Well it’s been a decade since I last built one myself (and half a decade since my last upgrade), I’ll look into it the next time thanks to you.

Thank you very much for that! (Non sarcasm disclaimer, written text and gratitude on the internet is a dangerous combination!).

absolutely fair. A better phrasing would be “I’m not willing to spend the time and mental energy” instead of “I don’t have it” to be honest.

The building itself is not the issue but the compatibility checks, the hardware selection…

I spent days on mainboard selection alone -and could spend just as much time on every other part.

Basically a prebuild reduces the time to a sanity check instead of rabbit holeing (is that a word?)

Me - Ain’t got the time. I’m sure there are at least three of us!

That’s no forgery, that looks like original work to me!

Seriously though thanks for sharing!

But reinforcement makes you heavier and you’re back to the drawing board!

It might be easier to first chop arms and legs off to save the excess weigh.lt.

At which power draw difference would you spend that money? I’m not their target audience so I completely don’t understand the appeal.

No it’s not. OP is either a very high graphics lover or - to be very judgemental based on the phrase "now obsolete - a victim of the very good marketing machinery that Nvidia pushed for years.

I’m happy for OP that he’s happy but please don’t feel any social pressure to upgrade perfectly fine hardware!

Actually casinos so tax you on the US!

And it’s not tax on the owning part but tax on the regular payments you receive from your funds. Think of the thanks stock buybacks or more simple yearly profit shares (dividends).

What you describe ironically is something France tried a but as and Germany is discussing every couple of years: a tax not on income but in wealth. It’s as you described really tough to do right though from what I understand, again because it’s so easy to evade.

Overall an interesting but kind of depressing topic to be honest.

Oh I am with you regarin both the need for change as well as the potential - I only focus on the question of income vs sales tax structure and abolishing one of the two withouz deeper adjustments.

The pensioner example in more detail, I’m using wrong numbers to make it easier for me :)

I am a pensioner with 100k in my pension fund (which st least where I’m from is treated similar to any other stock fund). I get 1000 Euro out of that per month in capital gain. I would have a 300 Euro tax on that. which I use to pay off my student loan, a consumer loan from a past mistake and the rest of a loan for my flat. I live from my state pension which allows me to barely scrape by.

If I can get tax exempt for paying of my (imo ridiculous) student loan and the rest im fine. How if I have to pay the tax on top of that I’m suddenly 300 Euro down. The social system says “that’s a bad thing, people should have something from their money so we allow them to get tax credits for past debts - after all they did consume for that money and this helps the economy overall”.

Now rich asshole scipiti comes around and says: yo bank, I earn too much, give me 60mio credit, here’s the future capital gain and the stocks as security. Oh and tax man: I can’t pay any taxes because I have to serve this 60mio credit which I used for my second yacht.

What most states do is now make rules which give more details on what can be exempt under which circumstances. But rich me does a quick calculation and it’s way better to pay very smart people to figure out how can I still abuse the system. that’s why we can’t simply close loopholes: a) there might be side effects and that’s a scary thought for law makers. b) we still want certain people to benefit and it’s still worth it for them to benefit even though there is abuse. And sadly c) the incentive to close them is really low as the benefit is low on average for all voters but the pushback I get from the abusers is really big (imagine Elon musks money gets distributed evenly among every citizen of a state where one of his businesses resides vs the damage he can cause to any political individual).

I left the economic discussion btw completely as this is more speculation and political behavioral pattern observation in not exactly equal parts.

From a tax perspective:

Stock earnings are not income.

Neither is capital gain - and it would need to be tackled as you suggested with q capital gains tax. But that is quite easy to circumvent in basically all countries because it’s nearly impossible to check (as seen in the many scandals like cumex).

And then there is the whole banking apparatus: I can use stocks as security against cheap loans, use the loaned money for consumption and then lower my capital gains tax by calculating those loans against my gains. Remove that loophole and suddenly a pensioner can’t pay for their running costs anymore

All of that lead down a rabbit hole of “but can’t we just” for me. At least my conclusion: I didn’t come up with something that a) doesn’t break apart already on paper b) can be implemented without international collaboration and c) can’t be abused just as easy.

Personal note and speculation: often I read people taking about a system that is designed against group X. I disagree: the financial systems were not designed with any goal in kind at all outside the specific needs and questions for the specific legislatures. Meaning that “we need to fund a social security system” and “why don’t billionaires pay more tax” have the same root: we humans are terrible at overseeing time horizons of more than a few years. But we’re absolutely genius in taking something apart and finding loop holes the size of a raisin.

That’s a great question in my opinion and the answer lies in the ways money moves around.

There are a lot of ways to get money that are not limited by income tax, depending on your specific country and tax structure.

Examples can be rent, inheritance, gifts and revenue/profits. I’m addition there is all the money that was earned elsewhere.

I’m short the sales tax is aimed at all consuming entities while the income tax is limited to, well, income. To give another example: Companies themselves consume but don’t give any income tax.

Now the follow up question might be why it’s designed that way. And that is something for the historians to answer. Make the sales tax too high though and people will country hop to shop, make income tax higher instead and you increase wealth gap even further (non income earnings are rewarded more)

How is a list of seven(!) different analyzed potential factors reduced by you with a “wtf” to one of those?

And then followed by an anecdote, a correlated studies off topic to the study described and a bit of conspiracy theory (note: one of the few I even support myself, but i’s out of scope of this article!).

You’re actively harming the points you want to make by jumping onto the wrong targets.

No one forces unattended updates. And containerd is already living in the userspace.

If every dev would live on a kernel level stability approach we’d will not have a containerd release at all.

Yay a rabbit hole! Thanks for the key words :)

Can you give a link or description how anarchy counts be implement in a easy there is resilient to a subverted centralization of power that does not truly on an active majority?

Because we don’t have that, sadly. And I’ve never seen a concept that takes a silent and passive majority into consideration.

This is a twisting of your words to make you smile, not to offend :)

You identify with the person so arrogant that he tried to cheat not only the gods but death himself, putting the whole of mortal existence in danger - while disliking the hottest bisexual in existence who was tricked into not knowing what reflections were - and then tragically thinking that he met the hottest sea creature in existence!

That would always by definition block all third parties.

Think of the reddit example from the person you replied to: there was a huge outcry when reddit announced shutting down their lower API tiers.

Either information is free to flow or not at all, there is no middle ground.

With that in mind: I’m sure they thought about it and decided to prioritize transparency she flexibility over security. Personally I support that decision.

The cheapest framework is nearly five times the OPs link.

While “no laptop” is better than a HP I don’t see this link as helpful as all.

OP, I would check out used markets in this price range. While frameworks are awesome I haven’t seen them being refurbished yet and you regularly have business leasing returns from Lenovo for example that could match your budget.

One thing that was only mentioned briefly by someone else is the physical button turning on the computer.

Similar to the paperclip test figure out where the power button goes into the mainboardw and bridge that with a short cable. Is possible that by moving the case the old button lost a cable.

This is just one more thing to test though, it’s really trial and error as you know :)