That’s a different regulation. It’s not that hard.

USB C: already required now

Replaceable battery: required starting next year

By the way, USB C on the charger is not a requirement. Only on the device side.

The batteries inside of the phone have to be replaceable by normal personnel. So instead of glueing it stuck, they need to use screws or something else.

This. Furthermore, because the date is fixed, a decade from now, only middle aged people will smoke in public. I really doubt if youngsters find it appealing at that time, to adopt a habit associated with the elderly.

Depending on your phase in life and education, you could take a look at German education. Master studies are often tuition free and they come with a student residence permit, meaning you are allowed to work and stay in Germany during the study. Afterwards you can apply for an EU blue card and you can stay indefinitely after several years of work.

Thanks, didn’t know! I love Massive Attack and I recommend seeing them live. They are way better than you would expect from a decades old band.

Also the data seems to be from 2018. More than 50% of all new purchased city passenger buses in Europe are zero emission (usually electrified). And that number is higher in some other countries, with China being ahead of everyone.

The best setup would be a dynamic electricity contract and solar panels + batteries + heat pump or airconditioning, optionally EV.

Using only batteries will lead to diminishing returns because of the surge in batteries everywhere, having an overall stabilizing effect on energy prices throughout the day.

Store the excess PV energy in batteries during the day and, at times when electricity is expensive, sell it or use it for home appliances, heating or EV charging.

Seems to be the classic GW vs GWh struggle journalists cannot comprehend.

In 2025, the EU added around 12 GW of extra power output from batteries, and about 25 GWh of energy storage capacity to the already existing infrastructure. Meaning the batteries can output 12 GW of power for more than 2 hours before they are depleted.

English is the number one language for trading, even if the US falls into despair. It is the most dominant second language in the world. Even the Chinese learn English starting primary school these days.

It is possible but doesn’t sound all that realistic to me. A truly decentralized app cannot be blocked by dns or endpoints. Thus a country would have to DPI the entire internet which is very resource intensive. And even then the data will be encrypted so you would have to resort to fingerprinting and finding patterns. From an age verification app to automatic data blocking based on deep packet inspection with fingerprinting of the entire internet - that seems quite a leap. Personally I don’t think decentralized apps are next in line to be blocked.

I recognize carrots, an old lead slab and some dried feces

How would they do such a thing? Require every open port on every internet connected device to be registered? Disallow https and implement full scale layer 7 scanning?

Could you explain what email summaries have to do with this announcement? Thunderbird and Thunderbolt are separate applications. Thunderbolt doesn’t include AI models, it is merely a frontend to an AI API of choice, similar to how Thunderbird is a frontend to an email server of choice.

It could greatly boost the use of decentralized apps. Which will ultimately give people more power than they have right now. So in the long run, it might have some positive side effects.

They don’t consider themselves Chinese. But they have Chinese roots, with the vast majority of people having Chinese ancestry.

Rutte is secretary general of NATO. Making war related decisions is not possible in his position, that’s up to the member countries. His job is to coordinate and in this case, deescalate.

My setup to make YouTube bearable:

Firefox mobile and the following extensions:

• uBlock Origin
• DeArrow
• Hide-Shorts
• SponsorBlock

It’s understandable that not everyone wants to riot for moral values and against mass corruption, but surely everyone can see that it’s just a matter of time before distress comes to the USA if nothing is done right now? It’s pretty naive to assume that your new enemies won’t hit back in some way, and most of the world just wants the US to become a meaningless country, since everyone is sick of the constant abuse of power and its negative effects on the world economy and stability. To join riots right now is the least the American people can do. Throughout American history it was often needed for the many to fight the elite and that time has come again.

The USA has its own issues. It has relatively high inequality compared to other civilized countries. Discrimination against black Americans is still present. And the USA is a prison country, one in every 150 Americans is in prison right now, a number 5-10 times higher than European countries and also higher than China.

Also important that Mac primarily supports their own proprietary graphics api, while other platforms support open standards like Opengl and Vulkan. Which makes coding games for Apple a pain few are willing to endure.