[–] -1 points 6 months ago (1 child)

That's why I keep saying Europe should go for hydrogen fuel. We already have plenty of green energy that we need to store somehow. Instead of subsidising chinese battery makers, we should put serious money in hydrogen r&d

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Tax big tech; Ban Facebook and X; Impose the same 10/25% on everything; Sell US treasuries.

    I'm well aware it would hurt us as well, but we passed that point where we had a choice

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    To be fair, if you don't want to buy Chinese motors, then the only option is the US. Maybe Taiwan, but that I would not call a very secure supply chain either. Hard to believe but there doesn't seem to be a single manufacturer in Europe that produces drone motors

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Downdetector was down again for a while. The main news site in Hungary wasn't, seems like they got rid of cloudflare completely after the last outage.

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    As we all know, the EU loves regulation, sometimes even overregulation. One area where I feel that regulation would help is computer hardware sale. When I want to buy a laptop and I visit the online retailers, normally 80% of the laptops come with Windows, 10% Linux and 10% Freedos or without any. I would very much welcome if the EU made it mandatory for manufaturers to offer the choice of OS when buying a new laptop. Just like you chose the color, how much RAM you wanted, SSD size, you could also chose what operating system you want it with. As part of that, manufacturers would be obliged to send a fix donation after every sold piece to the corresponding Linux distro team, which would help the chronic underfunding issue. Not sure how much the manufacturers pay for Windowsfor the license, but theoretically the Linux equivalent machine should be cheaper even after the donation. Any views are welcome.

     

    As we all know, the EU loves regulation, sometimes even overregulation. One area where I feel that regulation would help is computer hardware sale. When I want to buy a laptop and I visit the online retailers, normally 80% of the laptops come with Windows, 10% Linux and 10% Freedos or without any. I would very much welcome if the EU made it mandatory for manufaturers to offer the choice of OS when buying a new laptop. Just like you chose the color, how much RAM you wanted, SSD size, you could also chose what operating system you want it with. As part of that, manufacturers would be obliged to send a fix donation after every sold piece to the corresponding Linux distro team, which would help the chronic underfunding issue. Not sure how much the manufacturers pay for Windowsfor the license, but theoretically the Linux equivalent machine should be cheaper even after the donation. Any views are welcome.

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