Truly impressive. Either I have been alive for a long time or the rate of progress is accelerating. I thought we were decades away from this.

Wrong country

Yup. Hate all of them.

European cars are expensive to buy, not affordable to maintain and depreciate fast. Toyota and Hyundai make the best cars in terms of reliability, maintenance and resale value but they are beat by the Chinese on price and features. Only time will tell if Chinese cars are as reliable and easy to maintain and therefore will retain their value overtime

Even in their home market they have been losing market share year after year. They have to undercut the competition and rely on patriotism to sell.

There is no good reason to buy a Tesla unless you are in a locked-down market and have no access to EVs from other makers.

I’m guessing the textures are taking too long to load or perhaps timing out and not loading.

“China bad” aside. Chinese companies are entering a space dominated by US companies with endless money, and this is one way they can gain a foothold. Also in China a working solution is preferred over intellectual property. An open model allows more people and companies to produce actual products and systems. There is no emphasis on value for shareholders or stock prices.

Airbnb boss Brian Chesky told Bloomberg in October his company relied “a lot” on Alibaba’s Qwen to power its AI customer service agent.

He gave three simple reasons - it’s “very good”, “fast” and “cheap”.

Going into 2025, the consensus was despite billions of dollars being spent by US tech firms, Chinese companies were threatening to pull ahead.

“That’s not the story anymore,” Boudier said. “Now, the best model is an open-source model.”

A report published last month by Stanford University found Chinese AI models “seem to have caught up or even pulled ahead” of their global counterparts - both in terms of what they’re capable of, and how many people are using them.

Interesting stuff. I hope Sam Altman loses everything.

Less US dominance and more options are good even for countries that can’t develop their own alternatives.

You can move the dock on macOS

I’m hopeful but I will get excited once it is in actual builds and have been benchmarked.

MediaBiasFactCheck has a known pro-Israel bias, hardly a reliable source on anything.

I would like to see Europe overcome its ingrained sinophobia and supremacism. We might actually have peace on Earth or at least in Asia.

“Arab country bad”

It is good to see racist supremacist western regimes get humbled.

Inshallah Mashallah

Not who you asked but since I recently got my first foldable an Honor Magic V5 after previously owning the iPhone 3G, 4S, 5, 6, SE, XR and 13 mini. I also had the iPad 1, 2, and 3. Here’s my answer:

1. Multitasking, I can run 3 apps side by side.
2. I can be productive with it using apps such as OnlyOffice, just hook up a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard
3. Great for emulating DS and 3DS games, most Bluetooth controllers should just work
4. There’s a desktop mode but I haven’t actually used it yet. The standard multitasking features in MagicOS have been sufficient for me.

But best of all, it is a mini tablet that fits in my pocket and I can take anywhere with me.

Why I chose the Honor Magic V5:

1. Significantly cheaper than the competition
2. Largest battery of any foldable

Even at my workplace I asked HR for permission to switch the office desktop to GNU+Linux. They required the installation of a few malware spyware but otherwise didn’t mind.

I have been using GNU+Linux on and off since 2007 only using Windows when needed to. Now I’m fully Windows-free and intend to keep it this way.

I thought this what Activision was already doing with its yearly Call of Duty releases.

I would take a 6-hour train ride over a 2-hour flight. Beyond that, e.g. 8-hour train ride vs. 2-hour flight, will have to factor other things.

Another unbiased study by the Burger Institute for Preserving Burger Hegemony

While Washington fixates on advanced AI semiconductors, Beijing is quietly cornering the market in so-called foundational chips that power everything from cars to medical devices to defence systems.

This is why the “military threat” argument was always a lie. I knew the military preferred legacy nodes with proven reliability and yields.

The cutting edge was always for high end smartphones, GPUs and the like; and not military uses.

Thank you. I wouldn’t have known that it was the product’s name. Shame it is a Windows device.

I personally would rather something about the same size as the PS Vita or Nintendo Switch Lite.

I do like the design of this, do you know what it is?:

HyperOS seems to be where HarmonyOS was pre NEXT. Heavily based on AOSP with Google Play Services, yet can also be had with other kernels.

In 10 months though and practically limited to the Chinese market? I think it is still an impressive figure.

The first device to feature HarmonyOS NEXT at sale was the Huawei Mate 70, which went on sale in China in November 2024.

Compare that with both Android and the iPhone which had global availability and took until 2010 to reach the same milestone.

China did what Europe has failed to do; create a widely deployed alternative to Android and iPhoneOS.

I will add foldable display, perhaps categorized under “innovative hardware” or “hardware diversity”. That’s why I switched from iPhone after 17 years.

The yellow part depends on where you are. Xiaomi and Honor still offer great value for money.

Apple hardware has never been more boring, one iterative release after another. They rely on software and services to lock users in.

Thankfully they aren’t the only ones who make fridges

One of the reasons I chose Honor over Huawei is becoming regrettable.

Meta is complicit in the genocide

I wonder if white people will be more racist or less racist once it becomes clear that you don’t need to be of European origin nor need to adopt their systems and values to excel at science and technology.

The US citizenship isn’t worth all that much nowadays.

I’m making significantly less than I did when I lived in the US, yet financially more comfortable to the point I can splurge and get the equivalent of a $1700 smartphone (Honor Magic V5).

Shame getting rid of the citizenship isn’t as easy as leaving. Luckily though I make less than half the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion limit that I don’t owe any taxes.

The multithreaded performance is comparable to a Ryzen 7 from a few years ago. It ain’t bad at all. It all comes to price and power efficiency; and for many governments the lack of possible CIA backdoors is another plus.

Mitt Romney explains why here: https://youtu.be/4e9RtmOYR6g

Copilot is free so I tried it out

Why would I work for free for the Chinese government or any other government? My Arab country gives me free education, healthcare and subsidized eggs and I still don’t support it uncritically. It’s far more logical and reasonable to attribute your fear of China to racism and chauvinism, and is consistent with what I have seen from your culture, media and politics over the years.