He (or more likely, the advisors with their hands up his ass) is starting to freak out about the empty ports out west. We probably have another week or two until the lack of goods starts showing up on store shelves and consumer confidence falls off a cliff. Problem is, even if we reached an agreement with China today, it’ll take 30+ days for ships to reach our ports.

I wonder if you’d get better mileage out of a high efficiency 12v brick, and a 5v and 3.3v DC-DC converter? Without changing your hardware out for a NUC or Raspberry Pi, I’m not sure if you can really go lower power. Maybe install a solar panel on your balcony for free electricity lol

Give me one year paid family leave and Medicare for all, then we’ll talk.

Fat fucking chance Vance does that.

Trump’s tariffs — the biggest middle working class tax hike in modern history

Fixed that for them.

I have never used a MS account for local login but it sounds to me like it just leads to people using insecure passwords for publicly reachable accounts because they don’t want to type a long password every time logging into their computer.

I guess that’s what the PIN feature is for, even though you’re Personal Identification Number can have letters…

If they were in the retention department, it might have been because they knew there was nothing they could say to keep you. It reflects badly on them when they can’t “save” a customer.

And backdoored encryption is just as bad as unencrypted, maybe worse, since it lulls you into a false sense of security.

I think this is the plan. They want to be able to blame China for the massively increased cost of consumer goods.

We pretty much stopped spending money shortly after he entered office. Utilities, mortgage, and basic necessities only, garden is being rampped up and we’re making pretty much everything from scratch too. The food we are buying are coming from local farms/butchers where possible.

I the last couple of years, I’ve grown to really understand why my depression era great grandparents were the way they were.

At our local demonstration, there was a group of 10 MAGA that came up to the crowd to stir shit. After a few minutes, the police encouraged them to move along.