Before changing the OS try changing any apps they will use first, one at a time, so they get used to them and they are one less new thing when the actual OS is changed.

For example back in the Windows XP/8 days I changed my elderly parents to Mint by first changing them to use Firefox and Thunderbird on their Windows machine. The actual OS change was pretty painless for them as the programs they used the most were then unchanged from what they had already learnt.

While crap products from China is a common result of the race to the bottom on price, as demanded by buyers, they can make quality too. For routers start with one that uses OpenWRT, or a derivative of it, and flash it with a fresh copy of OpenWRT when you get it. There are many products areas where companies have made a solid reputation for themselves. For example Sonoff are a solid choice if you are doing home automation, just give preference to buying from their factory outlet store or a distributor with a solid reputation.

If you can't buy more RAM I guess there is no point in planning any more new data centers for next year, what are you going to put in them?

I just wish this whole AI as a service bubble would hurry up and deflate.

Meh, the USA is only about 20% of world trade, China will be happy to supply the other 80% of the world trade.

Deflect much? Why can't you back up your position with facts? I will ask you a forth time since you have now failed three times to back up your assertion with a link from a credible source. Show me a link from a credible source of any instance where a New Zealand exporter has exported an actual product from New Zealand to the USA that originated from China?

Sorry but without facts you have zero credibility. Let's not waste more time, either reply with some facts or go away.

I Googled, no results that detailed any actual product of Chinese origin that was exported from New Zealand to the USA. Just a lot of theoretical talk. I ask you a third time since you have now failed twice to back up your assertion with a link from a credible source. Show me a link from a credible source any instance where a New Zealand exporter has exported an actual product from New Zealand to the USA that originated from China?

So far you are just a lot of hot air who won't supply facts because you can't find any.

I'm not Googling for something doesn't exist, that is a pointless waste of time. Clearly you can't read so maybe I need to write it again in trump format? Lets see if you can read it this time: COME ON BACK UP YOUR STATEMENT WITH A LINK FROM A CREDIBLE SOURCE, NOT MADE UP BULLSHIT FROM TRUMP AND CO.

"The reasoning above is what I recall being discussed in the news when the policy was originallly announced." was a limp excuse to use that section of the law to bring back the tariffs that courts had taken off trump. While it may have been 'discussed' there has been zero evidence supplied from then right thru to now for why that tariff was justified against my country. You really need to learn the skill of critical thinking instead of simply accepting everything trump says as being true.

Well done on changing the font, but I though such post were also meant to be in ALL CAPS. Good luck on your plans to decouple from international trade. You will hopefully enjoy you much simpler life style once you have adjusted to living with just the basics and lose the distractions of shiny trinkets from China.

A very good summary of things. It does get worse for the USA from here out. We put up with moderately abusive one sided agreements with the USA because we looked at the big picture and we were still better off even when the abuse was factored in. We overlooked the low productivity and high debt in the USA because the system was generally working. So as we move away from a system with the USA at the center, since it has lost its stability, and replace it with "greater cooperation between the world's middle powers and other smaller countries" where does that leave the USA?

The answer does not look good for the USA. If the USA was successful in closing itself of the world what would the world lose? Move your email away from gmail and find a new search engine? Well if it happened overnight we would find there are other things we do actually need from the USA today, but given the process of isolating itself from the world will take the USA a while we have time shift to getting what we need from more trustworthy countries.

The thing that people in the USA often overlook is how much debt they have. Look at what is happening to US bonds, other countries are backing away from them. trump is right that the trade imbalance is an issue, but wrong to blame it on abuse of other countries instead of the real reason, the growing debt the USA is taking on. I guess after trump has bankrupted so many companies it seems fitting that his legacy will be to be the person who finally bankrupted the USA.

Am I rooting for the downfall of the USA? No, but I had been hoping that once things got bad enough the people of the USA would take a cold hard look at their place in the world and up their game. Kind of like that low point that some people have to reach before they turn their life around. The sad part is there is no sign that the majority people in the USA have been able to see the big picture yet. They still live in an information bubble that feeds them American exceptionalism so the spiral downwards continues and the rest of the world is pulled down with it as we work to isolate ourselves from it.

Actually there is two possibilities, neither are good:

1. trump doesn't actually understand what a tariff really is. This implies he is really dumb and unfit for any role involving money.
2. trump does actually understand what a tariff really is but lies about it so he can use them as a tool to abuse everyone.

Personally I think it is the second case, but sometimes he says things so stupid I do wonder if it the first case.

Well that's the theory, reality has a habit of getting in the way. Which is my way of saying it is complicated, tariffs may have their place and sometimes help in specific circumstances for a limited time, but that is completely unrelated to the way trump uses them.

I assume that was an attempt at an insult? Not sure because it didn't make any sense to me. I would suggest you watch some Monty Python if you want to learn how to do insults properly.

Yea, another game they play is confusing 'consumption' is 'usage'. Oil 'used' for cooling is circulating and can be recycled, where as oil used for generation is 'consumed' when it is burnt.

It is like some of the lame arguments related ICEV vs BEV which look at the energy in a gas tank compared with a battery but ignore the fact the gas is burnt but we don't burn batteries, we recharge them.

WTF? A Google result? Google is not an information source, it is an information index. That Google quote lacks a source link. I bet it is quoting trump or his boot lickers.

Come on back up your statement with a link from a credible source, not made up bullshit from trump and co. There is zero evidence to back up the basis of this tariff. Again name a single real physical product that was ever exported from New Zealand to the USA but was made in China? Just one real transaction. I will say it again, it is bullshit.

Bullshit. Name one product made in China that is exported from New Zealand to the USA. WTF would any one ship from the top to the bottom of the planet and then halfway around globe to the USA? If you want to do that shit you would do it on a cheaper shipping route.

His labor abuse excuse is 100% that, a new excuse because the courts took his favorite toy off him and now the little baby need a new toy to bully people with. There is zero valid reasons to tariff a country with 40 year history of open markets and free trade agreements, trump simply tariffs countries like mine because it strokes his fragile ego and makes him feel like a big man. There is a reason the ROW is shifting focus to trading with each other instead of the USA, we have had enough of that unstable ego driven shit.