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There’s no doubt that some super wealthy companies paid the tariff, raised prices, sold directly to consumers, and get the tariff back as pure profit.

But there’s also a lot of layers and nuance that people are missing outside of those dozen or so companies.

Most retailers (especially small ones) don’t import anything, and a lot of those tariffs were on raw materials (like steel or aluminum), or small parts that get imported by the container or ship load, and then broken up and sold through a dozen layers of wholesalers / resellers to eventually get to a machine shop or a manufacturer, that then gets added to other material to become a component or product, and sold to wholesalers, etc and passed through the same layers again, and possibly even exported as a complete product.

All of this is what makes the prospect of refunding all of the illegal tariffs directly to consumers a real mess.

Sometimes I’ll run in for just cat litter and a bag of coffee (the local ones carry a regional brand of whole bean coffee that’s okay for the price).

We have both Sam’s and Costco (we generally get different things at each), and they are just a couple of blocks apart, so if our bi-monthly shopping is heavy to one, I might only need a couple of items at the other.

Absolutely. …

I own a software company, but we sell computer hardware to about half of our clients as well. We passed the increase in hardware to our clients as our suppliers passed it down to us.

But I’m not an importer, and my main supplier imports about 50% of what we buy from them. The rest they buy from manufacturers that import their own product, or importers (or possibly even wholesalers that buy from importers), and we buy some stuff at retail, since we just don’t need.

We absolutely struggle to be competitive, and more so now than before. We don’t have VC money, or credit card processor backing that many of our competitors do, so can’t give hardware away at below cost, or for free. At the end of the day, we decreased our markup to help keep prices down, knowing that we’ll ultimately make it up on software licensing over the next few years.

Even then, our customers are all businesses that paid the increased tariff at the end of the day, so how do they get their taxes back, since most people are suggesting returning taxes to individuals.

The whole thing is a freaking mess, without any real good answer that will actually make everyone happy.

I don’t think that the government ever promised a tariff rebate to residents directly.

The rapist or Musk may have offhandedly suggested on social media that they would, but anyone that believes anything they say is a fool.

Most don’t even directly pass the cost to the consumer, they pass them down the line to retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, etc.

Then those companies add the additional cost to the product as the sell them … So only the importer is getting the refund, and only a handful of very large resellers are actually importers. Most small businesses buy from importers or wholesalers, and they won’t get anything back either.

And I have yet to find a full replacement on Linux (it’s the plugins that I miss).

To add to the situation, the age of the device alone led me to believe that it wasn’t new enough to support video on USB-C, and I told her as much from the start.

Similar thing with my sister recently … her work laptop can run a monitor off of the USBC port. She bought a second monitor, and cable for her home PC, and couldn’t understand why it wouldn’t work. I had to actually pull the specs on her laptop up on HP’s site and show her where it stated that the USBC didn’t support a monitor.

Does your motherboard have a boot menu option?

I haven’t done 2 Linux installs in this way, but for Linux / Windows I don’t really “dual boot”. I have two separate drives, with two separate installations. I can boot into either one, even if the other drive is missing.

I did each install with all of the the other drives removed from the machine to keep things clean. Then I can just select whichever drive I want to boot into from the motherboards / UEFI boot menu.

The only downside to this is that I do have to select a default boot drive, so if I’m not paying attention, Windows update will reboot into the Linux installation since it’s the default drive.

I’m that old too!

But that’s way before I started real online gaming, where Vent was during the peak of my online gaming days.

Granted he does have a full beard and has a ridiculously deep voice

Reminds me of my high school buddy that had a beard / deep voice, and looked just like his older brother. He would use his brother’s old drivers license to buy beer and smokes for us.

As an old: You kids and your TeamSpeak … back in my day Ventrilo, and we were happy to have it! (uphill both ways or something about my lawn).

It’s sad that nobody made some crossplatform WPF implementation for modern dotnet

That’s basically Avalonia UI.

I believe Uno Platform is similar, but less of a WPF variant, and closer to Xamarin or MAUI in the style of Xaml that they use.

Had the same thing happen on one of my servers. Got up one day a few weeks ago and the server was suspended (luckily the hosting provider unsuspended it for me quickly).

It’s mostly business sites, but we do have an old personal blog on there with a lot of travel pictures on it, and 4 or 5 AI bots were just pounding it. Went from 300GB per month average to 5TB on August, and 10/11 TB in September and October.