Good! It’s high time we put in some protectionary measures to protect our domestic laptop assemblers!
The US should become the 11th province of Canada. "South Saskatchewan" might be a good name for it.
You can argue that he should be spending time on such matters. And for that I would be with you. But what about ism is not a response to a tariff increase.
People like you would have us negotiating with people who steal and defraud us as to how much they get to keep, instead of seeking actual safety and justice.
Even the simplest googling of the Ukrainian views on the war would reveal that none of that is true or relevant.
Biden was using Ukraine like Nixon used Afghanistan against the Russians.
Stopping people from two closely related cultures from killing each other is "dooming". Fighting until the last Ukrainian is "supporting".
Why can't Gaza be more like Dubai? Are you saying its people are somehow inferior and must depend on your handouts forever?
Cleaning up Oakland is "gentrification" but letting criminals run the show is "cultural sensitivity". You have a dim view of the culture you are supposedly protecting then, no?
I could go on and on.
It's the exact opposite - as a Pole, any kind of appeasement of Russia will cause more death and decay in the long term. The whole "oh we just need to stop fighting now to prevent more death" is stupid if Russia's intentions haven't changed. But that's just not my rambling - even Russia's generals and advisors think that conflict with NATO is "inevitable" in the next 10 years. European countries towards the EU's eastern borders also say that it's extremely likely that Russia will enter a direct conflict with NATO in 3-5 years.
If that's your point of view(and it certainly is mine) - why wouldn't you keep fighting? Why wouldn't you arm Ukraine to the absolute teeth and kick Russia out with such decisive force that that it would cripple them for a long long time financially? Negotiating a shitty "peace" deal right now sure, will stop some deaths now, but will allow Russia to re-arm, recharge, built some more alliances and in few years come up with another bullshit reason to attack Ukraine again - and maybe this time they push into Poland too, because why not. And who knows if NATO will be around to save us if needed, maybe Eternal President Trump will say we haven't spent enough GDP to deserve being saved, or that he spoke with Putin and it's all good and we should just stop resisting. After all just few days ago he was asked if Russia should keep the land they took and said that well they lost a of men fighting for that land(!!!!!!!).
It's terrifying. It's not a "liberal" mind - it's a mind of anyone whose country has been invaded by Russians in the past and can see where this is going.
It does lead to shipping a few divisions of “advisors” to Ukraine, but that’s not here nor there.
It won't really stop anything, and it justify the unprovoked aggression of a country toward another and reward them for it. Something the U.S stood against when Irak invaded Kuwait, so it is clearly not about "the people".
> Why can't Gaza be more like Dubai? Are you saying its people are somehow inferior and must depend on your handouts forever?
Because they are nothing alike ? Gaza doesn't have a large access to a limited and desired resources worldwide. It have an decade old embargo preventing its growth.
> Cleaning up Oakland is "gentrification" but letting criminals run the show is "cultural sensitivity". You have a dim view of the culture you are supposedly protecting then, no?
I honestly didn't even understood this one.
You only need to stop one - Russia, and this "they're brotherly nations" narrative is irrelevant and ridiculous.
> Fighting until the last Ukrainian is "supporting".
How about we let Ukrainians decide how long they want to fight? Without back-stabbing them and forcing a deal on them.
I understand many are not given the choice, because of conscription.
We already know what they'll do from when the same thing happened to Japanese cars in the 60s... American companies will change nothing and then jack the prices up to just below tariff increases.
Heck, I could drive to the Lenovo plant on my lunch break...
I doubt that USA factory does much more than packaging, final assembly and customization of business computers/servers.
We have started to see customers who refuse to buy our devices if Lenovo computers were used at anytime during their manufacture.
Interesting times.
They did have plans to at least assemble laptops in America from Chinese parts (like they do for desktops), but it hasn't materialized yet as far as I know.
The only claims for country-of-origin I see on that page are the "US-Sourced Materials" heading which clarifies "..using aluminum sourced from US companies."
>Thelio desktops and Launch keyboards are designed, engineered, and manufactured at our factory in Denver, CO using aluminum sourced from US companies.
which seems to only be the metal cases/bodies.
It seems one of the least complicated parts of the system, the case, is actually made in the US.
AMD CPUs, GPUs, and pretty much anything else that uses silicon are not sourced and manufactured in the US.
Then it's your understanding that needs adjustment. Advanced chips nearly all come from Taiwan. You can't have a laptop without a CPU.
Sourcing as much as they can from the US is admirable but the real power is who manufactures the advanced chips not the chassis or peripheral parts.
And even for the parts they do acquire from domestic sources, tariffs will still drive their cost of goods up. Taxes on steel and aluminum will drive the price of steel and aluminum up in the domestic market, regardless of where it was shipped from.
I do not think anyone is arguing against that, but how is it relevant here?
The cases are made in the US and the machines are assembled in the US. Everything else is likely imported.
Plus, since the main material they use is aluminum and they try to source everything locally, tariffs actually make it more expensive to operate, and unlike in Acer's case it's coming straight out of their profits rather than adding to them through some consumer pricing gymnastics.
Edit: just to be clear, I'm not trying to belittle System76 here. 40 years of "self-regulation" have steadily eroded the US industrial base to the point where there's not much substantial expertise in this field anymore, so they're impressively close to have practically started from scratch. It's an important first step if their long-term plan is to assemble everything from locally-sourced material.
(As an aside: there is a special place in Web Developer Hell for people who break the ability to middle-click a link to open it in a new tab, that page being an egregious example.)
Everything else is foreign components it looks like to me.
Not super exciting really. An aluminum case is nice and all, but really not material to the overall PC as a whole. It’s at least a start and better than nothing, but you’re talking 5-10% of total system cost at most.