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ranguna··on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else
So I hold ln to my cash, the bubble pops and I lose 10% to inflation because eggs will increase in price by 10%, just so I can buy stocks at a discount and wait 5 years for a 10% increase post bubble pop?

I'm not sure that's a good deal.

ranguna··on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else
If this will pop sooner or later, where should I put my money on?

All IT companies will go red

The US economy will go red because IT companies will go red

Banks will follow because their investments depended on the IT market

Gold pumped but is falling now (maybe a good time to buy?)

Crypto is crypto so no one knows (although we are close to the pump season where everything 10x in value, but it's still a bet)

Europe is detaching itself from the US, so maybe there's something there?

Maybe we can just buy non perishable essencial products now, because everything is going to blow up in prices? Still if I buy a 2£ can of beans, later sell it at 10£ because its market value increased to 15, I'm still losing. Not losing as much, but still losing, not to mention I need to find a buyer.

I could buy a house and sell it, but the housing market is a micro bubble where I live that it might pop as well by the time I sell.

So where do I put my money now, knowing that everything's going to blow up?

ranguna··on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else
500,000,000*80=40,000,000,000 40,000,000,000/650,000,000,000=0.06

If I understood you correctly and my math is correct, your suggestions only cover 6% of 650 billion, the news is suggesting AI companies need more than 10x more. So either it's 5 billion people paying 60-80, or 500 million people paying 600-800/month, or something in between + a little extra.

ranguna··on Volkswagen overtook Tesla as Europe's top EV seller in 2025
There's no BYD in those charts?
ranguna··on Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt
Why don't you get a phone with 3.0+ USB?

My last two phones in the last 4 years had at least USB 3.1

ranguna··on Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon
That's a good overview. As usual: things are complex, not necessarily bad overall.
ranguna··on Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
What do you mean it's misplaced or orthogonal? Real question, sorry.
ranguna··on Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon
No one, we don't need a leader. We need decentralised governance.
ranguna··on European Alternatives
If its not just breaking a leg, than you can be sure that you'll have at least one or two in a 10 or 20 years, each one you'd have to pay more than 50kUSD or more for full treatment including pills. In most of Europe, you'll be paying close to 0.
ranguna··on Nexphone-A phone that runs Android, Linux, and Windows?
Looks interesting, but I won't be pre ordering when the only info they give about running Linux is "Linux as an app". Do they mean something like UserLand that's sloooooow or something like the linux terminal, that still has very limited graphical acceleration support and is still unusable for full desktop usage?

Either option sounds really bad and not worth it to jump ship for me.

ranguna··on Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only
Isn't that easy to jam?
ranguna··on GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
I'm sorry, but in my mind, open source and commercial don't mix. What would a license for that even look like?

I'm not saying going commercial is bad, go for it. I'm just saying that when we are talking open source, we are not talking money, that's all. Money is just one of many things in life, sure it's important, but not by itself.

ranguna··on KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer
I meant this:

Has that not always been the appeal.

ranguna··on European Alternatives
I think the OP used "breaking a leg" as an analogy. Interesting that you didn't pick that up.
ranguna··on European Alternatives
That's very alarmist, sensational and dramatic. The systems are going though some tough times, but they are not breaking down, that's what children would say to make their life more like a Hollywood movie.

My father had to go though multiple appointments and analysis to get his prostate and hernia checked. Never waited more than a week and paid 0 in total. Before, he'd probably only have to wait a couple days for appointments, but the stress the healthcare system is currently undergoing is abnormal due to the more aggressive cases of flue this season. All things considering, things are not "breaking down" (I'm even getting some second hand embarrassment reading those words).

ranguna··on KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer
Has that always been the appeal?
ranguna··on Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees
I used the Jack for audio because I wanted to use my surround speakers instead of my projector's tiny speaker, but sound through DisplayPort worked just fine as well. The difficulties I was having were actually about android defaulting to the projector speakers instead of the speakers connected through the Jack, the solution was to go to the sound setting and just selecting the correct output.

As for DisplayPort version, I'm not sure.

ranguna··on Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees
> Pixel is also disqualified for me by the same reason.

How so?

I think all pixels starting from 6 or 7 have DisplayPort output through USB C.

I watched a movie the other day with my projector connected to my pixel 10 running grapheneOS. Other than getting a phone call halfway through the movie and a few hiccups selecting the audio Jack output, everything ran smoothly.

ranguna··on European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
I don't have one yet, unfortunately. But it's definitely going to include immich (not EU software I think), nextcloud, some form of email server, a secure chat app (which I don't think the EU has), mastodon, an android spinoff like GrapheneOS, Linux (ofc), open source EU LLMs, and I don't know much else, I'll have to think about it more.
ranguna··on GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
I think you've missed the point again, it's more like this:

1. Work for free making open source code and giving it away for free.

2. Giant corporations take all my code without giving me anything.

3. Work for free making open source code and giving it away for free.

If you can't go to step 3, then you are doing it wrong and need to change step 1 from "giving it away for free" to something like "giving it away for free to the common people and at a price for corporate."

Which you could say "but that's not open source!" and you'd be right, which is exactly my point here: I don't think you want to do fully open source software, you want to do software and get paid for it somehow. If you do open source and get paid eventually and non binding, that's a nice little bonus, but it's not the main goal, never was with open source.

ranguna··on Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout
Technological, manufacturing and energy advancements aside (congrats China on those), the pictures look beautiful. Amazing work from the photographer.
ranguna··on Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app
The OP asked if someone compared both, which usually means actually trying both and not just installing one and skimming through the other's README file. So, in summary, you didn't try both and didn't answer the OP.
ranguna··on Show HN: My not-for-profit search engine with no ads, no AI, & all DDG bangs
They don't pay to the full group of Linux devs, they pay to companies like redhat, which does not represent the Linux kernel dev community.
ranguna··on European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
I'm going to send them my wishlist to see what happens. I'm not optimistic about this, but I'm not pessimistic either and am very curious to see what happens.
ranguna··on Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
Bose: does something bad. People: complain. Bose: undoes what they did and does something slightly better. You: complain.

I'm not sure I get the logic here.

Slowly but steadily I'm comprehending why companies are getting tired of some people. No matter what companies do, people will always complain. Don't get me wrong, there's always room for more improvement, but a slight complement for their slight improvement won't hurt anyone + a change in tone from complaining to suggesting improvements would be a nice bonus.

ranguna··on Vietnam bans unskippable ads
Parasitic strategies != ads

The regulation was about unskippable ads, not ads in general.

I agree with the op and I don't agree that we are better off without YouTube. It's not hard at all to understand the op, so I'm not sure why you misread them and jumped to conclusions that all ads are parasitic and asked if we're better off without YouTube. Was that rage bate or did you really think the op was talking about all ads?

ranguna··on Denmark becomes first country in world to end letter delivery
Ah yes, fake news. Just because a private company is running the mail service, doesn't mean letter delivery is being discontinued. Letter delivery is subsidized by the government.
ranguna··on I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year
Care to elaborate?
ranguna··on I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year
I'm not sure what your problem is here.

Non-US means anything that is not US. Pickup a map and start enumerating countries, China and Russia are just two of many.

ranguna··on I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year
You can't opt out because there's nothing to opt out from, chat control is not law, it failed to be approved every single time people tried to bring it up, sometimes it even failed before being voted on (like this last time)
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