Yes, RISC-V largely forms the basis for china’s future tech “independence”. Most CPU’s are Chinese brands and SBC’s like SiFive are Chinese too.

“Act of God” is actually a legal term and not really a religious reference and more. It means a freak event that cannot really be anticipated or planned for.

Does it do any of the Microsoft 365 features like versioning, collaboration / multi-editing and such? This has been a game changer for many corporate environments that used to rely on file servers and usb drives. I feel LibreOffice might be stuck in a previous decade of office software without this.

It’s fun and seems surprisingly useful. Although his remark on the 1000w power supply (similar to 2003 era PowerPC G5 Macs) does make sense. Whenever I run a modern Linux on a PowerPC Mac it just turns into a boring slow old computer that feels even older than the same hardware running an ancient MacOS X

Looks like you might have been frustrated in a traffic jam at the border? I looked up what the border checks effect has been, in this article from February: “Since the reintroduction of border controls in September 2024, Germany has detected around 80,000 irregular entries. Additionally, over 1,900 people smugglers were arrested, and nearly 47,000 individuals were denied entry due to invalid travel documents.”

I’ll say it again, the globalist Eu are out of touch with common citizens and are still pushing for open borders based on 75 year old UN statutes. The growing right flank has been ignored successfully for decades but will soon be too big to isolate. That’s when we follow the US example and see actual strongmen come to power (instead of being marginalized). Soon…

This was a transitional stage, HarmonyOS Next is running a fully different kernel and runtime

It’s now a monument to how things used to be

There’s also a certain pendulum swinging effect. From the prude 1950s to the free love of the late ‘60s, the movies of the 1970s were a lot less prude than the 2000s are. It might take another generation growing up in this environment for them to rebel again and we’ll have another summer of love, somewhere in the 2050s

Yes they were afraid of reciprocal tariffs from china, but also many Tesla’s sold in Europe are actually made in Shanghai, the Berlin factory only makes high end model Y’s.

It’s like an arms race, would be good if no-one did it, would be bad if China got there first.

There’s a whole ecosystem of listener-supported podcasts using the “value for value” model popularized by “the Podfather” Adam Curry. You can find most of them on podcastindex.org or through a supported app like Podverse or Fountain.

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This comment is suspicious to me. It’s been companies like Apple that have pioneered using Chinese labor to increase their profits. Moving jobs to the USA won’t help make them any richer. It makes economic sense but not strategic sense

This is so amazing, I never got this (wine and emulation stack) to work on Mac!

Extreme focus on sports, wearing sportswear (both men and women do this), always “exercising”, mentioning calories on a menu card (a Caesar salad contains 1200 calories!).

Not even a joke in there, this is just how it is

An Alpine radio and phone dock meant I was streaming podcasts way before it was cool.

The original Matrix movie