Same, good to find out though. Good thing is some phone manufatures will now actually have to do something about poor efficiency, if they want to sell more.

I always look at it when buying machines for my home, why not a phone.

How can you hate on smart homes, when it’s a concept in itself with 100 different use cases.

My home cuts of the power for my standby devices when I leave it and nobody’s there. It makes sure everything is locked at night. It literally saves me 100’s on heating.

My light dims and uses less power when the sun is down. Good for the eyes and the bill.

It can run my washing machine when power is cheapest.

So now, if it does all that, making sure less ressources are spent, both money and CO2, and privacy is good, then why on earth you even hate it, let alone have an opinion about it. Why you care?

It goes up if they dont comply. This is first offence since the law came into effect.

Maybe I know nothing, but my VPN always defaults to Netherlands in the EU.

Could it be that its just hosted there through some tunnel VPN or some shit?

I dont know how it works, so maybe its all wrong.

Exactly, and you dont need to be consistent in this case. You set examples for the biggest offenders, and then others would think twice.

Also, you need to qualify as a gate keeper to be in the lime light. EU is going for the biggest, not everyone at once.

And for the Amazon example: they are only big in some EU countries, and its not close to US popularity. They might not be a gate keeper here.

Great results. Would an AI build for this not be better, or is it just meant as a kind of benchmark for LLMs?

I dont think its irrelevant at all, but this is the Energy Department. They do different work.

EU should add the label you talk about for sure, but this is not the tree to bark at.

They will probably do somewhat the same. They only need battery capacity, idle test and stress test.

No different than any other electronic like washing machines, TVs etc, and then adding battery capacity.

I dont see how the energy label would need that.

Software is a different department, and EU is currently looking at making laws about unlocking the phones for alternative OS software, which seems like a much better approach.

They already have credit score that you obtain by doing what they tell you to with your money.

EU is democratic, which also means everyone can propose a law. Never have EU put a backdoor into anything, but its true that there have been law proposals for it.

Never voted through.

EU could potentially make a group category like for Norway or Switzerland, and then take in other countries all around the world to cooperate more and stand together with the EU on some issues.

Canada would be a great candidate. Maybe even Australia, but I dont really know anything about their politics.

Everything is provocative if your dick is orange.

EU and its contries are pro open source and I fucking love it.

Yeah, the line for when its net positive is key. Otherwise we cant really draw conclusions.

The best news from this is that the EU is willing to go these ways. Incredible for consumers in the long run and to combat monopolies.

Yes, they could sponsor something else, but what we also really want are choices and competition.

No, true.

But factoring CO2 emitted from manufacturing + transportation from factory to your house, it will be net negative in emission. Even from transportation alone.

You cant gather more energy out of the rain than its potential energy from you roof to the ground.

Even at 100% efficiency it wont do anything.

It is the same argument, but you cant even start to compare it. EV emits less than manufacturing, this wont at its current state.

Lets just look at the transportation.

These will probably be manufatured in Asia. Lets just say its not, and its only 20km from your house. How much energy would it take for you to get these with a car, or how much energy would the truck require to get them to the store.

Even if the car/truck is electric, these tubes would never in 100 years generate enough for the product to move to you.

And this is only if its manufactured nearby.

So infinite energy in the UK then. /s