I always see comments under posts like these with people proclaiming that ASML/europe should just ignore these demands or asking why the US could even make these in the first place but most people just hear about the companies/machines and don't really understand the situation.

First ASML did not really become the sole provider of high end lithography because they were the absolute best or anything its just that they were the last one standing after decades of mergers and acquisitions consolidated the industry to just a single company. So even though they are incorporated in the netherlands and build the machines and do a lot of their work there they rely on lots of engineering work from around the world and very heavily from inside the US from companies that were merged into them.

More important than that though ASML is mostly an engineering/manufacturing company but before it gets to the point of designing and building these machines it requires years to decades of scientific research and the vast majority of that research is done in the US. In some cases it is US corporations like IBM and universities who do a lot of this but also the US government funds/performs a lot of this as well. So many of the early EUV patents are actually owned by the US government and licensed to ASML so going against the wishes of the US govt could risk being cut off from those patents. Even if you think they should just ignore the patents and build them anyway that would still cut them off from future research.

From the perspective of ASML even if they don't like this they really don't have a lot of choice but to do it and it probably does not have a huge short term effect on them financially anyway since they are already booked up for years in advance so they really only miss out on things like service contracts.

Yeah unfortunately a lot of this research was performed or funded by the dept of energy which currently doesn't exist anymore. Luckily though since these types of patents generate a good amount of money I haven't really seen as much a of significant scale back in it from universities like some other fields, at least from people I know who do this sort of work. They are mostly keeping all the people doing it on and just scaling back on new equipment and buildings and things like that. Talking with people they are mostly just biding their time until the next election as most of this was done as executive orders so it can be undone the same way even if it takes years to rebuild. It does just suck that one of the two major political parties decided to make anti-intelligence and anti-science their main personality though it remains to be seen whether it stays that way once their dear leader is gone from power and given his health hopefully gone from the living world.

I'm not sure about over in Europe but around here the trick to an affordable Pixel is to just buy last years model since you can usually find them lightly used or even new in the $300 - $400 range and updates are only incremental anyway and since they get 7 years of updates now it should be good for quite a while.

For google play protect yeah thats a bummer, I just use my banks website but I don't know if European banks allow that.

Personally though I love Graphene OS it turned my phone from a device I hated due to anxitey I feel around corporate surveillance into a device I genuinely like again.

Ask and you shall receive fellow lover of lock on technology ™️

Unfortunately I don't have a genesis Game Genie or Action Replay to really spice it up

Maybe the spray has PCP in it so you just don't care about being shot.

Wow look at this fat cat over here who can afford to lose crumbs

To anyone reading this a 6 is a great pick but its worth knowing that the 7 year update promise only began with the pixel 8 so if you buy a 6 in 2024 it probably only has about 2 years of updates left. However they are only like $150 used I think so the value is probably there even if you only get 2 years of use out of it.

Well the good news is that the Biden admin is currently trying to do something about the situation. The root cause is PBMs basically using their market power to squeeze everyone and redirect all the profit to themselves leaving nothing for the actual pharmacies. The FTC under Lina Khan has been investigating the issue for a while now and is currently starting litigation against the PBMs. It would be nice if we could get a functional congress that would pass good legislation to solve the issue instead of leaning on the limited power of regulators and unreliable and sometimes corrupt courts though.

A few things I have observed over the years you might want to check. Take a flashlight or something and look at the actual contacts in the port and see if they are bent. Sometimes the old cheap 4 in one carts have poorly made PCBs what arent beveled correctly or are too thick and squish the pins and they no longer make good contact. It looks like an official one in the pic but unless you have had this since new who knows what someone threw in here. see here for some more info on that

Also these backup carts do just sometimes go bad though I don't know if I have ever seen an official one go bad but buying a new one to test may help with that as they aren't that expensive. They also usually have lots of built in features like an action replay and acting as an extended ram cart. Just make sure to try and check that the pcb is made correctly with that link above

Eagles will eat just about anything they physically can so probably lots of squirrels, rabbits, smaller possums and raccoons but also eagles will sometimes eat carrion so I could certainly imagine they sometimes get this off something like a deer carcass.

The screenshots are from an anime titled Serial Experiments Lain

This is why I use Zed as an alternative with the added upside that Zed runs about 500x better than VSCode

There is actually a licensed moopsy plush https://www.masterreplicas.com/en-us/collections/star-trek/products/star-trek-lower-desks-moopsy-plush-10inch

They have been here in the US for a long time, I think their first american store opened in the 70s. Personally I love Aldi I shop at my local one here in Missouri at least once a week. Their price on extra firm tofu just can't be beat its at least 1/3 the price it is at my other local supermarkets.

It only looks like US currency doesn't have counterfeit protection features if you only see it in movies or in pictures there are actually a lot of little things that make it difficult to counterfeit. First is its made of a specific cotton linen blend that has a very distinct feel and if you handle cash regularly you can absolutely tell just by touch if it is printed on regular paper and there are markers you can buy that react with it to verify the material is correct. Parts of the bills are also printed in special color shifting holographic inks that would be very difficult to duplicate on a small scale. The hardest one though is there are lots of things that only show up on the bill when you hold it up to the light like a different portrait of the president on the bill in the lower right hand and a strip that is between the layers that has the denomination printed on it. There are also numerous other small things that add up to make counterfeiting quite difficult. They don't do of of these on $1 bills though since its not worth counterfeiting anyway.

tldr; there is actually a lot of security features on US currency also I don't know why I know all of this or why I'm bother to post it to shitpost.

I live in St. Louis and you can still get decent houses in nice neighborhoods in the 200 - 300k range though it is getting a bit harder.

Depending on your hardware you should be able to have Handbrake use your GPU to reencode the video much faster than your CPU. If you have Nvidia it would be Nvenc, Intel is Quicksync, and AMD is VCE. If you select one of those as your codec it should go much faster. Check the hardware encoders section on the Handbrake documents https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/1.4.0/technical/video-nvenc.html . Even if you were using windows you would run into the same problem at some point you are limited by how fast your hardware can process the video and no software can make up for that.

I do sometimes wonder what the ads say but like you I can't be bothered to learn Australian.

You say that until someone pulls the classic prank of swapping all your mango atoms with uranium-235.

I use graphene os and its great and fairly easy to install. Only works on Pixel devices though so you would have to get one of those.