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.

Israel is a Western liberal democracy that doesn’t make it good; and Nvidia is helping it commit genocide. I would rather a Chinese company spy on me than an American or European company, more so if said company is complicit in genocide. What will the Chinese government do to me? Nothing.

European-style democracy (US and Israel included) is but one form of government, nations are allowed to choose alternative forms. Judging by the outcomes European-style democracy isn’t even the best form of government. Your intolerance of other forms and desire to enforce your own system on others even when your system is clearly broken and failing can only be explained by chauvinism and tacit racism.

People vote in China. Anyways, this is getting off topic. This Chinese GPU should be judged on technical merits, not based on the form of government or whether China adheres to European cultural and political norms. If that’s your only issue with it, then it is an admission that it is a competitive product.

In a democracy most people get what they want most of the time. Do you honestly believe that people in the US want to go bankrupt every time they need healthcare?

White, Anglo-Saxon, Christian.

The Chuo Shinkansen is scheduled to open in 2034.

No, this is misleading. Not in service, and only an engine car.

Is it actually in service? It seems like not yet, but I do think they will beat the Chuo Shinkansen in both time and speed.

Microsoft spent 8.5 billion dollars to acquire Skype in 2011.

People in the West seem to choose to be as dumb as rocks. My only consolation is that you are only 13% of the world population and declining. Soon enough we won’t have to care what you think, and future generations may not even have to learn your languages to read your horrible takes.

Reading online posts by benighted Westerners made me wish I never learned English.

People are getting paid to hate the US/West? I have been doing it for free by witnessing the genocide in Gaza

Favourite Series - Recommended Entry Point

1. Final Fantasy - VI
2. Atelier - Sophie
3. Dead or Alive - 5 Last Round
4. Senran Kagura - Burst Renewal
5. Romancing Saga - 2 Revenge of the Seven

I am glad Tango Gameworks found a new home. As for Xbox, I am no longer buying any new games for it and I am boycotting Microsoft for a myriad of reasons.

It is open source, so it should be audited and if there are back doors they can be plugged in a fork

We will have true AI once it is capable of answering “I don’t know” instead of making things up

Maybe GPUs can be affordable again?

Someone just missed how China was so far behind on ICE vehicles but leaped everyone on EVs

Do you think Westerners will finally understand that they are not racially or culturally superior just because for a brief period of human history they were the dominant technological and economical power?

What am I saying? I am being delusional. They will just double down on Sinophobia and Yellow Perilism. And more Chinese people working in the West will leave back to their country.

I’m one of those nerds