LeFantome

Manjaro is like a nice car with a canister of TNT attached to it. At first, all you experience is the nice car. If you really like the car, it is easily to feel smarter than the guy who warned you not to drive it. As time goes on, the chances that the TNT explodes goes up. However, it is always possible that your roads are smooth enough that it never blows up for you. Regardless, if you know about the design flaw, recommending such a car to others is really, really bad advice.

Using the AUR with Manjaro is like driving the car above on a gravel road. It does not guarantee that the TNT will go off, but it makes it much more likely.

I hope Manjaro continues to work well for you. Truly.

Also, please do not encourage others to use it.

I am not going to defend Loblaws.

That said, stopping money from flowing out of Canada to the US is the greater good and lesser evil.

Let’s not let the dream of perfection be the enemy of the good here.

Except it is going to cost them more in the end. So, this is best explained as idiocy.

Manjaro is “Arch derived” but is not Arch. Manjaro maintains its own package repos. And one of the big differences is that the packages in Manjaro are held back a few weeks before release. This difference in base repositories can matter if you try to use the AUR.

In many ways, EOS is not even a distro. It uses the Arch repos unmodified. It uses the Arch kernel unmodified. You could say that EOS is an opinionated Arch installer with pragmatic defaults. EOS has its own repos but there are only handful of packages in them, most of which are optional utilities or theming. Once installed, EOS is essentially Arch. As such, it is 100% compatible with the AUR. Two of the packages in the EOS repos are yay and paru which means the AUR works out of the box (unlike Arch itself).

You may think I am being unfair to EOS. It is my favourite distro. Manjaro is the only distro I warn people not to use.

I agree with this. It would hurt us tremendously in the short—term but probably not any worse overall. It would certainly drive a resolution more quickly.

We should be upping border security. Keep the southern threat contained.

I doubt we are even changing his title. We just need a name for when they ask who it is.

The thing is that you invest and build things like factories with a long-term time horizon. One of the things that makes stable western democracies rich is that we have stable governments and a rule of law that makes planning these large, long-term investments easier. With Trump, you have no idea what is happening next month, never mind next decade. And you can assume that most of this crazy stuff will be repealed in 4 years max. So, it is not worth building most of the factories you would need if this were going to be the policy for decades.

As you say, the supply chain is unlikely to shift that much. What will happen are changes in demand. It will hurt both sides.

There is a reason that The Depression was global. You cannot tariff your way to prosperity.

What is steel and aluminum in terms of attracting tariffs? Are finished parts still considered steel?

He does not have to “offset the tariffs”. Tariffs are a tax paid by the ones doing the importing. Americans will pay the tariffs.

He just has to resist lowering his prices to help his customers out. This can be hard sometimes but, right now, it should be pretty easy to point the finger at Trump and say there is nothing you can do.

His customers will pay more. He will make the same as before ( assuming demand does not drop ).

On, I know a few other languages. Or, at least it would take you a bit for you to notice that I do not know them that well.

Great advice though.

I regret not getting back to this sooner. Still, I want to extend my hand in solidarity. I too am enraged.