[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A tariff is what you pay to the government of the port of call to get the item you shipped.

When you pay $1000 for a DJI drone and it get's to Seattle the US government says "pay us $600 or it goes back on the boat."

The Chinese company sees literally zero impact other than possibly less orders and probably a wave of refused merch. Which they might keep some or all of the purchase price of anyway.

[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

It has to do with morphic wossname. On the Disc only one person gets to play City Skylines, but he gets to do it with infinite detail.

[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

There will be a surge in "nobody wants to work anymore".

[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

If they have the same mass they weigh the same until you blow up the beach ball and are weighing the beach ball + the air inside.

[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

So a beach ball weights more than a bowling ball?

[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

That's an embargo.

A blockade is military stopping traffic. "Effectively a blockade" is an embargo.

[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago

What are you talking about?

This is not about streaming to a laptop or Internet access. This is about a long range, low power, low bandwidth network using 2.4GHz. It's using 2.4GHz, like everyone else likes to, because it's the "free" signal band that you don't have to pay to license. It's for sending the message "Sprinkler head 1039A is leaking" from a solar panel powered transmitter without having to run a data cable or network repeaters.

It's competition for Zigbee/Z-Wave/Matter. Not the herald of the ISP crackdown Armageddon.

[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 63 points 1 month ago

* Assuming there is no bug, zero-day, or other vulnerability on the current version of your fully updated device.

Having a power-only cable removes that as a possibility.

[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 62 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Disney is also actively arguing in court that if you use the free trial you can't sue them for anything. Ever.

Even if years later you die in one of Disney's hotels because one of Disney's restaurants didn't care about your allergy.

So there's that to worry about now.

[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 63 points 3 months ago

Perfect should not be the enemy of Good. Reforming the entire system is not something that just happens. It takes several steps in the right direction and you have to start somewhere.

[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 59 points 10 months ago

Mostly I think its fine for all that.

But there's a special circle of hell for projects that rely on it for "documentation".

I get the temptation, I really do. But once you're taking money or have more than a couple people involved and semi-organized you really need at least a small wiki/git-hub landing page with the basics.

I know documentation is a separate skillset and a lot of work in its own right but projects can also stagnate and die because there isn't any.

[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 59 points 11 months ago

It should be. But I would be extremely surprised if everything in the terms of service isn't worded something like "you're buying a license to view this content that can be revoked whenever".

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