sourcepluck

Sounds great. Don't listen to the pseudo-realists who chase dreams of grandeur rather than doing something (at least semi-) useful or good with their lives.

Comment · 1 year ago

Thank you, that's wonderful, I'll be sleuthing there and getting a feel for things. Cheers!

Comment · 1 year ago

This may have been true at some point... in the 90s? I'm not sure if it actually was even true then. In any case, it isn't true today:

https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t480/

https://pine64.org/devices/

https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/

https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/

https://frame.work/ie/en/products/laptop16-diy-amd-7040

https://www.olimex.com/Products/DIY-Laptop/

https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-reform

Comment · 1 year ago

Agree with the other responder, largely. I've been bothered a few times by Emacs locking up, but never enough to be actually upset about it. Bugs, I don't see it, it is very very solid for me, I can't remember the last time something didn't work as expected. Hmmm.

Still very Lem-curious, though!

Comment · 1 year ago

Eww, an unclosed parenthesis. Horrid! The Lisp gods will not be happy. Excuse me, HN people!

Comment · 1 year ago

The word "free" is being ruthlessly abused here, surely...

If I follow the link there, it costs 239E for a 5-day pass, where each of the 5 days must be used in a 1 month period. That's not "gratis", that's 47.8E per day the train is used?

Comment · 1 year ago

Lol @ "office horror software". So apt.

Comment · 1 year ago

Hmm, reading a bit more on the same article, i.e., this one here:

https://www.vegasmaster.com/gambling-tax-free-countries/

I see these relevant lines:

  > The laws concerning gambling tax around the world aren’t all black and white. In most cases, there is a sort of gray area which states that you will be taxed on winnings if gambling is your profession or your main source of income. However, if you gamble and win but you have a bigger source of income and don’t rely on professional gambling to pay the bills, you won’t be taxed.

  In other countries, like Kenya and Ireland, players aren’t taxed on their winnings, but bookies must pay a certain percentage of taxes on the total bets or winnings they record. In Ireland bookies must pay 1% on all bets placed through them, while in Kenya bookies have to pay 7.5% tax on all winnings they record.

Comment · 1 year ago

I only learned yesterday after reading this article that, apparently, a good many countries have no taxes on gambling wins. The reasoning is - again, from my quick bit of reading, if someone in the know wants to correct me please do - that most people lose, and the government doesn't want to be liable to help all the people who lose heavily.

Which is great for the pros, I suppose. Here's a list of countries, which you'd have to check individually, after I searched "gambling tax free countries":

    Austria
    Australia
    Belgium
    Bulgaria
    Canada
    Czech Republic
    Denmark
    Finland
    Germany
    Hungary
    Italy
    Luxembourg
    Malta
    Romania
    Sweden
    United Kingdom