I have no doubt it’s because of the cost.

You can get these connectors for less than 1€.
If you order directly from China I’m sure they’ll be even cheaper.

And no one should be buying slow cables that they’re likely to trash anyway once they figure out their limitations…

This is just some marketing bullshit.
There is nothing I can see about these cables that’s in any way more repairable than any other cheap USB cable.

They are also USB 2.0 without an e-marker chip, so their claims about “high speed” data transfer and “100W” charging speeds are dubious at best.

I’d think Trump and friends interfering in European politics and making shitty deals on behalf of Ukraine is pretty directly linked.

It seems pretty easy to break, unfortunately.

Or it just time outs on longer articles.

What a weird article.

The guy basically did a bunch of extreme sports, abandoned the entire idea after literally first relatively minor injury, and decided to announce it to the world?

I really don’t get what this article is trying to say.
Extreme sports are dangerous, who knew?

I try not to follow US politics too closely, so… yes, a little, every time shit like this makes it to world news.

Did this muppet really say he thinks VAT is a tariff?

Can’t make this shit up!

I mean, maybe it is, but if so then it’s way above my level. :D

I’m not a native speaker either, but I see maybe one minor mistake. I think that person is overreacting, or maybe just doesn’t actually know English grammar that well.

It’d be funny if the other companies caught in the crossfire now sued those LaLiga assholes for blocking their services.

How about both?

I’d expect the design to take into account this kind of issue, they’re only one of the most valuable companies in the world, surely they can afford some QA.

Until the GPU cooks itself anyway, because nvidia can’t admit their new power connector was a mistake.

Arch linux forums is very unwelcoming to new users

citation needed

This has not been my experience.

Anyway, it’s probably crashing because that GPU has no business even attempting to run this game.

A lot of the Marvel stuff was written by the guy that made Buffy, so… yeah, I wouldn’t expect much. :/

This sounds like FUD. Do you have a source for that?

Before that, they claimed they were simply too insignificant to even be eligible for VAT.

How is this FUD when you just said they admitted to it?

Exemptions vary by country, but often they only apply to small businesses.
Often there’s no right to any exemptions anyway if your company isn’t headquartered in the country (and Kagi is from USA).

Either way you only have to pay VAT on transactions made after you go over the limit, while Kagi admitted they have to settle unpaid taxes.
This situation can only happen if they didn’t pay the taxes they already legally owed.

See: https://kagifeedback.org/d/3592-march-19th-2024-introducing-sales-taxes

Kagi will have to retroactively pay for all sales tax/VAT that we did not collect in the last almost two years. We have chosen to absorb this on behalf of our customers.

They tried to make themselves look like the good guys, while in reality they just paid back their overdue taxes they were required to collect all this time.

Not knowing the tax rules is not an excuse.
If they wanna do business internationally they can afford to hire an accountant.

Information on this is extremely intransparent however, so this might be wrong.

It’s not “extremely intransparent”, it’s just a little complicated.
And accountants are really cheap for small businesses.

I also liked the part where they decided they don’t need to pay the VAT.

I thought coups are generally illegal and involve a military action.

This just looks like a legally elected politician doing exactly what he promised.
It may not be good things, but none of that was unexpected.

I don’t think being open matters here, it’s the part where it’s developed by big bad China.

All of these threats apply to other LLMs as well.

Calling that Hitman bullshit “confusing” is way too charitable.

Not too long ago Steam listed something called “Hitman 3” (they changed it now).
Imagine my surprise when it turned out to include only the game launcher, without any actual content that could be reasonably called “Hitman 3”. If you tried to start a mission they redirected you to buy it first…

Thank god for the refunds…