Is "China" claiming that? I don't see Huawei hiding the fact that it is an Android derivative, in fact they are keen to point out to developers that it is easy to port their apps because of it.

Thanks. Would you recommend any particular dongle? I have some cheap TV ones but they aren't very good.

All of these things are part of the same problem. The best teachers are also the best equipped to take a job elsewhere. If they can't afford to survive on what's being paid, and they have other opportunities, they take them. There is also high burnout from having to be a babysitter to so many ill-mannered children, who got that way by emulating their ill-mannered parents.

You sound like men that women won't talk to talking about women. Do you even know any teachers? I do, and they are working as hard as they can with what they're given already. Side note, most are women.

It's not weird because only China is claiming that their borrowed thing is homegrown. Everyone else is acknowledging the roots of their product. You don't have to call out lies when people tell the truth.

and a democratized workplace if you're going to do something like this. I'm sure many here on /. (which leans a bit conservative) don't agree with these protestors, but think a little ahead to a time if/when there *is* something you agree with.

Having a say in how the company you work for is run is something we should all desire, at least if you don't believe in Divine Command Theory.

By modern standards, where there are 25 million people in Los Angeles and immediately surrounding areas, no. But a million people in one place is still a lot.

Anyway stop talking about Europe like it's some isolated region, it's a sandwich.

When I bought an EV over a decade ago, part of the deal was that Nissan were helping to build the UK's first charging network. They ensured that the infrastructure was there. I understand that Tesla later did something similar in the US.

Toyota don't seem to have done that with hydrogen filling stations. I'd say that consumers had a reasonable expectation that they would. A buyback seems reasonable, with deductions for mileage.

PGE knows exactly what a utility company's job is. It's right in the law that they only really get paid for building new generation capacity, so that is clearly their primary job.

This is why we should nationalize the distribution infrastructure. We don't let them profit from maintaining that because it makes them cut even more corners.

It's also why they want to build nuclear. They get to profit more from more expensive projects. And the less power produced per dollar spent, the more generation projects they get to build, thus the higher their profits are.

If you are paying 40-50c per kWh, it seems like you must have paid a lot for the battery, or use very little, for it not to pay for itself in 12 years.

That said, you would be unlucky if it didn't last a lot more than 12 years. If the manufacturer set a 12 year warranty then they would expect the vast majority to last longer, otherwise they would be giving away a lot of free batteries.

In the UK, where electricity is actually cheaper than that, the payback time for a battery is typically 6-7 years. It can be even shorter if you have an EV, or work from home.

The problem is that it's not a free market. The value of energy exported to the grid doesn't reflect things like how clean the energy is, and utilities are trying to get the most value out of their existing installations before transitioning them to renewables. The government has to intervene to protect the environment.

As more and more people generate their own electricity in ways that don't drain shared resources (solar panels tend not to shade your neighbours), we will have to move energy production to an infrastructure model like roads. Say the grid was treated like roads, a common network we can all use, paid for out of taxation.

Try F-Droid. All apps are open source and most are ad-free.

As for updates, Google fixed that years ago. They update all the OS components separately via the Play Store, the same as apps. It's only the OS kernel and other core parts that doesn't get updated, but that isn't a huge deal because any malware has to get through the layers of Android protections on top before it can touch the OS.

Weird that you would cite "Mainland China" here, when the same thing is entirely true of Western manufacturers.

Android is built on top of Linux, although to be fair the APIs are original.
Linux is a clone of Unix.
Unix is an evolution of Multics.

Apple iOS is built on BSD.

Turns out that nobody really writes stuff from scratch now, it's all built on something else.

As for "homegrown", if you buy some seeds that someone else grew and plant them yourself, I imagine you would probably call that homegrown. It's not a good choice of word, but it's not entirely inaccurate.

Any power consumption figures on the SDR? It's probably not a lot, but they do get warm. So far I've been getting dedicated radios for most stuff. Adding weather station decoding was on my very long to-do list.

Texas is just awful.

They all drive around in pickup trucks with gun racks attached to the back window. The way they speak you can't understand a word they are saying, either.

The place has terrible extremes of hot and cold weather.

And they had, as you suggest, hundreds of people left to freeze and die.

And their governor is this right-wing immigrant-hating maniac who like to elicit sympathy for being in a wheelchair, in contrast with the suave, hip, articulate and able-bodied Governor of California with his artfuly styled hair and taste for fast-food restaurants paying below the prevailing wage.

If you live in California, for gosh sakes, don't even think of moving to Texas!