Yes, there are efficiencies since all the tech is pretty close, but that pales in comparison to the sheer dollars injected into the industries. 231 billion dollars. Compare that to the 2nd closest investment into a car manufacturer which is the USA at 30 billion.

Each one of these new 500+ car manufacturers produced cars at a loss. Not because efficiencies. Because of subsidies. In some cases, not even sold at all. https://youtu.be/vplPmxVRcnk

Here in Taiwan, we get unfiltered China news.

Competition is good. I welcome Kevin to try again.

I’m super happy for you. It’s like you’re a totally different person now.

I worked at a bank for 10 years about 15 years ago. Unless we know this person prior to transition, we can’t use the ID anymore and go straight to another method to verify you. I recommend updating your ID photo. Some places have more strict policies that might be less welcoming.

So much to unpack here but I’ll do my best to address everything you’re saying here.

1- Chinese cars can’t compete in price: yes because China has been dumping subsidies into the market, inflating the supply. China dumped 231 billion dollars into EVs from 2009 to 2023. Over 500 electric car brands were created due to this injection. There is only are less than 100 left after China stopped the subsidies.

2- The Chinese EV are a superior product: which one of the 500 car companies are you referring to? outside ofthe top China brands (Geely, BYD), they all sorta suck.

China is doing is state sponsored “dumping”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy) which artificially reduces prices to gain market share and has a negative effect on the industry. Every country in the world, not just the US, has an anti dumping policy, including China.

While we the consumer would love to spend pennies on the dollar for an electric cars, the effect is only temporary and when we start losing car companies due to this practice, prices always, ALWAYS, are higher after we lose competition.

Anti dumping policies is not hindering free market. The second you inject 231 billion dollars of government subsidies into an industry, is the second it no longer becomes a free market.

Yes, the USA has also has given subsidies. In total about 30 billion dollars. A drop in the bucket on the 231 billion the CCP has injected.

I live in Taiwan and we call those China made cars tofu cars. Their domestic cars are terrible. So many of them are going out of business because the the CCP lowered down the subsidies.

I won’t be caught dead in one.

Yes, we get to prioritize USA industries vs China’s. I’m down for that.

I would too, but you have to understand why the USA is blocking these cars from coming in. The cost of these cheap EVs are not based off of supply and demand. Its not even this cheap because of effectiveness or efficiencies. Its from the CCP subsidies. The CCP wants to dump on the competition in efforts to kill off anyone making a car, then start jacking up the price after they have market share.

You know. I stand corrected.

Sure sure, plenty more that offers 4.7 and smaller.

You can. Ditch Apple and join us. Plenty of small phone selections here on the other side. Edit: you know what. Android doesn’t have that many either.

Same reason I have a Samsung Fold. 75% of the time it’s a small phone for small regular tasks. When consuming media, I open up.

OK!

Oh finally! I wanted a new launcher installed and have all ads removed. Now I can finally do it! Thanks for the news!!

Errrrr, why you comparing heros? Can’t we have multiple heros?

This dude is my hero.

What if you forget to sudo? How about if you don’t have apt get or the command is apt-get and it fails?

Or some supporting file is missing. So many things go wrong.

Don’t discriminate. All religions are stupid.

I’m currently on my Fold 5. Started from Fold 2, 4 and then 5. My wife who is currently on 6.

In between I have used Pixels and iPhones.

The Fold is a productively monster. I can have up to 4 screens running simultaneously.

I can be on a zoom call and work on the slide the slide or PowerPoint at the same time. I can plug it into a monitor and a mouse and keyboard.

There is a price to pay for this innovation. It is constantly breaking. So I pay for the insurance. It’s totally worth it.

I REALLY want it to be my primary OS. First, I couldn’t get my GTX 3070ti to load correctly. Then I wanted the ability to have my browser windows to do a 50/50 split on my widescreen monitor. This isn’t native. I spent time on stupid flatpaks and stupid terminals and endless forums and chatgpt and finally gave up.

The UX design is bad.

Really? First time I did it, it kept giving me an error. Did it a few times and couldn’t figure it out. Then I asked the community and the community laughed at me for not knowing sudo. WTF is sudo?!?!

OK fine. I got it working. Wait, why doesn’t it auto update? Why do I need to constantly remind myself to update the software… in terminal???

I’m not even a normie. But the toxic elitist community and the terminal requirement is just a dead end for most people.