Their entire business model is that you are reliant on their servers to run AI. The last thing they want is you buying a power PC that can run it locally.

The only hope seems to be that Chinese manufacturers are improving rapidly. Already a lot of mid range products are using Chinese RAM, and they are supplying DDR 4. Once they reach competitive DDR 5 and GDDR levels, the price should come down.

Same with SSDs. The only decent offers are from Chinese brands using Chinese flash memory, like Fanxiang. The performance isn't mind blowing but they have proven to be reliable.

It's funny you think that China is communist.

It's because they are already invested in the Apple ecosystem, i.e. lock-in, or because it's the default safe choice for people who don't know much about phones and tablets and computers.

Android has better privacy protections, if that's what you care about. You also have the option of running a privacy focused version of Android, like Graphene OS. Even on standard Android you get extensive privacy controls and access to F-Droid, an app store for open source apps that bars anything which requires Google's services to work.

Android has supported IPv6 since the early days. I've got an ancient Galaxy S3 that I was seeing what I could do with, and that is on Android 4.3 which supports it.

Unless you are trapped deep in the Apple revenue farm, I don't think there is much point buying an iPad these days. At the low and mid levels Android tablets are cheaper and more than good enough for sheet music, web browser, most games, watching video, and so on. At the high end, Samsung tablets are better anyway. Better pen for drawing, better handwriting input, better screens etc.

Gouging, but also Chinese tablet manufacturers can use Chinese made RAM. It's a bit lower performance than the latest DDR5 stuff, but it's fine for tablets and quantity is more important than speed here.

Have a look at the price of AM4 Ryzen CPUs now, even used. They have shot up because DDR4 RAM is cheap.

That would suck. Some of the best features of modern EVs are that you can do things like pre-cool them remotely, and they take a lot of the effort out of cruising long distance with lane following automation.

The best outcome would be if such features were available with data not leaving domestic servers, or even better being able to use your own home server.

A better reference would be automotive batteries. 100kWh is on the larger end, but still fits within a typical European mid size car.

I have some portable ones. They aren't really the sort of thing you would need at home though, more for public areas where people come and go. Cafes, offices, that sort of thing.

Thanks. So this compares fairly well then, and is doubtless a lot safer, even if you don't care about the zero emissions.

Indeed, this has been well known in Europe for many years, and rules put in place to mitigate the problem.

Some places have free electricity now, thanks to renewables makes it so cheap. Australia has recently got it too. 3 hours a day of free energy for some parts.

If an AP1000 loses power, it requires a functional cooling system to avoid meltdown, and for it to do a proper emergency shutdown where the control rods work as expected. It absolutely can melt down if things go badly wrong.

Shutting down reactors in Germany wasn't just ideological. They were old and end of life. The only way to keep them going was to closely monitor the cracks that were spreading, and shut them down on short notice if necessary, assuming there wasn't simply a serious accident.

It wasn't ideal, but the choice was either spend more money keeping them going, or divert it to transitioning to renewables.

If you look at Germany right now, it's basically solar powered: https://www.energy-charts.info...

If you look at exports, Germany exports more than twice as much electricity as France does over the course of a year.