I think most of the “requirements” they’re referring to are the technical ones, not governmental.

North America’s residential HVAC landscape is pretty simply and dumb compared to a lot of what is happening in Europe. Dumb forced central air systems dominate residential HVAC.

It sounds like they don’t like developing for all the weird hardware configurations that appear in Europe.

It has a camera on the tailgate and the instrument cluster is a display.

Aside from being backed by Bezos, this seems like Lemmy the car. Under 20K, an EV, no stupid touch screen, designed to be repaired and modded, and even crank windows.

I bet the catch, aside from Bezos, is the range or charge speed.

Honestly, Intel has been up shit creek for a while now. No one big wants to use Intel’s fabs because they’re afraid that Intel’s design team will copy their homework.

Vertical integration has fucked Intel. TSMC’s fabs get all the important contracts from Nvidia, Apple, etc. And the massive client volume allows them to accelerate the evolution of their fab tech.

Intel needs to break their chip design business and fab into two separate businesses, otherwise it’s a continuation of the death march.

They do. That said, now that it’s really easy to mask whois data, I would argue that’s a less than perfect solution.

Someone doing research on China is a chiologist.

Same as someone doing research on biology is a biologist.

It’s not available to the public

Question is, do I downvote the crappy product because I hate it, or do I upvote it so other people can learn about it and hate it with me?

On one hand, the government should be looking at OSS. On the other hand, screw Microsoft’s shitty office software. If missing out on massive government contracts forces them to improve it, I’m all for it.

This is like a couple weeks of phones sales. Makes me think that the author is just speculating that this is tariff related. This might just be a normal shipment.

Using dumb LLMs, 5 plane loads is probably under 2million phones.

Given the amount of phones Apple sells in the US, this is probably just another Tuesday for them. They sell 60m phones in the US each year.

Fun fact, if you adjust for inflation, this machine is only $52 more than the original switch was at launch.

This is basically the originally pricing, adjusted for inflation + Trump’s 20% Chinese manufacturing tariff.

Looks like we’re seeing the impact of inflation + tariffs.

The OG Switch was $300 in 2017. This console would be about $350 if you adjusted for inflation.

Trust me, he’s not. He’s just trying to amass more wealth.

In its suit, Samsung alleged that Oura had a history of filing patent suits against competitors like Ultrahuman, RingConn, and Circular for “features common to virtually all smart rings,” such as sensors, batteries, and common health metrics.

The problem isn’t the features, it’s that Samsung is copying the very concept of a smart ring. Oura was the first company to make and patent biometric smart rings. So, yeah, if you make a biometric smart ring without paying them, you’re getting sued. That’s how patents work.

For the past 30 years, Samsung’s consumer product development strategy has been 75% “copy the competitors, then pay lawyers to fight it out.”

I thought that was rowing machine porn.

You will encounter this man at work.

They will ask for your help with something on their workstation, and it would be faster for you to drive with them watching over your shoulder, but this cryptic thing is their keyboard.

Instead, you will be forced to sit behind them like Patrick Swayze guiding Demi Moore at a throwing wheel. You will eventually take your shirt off, launch Unchained Melody in Spotify, then slowly guide them through a system setting panel.

You will notice how soft their hands feel. The hyper-ergonomic keyboard has allowed their fingers to move with minimal effort, allowing the skin to remain supple, smooth - almost unused.

You will ask yourself, “Is he right?” How could a keyboard be so aggressive and wrong, and yet, support something so gentile.

You try to deny the feeling. Your friends and family will mock you like your uncle Dvorak. Maybe you start with a trackball and see if being naughty feels right.

Probably not the worst idea if you’ve been diagnosed with heart disease.

Samsung’s just copying Apple yet again.

Well, one is a public benefit company, the other is not. So not exactly the same shit.