boatswain

It's a fee for people who want to renounce their US citizenship.

I don't know why you're being down voted; here's an upvote for being sensible.

Thanks, forgot that one!

Just FYI something "reeks" if it smells bad; "wreak" is pretty much only used with "havoc" and means to cause (generally harm). English is weird.

I've seen other reports of this issue for nVidia cards; people are reporting that updating drivers helps, but it sounds like you've done that. If you're going as far as reinstalling the OS anyway, you might try out a rolling release distro; I've been enjoying Garuda quite a bit, and I've heard good things about Nobara and Endeavour.

This looks like useful stuff; thanks for sharing. I'm not on Windows myself any more, but this looks like info with passing on to those in my life who are.

Why would this be a bad thing? I assume that's the connotation for posting it here

Because people who are struggling financially already shouldn't have money taken out of their paychecks by the predatory student loan racket.

I've had a similar thought, though not quite to hyperinflation levels where people are burning piles of $1,000 bills to keep warm or anything. But say he reduced the value of a dollar a hundredfold: suddenly people saving for retirement with a million out two dollars would have the equivalent of ten or twenty thousand. Meanwhile, Elon would still have the equivalent of a couple billion dollars. Everyone would be poor except the ultra rich. That would enable big business to compete with China in terms of wages paid, which is the only real way to bring manufacturing back to the US. Seen that way, making America great again is about making it a manufacturing base again by turning the whole country into sweatshop laborers.

How will there be any assurance of standardization in vulnerability analysis with a decentralized system? Will orgs just have to keep lists of which GNAs they consider reliable and which they don't? I'm skeptical, and their FAQ doesn't seem to provide any answers.

Say I'm from country X and I make widgets for $10 each. The US decides to put a 25% tariff on goods from country X. That means that each time I want to sell a widget in the US, I need to pay 25% of its value as a tax. If I was only making a 25% profit on each widget, that means I'm now breaking even on each widget and not making any money. That won't work for me, so I raise my widget prices to, say, $14. Now I have to pay 25% of that, or $3.50, as a tariff, which leaves me pocketing $10.50, which is about what I was making before. Widget manufacturers in the US don't have to do that, so their prices stay much lower than mine, so presumably they get more sales and the US economy is strengthened.

The problem is, the US is not a manufacturing superpower anymore, and even for the things that are manufactured here, most of the raw materials come from overseas. So the only thing these tariffs are going to do is drive up the price of everything. And once those prices are up, they're not going to come back down, even if the tariffs are removed; in my scenario above, it's likely that when I raised my widget prices to $14, all the US widget manufacturers would just raise their prices to $13 and make a bunch of extra money.

Long story short: more money getting siphoned out of the pockets of the working class.

It's also about control of the Northwest Passage IMO; that's why he's interested in Canada and Greenland.

What games do you play? I've been gaming exclusively on Linux since Windows 7 went EoS, and especially since the Steam Deck came out, I've had very few problems. That said I don't play competitive stuff, which is what tends to have anti-cheat rootkits.