It's true that there are about $500 million dollars that will come from a pied-à-terre tax on second homes, which effectively is a tax on the rich.

It's also true that billions of dollars (i.e. considerably more than $500 million) come from deferring pension fund payments, which is generally a bad thing that kicks the can down the road and is not what Mamdani campaigned on.

He campaigned on things like corporate tax hikes and additional taxes on the rich far beyond the pied-à-terre tax. To date, these have not materialized.

I like the guy, and I hope he starts actually doing the things, but we need to hold politicians accountable when they don't do what they said they would do. If he weren't a socialist, he wouldn't be getting a pass here.

He's got plenty of time to turn it around, but as it stands, I don't find it controversial to say the reporting on this budget has been a bit more spin than win.

Most people in the world want love. I hope the best for you and yours.

Yeah that's fair. My RAM usage is through the roof lately, but it pretty clearly happened when I switched to a multimonitor setup. I'm much more likely to have a lot of stuff in the background now because it's easier to have a lot open at the same time in the practical sense.

But I was lucky enough to grab a 64GB kit before prices went into the sky. Believe it or not, I was regularly up against the limit when I had 32GB.

"Starting to"? 16GB is just a few tabs open for long enough.

Assuming around USD $220 for a 16GB kit of DDR5, it now costs $27.50 more to run Ubuntu.

"0 64-bit Linux" is the hottest distro out there right now, challenging Hannah Montana Linux for the crown

Spoiled for choice is a good thing, and it's one reason why Linux is great. I think the community could do better at two things in this regard:

1. Helping new users understand that the choice is not really a major one (relative to making the switch to Linux). Adjust whatever to your needs as you learn, or distro hop.

2. Not jumping down new users' throats if they pick Ubuntu / Mint / Fedora / whatever. Again, the freedom is a plus. A new user picking Ubuntu doesn't make an older user need to use Ubuntu. Let the new user have that joy of discovery how they want it.

I think if we all focused on these, the community would be better off for it. I'm all for a good ribbing about distros between experienced users, but it definitely can scare newbies away.

I'm not understanding the logic here. Apple killed their last tower. That isn't surprising, and their user base is perfectly happy buying nothing but SOCs.

Then there is a still-expanding PC gaming market, where building the machine from discrete parts is a portion of the hobby. By and large, this has never really overlapped with Apple's user base.

The article does a poor job saying why we should expect non-Apple machines to go the same direction.

Aaaand, if it was as simple as an executive order, one wonders why he couldn't just pay the TSA the whole time.

Surely he didn't just want to normalize ICE in airports before they end up at polling places.

Inb4 the White House calls it a "democrat shutdown" again.

Even the most heartless, unempathetic among us who don't care we're in a war must realize: among many other things, this is a shit ton of spending. These things are not cheap.

The man is (further) bankrupting a nation with poor decisions.

Name checks out. Definitely should have waited.