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Comment Re:What's the difference? (Score 2) 71

cash, gold and jewels are physical and can have size limits to stole in bit quantities, bank transfers take time and may trigger alarms or blocked, crypto can be stolen quickly, transferred to multiple accounts and get some cash out before even someone suspect you were kidnapped. that is why they are better targets

Comment Re:will they give refunds to people who get anti c (Score 1) 98

while some people were banned for using wine/proton, most were by accident, all cases that i know were reverted after some noise... some were really banned for using cheats and trying to use linux/wine/proton to hide it

getting kicked from not having the anti-cheat working in wine/proton, sure... ban usually require much more (unless someone adds a stupid check or use AI ... but like i said, accidental bans)

Also, you can know the status of the anti-cheat in linux for each game before even trying: https://areweanticheatyet.com/
so don't buy games that do not work, complain to the game owners to report that you can't play because of the anti-cheat and go play something else, there are many great games out there that work fine and are probably better!

Comment Re: Exported deflation (Score 1) 206

True, car manufacturers were sleeping on the wheel, they kept copy&paste their (and other) models, without little innovation.
Hybrid cars were a detail that most ignored, Tesla was a alarm ringing, time for them to improve...yet they look only to top class and quickly it was saturated. Where is demand, lower and middle classes, there were too few alternatives. Now Chinese cars, "same" but cheaper, is a big slap in the face.

Big car brands are too slow to innovate and that creating a market for new brands that can have simple processes.

Is like Nokia phone development, full of process, analysis, tests, market segments... them apple launched the iphone and any valid response required too many development years just to start testing.

but the reverse is that all those plan and test increase quality and quality is good. Toyota even created what is considered now a standard in quality control
new brands skip many of those and them you have tesla headlights glued, things breaking, etc

Chinese for sure also have quality problems, worsen by the fact that many workers (and factories) do cut corners to increase production numbers

Cars build 30 years ago were much simpler and cheaper to build, but doing the same today is not valid due to security, quality and expectation. Tada Motors have very cheap cars... are they safe? do they work after 2 years? not really

Comment Re: Exported deflation (Score 1) 206

that is what they are selling... but is it true? (not the price, while with government funding, the price is also fake, we will pay that later, when there is no alternative)
almost all Chinese hardware of several kinds i get, the announced battery life is totally fake with real world usage. Some the battery lost almost half capacity in one year.

in some cars reviews, i also read that real live range is much lower... but all cars like to lie in their real range. we need more real work metrics and those only show up with time

Comment Re:why is this in my feed (Score 1) 128

why are you even here?! go make your own news!!

news for nerds. stuff that matters!
while in the USA apple rules, the rest of the work prefer not wasting their money and wants good android table for the money... problem, that is a rare hardware, the race to bottom means you have many cheap and bad tables and few good ones. This is a valid question. Samsung and Lenovo are taken usually as the last good enough tablets, but with some downsides... maybe other people know other alternatives, specially ones that can be upgraded

Comment Re:Who asked for this (Score 1) 98

people buy laptops, many times not for the mobility but as a good setup that is pre-build, works and doesn't take much space
people buy consoles, to plug in the living room and not have to worry about updated, virus, etc, just turn on and play

Comment Re: Exported deflation (Score 1) 206

can you trust that Chinese car to drive from Romania to France? how many stops you will need to recharge?! are there enough chargers in the path?! too new to know, to many unknowns. They may even be good, Chinese quality is increasing, but is a too high value for most people to bet. My city car is 25 years old (not that much used to be replace by a EV), the family main car is 10 years (hybrid), both still good, low cost maintenance... will a Chinese car last that longer? at what maintenance price?!

for full families and long distances, you really want a different kind of car, again, hybrid or hybrid-plugin, not EV

Comment Re: Exported deflation (Score 1) 206

then why you are buying a EV for a big car even?! just to vanity say you own a EV!!

until range is higher, cost is lower, EV are VANITY cars
everyone is waiting for cheaper EV cars, brands insist in to the top class EV, mostly ignoring the lower and middle classes
Chinese are cheaper, but that is also dumping and random quality (and lifetime, most people buy a car for 5 to 10 years, will those last that longer?! how much service will cost? a car isn't a printer, most will can't buy another one if it breaks )

But lower and middle class EV cars have a problem, batteries are still too expensive and with low range. To get to that classes, you need small cars or fake ranges!! That is why Toyota didn't invest in EV, they knew that there is not enough Lithium available to mass produce low and middle EV... but there is for low and middle hybrid

Every day we see news about new batteries and recently, new and better EV motors. Until those news show up in the market, we are using 10 or 20 years old tech that is simply not enough for for a big sedan or van EV. That makes bit EV cars vanity!
for big EV cards, choose 2: range, price, lifetime/quality

Comment Re: Exported deflation (Score 1) 206

you are lying, it is still fashion, you are just justifying to yourself some excused to buy a tesla!
for your requirements you still have EV sedan cars lower than the tesla value, both chinese and other countries, being the Hyundai Ioniq 6 the best example and still cheaper than the tesla.

if you open to hybrid, you get lot more deals with lower price and hybrid-plugin is still cheaper:
https://www.caranddriver.com/r...

but yes, a car for the family to travel far with luggage isn't much in the scope of EVs, that is more in the scope of hybrids
EV as great for city or short distance travel, so they are smaller and range is not a issue. For long distance, don't trick yourself, at least not yet, EV range is still not enough unless you want to suffer the pain of waiting (with kids!!) and no available chargers in range

So either you want a EV car for city and short travels (and you are not always packed!!) , or you want a bigger car. Bigger EV car for short travel is stupid and is only justified as fashion (hey, look!! i have a C00L EV!!). Long distances, Hybrid and hybrid-plugin are much better options

hey, if you family is 6 or more, you need to adjust to a van (or higher!!), so defining your need is the main point to exclude certain solutions. If your family needs a bigger card with big luggage, EV are not the right solution for you (yet!)

Comment Re:you missed Bill Gate's memo (Score 1) 12

yep, rich people think like that...
if i had their money, i would probably also not be much concerned... even if some mansions burn up or get razed by some hurricane, they have lot money and mansions, they just move the the next one. The billionaires also have enough money to buy food, even if the price increase 100x. So yes, the billionaires can thrive in the worst effects of most things... as long as their money have any value.

Comment Re:Using a very loose (Score 1) 83

while several of important multiplayer games fail to work due to the anti-cheat, saying that the most big games do not run is false, many big games do run fine

https://www.protondb.com/explo...

top 50 played games in steam, 8 do not work in linux, at least 2 of them are actually windows apps to mess with the background

yes, the games that fail are big, but there are many other big games that work. play those instead and inform the owners of the games you failed to play their game because of the lack of linux support... is up to them to fix this

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