Is “the west” in the room with you right now? Blink twice if so.

So anything west of China and Russia is “the west?” I suppose Japan and Australia are “the west” too since you can get there if you travel west long enough?

Declared a monopoly only in the search engine space AFAIK. Browsers don’t have anything to do with that other than maybe setting Google as the default search engine.

I use Firefox everywhere except work where my only options are Chrome or Edge (both chromium). Apparently uBlock lite is supposed to work on the new version of Chrome and hopefully still functions roughly the same. Apart from block web ads, I rely on it to block YouTube ads.

Someone took Monster’s “$100 gold plated HDMI” cable and one-upped it.

That’s a tall order when a fab costs tens of billions of dollars to operate. Somebody needs to make a lot of dough out of the process.

What cheap goods does the US produce and flood other countries with? Even in the US, most of our products are made in China.

That’s what China is trying to do with their EVs in other markets right now too as another example.

Damn bro, this is like seeing an 8-slot VCR or 50 disc CD changer.

Ditch the SD card all together and get a cheap SSD to use as the boot drive instead.

We won’t get Kessler syndrome from a bunch of low flying satellites as they can’t stay in orbit for very long and we know where they’re all at.

Tim Apple.

We have Logitech wired mice at work and they’ve turned into straight garbage in recent years. I’ve literally opened one brand new and had the cable begin fraying where it feeds into the mouse within a week. Previously, our Logitech mice would last for years without issue with 24/7 use.

I’m sure they charge a fee to pay your rent with a card too.

Are you getting a discount when you buy a carrier phone on contract? Every time I’ve priced them out, the total for 24 months of payments is typically around the full MSRP of the phone. Buying direct usually results in hefty discounts since companies like Samsung always have some sort of deal going on. My parents recently got some bottom of the barrel smartphones and still wound up paying hundreds of dollars for them on contract even though you can buy them outright online for 1/3 of the price.

They’re wanting the Pi to do more than one thing. I’m assuming they’re running Klipper but also want to run a file server or PiHole, for example, on the same Pi.

Not sure why you’re equating “overhyped, expensive, and unreliable” with “this thing will never exist.” Nobody is arguing that.

I look at it more like autonomous driving which we’ve been told is just around the corner for close to a decade now.

I would recommend both at some point in the future but for now, get an SSD and use that as the Pi boot drive. The default is an SD card and you will absolutely destroy it from the reads/writes fairly quickly which is a huge pain in the ass. Once you get some more disposable cash, get an HDD for mass storage. If you want a budget option, check out serverpartdeals.com or something like the WD Easystore/Elements external drives.

“My jurisdiction” could mean their house and their degree could be from PragerU or some other sham online college. The way everything is worded so vaguely leads me to believe this is the case.