This is excellent. I’m not sure I can describe it in any other way.

There used to be a coffee shop in my town that would encourage customers to bring in their own reusable cups/mugs. Customers that did were served their drink in a glass carafe that they could then pour into their own cup. (I believe it was done that way to comply with sanitation/health code since they can’t be certain that customers had cleaned their cups.) They had a 50¢ discount for those customers and they sold their own branded mugs/cups for like $5-10.

They didn’t make much on their coffee unfortunately and relied mostly on tips to take care of the baristas so the pandemic took them out of business.

Now, selling a prototype that was sent to you to make a video on is not good obviously, but as long as they get compensated for it, it should be no big deal. Logistical fuck ups happen and this isn’t new or uncommon. The whole idea of Linus ruining their public image based on a “bad faith” representation of the product has little standing in my mind. The crux of his assessment of the product is spot on and you also touched on this. There’s like 4 people willing to spend as much on a cooling block made from billet copper as their GPU. Regardless of current Gen or last Gen. Most people are just going to save that money to buy the next generation graphics card or upgrade elsewhere in their build where the price/performance is much more reasonable.

For me it was the inability to sort my “timeline” by chronological order and only people I wanted to follow.

You keep using this chart, but it doesn’t mean anything. Just because most countries don’t produce Gallium, doesn’t mean that they’re not easily capable of it. It’s just cheaper for companies to source Chinese gallium. If it were in sharp demand, it would become profitable for domestic refineries to produce.

As I understand it, Lemmy does not have that capability yet and is one of the distinguishing factors between Lemmy and Kbin which allows mastodon account following. You can see mastodon content, just can’t follow. (I believe)

Good on Italy. Everyone, not just school children, should be protected from… name-calling 🤦

Let’s not get too hyperbolic. The French surrender at the drop of a hat. If we were talking about a Romanian peddle boat, then you may have a point.

That’s a pretty good assessment. Thanks for the insight.

What are your counter points? Other than not wanting to be a staging ground for a potential NATO/Russian war?