I don’t know exactly how rough the market is now, but I’ve been happily using my moto g8 power (intl) that I bought for 170$ in 2020 when I lost my old one. Motorola makes some very good, cheap phones that can also be rooted (I’m not knowledgeable on this, I just use pared down apps on mine because I mostly value the 3 day battery life and regular phone/email features).

I looked into redmi back then but even w/o the US ban it wasn’t worth it.

I’m imagining Mads Mikkelsen at different sizes and scales. Once he becomes as big as godzilla, there’s no hope.

For unrelated reasons, yes, but I’m considering the possibility that payment processors know they’ll be asked to prove they aren’t facilitating illegal transactions, and may have asked Valve to make purchase details available to them for that purpose. If Valve agreed to remove content from the store instead of blowing up user privacy, that would be a win.

But it might just be the PPs being dickheads.

The internet seems to think it’s because rabbits naturally hop so he’s putting a jumping rabbit in a different, absurd context. I don’t really get it though.

For real? That’s incredibly dumb/expensive compared to one subtitle roll. Can you share where you saw that?

I enjoyed it, too, about 200 hours worth with my wife on it. It had multiple crashes, BattlEye was forced with it, and the whole model was set up to make people rent servers from their affiliated server company for like 20$/mo. There were plenty of servers paid for by people to choose from beyond the official ones, but again it’s the same business model.

Heard good things about Helldivers but I’ve been too busy to buy more games lately.

This game is developed by the same company that made Conan Exiles, which was a worthwhile purchase at $5 or even $20 for the Early Access but is a horrible buggy mess. They’re just there for a cash grab and it’ll be the same in this case as well.

We must imagine Kif happy.

It goes way deeper than that. Cutting Medicaid funding means shutting down hospitals in rural areas. The healthcare effects of that decision are going to affect many, many more people than just the ones removed from the program. Also, as a perk, everybody’s health care costs will go up.

What they’re focusing on in the article is how the trade deficit is instead unlinked from gross expenses and income. The U.S. is benefitting from additional foreign investment capital and making more money as a result, even if it requires borrowing. If we wanted a smaller trade deficit, we could have it at the expense of crashing consumer demand and all the unpleasantness that is entailed by that.

Yeah I think their alert system sucks or something. Manual checks on that, microcenter, and best buy are probably your best bet for any new releases going forward.

Edit: I bought an Intel one, 250$ or whatever it was, been very happy with it

Not sure where you are in the world, but I got a B580 from b&h in February without issues. Just checked the site once a day when I knew I wanted to buy one.

Well, checking for testicular and breast cancer can be a mutually enjoyable process… Not sure you want that particular mental image for this case, though.

Pancakes with syrup

You’re right that that’s an option, but increasing the price of various goods can make them unaffordable or unappealing. I know I changed my habits as soon as eggs went over $4 a dozen.

Could be, those have a lot of international inputs in many cases though.

That same artist just put out a new cover with the cabinet riding a missile into the ground. Think he likes political jokes.

The perception would absolutely not be the same, and US companies are also not exempted from paying them. Most people don’t understand that tariffs are taxes paid on imports, paid by those who import them. They think tariffs are magical and the money comes from foreigners.

People may start to understand if/when the price hikes start affecting them directly. For now only retirees with stock market holdings have seen a drop.

The reason that the stock market cratered in response to this was that regular consumers are about to get hit with a 25%+ price increase on literally everything they buy. If you don’t make 25% more paycheck, you’re going to be cutting your lifestyle by the difference. Companies know this and are anticipating major lost revenue because people won’t have money to spend on their products. The price increases are probably going to be in full swing in 2-3 months, but that’s an educated guess, only.

Yeah, the other side says “slow”.