Cyberwolf

What’s the use case for microSD slots on phones these days anyway?

If its just to avoid paying Google or Apple storage fees, you should buy several HDDs to keep at home and sync stuff over the local network, possibly even build a server and access your stuff remotely.

I really don’t understand the need for that much space on the go, though. Are you watching entire series on your phone?

Are you saying China DIDN’T aggressively take over Hong Kong and all of the businesses that operated there?

Uh, i kinda am, yeah.

Last time I checked, Hong Kong is still a tax haven in the middle of Asia. Western companies are still opening offshore subsidiaries and bank accounts there to engage in tax evasion, and the welfare system is still as pitiful as it was before China took over.

Retirees living in literal cages or under bridges is still common, and the same 3-4 families that ran Hong Kong’s banking, industry and real estate are still in control like they’ve always been.

By any metrics, China took control of Hong Kong on paper only. In practice, everything stayed the same.

We as in Europeans, which I assume most of the user base here to be, unlike Reddit. Sorry if my assumption bothers you.

Independent untill the party decides they’re not independent. (Eg).

Again another non-sequitor that has nothing to do with the topic at hand. Nobody disagrees that China doesn’t like people publicly criticizing their government.

That has rigorously NOTHING to do with the normal operation of companies that do not engage with politics in China, which is what I was talking about before you barged in.

Also, it is the US that has been kidnapping people into unmarked vans and arresting people at airport, detaining them for however long, and deporting them to countries that aren’t their own for as little as having a meme criticizing the current US regime.

So really, which one is the dictatorship?

The sooner we stop seeing China as enemies, the better. We need them more than ever now that the US has decided to go full mask off.

BYD is free to operate as it wishes in China, along with several millions of other companies. And their products are good.

They know, they just have too much invested in their 401k to think about their own best interests. Sold themselves and their future families for a couple more % points of growth yearly.

I don’t know if this is Windows trying to stop hemorrhaging users to Linux, but if they go ahead with this it will likely hilariously backfire and make multiplayer games become even more compatible with Linux.

Steam is already rubbing their hands grubbingly.

But even that is incorrect.

Yes, Xi Jinping is powerful as the Chairman of the party, but the communist party of China is not the military, and there is a fair amount of decentralization in decision making.

Further, the guy above goes “look at how Xi is suplexing Taiwan?!?!” even though he isn’t because guess what, he doesn’t actually have the power to do so.

Also, none of this has anything to do with the topic of EV production, which is in the hands of a private company which largely operates independently of the government, much like millions of other companies that operate in China.

Which is why I said the dude is just spewing brainless US state propaganda and Red Herring.

Is it any less bad that to have a pretend personality when you’re talking about finding friends…?

but saying that a Chinese company isn’t “under the control of Xi Jinping”, the guy who crushed Hong Kong for having too much independence and wants to do the same with Taiwan, is laughable.

Just take that sentence at face value and consider the ridiculousness of actually believing the guy alone has that amount of crushing power.

You’re just regurgitating unfounded US propaganda which, this being Lemmy, is very unfortunate to see.

If you think Xi Jinping is dictating what BYD does with their cars then you don’t understand the fundamentals as to why China managed to attract so much foreign investment and got to where they are now in the first place.

Chinese electric cars are just better. BYD is what Tesla wanted to be, but actually fulfills its promises. Plus it isn’t ran by a nazi dictator.

I, too, am a Linux user.

Yeah… That explains the user experience Windows offers versus Mac.

Anybody who’s being honest will say Mac is nicer to use, especially non-tech people. Only nerds prefer the Windows design language over Windows.

Let’s face it: if Macs could run game as well as windows, Microsoft would go bankrupt tomorrow.

You get my meaning. I was referring to Broadcast TV, as you called it.

I don’t think the internet is more impervious to propaganda than cable TV tbh. YouTube has been pushing far-right propaganda since at least 2013. Quite effectively, too.

I think you’ll find that, sadly, nobody is worse for HIG than software engineers, especially Linux aficionados.

They like their design as unpalatable and shit-lookalike as possible.

I just wish to compliment Microsoft on them accurately prophesying that Windows 10 would be my last windows.

Don’t you get it? The propaganda needs you to be rallied into a constant state of China Bad sentiment, even if the excuses for such don’t make sense.

As another European, I flat out trust China more than the US. They don’t make BS like this up.

Same thing on Google results. I don’t use Google but I use what are basically frontends for Google and all it feeds you with every search is AI-generated slop.

Every Google search must be precedented by writing “Reddit”, now.

AI. BOTS. MILLENIAL INFANTILE DESIGN. CORPORATE SPEAK.

Gee, I wonder why people aren’t tripping over themselves to join this.