch them flyyyyy!

Let's face it - if you're spending $1.5B for AOL, you're paying $1.5B for a list of email addresses owned by people too thick to figure out how to create a different email account somewhere else.

That's a captive audience that you can spam the shit out of forever... or at least until they keel over from old age; better consult with the actuarials on what single-digit number of years the mean is for that customer base because you know they're all old AF.

I'll just ignore your non-performant software until it's either fixed, or hardware advances sufficiently to make it work as expected.

In the meantime, he won't see a cent of my money, and by the time either of those two conditions are met, it will be at a discount anyway because it will be months / years old.

Fuck that guy. Instead of calling your customers names and bitching about their totally legitimate performance complaints, try making software that meets customer expectations. It's like these people learned nothing from the Cyberpunk fiasco.

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