Daily Archives: 2025-04-21

Source: Engadget

Anbernic, a popular retro handheld maker, has announced that its suspending shipments of its devices from China to the US because of tariffs. The company, which makes a variety of emulation-focused consoles and has appeared in Engadget's "Best gaming handhelds" list, is still selling devices it's already shipped to the US while supplies last.

"Due to changes in U.S. tariff policies, we will be suspending all orders shipping from China to the United States starting today," Anbernic writes. "We strongly recommend prioritizing products shipped from our U.S. warehouse, which are currently not affected by import duties and can be purchased with confidence." 

Anbernic has long offered the option to choose which warehouse your device is shipped from as a way to avoid additional customs fees or a model being out of stock in specific region. Because of this policy change, though, US customers will no longer be able to order directly from China and could miss out on the company's future hardware launches.

The decision to stop shipping to the US is understandable given the current chaos around tariffs. President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on most tariffs on April 9, but increased the tariffs companies would pay to import goods from China. Specific exemptions were carved out for certain electronics, but then the Trump administration later clarified that electronics would get their own separate semiconductor tariffs at some point, too. 

All of this flip-flopping over trade policies was also paired with the removal of the "de minimis exemption" which allows packages shipped to the US under $800 to be duty-free, a key ingredient in cheap Amazon-alternatives like Temu and the budget products Anbernic sells. Given how messy the current approach to trade is, it's possible Anbernic might be able to ship to the US again in the future. For now, though, not everyone is able to eat the costs of tariffs like Nintendo is.

Source: OSNews

I love the Kate Text editor. I use it for pretty much all the programming projects I do. Kate has been around for long time now, about 20 years! At least earliest blog post for it I could find was written in 2004.

I wanted to go over my workflow with it, why I like it so much and hopefully get more people to try it out.

↫ Akseli Lahtinen

Programmers and developers tend to be very set in their ways and have their preferred workflows – which profession doesn’t, honestly – and since there’s such a wide variety of developer and programming tools out there, it feels like every single developer’s workflow and setup is entirely unique. Akseli Lahtinen, KDE developer and allround awesome person, details his setup using Kate, the venerable and feature-rich text editor from the KDE project.

As someone who can’t program, I can’t really compare his workflow to my own, but what I found interesting while reading his post is that there’s quite a bit of overlap between my previous work as a translator and his work as a developer. While the contents of each individual view inside his Kate window are obviously different, the setup of windows and tools I had when translating looked very similar.

This shouldn’t be surprising to me – after all, both translating and developing requires multiple work surfaces, language plugins, formatting tools, tons of keyboard shortcuts, and a whole load of browser tabs, PDF files, and other documents to find just the right translation or the perfect term, as well as a ton of background to make sure you understand the topic you’re translating about. Y’all have no idea how much I know about the deepest complex inner-workings and processes of some of the largest organisations in the world, just because I needed to study them and had access to their internal documentation and software.

I also read and studied way too many complex contracts, European law, and technical studies into medicine and healthcare treatments, and I guess developers and programmers do the same thing – just focusing on different subjects. What’s the best way to do this thing in the programming language I’m using? How does this library I want to integrate work? What are the API endpoints for this service I want to use?

It’s really not that different from translating, and that never really dawned on me until now.