Depends probably on the nature of what “forwarded the costs” means.

If the business collected the costs from you and then forwarded them to CBP while acting as your agent, then you can demand a refund from them or sue them.

If you agreed to purchase goods for one price while also agreeing to pay a separate “tariff reimbursement fee” in exchange for purchasing the goods, you’re probably shit out of luck.

Various shades in between might be arguable or litigatable one way or another.

If you already received your item(s) and you don’t immediately need to do any more business with them, it sounds like they don’t have a lot of leverage to get you to pay.

Sounds like that might have been a screw up on their part.

If you, as a consumer, directly paid one of the illegal tariffs, you can get a refund via the shipper who acted as an agent for you.

For example, here’s the form if you shipped something over the border using UPS and paid an illegal tariff to get it released from customs.

Year 1804. Close.

Windows, on the other hand, is a hybrid kernel, which means some functions are managed in user space so that a program has more control over the hardware.

Windows and Linux are both monolithic kernels, in the sense that most device drivers run in kernel mode with kernel privilege. They’re not like Mach or Hurd.

Windows outsourced their device driver development early on to the hardware manufacturers, and they encouraged closed-source drivers with separate source trees and builds. To facilitate this, Windows NT developed a system called plug-n-play (PnP) which searches for and loads driver modules (.sys files) from disk into the kernel.

Linux developed a similar system of loadable kernel modules (.ko files), but their system arrived much later. One reason is that Linux’s GPLv2 license mandates that driver source code be licensed under compatible terms. That and Linux has always been pretty open about accepting driver code into their main source tree. Finally, manufacturers were never interested early on in writing Linux drivers, so the driver development was being done by the community, which was already using the Linux source tree.

So Linux didn’t have as much pressure to develop a loadable module system. So they did it later.

To the present day, the majority of Linux device drivers are submitted to mainline Linux and go through the Linux review process. Windows drivers are mainly developed by third parties, but they do have to go through the Windows Hardware Quality Labs review and testing process.

Apple writes all their MacOS drivers internally, because they are also the hardware OEM.

At least MSVC has a number for every diagnostic that you can search.

This could be a nice lesson about the taxicab metric and the Euclidean metric, but that doesn’t seem like the intention.

And Love Is In The Bin became more valuable than Girl With Balloon at a subsequent auction, too, by a factor of 18x.

In Gentoo, you have to compile the kernel

This is not true any more. Gentoo provides sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin as an option.

Maybe not exactly the same, but Bodhi Linux is an Ubuntu derivative that develops the Moksha desktop environment based on the Enlightenment window manager.

They’ve had individual -bin versions of a few big builds, like firefox, chromium, and libreoffice for basically forever.

They had something called distcc for a long time too. That let you, the user, cross-compile packages on one machine for installation on different machine(s).

But at the end of 2023, they dramatically expanded the system, adding configuration machinery to install $packagename from source or binary (i.e. not like firefox and firefox-bin). And they set up the server infrastructure to host a much larger number of official binary packages for amd64 and arm64. Around the same time they added a “distribution kernel” as an ebuild, so users no longer had to “compile it yourself”. And I think the dist-kernel is now available as a binary.

Gentoo has optional binary packages now.

Is that one of those early white external tanks?

Economy of scale is a real thing.

I can somehow hear this lyric.

The license holder is attaching additional terms and conditions that are incompatible with publicly disclosing the driver source code.

Red is crap. Gotta go blue or clear.

I actually looked this up. NBA has a defensive 3 second violation of you’re in the paint and not guarding someone. Flippers isn’t guarding someone, and it looks like he can’t move so fast out of the water. So he would get a technical if the guard could just hold up for 3 seconds instead of shooting.

Flippers appears to be headed for a 3 second violation.