artyom

The result of “no tolerance policies”.

Glinet

Missed opportunity there.

Right, well, its not 2003 anymore

HDDs are plenty fast enough to play movies. It sounds like you have another problem.

Don’t you need a Windows account to buy a key?

Yeah I mean how are they going to verify you paid without an associated account

What would you use instead?

LiberaPay? Kofi? Givebutter?

I don’t know how many ways I can explain that none of this is relevant to the discussion at hand. Which is, as a reminder:

Wouldn’t this only affect goods manufactured in the USA.

All of what you said is true, and yet this statement remains completely incorrect and the opposite of reality.

Serious or trolling?

God, this response is just fucking lazy and boring. You could at least make interesting when you lob ad hominems because you don’t understand the conversation. We were not discussing the merits of tariffs, we were discussing the facts. And the fact is that tariffs only negatively impact imported goods, by nature of being a tariff…

Do you think a tariff on copper would apply to an iPhone?

…of course?

Or a tariff on oil?

Do your iPhones usually take oil? 🤔

That’s not how tariffs work. You can’t just circumvent them by packaging them differently.

There are lots of other private ways to donate that don’t involve scams.

Its also rife with scams and incredibly volatile.

Where do you see that?

I don’t understand what any of that has to do with this discussion.

I did read the article. Crypto is just not even worth mentioning.

That’s not correct.

Whether they can or do make their own chips is irrelevant to who is impacted by tariffs.

1. Develop a privacy-friendly app store.
2. Only accept donations through Microsoft.
3. wHy IsNt AnYoNe dOnAtInG?
4. Fail.