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#tumpery #trump just decided that #bloodplasma in #USA should be at least 30% more expensive by setting #tariffs to 30% for imports from #EU their main provider of #blood #plasma
This for EU has #VAT on all products, regardless where they are produced and always the same % for a specific category of products (VAT is country specific and can differ between EU countries, but everyone has it).

Source: edition.cnn.com/2025/07/12/bus

CNN · Trump announces tariffs of 30% on Mexico and the European UnionBy Auzinea Bacon
Tired Cryptid

Question for folks who donate #plasma

Any of y'all have hEDS or POTS?

I've seen mixed reviews on whether you can donate if you have hEDS/POTS.

I was finally cleared by my doc last visit- no more anemia, so I was considering donating to try and get some more funds.

Nicole Sharp

Glimpses of Coronal Rain

Despite its incredible heat, our sun‘s corona is so faint compared to the rest of the star that we can rarely make it out except during a total solar eclipse. But a new adaptive optic technique has given us coronal images with unprecedented detail.

These images come from the 1.6-meter Goode Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory, and they required some 2,200 adjustments to the instrument’s mirror every second to counter atmospheric distortions that would otherwise blur the images. With the new technique, the team was able to sharpen their resolution from 1,000 kilometers all the way down to 63 kilometers, revealing heretofore unseen details of plasma from solar prominences dancing in the sun’s magnetic field and cooling plasma falling as coronal rain.

The team hope to upgrade the 4-meter Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope with the technology next, which will enable even finer imagery. (Image credit: Schmidt et al./NJIT/NSO/AURA/NSF; research credit: D. Schmidt et al.; via Gizmodo)

#flowVisualization#fluidDynamics#magneticField
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R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:

So, technically you could use Klipper in #KDE #Plasma and cause the pop-up window to be sticky. That's pretty close. But it's still a docked window, and not a normal window. The nice thing is that it supports images, too, which is cool.

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Stefano Marinelli

Last night, I set up the new workstation for my father-in-law. He was using a roughly 10-year-old computer with Windows 10 and an old monitor. It has been replaced by an Intel N150 MiniPC and this HP monitor, which was on sale at the shopping center near his house.

The total cost for the setup shown (excluding headphones but including the monitor) was 240 euros.

It's running openSUSE Slowroll, which I'll update occasionally when we visit him.

He started working and exclaimed, "It's super fast!"

You don't need a lot of money to have a valid and performant workstation, especially if you choose the right OS.

My only regret is not being able to use one of the BSDs, as none of them were perfectly supported by the MiniPC.

#Linux#openSUSE#OwnYourData
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R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:

#Severance made me miss retro terminals, so I started using cool-retro-term more.

But I use Yakuake for most of my terminalling (at least in #KDE #Plasma), so took the default green color and IBM Terminal font from c-r-t and created a "retro" profile within Konsole/Yakuake.

I'm a happy nerd. :D

I miss the phosphor delay effect c-r-t had, but otherwise, this is perfect! :D

#LossyPNG example attached with fasfetch output, as well as my very off-the-cuff attempt at a Severance tribute by spitting out random numbers

Nicole Sharp

Seeing the Sun’s South Pole For the First Time

The ESA-led Solar Orbiter recently used a Venus flyby to lift itself out of the ecliptic — the equatorial plane of the Sun where Earth sits. This maneuver offers us the first-ever glimpse of the Sun’s south pole, a region that’s not visible from the ecliptic plane. A close-up view of plasma rising off the pole is shown above, and the video below has even more.

Solar Orbiter will get even better views of the Sun’s poles in the coming months, perfect for watching what goes on as the Sun’s 11-year-solar-cycle approaches its maximum. During this time, the Sun’s magnetic poles will flip their polarity; already Solar Orbiter’s instruments show that the south pole contains pockets of both positive and negative magnetic polarity — a messy state that’s likely a precursor to the big flip. (Image and video credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team, D. Berghmans (ROB) & ESA/Royal Observatory of Belgium; via Gizmodo)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU4DcDgaMM0

#fluidDynamics#magnetohydrodynamics#physics
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R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:

If not for security implications, I'd almost rather use a 2010 version of a linux desktop and add on the one or two components (like Rofi) that would make it perfect, than constantly have to scale back the stupid design ideas on modern desktops.

Even my beloved #KDE #Plasma requires tweaking, particularly restoring the scroll bar buttons (yes, they're occasionally useful, no I don't use a trackpad or trackpoint most of the time), and especially restoring proper contrast between active and inactive window titlebars.

Go look at Apple Lisa and Macintosh titlebars from 1983/4 before you try to tell me that light gray vs dark gray is the way to go for that. Yes, I know those were monochrome systems, the point is that they made the difference very glaring, even when screens were so much smaller.

The modern design choice of having active and inactive window titlebars look almost identical is freaking braindead and I will absolutely die on this hill.

P.S. I've literally compared modern Ubuntu Mate and Ubuntu 2010.something in VMs side-by-side, and I actually liked old Gnome 2.x over modern Mate. Other than the clunky application launcher menu, everything was just more visually clear, contrasty, easier to use and easier to read.

Matija Šuklje

Dear @nextcloud @floccus LazyWeb,

I use several #Firefox profiles at the same time – one for each #KDE #Plasma Activity and am #Floccus + #Nextcloud Bookmarks as a replacement for Firefox Sync.

So I need to set up two Floccus profiles for each FF profile.

I started to export/import those, but noticed that it does not ask me for authentication anymore.

Does importing a profile re-use that NC app pass too?

If so, does that bring any unwanted consequences with it (e.g. performance, security)?

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