Thunderbird. The “Mozilla problem” is greatly exaggerated and even if so, there are forks.

Great video. Steve keeps doing the good journalistic work.

The most reliable Linux OS out there, software and community. If there’s still people and computers in 50 years, Debian will still be around.

Shocked! I tell ya.

It’s almost like… giving up the silicon shield seems like a really bad deal with an unreliable partner in the face of the current US government. TSMC and Taiwan better be learning quickly.

I was wondering when piracy is going to join the game. Awkwardly absent so far.

Perhaps more to do with this. Google no longer has legal problems in the US under Trump.

What the 🦆

Some additional keywords on the tech behind this extended range capability:

… self-generated anode battery technology (which no longer uses traditional graphite anode material but allows elements to deposit on the current collector in metallic form, increasing volumetric energy density by 60% and gravimetric energy density by 50%)

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Additionally, CATL’s self-generated anode technology can be adapted to multiple material systems. For example, when paired with sodium-ion systems, the energy density can reach 350Wh/L; with phosphate systems, it can reach 680-780Wh/L; and with ternary systems, it can exceed 1000Wh/L.

Source

The source cites CATL, but this self-generating anode tech has apparently been studied for a while by more than CATL.

You may still get hit with the tariff if it’s shipped from overseas. In such a scenario, you’re the importer and likely responsible for any duties and fees.

This thread makes me so proud 🥲

I was with you back in the day, but they way the world and these companies have shifted over the last decade in how they operate just makes this an instant no-no for me. I wish it wasn’t the case because we could have nice things if the system didn’t require them to profit-maximize.

Ads first, then subscription, then subscription with ads. 🥲

Yeah, what else would you use, Arch? 😂 It’s either Debian or Ubuntu if you need the corpo support.

Yeah, it’s just competent state policy.

Oof, they’re already worried about the Chinese hardware… It makes sense, I just didn’t know they’d be worried yet. As I’ve said in another thread, if they are barred from the Chinese market Huawei and whoever else is developing AI accelerators would become competitive faster and take over the market. There’s no coming back from that for NVIDIA. It’s also likely that China would let Huawei sell these around the world for cheap, so NVIDIA’s profits are going down anywhere Huawei isn’t banned, which probably includes most of the West. This should still be a few years out though, as Huawei can’t use TSMC to mass-produce and SMIC can’t do EUV yet.

I’m offended by the fact that Debian is depicted as the same size as the other elephants. Offended!

Be a shame they’ve left a poorly configured VPN node that allowed someone from a Chinese IP dump unknown quantities of IP. Happens all the time. And oh look the Chinese subsidiary hired some really talented people that got a new chip design in a record time!

Right, for profit companies famously have a history of just handing themselves over to totalitarian regimes.

There are Western for-profit companies who have Chinese subsidiaries developing and selling products in China. They make profits on those sales and hand them over to their shareholders in the West and in China. The Chinese government fully allows this so for-profit companies regularly do it. And yes the Chinese state often is a direct or indirect shareholder. But so could be Berkshire Hathaway. It’s not about handing over the ability to profit. It is about making profit. Also, Western for-profit companies often sell themselves to Chinese firms. E.g. Smithfield Foods, Syngenta and many others.

China has no successful companies that aren’t approved, controlled and often subsidized by the party.

That’s an interesting assertion. As far as I’m aware it’s typically the other way around. The companies that grow to be large enough or strategic enough give partial ownership to the government. Of course the government subsidizes important industries like every competent state does, but that doesn’t mean it owns every company it subsidizes. There’s no point in owning small fish. Some of those that grow even have foreign ownership. For example BYD has Berkshire Hathaway and BlackRock as some of its major shareholders.

So in the case of NVIDIA, it’s entirely plausible for the company to move operations in say Shenzhen, retaining most of its current ownership, perhaps giving some ownership to a Chinese state company. The profits keep flowing to BlackRock, Vanguard, Fidelity and Jensen Huang. Pretty sure they’ll approve it if it means more future profits compared to staying in the US and being unable to sell to China and others. For example if Trump decides that both EU and China are bad hombres and forbids AI chip sales to them, while the US economy tanks, decreasing the domestic sales.

Yes. There are plenty hugely successful Chinese companies. The hypothetical I’m considering is NVIDIA becoming a successful Chinese company, not an American company trying to do product development in China. It won’t be a foreign company to steal IP from and there won’t be a need to replace it with another one.

True. That’s a problem with the China route at this point. In a few years however I’d expect SMIC to be competitive with TSMC. They’re doing their damnest to get there and given the pressure and resources thrown at it, I think it’s a matter of time.