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- Comment on Lenovo Cuts the Windows Tax and offers Cheaper Laptops with Linux Pre-installed 2 hours ago:
Wow $140 USD is a lot for preinstalled windows IMO. 😱
- Comment on GameStop’s Switch 2 preorders started poorly, too 9 hours ago:
Horrible! They sold out, but not as quick as expected.
- Comment on Five-minute EV charging: CATL says "Hold my electrons and watch this" 1 day ago:
300 kW chargers are pretty common here (Denmark), I did a search, and the fastest I can find is 400kW. But they are rare, and I don’t think many cars can utilize that yet.
I have no doubt that when cars that can handle 1MW become common, we will also get the chargers for them. But it will probably also be expensive to use.China doesn’t have 1MW yet either, BYD has just begun building them. The fastest Tesla supercharger here is 250 kW.
- Comment on Five-minute EV charging: CATL says "Hold my electrons and watch this" 1 day ago:
We can now get cheap 22kW chargers for home use. But yes electric cars are still expensive, we are hoping 2nd hand EV will drop in price quickly, because there are always new better cars coming out. Here you can almost buy a house for what a new EV with good range cost.
Here it cost extra to use fast chargers, but we have from 50 to 300 kW. But already at 100 kW it’s already more than twice the normal cost of electricity.
We have solar panels, so we would really really like an EV? That’s free charging half the year. 😎 - Comment on Five-minute EV charging: CATL says "Hold my electrons and watch this" 1 day ago:
Charging this fast is always battery to battery, right?
It’s DC but I think it’s from grid through inverters. And those inverters are quite expensive. So my guess is they can go on indefinitely.
- Comment on Five-minute EV charging: CATL says "Hold my electrons and watch this" 1 day ago:
Great article, but when comparing to BYD 5 min charging, the CATL system is incomplete.
The new CATL battery can handle faster charging, but they haven’t made chargers that can handle or deliver the needed power, to charge that fast.BYD has built the the entire infrastructure from charger to battery, the charging system in the car can handle the 1MW charging power required. (1000 volt at 1000 amp). A battery that can handle it from 10-60% And finally they are setting up charging stations that can supply that level of power.
The CATL battery is great because it shows we can go even further, but BYD has their system available NOW!
- Comment on U.S. Chipmakers Fear They Are Ceding China’s A.I. Market to Huawei 3 days ago:
China spend $50 billion on researching chip production last year because of policies instated by Trump in his first term!
Canada has cancelled their F35 program, and is looking for non US supplier of their fighter jets.
EU has decided to become independent of USA on military equipment, making their own equipment instead of buying from USA.
Tesla sales have dropped almost 50% in Europe, and Tesla is very unlikely to ever came back to their leading position in Europe again.George Bush wasn’t nearly as bad as Trump, but USA misled the world under him regarding Iraq, Obama was VERY popular in Europe, but despite that relations weren’t completely restored in 2 terms with Obama. Bush broke trust with comments like if you aren’t with us you’re against us.
Trump was much worse already the first term. Talk of abandoning NATO, not respecting article 5, pandering to Russia, withdrawing from the Paris agreement. And in general undermining democracy. USA lost leadership under Trump, and it didn’t recover with biden.
So don’t think for a second that the harm from Trump’s first term was repaired by Biden. Although we did return more to business as usual with Biden.
Now Trump has within only 3 months managed to piss off everybody. China is opposing USA directly, which they never did before, and EU has declared a goal of independence from USA, which was talked about the first time Trump was president, but now was decided very quickly because Trump cut off aid to Ukraine. Europe simply can’t rely on USA anymore, and the decision to work towards independence is final. The ol PAX Americana can never be restored, and the soft power USA had because USA was supported by many allies can never be restored either.
As another lemmy poster wrote, imagine you are in a loving relationship with a partner you trust. But suddenly one morning when you get up, your partner punches you hard in the face without reason. That relationship can never go back to what it was.
USA can absolutely make friends and trade with everybody like before. But the trust and soft power USA had built after WW2 for 50 years was already shaken under George W. Bush, mostly restored by Obama, but then shaken badly with Trump first term, and now destroyed by Trump 2nd term.
