There was a bit of a bump, but the price per watt lower than 2021 now. I think it was mostly tariffs that were responsible.

We shouldn't be worrying about "dumping" and the like, we should just be buying as many of the damn things as we can get, and making as many of our own as possible. This is about climate change, not protecting our domestic manufacturing.

This is about automation. The factories are moving to robots and "lights out" manufacturing. Deployment of the panels is being done by drones and tracked robots too now.

Even places that are normally inaccessible or very expensive to get materials to, are becoming solar farms now. The sides of mountains and remote areas.

A lot of young people are disillusioned with capitalism, and quite understandably so. It hasn't delivered the benefits for them, and the advice they were giving about making it work (get educated, get a house, work hard and rewards will come) turned out to be bad.

They look at China, which provides for citizens. When they see that people are going to migrate to cities, they build big new cities with affordable housing and excellent public transport. Meanwhile in the West it's all landlords, who are also NIMBYs in case you had any ideas about easing the supply issues.

Climate change is another example. There is no reasonable metric by which China is not doing far, far more than Western countries are.

I'm not saying that the Chinese model is better necessarily. Aspects of it are, mostly the ones shared with social democracies like some European countries have. The big issue is that the model many Western countries use is failing badly, and politicians are mostly only offering more pain in response to it.

It must be more than just the gun silencer concept, because the Japanese tried that with limited success for their conventional high speed trains.

The Chinese seem to have applied some new materials to absorb the sound.

The Japanese must be quite worried about developments in China. Theirs was going to be the only long distance maglev system, and a lot of the financing was based on being able to export the technology. China is going to beat them to deployment and will doubtless export the technology too. Now it sounds like they have solved the only big outstanding issue.

The two systems have some interesting differences. The Japanese trains need wheels below 90 kph, but are simpler and passively safe in the event of total power loss or violent earthquakes. The Chinese trains require active management of the magnetic fields constantly, but float even when not moving.

The restrictions on who could make games for the NES were in response to the North American video game crash. Some companies got around it in part by having subsidiaries that allowed them to exceed the limit on the number of games published per year, but they still had to buy cartridges from Nintendo rather than making them themselves.

In terms of power the Master System was arguably better than the Famicom, but I don't think it ever out-sold it. In Japan Sega muddied the waters a bit by having too many systems. They started with the SG-1000, then the SG-1000 II, and then the Mark III. All were backwards compatible but added new features. The Mark III also got an FM sound add-on, and that combo eventually became the Master System which integrated the FM. The Mark III couldn't mix the FM and PCM audio though, so there only only one game ever made that used both.

All that lead to division and confusion in the marketplace. By the time Sega got to the Master System, the Famicom/NES was already entrenched.

IIRC he asked Zelenskyy why he hadn't thanked the American people.

The llm following me around back to the fuck off. Some of the more interesting behavior I've seen out of a bot.

Eventually Europe is going to kick Russia out of Ukraine so that they don't lose the bread basket.

And eventually America will invade Russia and string Putin up like a pinata. Not because we're good people but because we want to loot the country for ourselves, or rather our ruling class will want to loot the country for themselves

When a question is purposefully unsolvable then any implied context should be thrown out during lateral thinking. English wasn't specified so switching language solves the problem in the only way possible. That's not insane, that's clever. I'm sorry you are upset you didn't think of this yourself.

Car companies are not forced to provide parts for over 10 years. Note: That's what we're talking about. A 10 year old OS. In fact Microsoft met your requirements here, they provided support as long as most car companies do, which is quite impressive given they are selling you a $150 product rather than a $30000 one.

Other than making sure that core security features in Windows such as passkeys and disk encryption work there's no requirements. Minor stuff really.

I'm not sure if you haven't used W11 or Vista or ME, but Windows 11 is FUCKING ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE BETTER than those abject pieces of shit. Windows 11 has plenty to grumble about but it actually runs stably and functions as a system, which objectively Vista and ME did not.

You even said it yourself under the hood MS has great tech. Windows ME and Vista were rotten tech under the hood. The systems were actually borderline unusable. ME especially was the only OS that seemed to get worse on every reboot rather than start in a happy refreshed state. If a few popups is the price to pay for a running system I think anyone who has lived through all three OSes would happily declare Windows 11 the best of the three you mentioned.

Still miss Windows 7 though.

Syncing PC settings != giving Microsoft all your data. If anything it only shows what software you have installed and what anime girl is on your wallpaper.

TEA1 isn't meant for any sensitive applications, it was truncated on purpose. Its the base encryption designed to not inadvertently have devices misregister on the wrong networks. No one gives a shit about you calling your logistics man over the radio from the security hut that a truck is coming his way ready to unload. That's the kind of thing TEA1 encryption was meant for - all applications which were previously not encrypted at all.

That's not how Land Mobile Radio works. They aren't using 2 way walkie talkies, they are transmitting to a base station that is networked together to hundreds of base stations across your city which then transmit out to any portable or mobile terminal that is registered to it. It's very similar to how mobile phones work and has been for about 50 years already, even back in the analogue days.

You'll pick up nothing but false positives with your method.

If you're planning mission critical communications over the radio you're doing it wrong.