Looks like they're UK based. I don't know, but apparently tariffs etc are factored into the shipping fees shown on their site.
If you're not sure if you want to go Linux yet, it's probably best to try a live USB stick of a few distros on your existing hardware. Get a feel for what the interface is like, how things work, how it works on your hardware, etc, without actually changing anything. Seems like a better bet to me than buying all-new hardware.
As the other commenter said, evaluate a live usb with any distribution with KDE Plasma Desktop, for example Fedora, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, or Endeavour OS (Arch Linux based). You can also try something like Fedora Kinoite or Bazzite, so called immutable distributions which make it really easy to use for non-technical people.
A long time ago. But I ran into all sorts of issues. It was a struggle getting things like Bluetooth or WiFi working. And I just couldn’t get myself to feeling like I could ‘trust it’. Like that I wouldn’t break it and somehow lose all my data in th process.
False reporting. The case was more about whether a business could use AI as a change in business conditions that met the language of a contract it had with an employee, to exit that contract and lay them off. It’s not a general ban on laying off people.
Sure but there’s also a constitution. And inhibiting speech and expression by attacking anonymity and privacy is a violation.
Of course, SCOTUS may not see it that way. But clearly this is an imposition of the age verification strategy in project 2025, which is meant to be an imposition of Christian religious values on everyone.
Yep. The reality is that big tech companies had great talent initially but over the years became bloated and lost, like all mega corp do. But also they still made a lot of money because their advantages are too great for competition to work fairly. So mistakes don’t hurt them.
Now it’s being acknowledged that these companies were either wasteful, or investing in bad ideas, or just getting talent out of the market where other companies could hire them. Either way, I suspect we will see more AI connected press releases for what’s just boring old late stage capitalism type cost cutting.
You are getting the warning because the credentials they use use to encrypt traffic is expired, which in and of itself doesn't really have any repercussions. They expire to reduce the time an entity has to brute force an key, and to minimize the time that revoked credentials could be used on a device that hasn't checked for updates. Neither of those are likely to be a problem here, especially since it's a static web page that doesn't collect any user data, so the worst case scenario is that if there were no security, a man-in-the-middle could tell which links you clicked on, but nothing more.
Not just business red tape but also daily frustrations in life. Colorado has adopted speed camera safetyism culture. Instead of fixing real problems they’re working on revenue generation and surveillance disguised as public safety schemes.
On the topic of AI regulations specifically, I feel like many of these amount to basically restricting speech. Unless you adhere to state ideology, there’ll be trouble.
I guess Boeing doesn’t have leverage over China to force them to cooperate with the investigation? They need the China business as much as China needs their planes?
I don't think it is because of the business aspect; Boeing in any investigation won't have leverage as the investigations are run by the local equivalents on the NTSB. To the extent there is any leverage, it's the NTSB that might have it, but it would be informal. The Chinese government is stonewalling this because they deem it politically inconvenient/embarrassing that they had a pilot suicide/murder take place. For instance see also https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/the-crash-of-egyptair-fl... for the story of EgyptAir 990.
Are these a good pick for a non-programmer who is interested in Linux but intimidated by it?
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