After pulling what we (EU) did with Nexperia on China, it’s no wonder China is pissed.
EU is following USA orders and is discriminating heavily against Chinese companies.
What Netherlands did with Nexperia was basically a nationalization without compensation, and we have shown China very clearly that on trade we are no more reliable than USA. The situation is somewhat resolved now AFAIK, but it’s too late, the damage is already done.
We are teaching China to treat us like shit, when they achieve global dominance.
And only to please USA, that is a very unreliable partner both as an ally and trade partner, that has outright declared they want to harm EU, because EU is considered to be against American global interests now.
USA should be thought a lesson, that they can’t abandon us, and then expect EU support to yield their soft power.
Instead we keep rolling on the bag like a small puppy.

After the Nexperia fiasco to please Trump, I have very little respect for how EU has been handling the USA/China relations.
Even thought the total shut off of the factory between Netherlands and China was ended, all we’ve shown China is that we are as untrustworthy as USA.

This thing could have been handled in many ways, and EU chose the worst of them all.
Same with ASML, EU has zero interest in preventing ASML from selling to China.
If USA was a reliable ally and trade partner, it might have been different, but they are neither of those things.
So for fucks sake we should stop harming ourselves just to suck up to USA!!
USA needs to learn their lesson, that they can’t abandon old agreements, and then still expect to wield soft power supported by EU.

Food is not the whole picture:
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/251215/dq251215a-eng.htm

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 2.2% on a year-over-year basis in November, matching the increase in October.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-inflation-rate-unchanged-november-2025-9.7015905

Overall inflation rate came in at 2.2 per cent. But that rate has been largely outpaced by food since August 2024, and in November it rose 4.7 per cent compared to this time last year.

So Canada has their overall inflation under control, despite increasing food prices. Where I live food is only 10-12% of an average budget, and so similarly is only 1 part out of many when the CPI inflation number is calculated.
Transportation, heat, clothes, rent and other things are also included in the inflation number, to better reflect a normal budget. Rent is often a bigger expense than food.

Compared to Canada having 2.2% inflation YOY in November USA has 3%. In USA it may be even higher than 4.7% for food IDK.

Also in USA where many people live below the poverty level, increasing rent and food prices are more serious.

And the GPU is generally more important than CPU for gaming.

Well I think that’s stretching it, and my old R5 1600 did get a new GPU, but I also had a period where I had to use an older GPU because the original Radeon 5800 suddenly quit on me just before it reached 2 years. I got a full refund, because the GPU prices were insane at the time, and the Radeon 5800 cost more than twice what I gave originally even as a 2nd hand used card!
I simply refused paying that much, and played retro games on a Radeon RX 560 for almost a year, a card I had bought dirt cheap for about €100 for a media machine.

I bought the AMD R5 1600 (no X) in 2017 and overclocked it, ran on that until last year when I bought the Ryzen R7 5800X (no 3D).
This has been fine for me for gaming, I did spend a bit more on GPU, but still I’m doing fine on a modest budget for my PC IMO.
I did throw in a new motherboard for the 5800X, because the newer chipset is supposed to be better for the GPU/CPU communication.

But a 7 year life on the old R5 1600 is insane, and then being able to upgrade to a new CPU on the same motherboard is crazy, although I upgraded the motherboard anyway.

For now Russia doesn’t even have a suitable launch pad for their rockets!
Their last functional pad collapsed with the rocket they launched last month.

https://www.sciencealert.com/russia-faces-space-mission-crisis-after-severe-soyuz-launch-pad-accident

Russia is collapsing just like that launchpad did, and this will never go anywhere.

I hope they have the right guy, because it seems the evidence is inconclusive, at least the article doesn’t really show it to be very strong, and the guy having an inflated ego is in no way evidence of anything.
This is where we are supposed to trust the system, which can be tough sometimes.

They chose not to.

Not really, Belgium wouldn’t budge, there was a clear majority in favor of using the frozen assets. This is mainly on Belgium.

Allegedly due to memory shortage.
Saved you a click.

The bubble has been going on this entire year and more. The difference is that now the people that created the bubble are beginning to recognize that there may be a slight problem with profitability.

Even Sam Altman is recognizing that profitability is a bigger problem than he originally thought.
I think investments could already be slowing down, but of cause this is also a pissing contest among the richest people in the world.
And they may think the one that can stay the course will be the ultimate winner.
So I’m not sure this race is decided based on reason, because billionaires tend to be megalomaniacs.
So you may need to buy a new battery for your old phone if you want to avoid the high RAM prices. 😋

Those RAM prices will drop like a rock soon. When AI investments are shown to not yield returns on investment, the investments will plummet, and at that time RAM production will be higher than ever.

So if you can, hold out a few months on buying anything where RAM is a factor.

Sounds pretty stupid if you don’t know which platforms you want to target from the beginning.
If development really is that random and poorly planned, they are making extra work for themselves due to poor planning more than because they chose to support the Steam deck.

Apparently not, because many people buy glass back phones that are both thicker and heavier than a good synthetic, Then they add a cover to protect the back, making the phone even bulkier.

The smartphone market is goddam moronic in some aspects IMO. It all started when idiotic reviewers claimed the Galaxy S2 that was superior to the iPhone at the time, didn’t have the same “premium” feel of the iPhone. In part because it was lighter!!!
Also the Galaxy was way way more durable, the iPhone cracked if you looked at it wrong. So there is no doubt which phone was made from the better materials as in the more functional ones.
But after that “premium” phones were basically all glass despite all the downsides, like adding thickness and weight, and being way less durable, and also glass being more slippery so risk of dropping it is increased too. Unless of course you use a cover, which then again makes the glass back utterly pointless.
There is simply no way glass is a suitable material for the back of a phone. Except moronic reviewers continue to claim so, and phone makers keep making high end phones almost exclusively with glass back.

Cool, a large capacity battery is nice for many things, like taking pictures or recording movies or gaming, or even just to have some buffer if you suddenly discover it only has 20% left.
And finally a bigger battery last longer, because it requires fewer full recharge equivalents. So if the expected lifespan of a 5000 mAh battery is 5 years, the 7000 mAh can last 7 years!!

Of course it is, but it’s just the focus on how the UI is made that has changed, that does not inherently make it harder. It just changes some of the design goals.

I have fucking made UI’s from scratch in assembly on a pixel basis, that were better than a lot of the crap we see today.

It’s a moronic oversimplification, and making a different approach is not the same as harder.
And just saying working harder says nothing about the ways that are described in the article, and provides zero additional info.
Sad that such low energy effort without reading the article first is even upvoted. Lowest denominator rules here. 🤮

exactly

No it’s not the hard work, it is about working differently.