kde is the best DE. only time I don't use it is in headless environments

ok but what's the upfront and maintenance costs for the buried bricks & pipes system?

LNG is standardized, it's readily available, and existing infrastructure already exists.

how is this new system better?

2nd one, the investors. barely exceeding inflation is barely making a profit.

good for Enterprise tier businesses, but honestly everyone else should just switch to Linux

Apple has an iPhone app store monopoly, but Google is the bad guy here?

hogwash

they never managed to get the cost down to near the price of actual meat, despite the ingredients being dirt cheap. overhead and/or greed?

glad they're failing

Actual meat is highly subsidized. There’s no way for them to compete on price alone. That was never going to be the case.

They're using protein (the generally expensive part of food) from peas, beans and rice. All of these are gram-for-gram much cheaper (definitely less than half the cost, maybe closer to a quarter) protein sources than ground beef (at my local retail).

larping

Chinese manufacturing 10+ years ago is completely different to Chinese manufacturing in 2025. the other comment about "zero trust" is significantly more apt

It’s always different 10 years ago, though, isn’t? Everything is. Rose colored glasses and all.

I remember these exact same “Chinese quality” threads 10 years ago and they read pretty much the same as this one, complete with the “well 10 years ago I got great stuff” and “yeah 10 years ago was different”.

Cycles, man. Cycles.

Another explanation could be that things have continued to degrade.

what percentage of illegals travel on airplanes?

Well, 100% of the ones sent to El Salvador