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> AMD could as well develop their own modem.

That didn't work out well when Intel tried it.

Just price, I'd say. AMD / Intel are used to a certain margin on their products, and the low barrier to entry to create ARM CPUs, and fierce competition from giants like Broadcom, keeps margins very thin in this market.

The original smart phones like the Nokia Communicator 9110i were x86 based.

AMD previously had very impressive low-power CPUs, like the Geode, running under 1-watt.

Intel took another run at it with Atom, and were able to manage x86 phones (eg: Asus Zenphone) slightly better than contemporary ARM based devices, but the price for their silicon was quite a bit higher than ARM competitors. And Intel had to sink so much money into Atom, in an attempt to dominate the phone/tablet market, that they couldn't be happy just eeking out a small sliver of the market by only being slightly better at a significantly premium price.

I expect nearly all foreign sellers have increased their prices to cover the tariffs. However, there are items selling for less than eBay says an individual will be charged in fees, so it's not just a you-pay-or-I-pay thing. Either eBay is exaggerating, or sellers are finding a way to get a better deal.

It's a minefield for eBay buyers who likely won't notice the footnote means their $5 purchase will cost them $20+ in fees. They now have something else to lookout for that doesn't show up in the table of search results. Something only in a small note on the item's product page. Something that might mean significant extra cost if you aren't careful when shopping.

> tariffs are surely paid by the buyer, not the seller.

The US has declared import tariffs are to be paid by the importer/shipper, not collected from the end purchaser after... The opposite of the rest of the world.

If you look through eBay, at items coming from China, you'll see most are noted as:

  Import fees: Includes import fees
  This item includes applicable import fees—you won’t pay anything extra after checkout."

So they are being paid by the seller/importer/etc.

It seems to be a rare exception that you'll see the seller is not paying the tariffs:

  Import fees: Import fees due prior to delivery
  Due to US customs policies, the buyer of this item will need to pay import fees to the shipping carrier prior to delivery.

Yeah, I noped-out when I saw eBay's writeup on tariffs owed by the buyer (not paid by the seller):

"Shipping carriers or US Customs usually charge $5–$30 in processing fees. Add the item price, import fees, and processing fees to estimate your final cost."

https://pages.ebay.com/tariffs/

Not something I'm doing for a $5 item... I'll sit back and wait until the Supreme Court finds the tariffs are illegal, and the Fed has to pay every cent back to the businesses, suddenly sending the US spiraling into the biggest budget deficit in history.

> Knowingly downloading CSAM is very likely illegal.

Put CSAM in a banner ad, and arrest everyone who was served that ad?

Post a CSAM photo behind plexiglass on a wall in a public space, and arrest everyone who walks by and glanced at it?

Just how stupid do you think lawmakers, judges, prosecutors, and police are? People get arrested for paying for, or sharing CSAM, not just stumbling on a website that might have something questionable. It is illegal to possess, but just loading a website is hardly possession... If it was, all of Facebook and Google's content moderators would be facing life-sentences.

It was exceptionally clear from reading their writing, they are NOT native English speakers.

It seems 57% of people in France can speak English, which I can easily believe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...

No reason to doubt this is coming from a French person.

> the Range Rover [...] tries to be the best possible version of an SUV.

"And this is kind of realistic for Range Rover ownership because when you have one of these, they're so unreliable that you have to have a second vehicle."

https://youtu.be/wQEmsW3voas?si=BuEeZ4CVOocLI_hy&t=418

"you really have to be a little bit crazy to buy one of these"

https://youtu.be/wQEmsW3voas?si=FXP9vGdS5Xg-pG0p&t=2011

> These are all better reasons than the one we were given.

Explaining that it costs 4c to make a 1c coin is a pretty clear and solid justification. People know that producing a physical unit of currency should cost considerably less than its face value, and if not, it's a huge problem.

Complaining that one news article, which is just reporting a current event, doesn't give you an in-depth background analysis and context, is absurd. If you care about a topic enough to want that level of in-depth, you can go look for it elsewhere.

CNN pointed me this NYT article: https://archive.is/Ek38I

Sounds like a lot of projecting... The U.S. doesn't have single-payer healthcare therefore it's a dystopian hell-scape where everyone hates each other.

> “sucks to be them”

There are large swathes of the US where I would be shocked to hear anyone express that sentiment. There are other parts where I would not be shocked, but then the US is 10X bigger than Canada so you do get to pick and choose which version you'd like to be part of.

Plenty of people stop somewhere to get hot breakfast and coffee every day. If you also need something that can't set in your car all day (e.g. milk) that would be a second trip in a day.

Whether that's convenient or not depends on location... If it's right off your route to work/home, a stop may only add a couple minutes to your drive.

> Canada is a friendly, kind, gentle place, everything the US is not.

In what ways do you find northern midwest US states (Minnesota, Wisconsin, etc.) substantially less "friendly" than Canada?

Okay, metal prices are low at the moment, but post-1982 pennies did have a melt value of approx 2c not long ago. And it shows nickels are still currently worth more than 5c.

> Why does it matter if the production cost is higher than the face value?

You can buy pennies or nickels in bulk, melt them down, and turn a tidy profit. That's literally a "money printing glitch"

Every penny or nickel that gets lost in the gutter, stored in a coin collection, used as a washer or shim, turned into jewelery, or sets around in jars unused, represents a financial loss to the Treasury.

It's called seigniorage and melt value. Also see Gresham's law (hoarding).

  Intel infringed on one of its patents when it inserted a technology called "enhanced SpeedStep" into its models

  starting in 1991 (which predates the Pentium Pro) [...] Transmeta was the first company to emphasize that power consumption was going to be a major headache for chip and computer makers.

