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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Picking local versus imported has no effect whatsoever on the price of the transformed product.

    Business will find the source of primary resources that is the cheapest for their needs. Best case scenario, local is what’s used already and prices won’t change.

    Otherwise, the transformed product will cost more because either the businesses pay the new inflated price for imported resources or they switch to a local resources which is more expensive. Prices will raise no matter what.

    Guess which one we’ll see happening?



  • Tariffs only makes thing more expensive for everyone.

    Let’s say you import steel at X$/ton and it cost Y$ locally where X < Y. You add a tariff T to make the imported steel on par with local steel.

    Local steel still is as expensive and any production that uses imported steel now cost more.

    Nothing went down in price, only up.

    Now, there is a discussion to be had about buying local, but the immediate effect is that things will cost more even if manufacturers switch to local steel because they pay more for the same quantity no matter what.

    This is a simplified version of the situation, but it explains the issue.




  • 1500$ because you don’t have bulk parts, otherwise it could go down by a significant amount.

    However, the 5k doesn’t include all the hours of engineering, which costs a lot more than the hardware.

    With that said, you are absolutely right that we get dog shit computers for the price. The amount of hours I’ve spent in my life reducing the cost for a board is insane. And bear in mind that this wasn’t for high volume production neither where hardware cost reductions have a big impact.

    I hope that this guy go on to do his own thing and doesn’t get gobbled by the corporate machine (or become the corporate machine).


  • There are a lot of open source mechanical keyboards out there and with a bit of elbow grease, anyone that is a little bit tech savvy can figure out how to link all the information together and do something with that.

    However, the thing that stands out to me is the integration of all the parts.

    Integration between hardware and firmware is a bitch, and add to that the mechanical integration as well. This dude hopefully has a bright future ahed of him, because he certainly has the chops.






  • I hate how docker made it so that a lot of projects only have docker as the official way to install the software.

    This is my tinfoil opinion, but to me, docker seems to enable the “phone-ification” ( for a lack of better term) of softwares. The upside is that it is more accessible to spin services on a home server. The downside is that we are losing the knowledge of how the different parts of the software work together.

    I really like the Turnkey Linux projects. It’s like the best of both worlds. You deploy a container and a script setups the container for you, but after that, you have the full control over the software like when you install the binaries