id start a nuclear war for a dorito

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  • Idk if its so much a china problem as just an amazon problem in general. Dropshipping made it a thing i think. Since you’ve got dozens of drop shippers trying to sell the same product. Then companies selling direct had to try to maintain their SEO by doing this so their listings are not drowned in dropshipper listings.




  • its also cumulative. The US has been sitting on massive weapons stockpiles since the cold war and theyve just started to get used up. A lot of the shit they used in Iraq was old stuff. I mean just look at the USS Nimitz they just sent over to Iran. It’s ancient.

    The issue for them now is we are entering a new era. All this new stuff is needing to be made as its used because they don’t have stockpiles of it. So they can’t just rely on their massive warehouses of ammo, and bombs like they did in Iraq.

    A lot of the stuff the US uses is just retrofitted old shit with some new tech thrown in because it reduces cost too. So like in a fight with China for example they’ll be fighting brand new, high tech, mass produced chinese gear, and using cold war era gear with newer systems slapped onto them. They’ll also be paying 10x as much for the pleasure.


  • Chinese people use the same distros we do generally. But Linux is seen as much more of a professional thing there, and i think the people using it probably just compile things themselves, and have less of a need for flatpak. Huawei actually had a Linux laptop they were offering for sale for awhile, and a lot of the people buying it were having the store clerk put a cracked version of windows on it for them lol.



  • Honestly id argue Debian stable is the most secure as long as the apps your using are getting security hotfixes backported. Since you get all the security fixes and none of the new features that tend to be where new security holes pop up. Combine that with good opsec in general, and your basically good to go.

    One thing tho. Some people use them interchangably but is your focus security or privacy? Security being harder for bad actors to exploit something on your system, and privacy being strict control over your data.