Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. JUST a moment! Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. JUST a moment! Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. JUST a moment!

Lost those 400 million in 3 years no less. I know this seems like good news, but to me this is worse, because it looks like the PC market is shrinking fast in favor of mobile, and mobile is atrocious when it comes to user freedoms.

Drove a few cars with “lane hold” and it’s infuriating to have to suddenly correct the car’s trajectory at every curve because it misjudges the road line. Some cars are worse than others but it was literally the first thing I disabled every time. I wonder how truck drivers feel about it. Do modern trucks even have this?

It was just a really strange comment. I mean yeah, road quality varies wildly ( jyst come to eastern europe if you wanna see some remarkable road craters ) but its a broad generalization and the quality surely it varies in china as well, no? I keep trying to imagine what roads were these vehicles designed for if “european” roads prompted a redesign.

I was going to say “because they’re probably state subsidized” but your suggestion is better

Edit: looks like you’re right lol

The urgent pace is baked into BYD’s structure. Taking advantage of China’s lower labor costs, BYD deploys about 900,000 employees, nearly as many as the combined workforces of Toyota and Volkswagen, to accelerate design and manufacturing. At its headquarters, BYD promotes a work-focused life through company-subsidized housing, transportation and schools.

They also combine that with skimping on quality ( admittedly a low bar these days, when even daimler uses cheap chinese interior plastic ):

Chinese engineers have essentially concluded that global industry-standard vetting processes are a wasteful pursuit of “excessive quality,” Han said.

Instead, Chinese automakers release good-enough vehicles quickly, with far fewer prototypes and a fail-fast philosophy mirroring Silicon Valley tech startups, industry executives and experts said.

This sentence makes no sense though:

The problem: The car had been designed for China’s smooth streets and slower speeds. Now, it had to withstand Europe’s winding, bumpy roads.

It’s almost as if this was a propaganda article.

Wang spends many nights in Shenzhen employee housing, eats simple meals and works long days, sometimes in a BYD uniform, two BYD investors and others who know him told Reuters. Unlike many Chinese executives, who are chauffeured around, he often drives himself

I got it - they’re quoting directly, that’s why it reads like propaganda.

Oh, I see we moved on to the “too late to do anything about it now” phase already

We’re in the honeymoon phase, shit didn’t hit the fan yet. Problem is we devs are fucked either way. If productivity does increase, then workforce demand will go down especially for entry level devs and seniors will be relegated to vibe coding and fixing AI bugs. If it all goes south then layoffs, because line must go up!

Company I’m at also does the forced AI and it’s all but mandatory now. Problem is as code monkeys we’re past the point of heading down to the Winchester for a pint until it blows over. They’re pushing so hard in order to “not fall behind” that you literally can’t escape it. I think even malicious compliance won’t cut it. And when 8/10 companies that dictate the market say that “this is the future”, then this is the future they’ll make whether we like it or not.

Edit: the silver lining is that we’re working with tools that are better than copilot at generating menial work like generating boilerplate code, unit tests, release notes, walls of text for app documentation etc.

Not sure. This phone seems better in some regards and worse in others, so I’d say wait for reviews.

As for me I probably won’t get it. Already have a fp4 I got in a sale to experiment with and see if I can completely degoogle and couldn’t ( not completely anyway ). Now it’s more or less a paperweight that I might revisit in the future, when my daily phone kicks the bucket. The dealbreaker is Android15 because that’s when they shoved gemini in, so any phone with Android14 and security updates will do fine. God I hope that linux phones finally get off the ground already

I know I know, but it was really convenient to keep a spare battery and do a quick swap on the fp4.

Is it me or did they get slightly more vague on their marketing materials, wrt the environmental impact ( at least compared to fp5 ) ?

Also the battery seems a bit harder to replace, as you now need a screwdriver. It does appear to be more flush, so it may be due to size constraints.

Edit: and there’s “more” replaceable parts because the back is split in two. That split might prove better for durability tho, because pulling the back on their older phones felt like it would break every time.

Of course it is. Textbook enshittification: first be good to your users, then to your providers, then fuck both and rake in the cash.

A few large sets, amounting around 12000 bricks, or a random assortment of up to 20000 bricks if acquired in bulk ( or like a bathtub of bricks if acquired second-hand )

Used to hear that spacex has been successful in spite of his meddling, not because of it.

I do wonder if he started taking the reins with Starship, because it sure seems to be giving them a really hard time.

It’s probably a good time for any farmer to get off john deere either way.

These days they fancy themselves an AI and data-driven solutions company rather than an equipment manufacturer: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2019/03/15/the-amazing-ways-john-deere-uses-ai-and-machine-vision-to-help-feed-10-billion-people/

To me that means they want to go the way of HP, enshittifying everything they have.

How is this news? This was literally an electoral point of his. Besides, it’s the same position other nato members are taking, albeit hidden behind the “territorial integrity” excuse.

The actual news may be that, sadly, Poland these days is sliding into christian nationalism, just like the US.

Of course it is. It’s invasive by design. The “recent tweaks” were because of backlash, but now that’s died down

Propaganda or not, I really hope poland does not soften their anti-russian attitude, else we’ll be proper fucked in eastern europe

On the plus side, at least he’s just as rusophobic and willing to arm-up as the other candidates, right? Right?

Incompetent incumbent administration + russian propaganda + a lot of angry angry people after the cancelling of the first set of elections.