This AI tech, smat-home, cloud compute etc would all be amazing if we could trust that it wasn’t built to harvest us.

We, the people, have become the Commons.

It’s an old meme, but it does check out.

Have you tried ydotools, which works on both Wayland and X?

Yeah, but they aren’t Canadian.

Probably not me. Most of the recorded incidents are against Chinese families that have emigrated.

I complain about the CCP here and there, but not likely enough for any attention to be warranted.

Except that there are credible reports of the CCP running police operations on foreign soil.

That was yesterday. It doubled since then IIRC

Americans have a history of the most insidious manipulations in the politics of other nations - did you see their Sec. of state try commemorate the CIA backed coup of Cuba.

About “crying” over foreign interference, you are wrong. In the last 4 years France, Canada, Germany, Romania, Sri-Lanka, Australia, all of the Baltic nations andore have a had credible complaints of attempts from foreign nations trying to use propaganda and more to influence elections.

Let’s not try to convince ourselves than only the Americans are misbehaving.

Can we not bother deciding who was the biggest nightmare, and instead focus on finding models for the best countries.

I am so sick of the “at least the USSR had…” or “at least China does…” conversation. Can’t we have a “Finland has high happiness, broad socialist protections, and a fast moving economy” kind of conversations.

Maybe I just tried to early, before they mainlined the 42 line. I’m on kinoite not silverblue, which might also be relevant.

Upgrading 41->42 for silverblue requires a branch change. An upgrade won’t do it.

Rpm-ostree rebase switches branch, instead of pulling the latest build from the branch.

When you’ve lost the Aussie travelers, you know yer in trouble. Who will keep the ski and surf towns running?

Tariffs have doubled the cost of red-lines, as they were sourced in S. E. Asia, processed in a small barely-know penguin island, and packaged in Denmark.

There is also a place to politely challenge others, especially when you see more out on a long (touchy) expressions.

I describing myself there on that limb as well of course. I’ve found myself well challenged several times on a limb.

For this number, is it related to the Chinese government GDP numbers, or independently measured? My understanding is that the CCP use GDP differently that the West, in that they release numbers which are prescriptive estimates and goals, as opposed to statistical results.

I’m also enjoying participating in forums I would never touch in any other medium. I find the people that I disagree with have much better points, with significantly fewer radicals, idiots or crusaders.

Without outing yourself, can you give us some numbers on the impact? Which materials /tooling is most impacted?

There will be elections in the US. Heck, the Russians and the Belarussians still have elections. Do you think that Trump can avoid the fanfare of a massive election win?

Many analysts think that the bond selling is what scared the Trump government, as they have said that they want to rebalance the economy, but not loose the $ hegemony. The Chinese hold a lot of bpnds, but haven’t threatened to sell th yet - the Japanese sold US bonds.

The Chinese and the Americans need each other. The Americans can’t afford to make things, and the Chinese need the American market to buy things, as they make too many things. The Chinese can’t afford to have the US market disappear yet.