  Transmeta's ideas did spark Intel to look more closely at power consumption.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/transmeta-sues-intel...

Chiming in to complain that a good, working solution to a problem just doesn't happen to solve ALL PROBLEMS is just banality or perhaps pedantry. Unless it was also proposing an alternative that might do better...

Braille on money also doesn't help dyslexic quadrplegics with dysesthesia... Checkmate.

> Let me assure you that all Canadian banknotes are the same size too [...] not sure how the article got this fact wrong.

Because Canada is just part of the U.S.

(flame away)

Even with just a 6% tax, you end up with prices that need 4 digits of precision after the decimal (e.g.: $11.6494). That issue extends over a wide range of pre-tax/input prices, so one would have to DRASTICALLY change the prices so that the price including 6% tax rounds to even a penny, let alone a nickel.

While you could calculate a price that (after tax) would round a single item to the nearest nickel, it's completely IMPOSSIBLE to do so with unknown numbers of multiple items.

In addition, tax rates in the real world aren't just single-digit percentages. They have precision of 1/1000th of a percent, making such a calculation much more challenging.

Arizona: 10.725% Hawaii: 4.712% Minnesota: 7.875% etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_Stat...

And sales tax rates can be different from ONE CITY BLOCK TO THE NEXT, so a company with more than one location would find it IMPOSSIBLE to advertise their prices at all.

> Just show the price including tax.

With a tax rate as precise as 1000ths of a percent in many jurisdictions*, you'd need extreme precision on the price tag (e.g. $11.798625), OR you need to substantially overcharge for tax (rounding up the tax to the penny or nickel on each individual item, instead of on the total of ALL items).

And sales tax rates can even be different from ONE CITY BLOCK TO THE NEXT.

* Arizona: 10.725% Hawaii: 4.712% Minnesota: 7.875% etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_Stat...

It's impractical to eliminate the nickel and penny, while keeping the quarter and dime. The most practical way forward is to keep only the dime, but people will be quite upset about the loss of the quarter.

Transmeta floundered because Intel simply appropriated their technologies, allowing them to jump ahead in energy efficiency:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/1565866/intel-settles-...

penny-rounding “imposes a tax of $3.27 million Canadian dollars from consumers to grocery stores on a yearly basis in aggregate

https://economics.ubc.ca/news/penny-rounding-profitable-for-...

eliminating the penny would require producing more nickels to “fill the gap in small-value transactions.” But nickels suffer from a similar “seigniorage” problem: the 2024 U.S. Mint report said the five-cent coins have a unit cost of 13.78 cents each.

https://time.com/7215870/trump-us-penny-mint-costs-one-cent-...

> This might be one of the only cases where subscription model would work well to cover the maintenance cost.

1) Company takes your subscription money.

2) Company finds a vulnerability that's difficult to fix.

3) Company announces your device is EOL and ends your subscription, taking your money for doing nothing, and not helping when you need it.

> outside your hostile

I don't imagine you'll get much business at your hostile...

They'd probably rather go to hotels or youth hostels instead.

I don't see any `tput`s inside the Main loop. Only at startup and exit. Comment at the top of my version (HEAD as of yesterday) says:

  # This version is optimized for speed by:
  # 1. Using direct ANSI escape codes instead of forking `tput` for every update.

> they fired the whole dev team on Evernote, and the price has gone way up too.. but as a user I have to say Evernote the product has gotten better and better since the acquisition

I'd say it's only just slightly improved now, with a few bugs fixed and features improved. Not at all worth the price increase.

And it was horrible for a good 6 months after the acquisition... Some days I could not login to the website for several hours. Images in some notes wouldn't load some days. Searches would be missing results. Bug reports sat idle for a couple months before someone would respond asking for more info.

Just an empty screen here... You're picking random positions on screen, and random colors, but then you don't display ANY text so the info is discarded and cells remain clear.

After the printf, perhaps you want: tput smso; echo -n " "

Then I find moving the second "clear" before the "while" makes it more interesting. Not sure if that's more like what you intended.

With "matrix" causing bash to consume 46% of my CPU time, I think I'll pass. I think I can play the actual film in 4K with less CPU time than that.

Sorry, I did not write-up a guide.

Electrically, you just need to: 1) connect both wires from the old mechanical thermostat to the "Cooling" terminal block (polarity doesn't matter). Or if your model doesn't have separate heat/cool the "relay" and configure settings for cooling mode rather than heating. 2) Tap into hot and neutral wires (going to the light bulb but BEFORE the door switch) and connect that to the STC-1000 power input (polarity doesn't matter).

Then configure the STC-1000, set a temperature to maybe 4C and set the "compressor delay" to at least 4 min, though I'm happy with 10. The default difference of 3C should be fine.

The plastic cutting varies by refrigerator design, but shouldn't be too confusing.

There is a wiring diagram for the STC-1000 in the manual: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71VSFdFfszL...

...and right on the unit: https://wiringandcircuit.blogspot.com/2025/04/temperature-co...

There are videos of it being installed (not a refrigerator retrofit): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30TvX1Zz1-Y

...and being configured: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQjicdtDVrQ

Neither the article nor the linked sources even attempt to prove that modern appliances are less durable or having more issues than old appliances.

It seems to be just complaining about "computer circuit boards" in appliances, much the way people did about electronic ignition in cars, despite actually resulting in a huge increase in engine reliability because solid state has so very little to fail.

I mean, maybe people throw out a perfectly working toaster when it can't connect to Wi-Fi anymore, (or take their car to the dealer when their entertainment system acts-up) but that's not an actual reliability issue, IMHO.