This is, 100%, without a doubt, just a way for him to avoid legal liability for doing things of his own free will. He wasn’t complicit in smuggling! He was taken advantage of by that irresistible Chinese succubus! It’s her fault!

Now, I don’t really care. I think it’s great that he’s bypassing US sanctions. Altho I would prefer China have its own domestic chip manufacturing and not buy from companies like this, but until that is fully developed they need to get by somehow. But yeah this is the most obvious scapegoating I’ve ever seen.

In fact, I’d like NOBODY to buy from companies like this. NVIDIA should crash and fucking burn.

thanks

Yeah, I’m a bit obsessed with New Vegas. I even made my own Radio New Vegas I can listen to on this lol. https://whiplashpost.substack.com/p/guide-bringing-mr-new-vegas-to-life?r=9c0sfd

Oh also I have a mouse cursor theme that is the Fallout New Vegas cursor, but it’s currently falling back to my old purple one for text. That’s why you see that in the terminal. I’m trying to find a text one that fits better to put in there. The main pointer looks like this: