Would PRC leadership's actions be an acceptable thing, or are Chinese Communist Party apparatchiks just being evil anti-Chinese Westerners when they made the new rules starting January 2026 for EV export licensing?

Google this from your favorite news agency. CCP has specifically decided to tighten licensing because of utterly horrible quality problems with exported vehicles. They even have a name for it to pretend it's not a widespread problem: "rogue exporters".

That's the worst of the lot, the ones that export China spec cars (no rust protection, very limited safety features, parts often missing entirely) because there's a massive surplus of them. Official CCP narrative is that "this is all there is to it, everything else is best in the world, China Numbah Wan". Meanwhile internal CCP messaging is "BYD, SAIC, et al, fix your shit because our reputation is in the toilet because of your excesses".

Because massive quality control problems also persist for official exports, far in excess of their typical competitors that are German EVs. Which in themselves are fucking awful compared to the industry leader Tesla.

If you're not trolling and genuinely know nothing on the subject, googling something among the lines of "chinese cars having quality problems in PRC" should generate quite a few stories on the subject, including reporting on official stance of the Communist Party itself. Which is also a warning to the trolls. Are you sure you want to suggest that top Party leadership is wrong on this subject?

Suno's previous iterations are behind multiple top sellers on Spotify already. And basically all artists except a handful of irrelevant hipster ones use AI assist at this point. It removes almost all of the menial parts of work.

At this point, it's like masturbation. There are two kinds of artists. Those who use AI assist, and those who lie about it. And then there's that tiny group of religious weirdos standing on the corner screaming that you're going to hell for doing it. Ok boomer.

The only difference at this point is model used and scale of the assist. Suno v5 is pretty much gold standard at this point.

And no, artists don't have copyright of derivative works. Otherwise all artists today would be paying massive royalties to those that came before them.

It's funny how people pushing this angle aren't hunting bison for blood and collecting plants to make their own paints.

Apparently some level of automation and outsourcing is fine, but they are the judges of how much is allowed before it becomes bad. Everyone else is wrong.

Oh Chinese top tier EVs are great at point of sale.

Problems don't start showing until several months down the line for most things being promised. And the problems that cause people to really not like them back in PRC and only buy them at massive discount vis a vis Tesla, like the infamous lack of galvanic rust protection don't become noticeable until a few years of ownership.

Well beyond what "car reviewers" will review. This is the stuff you go to mechanics and engineers for.

It's not really, but it adds to the squeeze in the moment, as 50% momentary increased ingestion of specific component type by a large demand generator on the market already squeezed by rapid dislocation of relationship between supply on demand dislocates the point of balance further.

Wait until you remind yourself of intel and its RDRAM adventure in pentium 4 generation.

There is recourse offered:

From Dell's statement:
>HEVC playback is not included, but users can access HEVC content by purchasing an affordable third-party app from the Microsoft Store

If customer cares, the solution is offered:

From Dell's statement:
>HEVC playback is not included, but users can access HEVC content by purchasing an affordable third-party app from the Microsoft Store

There's about a million of similar "please license our software" outlets out there, with similar pricing demands.

Rejecting overwhelming majority of such licensing demands is why laptops don't have an extra zero at the end of their price tag.

This is standard issue shit tier clickbait that answers the question begged in the topic and the beginning of the article at the very end of the article:

Quoting from the last part of the article:

While HP’s and Dell’s reps didn’t explain the companies’ motives, it’s possible that the OEMs are looking to minimize costs, since OEMs may pay some or all of the licensing fees associated with HEVC hardware decoding and encoding support, as well as some or all of the royalties per the number of devices that they sell with HEVC hardware decoding and encoding support [PDF]. Chipmakers may take some of this burden off of OEMs, but companies don’t typically publicly disclose these terms.

The OEMs disabling codec hardware also comes as associated costs for the international video compression standard are set to increase in January, as licensing administrator Access Advance announced in July. Per a breakdown from patent pool administration VIA Licensing Alliance, royalty rates for HEVC for over 100,001 units are increasing from $0.20 each to $0.24 each in the United States. To put that into perspective, in Q3 2025, HP sold 15,002,000 laptops and desktops, and Dell sold 10,166,000 laptops and desktops, per Gartner.

Last year, NAS company Synology announced that it was ending support for HEVC, as well as H.264/AVC and VCI, transcoding on its DiskStation Manager and BeeStation OS platforms, saying that “support for video codecs is widespread on end devices, such as smartphones, tablets, computers, and smart TVs.”

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So in summary, the license for the codec is getting more and more expensive, and so support is simply axed to avoid paying the license.

This after all the butthurt when chart topper on spotify was an AI country music artist?

"Why do people prefer AI".
"No one wants AI".

Choose one.

P.S. Covers have never been a thing. Ever. No one wants them.

Unlike phones, which pretty much every child has at this point.

Most people are very impressed with AI. That's why adoption for performing so many things is as rapid as it is.

Operating systems is one of the few places where direct AI integration makes little sense. The sole job of operating system is the function as something that connects hardware you have to software you are running. It needs to be maximally predictable by both, so things you actually need running, software that runs on top of the operating system is as stable and as fast as possible.

Agentic OS is the opposite of that. It's a permanent moving target. So it may be better at whatever features you want to push as the OS maker, but it's strictly worse as an OS because it's inherently less stable.

This was actually very visible in one of the removed MS demos, where they ask agentic part of OS to resize text, and instead get instructions on how to resize the UI.

Now imagine the same thing, but with OS doing it for you. Suddenly a lot of things become unusable because UI is either massive or tiny instead of just resizing text.

Now imagine the same but with addressing hardware. You'll be lucky if the whole thing just crashes and restores itself on reboot.

This is daft. Any criminal advertising their criminality on their PUBLIC PROFILE is asking for it.

"Vulnerability" here is that it could be publicly accessed.

So yeah. This is a feature, not a "vulnerability".