Mind you this is not just Trump, Trump won the popular vote, and is representing USA by democratic election. So it’s the American people that has shown that USA isn’t to be trusted as we used to trust it.
To rebuild that trust, a fundamental change is needed in USA. A shift in ideology in the population and probably also a much improved democracy, that doesn’t surrender so much power based on the election of 1 person.
Trump has made history already, but unfortunately it is not the good kind.
- Comment on U.S. Chipmakers Fear They Are Ceding China’s A.I. Market to Huawei 4 days ago:
My wife had a Huawei phone for 10 years, because she doesn’t like the new phones. It took amazing pictures despite it was only a mid range phone. But not so good in low light compared to new phones.
Huawei made insanely high end good looking designs even with their mid range phones, nothing on the market today looks as good as that one did.But it ended up being too slow, and the software was too old, so there were things that simply stopped working.
- Comment on U.S. Chipmakers Fear They Are Ceding China’s A.I. Market to Huawei 4 days ago:
I hope he gets ousted before he can do irreparable harm…
Too late for that.
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 4 days ago:
It just means it will never be pulled.
- Comment on U.S. Chipmakers Fear They Are Ceding China’s A.I. Market to Huawei 4 days ago:
What did Trump expect? That Huawei and SMIC would just throw the towel in the ring?
“Huawei is a ferocious competitor,” Mr. Allen said. “It brings a mixture of very high quality talent, psychotically driven work culture and the deep backing of the Chinese government.”
USA basically declared war on Chinese IT industries more than a decade ago, almost forcing Huawei out of the smartphone market when they had become the leader of it! Seeing how Apple became the richest company in the world on the back of the iPhone, Huawei obviously lost enormous amounts of profits being excluded from that market.
USA is still attempting to prevent China from being competitive, and obviously China is determined on every level not to let that continue, all the way from the top of government over major companies to the researchers and workers. It may not be exactly a war, but it definitely is a very serious competition.
Now China is hitting back for real, because they have the power to do it, for instance preventing USA from having certain rare earth minerals. And the loser will be USA, and that will soon be very clear.
American bully tactics have alienated everybody including allies, so USA is alone on this. And alone USA will lose.
- Comment on Chinese robots ran against humans in the world’s first humanoid half-marathon. They lost by a mile 5 days ago:
USA is trying to keep China from competing on AI, preventing them access to the same chips the west have.
But I don’t think it’s working, China simply has a way to massive well educated talent mass, and they are investing heavily too.
I think USA would be better off allowing Nvidia to compete equally, taking away 25+% of their market isn’t helping USA/Nvidia, it’s only helping the Chinese newcomers getting customers that would otherwise use Nvidia. - Comment on Are Future Chips Doomed to Overheat? 5 days ago:
One of the impressive things about chips ever since the 70’s, is how they’ve become ever denser and ever more powerful, so they are now more than 50 thousand times more complex, going from little more than a thousands, to 50 billion transistors as per 5 years ago! Yet modern chips remain very reliable, and the biggest vulnerability is not inherent, but from targeted hostile attacks against them.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count
It’s almost as if the industry knows very well what they are doing.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 5 days ago:
In Europe Tesla isn’t even #1 on EV anymore, they have been surpassed by VAG aka Volkswagen Group.
Depending on how you compare, they are probably a little bit more expensive, but also higher quality. - Comment on US hits China with export restrictions on chips used for DeepSeek 1 week ago:
Thanks, he is usually pretty good, but I haven’t seen that one.
- Comment on US hits China with export restrictions on chips used for DeepSeek 1 week ago:
For sure USA will lose exports in a very profitable market.
- Comment on US hits China with export restrictions on chips used for DeepSeek 1 week ago:
I will be very surprised if China can’t make their own competitive AI chips soon.
Huawei and SMIC are steaming ahead as much as ever despite the sanctions.
USA is sorely mistaken if they think they still have the upper hand against China. USA is also losing soft power fast with old allies, and this has already resulted in ASML opening office in China again.
Probably because China has figured out the basics of how to make EUV themselves, so it’s only a matter of time before ASML becomes irrelevant in China, Unless they ignore American demands of sanctioning China completely, terms which demand ASML can’t even maintain already delivered equipment!We are already seeing clear signs of Europe ignoring American demands, and USA losing their power. Because they are alienating allies.
