These security measures don’t actually deter the theft itself. The opportunity cost is simply too big, even if only one in 5 people are intimidated enough by the threats to unlock their phone, that still makes it worthwhile to steal iPhones.

Yeah it’s their right, and it’s the right of the unions to strike and for other unions to join in solidarity.

It’s the free market, welcome to capitalism.

That car looks sleek. All these Chinese EVs are making the Tesla Model 3 look like a last-gen relic even with the new facelift.

They’ve been in business for a couple of years already so they have their stable niche, but yeah the target audience for these devices is rather small.

IIRC they sell a couple hundred thousand phones a year which is a very small operation compared to big makers that can move that volume on a single model within their lineups of dozens of yearly releases.

Afaik you need to set up a separate storefront on AliExpress catering to international buyers, but there’s no such requirements for Taobao even on the “international” website. It’s just set up as a convenience for people browsing the site from overseas, and also provides support for foreign currency payments, but other than that it’s up to the seller to manage everything.

One of my biggest gripes with using old iPhones and iPads as offline media devices is that Apple is extremely stingy with storage space so most likely these old phones only have 16/32GB of storage, making them a pain in the ass to curate a media library in them.

If only they had expandable storage. But they don’t even support mounting SD cards directly from an external adapter, you have to import the media in bulk, making them useless.

Citroen Ami Minibus edition

It infuriates me when new automakers just name their car models with an abbreviation of the name of the company itself. Vinfast VF6, Faraday Future FF91, and now Radar… RD6

Just call it Radar 6 , or come up with an actual model name.

I still suspect Apple had plans made for adding FaceID to the MacBook Pro redesign but they couldn’t work out the sensors in time, but the design was already done. Then the notch has already become a design element so now they’re stuck adding it to all new laptops to maintain software parity between models.

I understand where they are coming from with all those countries (to restrict parallel imports into Russia) but Turkey not being in the list kinda makes the entire exercise pointless since that’s the country most engaged with the practice right now.

Can’t they just issue sanctions based on a TFLOPS or memory bandwidth ceiling instead of playing whack a mole with dozens of model numbers of the same chips?

They will have to start banning AMD and Intel models eventually too.

It cannot be understated how important electric scooters will be for developing markets in Asia and Africa in the coming years. Replacing the noisy and highly polluting 2 stroke engines in those vehicles will do way more for the environment and quality of life than any $50k electric SUV will ever do.

VW cutting production due to lack of demand for EVs

Because their products are not price competitive.

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Hyundai and Kia saying there is strong demand for EVs

Because their products are price competitive.

And it’s more than doubled since the beginning of the year.

Investors love Elon, they will continue to love him until such a day $TSLA consistently underperforms over a long period of months to years. Which is likely not happening any time soon.

We’re seeing the same cycle repeat itself, the same is happening today with Chinese cars what happened with Japanese and Korean cars decades ago. Western makers with their gas guzzler land yachts resting on their laurels losing the battle against more efficient and better built Asian products, sending them into a panic where the only recourse they have is to beg the government to issue protectionist policies to prevent them from being swept away. It would make sense if the Western cars were still made locally, but in the globalised and heavily automated economy of today I don’t see governments finding it too worthwhile to kneecap their own energy transition just to protect a couple thousand jobs that can be retrained into other industries anyway.

I worked in China but left right after the initial pandemic lockdown in June 2020, back then I barely saw any electric cars on the streets (lived in a big second tier city, not 100% sure on cities like Beijing and Shanghai). Mostly buses and taxis were electric, and only partially.

Now I go on Youtube and look at footage of China’s streets and it’s completely changed.

This is good for vanlifers who can’t fit a TV inside their vans, parents of small kids who don’t own iPads, and… that’s it? 🤔

Can you even use this as a standalone second controller for the PS5?

Apple has horrible (i.e. nonexistent) support for non integer scaling, and the way they “solved” antialiasing for OLED panels is by not supporting subpixel rendering at all, macOS still uses grayscale antialiasing, which means it doesn’t take into account the subpixel positions of the panels and instead just antialiases based on brightness levels.

You can force Windows to use greyscale rendering on all text by using MacType.

The Switch is a 7 year old device that’s up for a completely new replacement within a year, but I do agree that Nintendo’s refusal to ever lower prices is making the comparison a bit absurd at this point.

While the Hall Effect sensors inside one of those sticks can last forever, the stick has many other components that Valve might not have regarded to be as reliable as their current stick options, such as the controller board, or the materials used in the stick itself.