Ben Matthews

OK, nice promises, but seems to me overpowered for phone functions, so what’s their plan for battery lifetime (bearing in mind that a desktop os is less optimised for efficiency)?

Indeed it seems Trump picked up some ideas about “Juche” (national self-reliance?) from his best buddy “rocket-man”.

Hmm, so how does the government distribute that potentially lucrative tariff-free quota between importers ? Or if the government imports rice directly, stores it, then resells at a much high price, that’s effectively a tariff.
Seems complicated, but then most countries do something similar, consider price-fixing of food by the EU CAP …

US has only 4% of the world’s population, there are now plenty of super-rich in China, India, etc. who like to flaunt i-stuff.

Yeah, but you just gave me an idea too, how about AI-directed canines? “apple-intelligence” applied to follow-your-nose. My dog loves to chase small spots of light, which might be a trick to steer them.

And if chinese buy iphones, do they now have to pay 84% tariff? - maybe HQ in europe solves that too?

So do they also tariff imports (e.g. american rice) that much ?
I haven’t been in Japan since 1997 (COP3) but was impressed by cycling past many little rice fields sandwiched between city buildings - it’s human-scale which is worth defending (similarly to some european agriculture - idea of CAP), the opposite of US prairies.

Hope you are right, but depends on the power balance after the election, and whether federal or provincial law decides such things.
Isn’t Alberta is more aligned to MAGA politically? Maybe tries to stir up a big provocation, then eventually ‘annex’ it.

Can anybody explain, how does an easily transportable and storable product like rice get to cost so much more (6$) per kilo in Japan, than elsewhere in the world (including rest of east asia)?

As a global company, Apple could just re-establish itself in europe, e.g. Ireland, and continue trading with China, they can just put the US on hold for a couple of years.
Meanwhile for those who really addicted to istuff, coyotes can smuggle iphones across the border, so maybe this solves the fentanyl ‘issue’.

Well thought out article - worth reading

Trump may echo Nixon, iirc, breaking trust in such systems. Anybody know, can he try to stop them withdrawing? What about China, Japan, others …?

Back to what car ???

History will recall this as the Trump Slump …

Others, including populist right politicians in several of EU’s own member states …
The article’s intention is good, but does anybody here know how much the EU commission or parliament can do about this, without unanimity, and without it’s own police ? Also does the ECJ have any role?

It took the EU many years to negotiate trade agreements with Canada, Brazil, etc., partly due to internal disagreements within the EU and complicated national ratification procedures. We don’t have kings who can just act on their whims.
Also - it’s easier to apply tariffs on physical goods, than on digital services which US exports - coordination is needed to avoid loopholes, but that’s complicated, slow.
So, the ideas seem good in theory, but how could this be done fast enough ?
Meanwhile only Russia is laughing, they got their multipolar world …

Glad to see a brand focusing on linux notebooks, but only intel / amd ? - maybe needs that big battery / fans …?

Diverse views here, even within our lemmy ‘bubble’, suggest it’s not obvious what to do about this (and similar situation in France and other european countries). Banning either individuals or parties can set a risky precedent and does not necessarily diminish a movement. I’d rather go for gradually (but rapidly) changing norms about acceptable campaigning, propaganda, use of social media, ‘fake’ news (lies). That includes faster-acting legal restrictions on funding, ownership, facts/fakes, algorithms, etc… , as well as positively strengthening alternatives like our fediverse.

Well it’s extremely predictable - only dependent on cycles of the moon (and sun). In a specific location there are slack periods every six hours or so, but the phase of the waves shifts as you move along the coast a bit (not too far, on the scale of France) so these could be smoothed out by combining power from multiple locations.

I read that you can graft apple-family fruits onto hawthorn too, has anybody here tried that?