And Trump weakening USA in that regard is emboldening China to fight back. Denying USA access to crucial rare earth minerals, That ultimately will result in American EV products to become inferior on both engines and batteries.
- Comment on A fluid battery that can take any shape. 1 week ago:
It’s a weird world we are living in, I don’t understand how this works, but it’s cool. 👍
- Comment on aight... i'm out.. 1 week ago:
First it makes you trust it, then it turns on you.
- Comment on Shifting profits? Inside Tesla’s tax tactics in the Netherlands. 1 week ago:
Elon Musk is a narcissist, he is not going to pay any more taxes voluntarily ever, than he absolutely has to, because he can’t evade them.
- Comment on aight... i'm out.. 1 week ago:
If we knew it was altruistic, and only working for our benefit, it might be.
But as it is, it is not working for you, you are not its master.
Big corps and governments are. - Comment on Will the tariffs lead to a recession? 2 weeks ago:
I agree, but technically it needs to be 2 quarters in a row to be an official recession.
- Comment on Will the tariffs lead to a recession? 2 weeks ago:
If the US tariffs stand, I think the chance of recession during this year already is near 100%.
So my guess is that the financial analysts are betting that there is a good chance like 50% that these tariffs are removed very quickly. And by very quickly I really mean VERY quickly, like in a matter of a couple of weeks.The economy in many places around the world is already shifting away from USA. The obvious boycott by Canada and also in Europe by consumers, is only the surface.
To run a company you want stability, and companies all over the world are already seeking alternatives to USA, just as American companies are already seeking alternatives to imports.
This will stall economic progress, it will create jobs and take away jobs in USA, but the jobs created will be lower wage than the ones that are lost. American production will take over low wage jobs from abroad, and despite the tariffs making competition easier on those jobs, it will not make them high wage jobs.
It will make US trading partners poorer, so they can afford less US imports. And companies are already looking towards ways the highest profit US exports can be replaced. Those are all in services, something not even considered in the moronic US trade deficit calculation. But the area where USA actually has huge surplusses, and at profits often nearing 90%!! Those jobs are at risk now!
All in all it will make both USA and trading partners relatively poorer. But probably USA will be hit the hardest, as the outside world has a more than twice as big trading block than USA has with itself. If that scales linearly, USA will be hit twice as hard by their own tariffs than the rest of the world.
Personally we’ve stopped buying everything American that we can. And as the one who does most of the shopping, I was actually surprised by the amount of American things we used.
On a side note, USA has now forced EU to cooperate with China more on trade, something we held back on for security reasons.
But now that security balance has changed dramatically. USA is no longer a more secure partner than China is.
For instance USA is aligning more with Russia now than even China is!!I don’t see how this will not end with a recession for USA maybe already for 2nd and 3rd quarters, which I guess is the soonest possible actual recession (2 quarters of negative growth).
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 2 weeks ago:
If you consider Democrats left wing then yes, by far the most here are left wing, since by most European standards Democrats are clearly right wing.
Republicans are extreme right by most standards. Republican (MAGA) is basically an American version of AfD!
So by that standard I guess about 80% here is left wing. - Comment on How do you answer the question "What's new with you?" when nothing happens in your life? 2 weeks ago:
I hate that kind of question, as if you are expected to live in the fast lane, and all sorts of things should have happened.
It’s probably not meant that way, but that’s how it feels. I’d probably answer something along the lines of: “Nothing dramatic. how about you?” - Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 2 weeks ago:
Thanks.
But that’s weird, now I see it immediately, it’s clearly there 2nd paragraph? Also a search finds it no problem?
Neither were the case yesterday?I have no idea why it didn’t work yesterday?
- Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 3 weeks ago:
That’s weird, I don’t see that anywhere but to right of the picture I have:
Nintendo says preorders will no longer start on April 9th, but the console’s June 5th release date is unchanged.
I wonder if it’s because I’m in Europe?
I made a search on the page for some of the key words, and the quote you made does NOT appear for me?
And still with the quote, it doesn’t say if it’s ONLY changed for US? - Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 3 weeks ago:
Where does it say that?
- Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 3 weeks ago:
Is this global or just USA?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
That you’d have to ask Audi about. I just know they do it.
www.theuth.co/…/11102/