Fine if you’ve got more time than money, I guess.

Plenty of people are impotent or agnostic.

The “you’re either with us or you’re with the Terrorists” line is some spicy (fascist) rhetoric, but hollow in practice.

Who doesn’t work with ICE, at this point?

Thanks for the tip. We’ll see if it bares out.

Do get the sense that these third-party sites are going to become an increased necessity, as data-scrappers and trackers try to peg the price of a flight to the credit card limit of the buyer.

But… idk, I’m not seeing anything on this site that I can’t find by directly querying individual airlines. (Like so many other budget airline calculators) there’s no inclusion of Southwest on the list. And if the odd deal is inevitably just going to be through JetBlue anyway? Why not shop direct?

Their competitors have already sold out their entire 2027 production.

Plenty of which will inevitably turn up on the secondary market.

The money they make selling RAM to private consumers is not even 1 promille of their revenue.

The RAM they sell to home-labbers and hobbyists, sure. The RAM they’re selling to Dell and Lenovo and Apple? A significantly higher chunk of their revenues. But that’s a side issue. These kinds of RAM sticks are largerly fungible.

The new high end AI datacenters are building out specialty hardware that isn’t PC compatible. And the real worry is that these firms migrate over to the AI datacenter designs in a way that causes a semi-permanent shortage on the independent PC side.

Yes, but none of them are Chinese.

Canada–China trade war

Might be worth doing a little research. Canada’s never been shy about using them.

Gray market imports into the US from China have already been big business, especially among counterfeiters and drop-shippers. Idk about getting a full-sized SUV over the border. But designer bags, electronics, and the like have been coming over for at least a decade.

Idk how much retail buyers save, though. Much like with the drug trade and human trafficking, there’s inevitably an enormous mark-up for this kind of smuggling. And because it is functionally unregulated, you get a ton of refurbished, low-grade, and outright fraudulent sales. Smuggling tends to accrue money to the smugglers and the various officials you need to bribe to move the merchandise. You rarely see retail level discounts, unless the market is so glutted with knock-offs.

they keep the good stuff for themselves.

Do they? If anything, I believe China’s been exporting the high-end luxury items because they have absurd margins in western markets. Meanwhile, the good-enough goods stay at home, because it isn’t worth the time or effort to sail them across the ocean and market them.

I guess Temu and its peers have changed that, to a degree. But so much Temu crap just gets bought up by local American drop-shippers, marked up to American prices, and rebranded as western equivalent merch that it feels like much the same.

They won’t sell it to you

China is a major consumer of RAM. If they can supply it domestically, that has the potential to reduce the volume of global imports and subsequent price pressure.

If their competitors can’t keep up, you will eventually see Chinese RAM get out onto the secondary market in the same way Chinese EVs and Chinese cell phones and Chinese solar panels and Chinese steel have depressed global prices for these commodities.

Whenever the tariffs come down.

Sort of the joke in the modern US attitude towards Taiwan. They see a break-away province and have no actual respect for their sovereignty. Independent small nations are just colonies-up-for-grabs in the eyes of the US State Department.

Hey hey, this wasn’t a buy it was a repair

I knew a tech that did that years ago.

Good thieves are the ones you don’t know about

Truly an incredible scam

10/10.

You claim that your kite operates without making any noise, and yet it is powered by wind, which is quite noisy.

I would be curious to know this uptime relative to any other self-hosted sites.

I remember Reddit and Twitter constantly suffering from uptime issues and they were far more decentralized, with modern infrastructure to match.

Is 95.2% all that far out of the realm of expectation?

Very important to know the difference and be clear eyed about it

It’s helpful to understand what you actually have control over, rather than confusing good fortune for savvy decision making.