This, I think the price is decent. Most dumbphones are low cost but you notice it - terrible buttons, slow camera, lackluster audio. On top of that they have no coolness factor. This is a phone that ticks all boxes and is privacy friendly. On top of that, it is from a company I like to support.

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It is unfortunately a predictable outcome.

A more effective campaign would be: “stop buying games that require an online connection”.

25 years ago we already had games that could be played offline, on a local LAN, on user maintained internet servers and so on. There is no technical reason for modern games not to support such a mode.

Nice input for their AI generative models…

Personally, I find myself using the Chinese alternatives more and more as they are just way cheaper.

Here in West Europe (differs per country):

• mandatory health insurance, ~1200 euros per year (low income households are eligible for a subsidy)
• deductible of about 300 euros per year
• after that, healthcare and medicines are covered
• secondary costs (e.g. dietary costs or travel costs) may be tax deductible

The only improvement I notice is the search. But to be honest that feature couldn’t get any worse anyway.

The degree is fine but you need to save at least 10k or so because the German government isn’t going to grant you a multi-year visa if you cannot prove that you can take care of yourself financially. Tuition on public universities is generally low, many are tuition free but you will still need several hundreds of euros per year for related student services. And you are allowed to work locally to cover your expenses (housing, groceries etc)

Not surprising, looking at the photo of the painted bike lane in the study. That’s just a death trap.

I mean, even in countries with a huge number of protected lanes such as the Netherlands there are (fully) painted bike lanes as well, but not with cars rushing by on both sides at high speeds.

To be clear, I wasn’t talking about a leap in LLM design. I was talking about a leap in hardware capabilities…

I remember my computer not being fast enough to even play an MP3 file. Two years later, my computer was capable of running 3D accelerated games, browsing the internet at broadband speeds and playing videos.

Sometimes technology advances fast. We could be entering such an era as there are major investments taking place and global competitors will rise to the occasion to market these to a broader audience.

I think it will be entirely possible for consumers to use a decent LLM on their computer in a few years time.

It means new opportunities in Europe. If you live in the US, it might be interesting to know that many master studies in countries like Germany are given in English and have extremely low tuition.
Work/life balance, healthcare and public transport are all better as well.

There’s always an optimal point between demand and price. Ignoring part of your customer base is a risky strategy. The gap will almost certainly be filled by competitors, such as the upcoming Chinese semiconductor industry.

Not very common. Those engines are 50 years old and are only powered up a few times per year to stabilize the power grid as they can quickly scale up and down in contrast to nuclear, wind and solar.

Most countries do not use them as they are only about 30% efficient and loud. A modern gas power plant can reach double that efficiency.

Firefox doesn’t include a keylogger. It does have the infamous privacy preserving attribution but this can easily be disabled in settings.

In contrast, Chrome is literally a tool for Google to gain as much personal information as possible for Googles advertisement platform. It has the worst privacy features of the three major browsers and cannot be fully made private due to crippled extension support.

Firefox engine has some catching up to do, but the Safari rendering engine is behind Firefox on features.

I can see benefits during the development process, not necessarily in the finished product.

Hardware PCB development is currently very much iteration based. You update schematics and layout , produce a PCBA (can take weeks), then test thoroughly. In case of issues, you have to repeat the whole cycle.

In more complex designs where you need to achieve very low noise/interference and stable behavior in any ambient condition the testing can become very time consuming.

If you could reconnect traces, shift or reroute them you would not only greatly reduce the time it takes to update and test a design, but you can also test many layouts and therefore create more optimal designs that might be smaller, more cost optimized or better performing. And the entire process could become more tightly computer automated.

It’s partly due to the social systems in place in many European countries. Unemployment benefits, mandatory affordable health insurance, allowances for low incomes, affordable social housing etc ensure that almost no one falls of a cliff and people have a chance to reach the quality of life they want to achieve.

With modern induction cooking this should not be as problematic. You can use the magnetic field to put something in motion

Why is he tweaking the recipe on his own while franchises located in the rest of the world have used alternatives for decades? Potassium bromide has been banned in Europe for 36 years as it causes dna damage and tumors in animals.

Yes. I was thinking of Samsung and then I said Taiwan. Brain fart