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.

“China bad”

He started executing big pharma CEOs?

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

China was forced to become addicted. The US did it to itself.

People forget that the US benefitted greatly from forcing opium on China.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/american-old-money-opium-trade-fortunes/

After Britain, the country that benefited the most from the China trade—and, therefore, the global traffic in opium—was none other than the United States. And in the United States, unlike in Britain, it is well-established that the beneficiaries included many of the preeminent families, institutions, and individuals in the land.

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.

Your posts keep getting downvoted and I wonder where do they all come from? I wouldn’t expect Lemmy.ml to be high on the CIA’s manipulation list.

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.

They see Putin as competition to their own fascist tendencies

I used to think the same. “They don’t hate us, just our governments/extremists/etc…” Nah, it turns out they really hate us [Arabs] regardless.

The downvotes prove the meme. Overtime I learned that liberals hate three specific groups: Arabs, Chinese and Russians; it is just who they are. After 2024 many US liberals added Latinos to the list.

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.