it’s complicated. afaik asml has agreements with the us govt, and cross licensing with american companies. also, asml only makes lithography tools, there’s a LOT more to making semiconductors than just exposing patterns. and a few of the biggest vendors like kla and amat are american. kla in particular is essentially a monopoly in the metrology space.

afaik, risc and cisc are pretty much the same anymore. x86, risc v and arm all have bloated instructions sets, and they all decode to risc microcode under the hood anyways.

lol those are dram chips in the stock photo.

(more risc v investment away from the us is a good thing though!)

71% to go!

signal is a good option for messaging. it is technically american, but i feel like FOSS projects should generally get a pass.

also, as an american who is very not okay with what our (russia’s) government (puppet) is doing, wouldn’t supporting non-american businesses mean paying the tariffs and supporting the oligarchs? i’m not really sure what us yanks can do besides just trying not to spend ANY money.

Frankly, both are good options. Valve has done so much for linux gaming, and CDPR has done a lot for game preservation and DRM-free gaming. I’ve bought plenty of games from both.

as always dns is the weak link in internet infrastructure. if they can takedown piracy domains they can take down anything.

legally no, but it’s not like the governor of colorado is sending ukraine weapons - they’re just words and as such do not violate the constitution. ianal, etc etc

I mean it’s easier and vastly more compatible than it was even a couple years ago thanks to the proton devs.

my backup is staring longingly at LTO drives and wishing they would magically be affordable.

Statistically, so are most north american humans.

Maybe Canada and/or Mexico could annex the west coast after the US collapses? 👉👈

Such a cozy setup!

Doesn’t understand or doesn’t care. The ones using it like this are government bureaucracies and monopolistic mega corporations we can’t avoid. Nobody who matters has any real “choice” in the matter.

Gonna need a little higher density barcode lol

Didn’t bsky turn on federation last year?

Adding in yt-dlp. Not a platform but a useful tool to download youtube videos for archival or redistribution.

I think we should just ignore anything that comes out of this admin to the greatest extent practical. Don’t give them legitimacy.