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Comment · 18 days ago
> The policy described in the article doesn't apply in the EU, but it's not like Amazon is cheaper in the EU.

Do we know that? Also: It's not about Amazon being cheaper but their competitors being allowed to be cheaper.

Comment · 1 month ago
Apple Intelligence is available on macOS in the EU. It's only disabled on iOS/iPadOS.
Comment · 1 month ago
Seems like you're getting scammed. Sumup for example charges 1,75 % per transaction, no other costs, not even a monthly fee. With a monthly fee the transaction cost drops to just 0.89%.
Comment · 1 month ago
It's metric insofar that A0 has an area of exactly 1m².
Comment · 2 months ago
Seems like you read some misinformation there. Share of coal in the German electricity mix:

2021 30.2%

2022 33.3% (the year that nuclear was shut off)

2023 26.0%

2024 21.2%

2025 22.4%

Complete phase out is scheduled for the 2030s.

Comment · 4 months ago
Wow a publicly routable IPv4 address on a mobile phone? Wouldn't that drain the battery a lot? Or is there some kind of carrier-level firewall still?
Comment · 4 months ago
It formally isn't but for (almost) all intents and purposes it is.
Comment · 4 months ago
I love Nextcloud but I feel like they should really completely redo their UI. It just doesn't look like something from this decade.
Comment · 4 months ago
> This will be a logistical challenge for the grid but absolutely fantastic for BYD owners in particular.

Interestingly BYD actually puts batteries next to these chargers that they charge "off peak" to minimise the strain on the grid. So often times cars will actually charge from that battery instead of directly from the grid.

Comment · 4 months ago
DMCA is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a US law. DMA is the Digital Markets Act, a EU law.

It is in fact an antitrust law. It basically argues (correctly in my opinion) that Apple and other companies have created new markets inside of their products. And in those markets they exert total control, including charging developers extortionate fees, forcing them to use their subpar and expensive payment systems or restricting what users can run on the devices they own & a lot of paid money for.

Comment · 4 months ago
Well, let that be my concern. Why should I trust Apple more than let's say Proton?
Comment · 4 months ago
Think about Matter what you want, but the fact that it is simply IP-based so you can hack something like this together is pretty amazing.
Comment · 5 months ago
> it's built-in to Spotify as a setting somewhere, from memory

That setting has been removed a few years ago. It now works the other way round: You authorise last.fm to access your Spotify data.

Comment · 5 months ago
Which god?
Comment · 5 months ago
> made the EU leadership turn and now they want nuclear

They don't _actually_ want nuclear, luckily it's just lip service. Because it doesn't solve the problem surfaced by the US-Israel-Iran war: You'd still be dependent on other countries for your (nuclear) fuel needs.

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